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This is my somewhat successful attempt to combine old with new. The stainless steel on these amfleet cars harkens back to all the CB&Q trains that used to run under these searchlights back in the day. Even with the modern GE, this looks a bit like something from the 40's and 50's. In reality this is just the nightly 383 making it's trip to Quincy. Get these shots while you can as the new signals are ready to be installed here at West Eola.
Cosplayer Linda Le aka Vampy Bit Me shows off her amazing cosplay of sniper and medic Valerie Wolski aka Val from the upcoming video game Evolve at New York Comic Con 2014.
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Cricket on Spiderwort shot at life size (1=1). This cricket is only 4mm long. This required a lens change and a good amount of bellows extension.
A 8-bit image of the local channel Telefriuli's teletext, photo captured from the TV on a boring rainy afternoon!
classic bit of cross processing this is defiantly one for my strong colors set!
this was shot for my new book on toy cameras with a holga 35 bc and lomography branded 200asa X pro film. the bc holga 35 bc stands for blackened coroners its meant to make the corners of you images blackened, in other words give you extra vignetting and it works very lomo LCA esc but only really good for clear bright days. check out the other cameras i included on my site here. you can find out more about my book in my latest blog post. you can also see a little video flip though of the book on my flickr stream here
Hi everyone!
Again a little bit too late, but I upload these pictures!
You may remember, that I uploaded a poster approx one year ago about a Lego exhibition, which I organised at that time. Unfortunately I didn't find the time to share the pictures immediately, so I do it now. Hope, that it's not too late.
We had 15 exhibitors (including me), and more than 15 other helpers. I would like to say them a really big "Thank you!" again for taking part in the event and for the help on Friday, before the exhibition, and on Sunday evening, after the exhibition! In the following list you can see the 14 fantastic builders (except me), with website, if they have:
Norbi (Smart City): www.facebook.com/legovaros/
Ashi (trains, long train station): mlvk.blog.hu/
Imi (trains, little bit shorter train station): www.flickr.com/photos/160546666@N06/
Rob (trains, old vehicles): www.flickr.com/photos/96500381@N05/
Tomi (big Thehnic vehicles): www.flickr.com/photos/129961553@N05/
Zoli (ancient Rome, city): www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Vazul
Aldó (Star Wars layout)
Nándi (big Technic vehicles)
Lipko (big Tehnic vehicles): www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=szecs
Ralf (castle puzzle): www.flickr.com/photos/91680825@N07/
Marcus (Route 66): www.flickr.com/photos/er0l/
Steffen (Route 66): www.flickr.com/photos/29666619@N04/
Jan (mediavel layout): bricks-am-meer.de/
Andreas (games): www.flickr.com/photos/92182338@N08/
Me (Route 66, trains, RC vehicles)
The exhibition was opened on Saturday and Sunday. During the two days we had 1141 visitors. The event was in a Science Center, which has a permanent exhibition, too. Since the Lego exhibition, the visitors of the center's own exhibition often look for the Lego creations, and ask regularly, when will be the next one :)
I wish all of you a Happy New Year! :)
Unfinished Irish crochet doily. I'm working the Clones knot ground in size 100 cotton with a .6 mm hook. My design
hahahaha! this was a bit of fun with Ylana last night, just messing around being geeks and stuff. almost totally spur of the moment!! its 3:10am now and I just finished watching superbad on Ylana's laptop whilst she snoozes away on the bed next to me! haha!
ohhh I took this on her camera, it wasn't really anything serious, so we didn't treat it like a proper proper shoot, we just enjoyed ourselves taking pictures looking like rejects! haha!
Nice bit of interaction with camera, but 3 different reactions. Firstly I wasn't actually particularly taking a picture of them, I was however taking the a picture of the cinema and wanted somebody to be in the picture to add scale etc.
When they saw the camera the guy in the blue shirt ran past (hence why he's so far in front), one hid his face and the other showed up to the camera.
Taken in Brussels.
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I think He's been into our Bourbon spiked ~Egg Nog~ !!!! Because He has been Flittin' around, and flappin' those wings, and he looks a bit too much like Rudolph to me! Bert is
acting rather Wild tonight! Maybe he better not go on that training run with Santa!!
~"Won't You Guide My Sleigh Tonight?~!
Mount Pocono, PA. September 2019.
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A bit of a homage to my favourite 70's 35mm film.
When I first became interested in photography in the early seventies this soon became my favourite colour film. I loved the 25 ASA and 64 ASA versions although getting large prints from them was pretty expensive.
