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Out for a windy, snowy, hailed on and sunshiny ride this afternoon! (Sunday) 42 miles around the edge of Sheffield and into the Peak District. Lovely stuff!!
Bit of calm here sheltered from most of the wind with a nice bit of sunshine too.. That's Stanage and Millstone Edges on the horizon..
Bit of a black n white jobbie painted on the side of my shed..
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St.George's at Ivychurch, is another Romney Marsh church and one which gets me into the realms of what appears to be a bit of local rivalry. The British Army is quite familiar with what it calls 'cap badge rivalry' - as in 'my regiment is better than your regiment'. In the case of St George's the church guide claims it to be the Cathedral of Romney Marsh while nearby Lydd church claims the alternative title of the Cathedral of the Marsh. Clearly what we are dealing with here is not cap badge rivalry but 'dog collar rivalry'.
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As approached the church appears to be pure 14th century Perpendicular but the full colour guidebook presents us with a very detailed map which shows that a little of the present building dates from the Early English Period (1180 to 1280) while excavations have revealed the foundations of this smaller church under, and within, the footprint of the larger current building. The pillars supporting the north and south arcades vary geologically from high quality imported Caen stone in some pillars to the more local Kentish Ragstone in others. It is to be supposed that the earlier material was imported by the Normans and is a further survivor from the early building.
The tower is awkwardly skewed some five degrees out of alignment with both the original and the current building. A recent survey suggests that the tower was actually separate to the main building which was later extended to link up with the tower. Supporting evidence for this appears to be the inclusion of the original free-standing tower's buttresses into the new west wall.
As churches go it is quite wide and this is accounted for by the inclusion of a south chapel dedicated to St Catherine and a north Lady chapel. A chantry chapel also once existed somewhere in the north aisle. Most medieval churches were unfurnished and the congregation stood. In the south aisle there is the remnant of a bench (from the earlier church) where the elderly and infirm could sit, the supposed origin of the term 'the weakest go to the wall'.
The tower is 68 feet high while the large south porch contains a parvis chamber for a visiting priest and, possibly, the original store for church documents and Communion plate. There are five bells but these have been silent since 1972 but a restoration is contemplated. The problem with older churches is that deterioration of the wood sub-frame or the structural mortar can lead to collapse. Ringing a couple of tons of bells imposes considerable shock and vibration.
Despite being a grand building today it has had a very chequered history. A visitation in 1511 found the church 'sorely decayed' and the churchwardens were threatened with excommunication. Like most medieval churches it fared badly in the Reformation with the loss of the wall paintings and the coloured glass. Any that survived the 16th century would have fallen foul of the Puritans in the 17th century. It was a lose/lose period for medieval churches. A little surviving wall painting was uncovered in 2009. One story has it that the Rood screen survived until the early 19th century when a drunken ex-navy curate took an axe to it. He thought he'd improve the view, so the story goes.
Decay in the early years of the 20th century was halted and repaired, along with the removal of the rotten box pews which opened up the interior. The Second World War found the village in the front line of the Battle of Britain with the village being hit by six bombs in 1940, which blew out church windows, while V-1 Flying Bombs (Doodlebugs) caused further damage in 1944. Wartime shortage of glass (reserved for repairing bombed homes) meant that the gaping windows had to be covered with blackout curtain. Post-war repairs in 1948 included new window glass. Periodic repairs and restorations continue. Today part of the north aisle is an agricultural museum.
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Frigid Lake Michigan waves crash onto the frozen ice-covered rocks just north of Bradford Beach on the East Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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A bit of love for the Giant.
Apart from being quite a noisy bike, I am really pleased with it. Very comfortable to ride and with gearing just low enough to allow for only minor grimacing on the local climbs.
The noises though are a bit annoying. I fixed one the other day - a creak from the seat post by applying excessive amounts of grease (it was greased already of course, but now it's greased some more, as it cures the creak, for a while at least).
I sorted rattles from the through the frame cabling by cable tying various cables together before they enter the frame.
But I've still got a loud buzzing rattle from the brakes/shifter area on coarse tarmac. That one is taking some finding, and I think I'm just going to have to live with it.
Otherwise it's all good (early issues with gently rubbing brakes were a poor set up from the shop and sorted once I had a proper fiddle - not the bike's fault).
A little bit of tinkering going on outside the Co-operative store at Beamish Museum on this magnificent 1907 18hp Darracq Double Phaeton, UK registered LN 7130.
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Yes it was a bit dirty out Cunnamulla way, but nice to see new country out in the Wild West.
On the dirt flats at Bowra. This has been captured in Queensland's wild west, near Cunnamulla. I did a trip out west in seeking the elusive Major Mitchell birds.
In this area the vegetation is sparse and the land is arid and not very productive.
Cunnamulla is around 787Km west from Queensland's capital Brisbane.
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Nikon D810 with 14-24mm wide angle lens at 24mm.
Bit of a long hot walk, so found a spot for a spot of refreshingness!!
Cool little waterfall and I am enjoying the spray!! 😁
We had a visit here to walk and then swim at Wadi Shab in Oman. Amazing and beautiful place..
Almost a two hour drive from Muscat, then a boat ride before setting off up the amazing Wadi following the water until we came to the area where we changed and then paddled and then swam to a cave!
