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Brexit demonstrators outside the front of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London.
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I’ve always been a bit enamored with the architecture of some of the historic power houses in our region. I’ve spent a good bit of time around the Hat Creek and Pit River projects over the years and every time I see one of those old buildings I always take an extra moment to appreciate the details.
Hat Creek Powerhouse #1 was built in 1920 and features some wonderful arched windows and detailed cornice gives it a wonderful façade, to my eyes at least. When I was in the area last September and realized it lined up with the core of our wonderful little galaxy, I figured I had to try and capture it under the stars.
Yes, I’m just now posting this almost exactly a year later. Why? Because trying to make this image was quite the exercise in frustration. The “porch light” burns a great bit brighter than this image really illustrates. Camera settings that lets one expose the darker parts of the sky make quite the mess out of the lower part of the sky courtesy of that light! When I initially tried to process it last year, I got so frustrated I darn near deleted all the files. However, I went back to it this morning and tried about 100 different things and 2 or 3 of them actually seemed to work.
In closing, I would ask that we not go down any rabbit holes about the modern PG&E. They're nobody's favorite right now but their architects 100 years ago did some nice work.
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Out at Over Owler Tor in the Peak District.. Woolly cows, big rocks, walking and jumping in the rain!! :)
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Cheat table by IDK31, reshade. Shot was done with my own DoF for reshade. (Cinematic DoF).
Barcelonita, Barcelona, Spain, Europe. A bit of abstract art down by the Sea.
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Bit clunky, but so is the source material so I'll let it slide. I think my use of card doors as windows was a bit of a stroke of genius.
I've been playing this game a lot this weekend (It's so freaking hard without relics) and wanted to make the man himself) :)
If anyone's interested I play it on the 3DS but plan to play it on the Switch when I finally have enough money for it (so close :D)
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Maybe a bit of warmth here to chase the cold away for everyone.
The day began on a high note with a brilliant sunrise, but those clouds in the sky never went away and the day gray skies remained. Even though there was a bit of a chill that morning there was never enough sun throughout the day to bring out those lumpy lizards and they never had an opportunity to do a bit if sunbathing. This sunrise photo was captured on Armand Bayou near Bay Area Park. A golden moment here that would fade to a gray that would never give way.
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I began this bit of textile art in late January, based on a photo I took earlier that month...I must decide now if it is finished to the stage of mounting the piece on a stitched background frame.... .
I start with a drawing on the back of the plain white fabric....adding other pieces of fabric, stitching from the back...then trimming closely on the front...then lots of "drawing" with my machine, freehand... to add trees and other details..As I get near the end of the image, I must then do a LOT of background stitching ( eg...the sky...) to control the distortion that results from so much stitching. Then, a binding, if that's what I want....
And that's about all there is to it !!!
A bit far-fetched,
but also straight out of the cam!
These are actually egg timers which are currently residing on a cupboard shelf amongst lobster mugs from Maine!
. . . and so we have a rather strange six word story!
addendum: a dear friend sent me one of these chicks for Christmas, not knowing there was a "clone" waiting in the wings!
Feuerwerk über Mainz
Leider hat der Nebel über Mainz und Wiesbaden die Sicht auf das Feuerwerk etwas erschwert, aber anfags konnte man von der Südbrücke aus doch die eine oder andere Rakete erhaschen. Ich habe hier drei Bilder mit der gleichen Perspektive übereinander gelegt, damit der Mainzer Dom wenigstens ganz vage zu erkennen ist :D.
This clown was down on 3rd street in Santa Monica. I appreciate his can do attitude getting dressed up and hanging out hoping to make some money. Never the less, still a bit creepy.
A bit of Spring, already?
Shot taken in my garden with a macro lens: my very first attempt with that kind of ones.
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Is that a bit too on the nose...?
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It's not easy pulling off the low-riding pants look, but Kottr makes it fashionable for everybody with their Ghast outfit! Recently uploaded to include a Burly Pecs fit, this lovely outfit is rigged for default eBody Reborn, Waifus, Teacups, V-Tech, AND Stacked! The bottoms are also have an additional rig for the Poochie Belly for those of you who want a lil' bit of tum! I'm becoming a broken record by saying this, but Kottr has done us the usual solid of giving us not only 30 color options (with individual faces that allow for maximum mix-n-matchability), but as always, the outfit is completely mod-friendly! Who says we can't get a little sporty during these chilly winter days? Let's get liftin'!
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Bit of an Easter theme going on here with the church and the 'daffs' , roseberry-topping in the background and the moon rising between the branches, very faintly.
Lesley and I tried a bit of the playing with light tonight..Just to make the Lighthouse a little more interesting :) At Burnham On Sea UK
Had a bit of a spontaneous drive out into the Peak District last night after work to try and get a good sunset photo. I was fairly happy with the results.
Something a bit local to me - because Colindale Avenue was recently closed eastbound at Colindale Station, the 204 had to be diverted on Montrose Avenue, but in order to serve a stop close to Colindale Station, it was routed back towards Grahame Park Way, then turning round at the roundabout behind me to rejoin the line of route. So, 204s's were serving this short section of road in both directions for a couple of weeks only.
The background has changed completely since 2015, so this is also a good view of the altered landscape at the southern end of Grahame Park, which underwent a regeneration around that time.
A bit of an odd one out in the European railway landscape are the EMUs that run on the somewhat ambitiously named Valleilijn from Ede-Wageningen to Amersfoort Centraal. The small and young German rolling stock manufacturer Fahrzeugtechnik Dessau (FTD) built six EMUs it named PROTOS in the year 2006. The Dutch operator Connexxion ordered five of them, for precisely this line, on which they entered service in 2007. A year after that and without having received any other orders for these EMUs, FTD went bankrupt and the production line for this type of units was halted for good - so the six units remained the only ones ever constructed, and it has no near relatives in terms of other rolling stock either. The factory has since that moment seen several unsuccessful attempts to revive the company, all of which ended in renewed bankruptcy - since 2019, the factory is part of the Swiss-Chinese Molinari Rail Systems GmbH - or so Wiki tells me: I have never heard of them.
On that Sunday afternoon, PROTOS no. 5035 was on its way from Ede-Wageningen to Amersfoort Centraal. Because it is not an NS train, its train category is not Sprinter but the good old "stoptrein". Terschuur, 05-09-2021.