As Paul Simon said :"They give us those nice bright colors,
They give us the greens of summers, Makes you think all the world's a sunny day" :)
I wanted this work to have those "nice bright (saturated) colours" that I remember from the time so I picked several of my photos that lent themselves to the subject. I also wanted the aspect ration of the frames to be 3x2 like 35mm film cameras.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera, various M.Zuiko lenses, Lightroom, Photomatrix Pro, DxO Viewpoint 2 and Corel PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimate.
Bits & Pieces found in a drawer. These'll be staying in the drawer for a while now, possibly forever as I took the plunge and had my hair cut short again. Am totally loving the freedom!
These are my newest video game earrings, inspired by the 8 bit Nintendo Mario Bros game. Part of my Foxy Momma Creations/SpriteMe2 beaded video game jewelry collection.
Two yr old stallion coming nicely under the direction of Katey's soft hands and gracious personality...!
The Fletcher Block Building was built by William Henry Sternberg (1832-1906) in Wichita, KS in 1887. This photo from approximately the 1930s appears as if the building were modernized a bit from 50 years prior... chimneys and spires were taken off and the top arched crown on the front of the building was removed (compare this photo with the Artist's Drawing of the Fletcher Block). The Fletcher Block Building (or Fletcher Building) was located on the northwest corner of Main & Second Street and was built for William Fletcher who also had his business office here. William Fletcher moved to Wichita from Illinois and is described as a "Capitalist" and a "Speculator". It was a first-class office building equiped with steam heat, an electric elevator, stained glass windows and stained glass skylights and other upscale appointments. This building no longer exists. The term "block" is rarely used today, but was a common term in the late 1800s. It was somewhat of a generic term for any large commercial building that covered all or most of a block or even part of a block as long as it was fairly square or rectangular in shape. The Fletcher Block was a well-known building throughout Wichita. When referring to an office location, city directories sometimes omitted an address altogether and simply noted, "Fletcher Building". It contained professional offices including doctors and mortgage brokers.
Sternberg was the most prolific builder in the area and erected more of the commercial block-style buildings than any other builder in the late 1800s. Some of the buildings he erected include: the Eads Block Building, Smyth & Sons Block Building, the Union Block Building (corner of Douglas and Water), the Temple Block Building, the Bitting Block Building (also called simply, the Bitting Building at the corner of Market and Douglas), the Roys Block at the corner of Lawrence and Douglas, the Market Street Block (erected in August 1887), the Naftzger Building (a block-style building three stories high at the corner of St. Francis and Douglas), the Porter Building (a four-story brick at 211 – 213 E. Douglas), Ferrell’s Brick Block (opposite the Post Office) and many others. Sternberg employed a crew that at times reached 40 men. As population in Wichita has grown about 10-fold since then, that translates into a construction firm with roughly 400 workers by today's standards. William Sternberg was a significant employer in Wichita, all at a time before electric tools and cars.
At the time the Fletcher Building was built Mr. Fletcher had his personal residence just a block south of Mr. Sternberg's residence on the then very exclusive north Waco Avenue residential district. Mr. Sternberg's residence was at 1065 N. Waco Avenue. Mr. Fletcher's residence was at 933 N. Waco Avenue. At the time, Waco Avenue was an elite cul-de-sac, accessible only from the east. South of this area, the Arkansas river's path swung further to the east than it does today, cutting off Waco Avenue from going all the way through to downtown as it does today. There are no known photos of the Fletcher residence. It is not unlikely that Sternberg may have designed and built Mr. Fletcher's personal residence in addition to building the Fletcher Building (which Sternberg is confirmed to have done). In a number of instances, Sternberg is known to have done both a commerical and residential building for the same individual, sometimes more than one commercial building and/or house (for example, the A.W. Bitting and C.W. Bitting residences as well as two stores for the Bitting brothers). Sternberg is known to have designed & built Finlay Ross's residence at 821 N. Waco Avenue and Finlay Ross's 3-story Furniture Store, "Ross' Great Furniture & Carpet Emporium" at 119 & 121 N. Main (photos of the Ross block posted to photostream soon). Fletcher's home would have been in between Ross's (at 821 N. Waco Avenue) and Sternberg's own home at 1065 N. Waco Avenue. Early fire insurance maps for 933 N. Waco indicate there was a large home at this address, but other than identifying the perimeter of the structure those maps don't say anything else about it. Any additional information about the William Fletcher residence at 933 North Waco Avenue in Wichita, KS is welcome.
