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The new Dongfeng Box is one of the cheapest electric cars in the Netherlands. For the first time Dongfeng is selling cars here under its own brand name. The Box will be competing with the Dacia Spring and the new Citroën ë-C3.
Built by Gerstner, this Model 212 fell into my hands battered and splashed with the obligatory white latex paint. (I still don't understand why virtually every old tool box I run into has white paint stains. Has no one heard of drop cloths?)
This is the interior of a power signal box taken between the 13th and 27th of July 1987. Don't know where for definite but the layout reminds me of York.
Organizing all my documents for life, school, and work in a large box folder. Soon I will have to expand and use several box folders.
This is not my photo
This photo is used for editing with kind permission for Craig from "Portraits from Craig"
Original can be found here:
flickr.com/photos/digital_reflection_2/2042034728/?addedc...
Not quite done - still fiddling with the unditching beam and wrestling the tow cable - but I thought I'd do some presentation experiments.
Obviously inspired by Tamiya boxes, in particular the Fat Boy Lo.
This is my take on a 3 string cigar box slide guitar.
This was my first build of a cigar box guitar, and as you can probably guess i didn't use a cigar box and instead i used an old wooden chess board i had in the house, which i think gave the guitar a fantastic look right from the start.
I pieced together ideas from various sources but mainly a great book i got online which was very helpful.
As i was finding it quite difficult to get my hands on hardwood i had to use what i could and due to that i decided to make this one fretless as i couldn't a suitable piece.
The overall cost of this guitar was around £30 and sounds really cool.
Materials -
wooden chess board
Red Meranti for the neck
Oak for the headstock add on and bridges.
Now just to learn how to play it before i build my next!
Boxes stamped with Yellow Owl Workshop's Cityscape set. Very happy-making.
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Sorry buddy, no means no! This male box turtle was attempting to mate with this female, but she thwarted his efforts by retreating into her shell (she was already in her shell when I encountered them). If the female was carrying eggs, they were probably already fertilized which is a possible reason for the rejection. Female box turtles can store sperm for months or even years, but I am not sure if they do so when their current clutch is already fertilized. Maybe one of you can help answer this question?? Shot with a 300mm lens. -MA
AA Box, Aysgarth, Wensleydale, 13 Jul 2021
I love the way the Yellow Loosestrife complements the AA Yellow.
In the early 1960s there were 862 AA sentry boxes scattered around the country.
It is thought that 21 of the original AA boxes remain in situ at the roadside.
Most of these are now listed buildings.
The Aysgarth box is Grade II listed.
Manufactured by Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munich, West Germany
Model: c.1956, (produced between 1949-58)
also known Agfa Box 600, a version of Box 50
Box film camera, film 120 roll, format 6x9cm
Lens: 105mm f/11 single-element meniscus
Aperture: f/11 and f/16,
setting: a pull-out tab above the shutter release, without pulling out the tab setting on the large aperture, when pulling out, the first stop (a dot) is for small aperture and the second (filter) stop is for larger aperture w/ yellow filter,
Focusing: fixed focus
Focus range: 3m - inf
Shutter: Instant-return self-cocking shutter, simple spring, w/sliding aperture disc
Speeds: 1/50 +B
Setting: by a small sliding lever above the shutter release:
the dot is for speed and the long line is for B setting
Cocking and Shutter release lever: same, on the lower left side of the camera,
pressing once to downwards the lever cock and release the shutter
Cable release socket: same with flash PC socket, at the corner below the shutter release
Viewfinder: two Bright magnifying viewfinders on top and right sides of the camera,
w/ polished steel reflectors
Winding lever: on the right side of the camera
Flash PC socket: special for dedicated Agfa Clibo-Blitz flash, same with cable release socket, at the corner below the shutter release
Synchro term in the name is for flash sync shutter
Cold-shoe: none
Self-timer: none
Back cover: Hinged, w/ red window, opens by pressing the carrying strap knob on top of the camera
Film loading: via a removable cone magazine ( the lens on it !..), open the back cover, then pull out the winding handle when rotating, and then pull out the inner part of the camera, then insert the film roll to the lower plate, and place it to the upper take up spool, then insert the film magazine into the camera and pull in the winding lever, then close the back cover, wind the film until the number 1 visible in the red window
Sticker on the magazine: Agfa Isopan Film
Tripod sockets: 1/4'', two, left and bottom sides of the camera
Buttons for hand grip on top of the camera
Body: metal, Weight: 412g
serial no. none
The optics are rather simple, so image quality is a bit better than a toy camera, but not significantly so. Photographs can have the dreamy soft focus like Holga pictures, but unlike toy cameras, image quality is fairly sharp throughout the photograph with little or no vignetting around the edges. Also, the large negative size is a definite plus, just print contact sheets from Synchro-Box negatives.
Brayton Signal Box was a NER designed box that was situated south of Selby on the East Coast Main Line. It controlled rail traffic at Brayton Junction which was the route from Selby off to the port town of Goole which branched off the ECML. It became a Gate Box in 1973 controlling the level crossing and closed on 6th March 1988. The box has long been demolished.
