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Another bit of flash photography due to our recent inclement weather, I caught this Great Tit in such a position that it looks as if its hiding behind its wing...now you see me, now you don't! ;)
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Il mare spesso parla con parole lontane, dice cose che nessuno sa. Soltanto quelli che conoscono l'amore possono apprendere la lezione dalle onde, che hanno il movimento del cuore...
(Romano Battaglia)
An abstract of nature's beauty, bits of color shine in the confusion of glowing limbs & branches.
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Bit of a blow out this morning.
Turned up, got this shot quite quickly. Then the heavens opened and it became clear very quickly that I was totally unprepared for it. Wet camera, wet lenses, wet filters and wet me.
To top the morning off as I was walking back to the car I dropped my camera on concrete. Surprisingly its mostly fine. A little dent/chip of paint lost. Certainly could have been much worse.
But anyway, at least I got one shot.
A bit of monsoonal rain on the north coast of Trinidad island, Maracas Bay lookout, nothing spectacular, but this will be my only upload from that island as photo opportunities were very rare. It's also as close as my ass will ever get to Venezuela!
Greetings from Ilopango lake, El Salvador, my last night in Central America.
This is the view of the top floor of the structure next to Wind Tree in the Winyard Quarter on Auckland's waterfront.
It is a strange structure but certainly has some nice lines. I watched the Matariki lights on the bridge from up here. I totally expected there to be lots of people, I was mistaken.
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"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." - Oprah Winfrey
I revisited the sharp-tailed sandpipers a bit later, and there were still some males exhibiting breeding behavior. They must have been quite well-rested and nourished.
(Calidris acuminata)
Still adding album fodder, it's a big album with over eighty photo's in it.. The photo's are in the order that they was taken..
Up above Hartsop, a great place to hike.
A little bit on Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the coachbuilder, designer and builder of the two Packard's on the left in the image above. Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the man behind the 1937-1942 Packard Darrin left an indelible imprint, not only on the automobile, but on the people he met in the old car movement, long after his career building and designing cars had ended. Dutch Darrin was a kind of "breakaway designer." He was crusty, hardbitten and had no reticence about expressing his opinions. He had flashing blue eyes, snowy white hair in later life, a bubbling enthusiasm for what he liked, a withering contempt for what he didn't. Interviewing and reporting on Dutch was a test of a writer's finesse: the art of balancing Darrin's fierce convictions with the opinions of others who sometimes saw matters in quite a different way.
He had an automotive curriculum vitae that put to shame most of his design contemporaries. Starting in the Teens as a Westinghouse engineer, he invented an electric gearshift for John North Willys, deciding then and there to spend his career on cars instead of electronics. When he went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, he fell in love with Paris.
In 1920 he set himself up as a custom coachbuilder, initially using the Minerva chassis. He was shortly building custom bodies for the cream of European society, working on his own or in successful partnership with designer Tom Hibbard and, later, a banker named Fernandez.
His friends were people the rest of us have only read about: René Mathis of Ford-France, André Citröen, Louis Renault, the brothers Panhard, Ettore Bugatti, Sir John Siddeley, princes and potentates, presidents and polo players. To have associated with all these; to have had the incredible luck he always acknowledged; to have enjoyed a rich career, and to have had fun doing it, is surely what the philosopher meant when he talked about living life to the fullest.
In 1937, Darrin moved to California, transferring his activities from individual to semi-custom bodies, but maintaining a distinct style that branded them immediately as his own. Here he was aided by two experienced coachbuilders, Paul Erdos and Rudy Stoessel, the latter going on to found California's long-lived Coachcraft Inc. Typically, Darrin made do with little, buying a former bottling factory with a good location: Sunset Strip, Hollywood.
He styled himself "Darrin of Paris," and like Raymond Loewy he had an aristocratic French accent that he could turn on or off as the need arose. Dutch's clientele now included the New World's aristocracy, such as Errol Flynn, Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Ann Sheridan, and Carole Lombard.
Innately talented, Dutch was always personally involved in the cars that bore his name: everything from his custom bodies of the 1920s and 1930s through his reskinned Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows in the 1970s. Unlike Raymond Loewy, he was not a stylist-become-marketing expert, who discovered and hired talented employees and took credit (as Loewy had a right to do) for what they produced. Dutch did it all -- even supervised the construction of semi-customs like the famous Packard Darrins. They might not have been paragons of craftsmanship, but by gosh they were unique, beautiful, and as dashing as all get-out.