Bricks for buildings like the Fletcher Block above were made locally at any number of brick manufacturers. In the 1800s, bricks were made by hand in a slow, laborious process. In 1879, the steam shovel was invented which speeded up the first step: just the getting the clay to begin with. Clay was often stored over the Winter because the freezing made working the clay easier in the Spring and the cold helped remove unwanted oxides. Clay was then ground into powder and screened to remove rocks. The dry clay was then mixed with water and then kneaded (“pugged” in a “pug mill” whereby a horse drawn cart worked the clay mixture by walking round-and-round the pug) to mix all the elements together in a uniform mixture. Wooden brick molds, usually made from beech wood (because beech wood didn’t stick to the clay mixture), were “sanded” (moistened first, then covered with sand) and filled with the clay mixture. These wood molds were then turned over and the “sand-struck bricks” slid out of the wooden brick molds and cured for a few days before being fired. Kilns were not massive ovens as they are today but usually dug-outs or pits in the ground and temperatures reached about 1800 degrees F, although the heat was not even throughout the pit. Bricks closer to the center (closer to the fire) ended up being "over-fired" and were called “clinkers” because they were noticeably cracked and/or warped. They broke easily and were mostly used for decorative purposes (garden borders, decorative walls and walkways, etc). Some bricks, furthest from the fires were typically under-cooked (under-fired) and this resulted in a brick being more porous and having a lighter density and a significantly lighter color (more salmon colored than red). Other bricks toward the middle of the fire hole received a more even temperature and became quite dense and hard with a good uniform shape and a deep rich red brick color. The sand from these middle-range good quality bricks would fall off the bricks during the firing process and vaporize and would then float back up with the heat and coat the outside of the bricks creating a slight gloss or sheen on the outside of the brick. Because bricks were stacked there wasn’t always a glass sheen on all sides of the bricks. The better bricks were chosen for use on the exterior walls of a building or outside of a chimney column. Sand from the under-fired bricks (those furthest from the pit fire) simply fell off into the pit and didn't vaporize and coat the bricks resulting in bricks with a dull, rougher texture on the outside. These slightly under-fired porous bricks were often used for interior walls and chimney flues because the they contained more air within them and they insulated better.
Bricks were in extremely high demand in early Wichita (1870s – 1890s). By some accounts Wichita was growing faster in the 1880s than any other city in the country (according to the value of real estate transactions). In second and third place behind Wichita were: (1) New York City and (2) Kansas City. Bricks were used not only for buildings but for street paving and construction of drains and sewers. Several brick factories (collectively producing well over a million bricks per day) sprung up in early Wichita and elsewhere in south central Kansas (notably Pittsburg and Coffeyville). Each brick factory imprinted their name and/or logo on their bricks and bricks from early south central Kansas have ended up all over the world! Some of those bricks are now quite collectable. A popular and very collectable brick today is the "Don't Spit on Sidewalk" brick which originated in Topeka and which according to legend kicked off a health campaign that eventually swept the country to combat tuberculosis. The word “spit” was a fairly rough word at the time and more refined persons preferred the word, “expectorant” or “expectoration”, so “Don’t Spit on the Sidewalk” was a fairly “in-your-face” campaign that was intended to put a stop the practice of spitting once and for all! It was believed at the time that spitting on the floor in public places or on the sidewalk was a major source of the spread of tuberculosis (indeed direct contact with saliva can spread tuberculosis), however, it was later found that a more significant route of transmission was the practice of drinking water from water buckets at train stations or other community water bins. Trains (no air conditioning then) stopped every several miles and thirsty travelers would go to the water bucket, pick up the drinking cup or dipper, dip it in the water bin, take a drink and lay the cup or dipper back down for the next drinker. The public then was not generally aware that disease could be spread in this way. Paper plates were invented in 1904 and paper cups in 1908. It should be noted that the first paper cups were originally called “health cups” and the first company to manufacture these “health cups” was . . . the Dixie Cup Company. So the bricks for the Fletcher Block were undoubtedly made locally. The limestone was probably quarried locally (Arkansas City - Cowley County area) and brought to Wichita by train. Once in Wichita it was carried to the job site by mule.
Examples of all these various types of bricks (clinkers, porous, durable and durable with glass sheen) are available for public viewing and demonstration at the Historic Sternberg Mansion and can be seen and felt and weighed which helps visually clarify the process by which bricks in Wichita were made.
Your comments, ideas, suggestions, interests, thoughts and information are all welcomed and appreciated!!
All photos from this photostream will eventually be on display for public viewing within the Historic Sternberg Mansion for public viewing. As of today (05/07/2010), only a few dozen are up.
This photo is courtesy of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum (www.WichitaHistory.org).