A view of the signals and signal boxes looking north from Leicester station. It doesn't look like this any more!
We have some Irish friends, who think Cape Cod is just about all right, particularly Provincetown. We are much of their opinion. But they never go there without being entirely grossed out by all the salt water taffy. Taffy, pronounced with an aggressively flat æ digraph, is a soft, sticky candy that is always sold wrapped up in a twist of wax paper, to protect it, presumably, from the moist sea air. I haven't been anywhere, on either coast, where it isn't made and sold as a necessary part of the shore experience. I don't think the tourists would ever go home, if it wasn't for this stuff, ripping out their fillings.
I sometimes think that our Irish friends take exception to the pronunciation of the word, perhaps thinking it's a Yankee mangling of the insular English word, toffee. Indeed, we have toffee, too, but it's a different animal, entirely. Maybe they resent the use of a word that is a tribal slur in England for the Welsh. Hard to say. They might not have a taste for it. I mean, they actually eat and enjoy Turkish delight, which is just nasty.
Oh, yes, this box suggests a piece of salt water taffy to me. I'm highly impressionable and maybe a little impressionistic.
My recently acquired Japanese Sankyo music box 72N 3Airs (72 notes 3 songs)
This glass model is made by the Japanese Music Box Company, NIDEC
It plays 72notes 3 songs by FF Chopin :
polonaise
tristesse
fantasie impromptu op.66
Japan is the only Asian country which manufacture high end mechanical winding music box.
These damn things have always fascinate me. It's interesting to see how the pins on the cylinder pluck the tuned comb as it rotates sounding out the beautifully resonant notes.
By arranging the pins and fashioning the comb teeth to reproduce specific notations in the musical scale it could made to produce an endless array of tunes very much like a mechanical piano. Brilliant idea. These are the great grand father of the record player and CD player.
Another design is by using a rotating disc with specifically cut hooks which strike a star wheel to produce the required musical tones. Both design are mechanical marvels.
I love them all
They say there's money to be made from photography - maybe not by the photographer through!
And this is only one box!
The portfolio box I made myself for a job interview with a portrait studio. I got a second interview!
A lovely Topper Made by persons unknown decorated the post-box outside the Post Office in Swanage, Dorset.
In our last installment of "The Box", Phillip exaggerated himself and Marble off of the Empire State Building by stating the exaggeration "Our house is made of gingerbread" and so it was.
"AWWWWWWWW!" screamed both Marble and Phillip.
"Muahahahaha!" chanted the ants.
"Marble, I am not that hungry anymore."
"You know what we need to do Phillip."
And they both chanted the exaggeration, "We are stuck in a box, we are stuck in a box."
"Don't forget with a llama named Greg," reminded Phillip.
And so it was, both Marble, Phillip and Greg the llama found themselves still stuck in the box.
triangle tin box
JF-535H 140x138x60 mm
Generally, our products fall into 5 categories:
1)Food Container: Chocolate box, tea can, coffee can, candy box, cake box, mooncake box, cookie box, lunch box, handle box, gum box, pepper can, mint tins, cigarette case, mesh box. heart-shape can,
2)Gift Box: Christmas tree case, promotion gift, gift box, candle holder, coin can, money box, music box, watch box, perfume can, jewellery case, sliding box, shoes box, present tin. tin ball, tin toys , car-shape tin, Halloween tin. valentine tin, display box, garment box.
3)Stationery Items: pen case, pen holder, pencil case, glasses case, towel box, tie box, clothes/pants can, cosmetic box, poke/playing card box, metal CD case, CD bag, DVD case, CD holder, DVD holder
4)Home Use Items: Portable ashtray, pocket ashtray, tin coaster, watering can, garbage can, serving tray, tin tray, galvanized pail, iron drum, tin ice bucket, metal ashtray, candle holder, set plant pot and tray, sprayer can, tissue box.
5)Other iron Craftwork: key rings, painting iron craftwork, tin badge, tin sign, keychain, hanging lamp.
Welton Gate Box is situated between Melton Lane and Brough on the Gilberdyke to Hull line.
The gates are normally closed to road users and the signals in the off position. Because of the close proximity of the boxes to one another we see Melton Lane's distant signal sharing the same posts as Welton's home signal. in the opposite direction Brough Easts distant signal is similarly mounted beneath Welton's home peg.
Here the driver gives a wave as 185126 glides by the crossing at 15.19 hrs with 1K16 the 13.41 Manchester Piccadily - Hull Paragon service, seen on Friday 31st July 2015.
Another rest day !!! That's two in two weeks.
I'm very conscious that whilst I have these signalling riches on my doorstep I need to get them visited as soon enough I'll be moving on and they'll be a whole lot trickier to find time to visit. Rest days are few and far between but a concerted effort needs to be made to get out more with the camera.
This one saw a very leisurely start visiting in this order
Hull Paragon
Hessle Road
Welton Gate Box
Melton Lane
Crabley Creek
Five very different boxes
I took a myriad of shots , if and when time allows I'll return with more signalling type shots but for now I have just posted one for each location and all featuring a train.
All visited on Friday 31st July 2015