Darrin's Packard connection stemmed from his decision to return to America from France in 1937. He realized that the age of full-custom bodies was waning, but thought the Hollywood film colony would buy rakish semi-customs. His concept, for which he deserves credit as a pioneer, was to customize production cars and produce semi-customs -- relatively inexpensive, yet distinct from mass-market stuff. Of Packard he said, "Its chassis was unimpeachable, and its classic grille was a great starting point." He had always fancied himself "a strong grille man," depending on the radiator to focus his designs, though his favorite American production car was the grilleless Cord 810/812, designed by a man Dutch considered a genius, the late Gordon Miller Buehrig.
The first 1937 Packard Darrin taught Dutch a great deal about his semi-custom concept. Built in a Los Angeles body and fender shop before Darrin moved into Sunset Strip, it was created for actor Dick Powell. The chassis was from a 1938 Eight (aka One Twenty) and the body looked splendid, with sweeping fenders and a low beltline displaying the characteristic "Darrin dip" at the doors. But Dutch had cut up a business coupe to build it, and chassis for closed cars weren't as rigid as those for open models. The car leaked like a sieve and had too much body flex.
Darrin built two more five-passenger Packard Darrins at another body shop before the move to Sunset Strip, selling one to Clark Gable. Like the first example, these had wooden cowls, which contributed most of the shake, rattle, and roll. Once "production" got rolling at Sunset Strip, clever Rudy Stoessel designed a cast aluminum cowl, which made a huge difference on the 16-18 Darrin Packards built in 1938-1939.
Among their buyers were Rosalind Russell, Chester Morris, and Al Jolson, who each paid a cool $4200-5200, probably equivalent to six figures in today's money. (That was peanuts compared to some of the esoteric specials the movie crowd was buying at the time, supporting Dutch's idea of relying heavily on production car components.) For some of these customers, Packard Darrins were simply too special. Dick Powell sold car number one after a few months because people were noticing, waving, and chasing him for autographs.
I can go on, but I think that's enough to give you a flavor of this great automobile designer and builder, Howard "Dutch" Darrin. Most of the above is from the auto editors of Consumer Guide
'It was way past midnight
And she still couldn't fall asleep
This night the dream was leavin'
She tried so hard to keep
And with the new day's dawning
She felt it driftin' away
Not only for a cruise
Not only for a day'
Adding a bit of pop thanks to its yellow paint scheme, a Hiimi bound local exits the westbound portal of the Minagi Tunnels as it approaches its next station stop at Minagi.
JR Hakubi Line. JR 115 Series.
Minagi, Okayama Pref., Japan
For "Macro Mondays" group theme "Currency"
'thruppenny bits' are 12 sided nickel-brass coins used in Britain from 1937 until 31 August 1971 when they ceased to be legal tender. During that period they were worth 3 pence of the 240 pence that made up £1.
I stood a row of 9 coins on a mirror - all these date within the reign of our present Queen, whilst the other laid flat is older from the time of George VI - this has a representation of thrift. The coins are about 22-24mm in diameter depending where you measure them - they aren't round!
Russian Jupiter 11 f4 135mm
“What is it to discover you have wings?
What is it to be afraid of your wings?
What is it to discover at the end of your life that you had wings and never flew?
What is it to find out that you were hidden from yourself?
What is it to be forgotten?
Each day we are forgotten by ourselves
through ourselves,
For we do not believe, in who we are.”
― Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
I had some fresh catnip from a plant that I encountered today, so I gave a bit to Abby after she smelled it on my hands while patting her. She looks annoyed with me here, but she's just focused on her sweet sweet catnip.
a figurine as our Jasper was.
and miscellaneous stuff.
Large Format 4x5 crown graphic special camera
Paper negative: Ilford MG FB
ISO 3
Shot at f/5.6 for 20ish seconds
Home developed in eco pro for 2 min
The weather forecasts said one thing, but the satellite photos indicated another. We decided to chance it anyway. Looks like mother nature won this round...
Despite the mundane daytime appearance, this was captured about an hour after sunset.
(3 minute exposure)
A bit of golden dunage from Cornwall this weekend. Bit unlucky with the weather on the last 2 days so this was one of the only shows of light I managed to catch. Such a beautiful place, I always leave a bit of heart behind. One day I might retire there
Just going through some shots that I haven't put up yet. I liked this one of some reason...I think I was just playing around with my 50mm lens.
66009 passes through Primrose Hill with the Sunday 6E68 1012 Kingsbury - Humber empty tanks . , a coating of snow on the buffers suggests its met some wintry conditions on its journey .
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