Gong back a bit for this one, but I don't seem to post very many Norfolk Southern shots on Flickr, so I guess the time had come to break down. I kind of think the OCS F's don't count but I figured this home rebuilt SD60E looked good enough as it led a westbound on the former EJ&E back in February of 2015. The crew, for some reason, had less than an hour to work and was going to go dead around Dyer, if they were lucky. My reasons for not being a huge fan of the NS isn't so much the mundane paint scheme, but more to the fact that I spent three years of hell working for the company in the late 80's. One thing I did enjoy was working with some of the best railroaders I know. They put up with a lot of BS and did a great job in spite of the harsh management style that ruled the Chicago Terminal then. For their sake, I hope things have improved. While it's neat to see a fleet of heritage locos running around, what's more important is the people who operate them, maintain them and the rest of the property, the people who ensure their safe passage in one way or another.
Texas A&M Aggie Ring ’84 considers himself a bit of a “foodie.” Aggie Ring was quite surprised when he noticed a new “Greek” themed “fast food” place next to the building where our UPS Store account is located in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. It’s called “Greekamolé” and apparently is NOT a chain. Aggie Ring was impressed that you could actually get food that was healthy and not drowned in salt, yet… still tasted great.
Aggie Ring told me “Thank goodness they didn't have the same stereotypical foods that every other "Greek" restaurant has. No gyro, no Pastiche, no Moussaka - you can find that elsewhere! Sure, there are some Greek influenced items here, but the food reminded me more of the food in the Middle East, North Africa or Southwest Asia. Not Greek. Regardless, the food was delicious and healthier than what you find at a Greek diner.”
With the exception of the pulled beef short ribs, all of the main courses were veggie, chicken, or fish! They all looked delicious.
I had the Mediterranean Chicken platter with greens, rice and Turkish salad, and mixed salad with feta. The layout of the salad selections reminded me of the restaurants I frequently visited in Turkey during the two years I lived in Istanbul.
After you pick your two sides, you move on to the sauce bar where you select from at least 9 different toppings. They had tzatziki (OK, that's Greek) but the others were definitely Middle Eastern or Central American inspired. They all looked delicious.
Both Aggie Ring and I liked how the dessert menu was a healthier yogurt variety of options with fruit and other toppings and not heavy pastries. They even have higher quality Jones Cane Sugar Soda, which, If you have to drink soda, is much better than corn syrup based Pepsi or Coke products.
They also had appetizer hot pita with a selection of dipping sauces as well as a kid's menu.
Aggie Ring said, “They did their homework before opening this place.”
A bit of light painting with a new light-up toy: an LED illuminated dodecahedron (also called an infinity dodecahedron).
This is an 8-second long exposure at an ISO 50 where I moved the image every two seconds so that it produced light trails. The original image looked interesting like a light explosion but fairly linear and I was wanting to make something more curvy and bendy.
I added in PS distortions (zig-zag, pinch, twirl) and a copy-paste/flip vertical & horizontal (opacity at 50% to let the original layer show through, too).
I used Topaz Adjust's Psychodelic filter brighten up the colors within the image (example, the very pale teal on the edges are now visible).
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Bit of a surprise sunny late morning so out for a couple of hours on Himmy.. 43 miles around my local Peak District!!
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This is another bit of play with Nikon's repeat function on their speedlights. Diablo here does mixed-martial arts and works hard at it. I had in mind an image that looked like he could throw lightning fast punches. I think we came pretty close.
Just like the first attempt, this is a mess of lights and remotes. In a completely dark studio (one of the benefits of not having any windows), this was a five second exposure during which Diablo moved forward and threw punches to his left and right, finally hitting his mark and throwing a punch straight ahead.
I used two SB-800s with cinefoil snoots (to prevent the light from falling onto anything but Diablo's gloves and arms) above and to Diablo's left and right, firing straight down. An on-camera SB-900 in repeat commander mode had the SB-800s fire six flashes at 1/8th power.
When Diablo threw his final punch I would trigger a set of studio strobes with a hand-held remote. These strobes were a Ranger RX into a 27" gridded beauty dish as the key light and two D-Lite 400s into strip boxes to Diablo's left and right rear as rim lights.
We made quite a few attempts to get a few frames where things lined up well. We couldn't get enough arms to show up in a single frame the way I had hoped, so in Photoshop I brought in more arms from a second image.
My great Aunt gave me this vintage slip years ago. She had it made in Paris in the 20's, I looked out of my window in the rain and saw my honesuckle in full bloom. As you can see I didnt iron it, I just loved how crumpled and creased it looked.
Bit of a slide with Summer's Coneflower or Echinacea.
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A Bit of A Do 2023 at Pebmarsh produced the usual eclectic mix of bygones, vehicles, machinery and good cheer despite indifferent weekend weather.
A bit of a departure for me from landscapes and farm scenes! This is the lovely village of Ronda in Southern Spain. This busker lit a cigarette and I thought it give that 60's pop culture feel to the photo. Shot wide open to blut the background a little. Not so many people about in February which allowed an unobstructed shot. I will also try a B&W process to see how that looks.
ODC 1 ~ Retro for 10.04.13
Day 277 ~ 365: the 2013 edition
What is the meaning of 'Shave and a haircut Two Bits'?
It was the cost of a shave and a haircut in a barber shop during the mid-1800s - Two bits. Two bits equals a quarter.
Bit gutting that I hit this with the old finger over lense trick which has spoilt the photo, but I couldn't help but not share this lovely 600. Finished in Nightfire Red, the same as N735WBA, my grandparents old 620SDI. I love these cars, along with the 75 and I'd seriously consider both models if I wanted something from this era.
Nice low mileage too; 69k at last test in December isn't bad at all.