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New years eve and what better way to prepare for the coming festivities than to spend an hour or so on a beach with a snow storm imminent.The things we do,but the same things i wouldn't change for anything else.
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STUDIOKCA, a brooklyn-based architecture and design firm, has pulled over five tons of waste from the ‘plastic soup’ that is floating on the surface of the pacific ocean. This accumulation was used as a medium for their four story tall sculptural whale that now rises up out of an Utrecht canal. This colossal whale, ‘skyscraper,’ serves to both address the 150 million tons of plastic waste which remain, as well as emphasize the necessity for individual and collective action.
This is what’s left of the Bayless Pulp and Paper Co. dam in Austin, Pennsylvania.
The 50-foot high, 534-foot long dam failed in 1911, just two years after it was built, sending a wall of water downstream that killed at least 78 people in Austin and Costello. It was the second-deadliest dam disaster in state history at that point, after the vastly worse Johnstown disaster of 1889.
The pulp mill survived the dam breach and another flood in 1942, but was ruined by fire in 1944. How’s that for irony?
Austin was a town that grew and shrank with the mill — there were nearly 3,000 people living there in September 1911 and a little more than 500 in 2019.
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The whale watching in the Barents Sea in the Kola Peninsula coast
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I had the opportunity to provide photography services on a week-long Alaskan cruise. One of the stops was in Victoria, British Columbia. While out on a whale watching tour, we saw a bunch of Killer Whales / Orcas, including this juvenile breaching.
Following the directives given to us by our superiors, we geared up for our hunt into the jungles. According to intel from spies off world, there was to be a gathering of those objecting to the Empire’s expansion plans in the system. Politics never seems to bore more than anything and this was sizing up to be another one of those bureaucratic nightmares. Although there are issues we troopers have with the current reasonings we were sent to Sesid, they were orders and there was still progress being done to improve the lives of citizens in areas of the galaxy, including this one, that had been forgotten by the powers of the past. Those who went unnoticed were lifted up and given purpose to help serve a cause that benefits the collective, rather than the higher tables. That being said, even those pure of heart, still have influences from those that look out for their own hind. Not that I blame them, you have to watch yourself, especially in the current climate, both physically on planet and politically. Making our way through the swampy waters & thick vegetation of these tropical forests, we came across the slight fortifications around the compound which we were targeting. Some simple charges in the wall were all that we needed to breach and move in. Within minutes, we made our way through the maze of gardens to acquire our grand prize. - Bandana Clone
One of the few creations I haven’t posted here to Flickr just yet that I’m just getting around to. This one was part of the Sesid Series that I started several months ago. Is more built for story than looks, but it’s got it where it counts.
There is a video where I talk more about the creation over on Beyond The Brick.
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~Noah
Back at sea finally! Yesterday I saw humpbacks breaching but they were very far away and it was foggy and apparently misty because of the volcano eruption in the south. So I didn't really get any good pictures, those are the only passable ones. Was cool to see though.
An awesome day whale watching out of Sydney today. Nice light in the morning, and these whales just wouldn't stop breaching.
"...the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales... making more white water and gay foam than any other" -- Herman Melville in "Moby Dick".
There's a few more whale photos yet - I aimed to complete processing the week's photos today but seem to have failed... so more to come.
Having some fun with friends and lightpainting at Sculptures by the sea last night.
Sculpture: Breaching by Michael Greve from Red gum and spotted gum. All about boundaries, crossing from one to the other, if only for a short time. The action of launching out of your natural environment. if only for a few moments, is something that resonates with us.
DESIGNATION: Protector-018
NICKNAME: Galaar
RANK: ARC Captain Grade 1
UNIT: Vornskr, First Regiment, "Bralor's First", 253rd Elite Clone Legion
"General Tiin, the ship is lost."
"It's time to get a new one..."
"Yes Sir!"
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"Bright green streaks of plasma flew past me as I lazily drifted towards the hull of a Separatist Munificent-class Frigate. I checked the status of my squad in my HUD as the hull of the frigate grew beneath me. Two if my men had already landed engaging a vulture droid that appeared to be attempting defend the ship's turbo lasers, my squads primary target. As I neared the hull I activated the magnetics in my boots causing me to quickly cover the last few meters and slam into the hull. I lurched as my boots stuck to durasteel halting my momentum, righting myself, I assessed my surroundings, I was on target, right bellow the line of dual turbo lasers which were peppering the Absolver above. Dodging explosions from the Absolver's return fire I lead my squad along the frigates hull until we were above the turbo laser control room. Using a special charge we breached the hull, staying outside until the room had both finished venting it's droid crew and pressurizing. Now we just had to wait for the engineers to link up and seal the room, until then our mission was complete. Now it was time to sit back and hope that the rest of the Legion was having the same luck."
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I finally got around to building something, it's nothing crazy, but Brady put a lot of work into writing mission 15 for the 253rd so I had to put something together. Over the last 4 months of working abroad and not having time to build I've come to realize that building is a bit of a perishable skill, I'm pretty sure I've forgotten how to terrain, which isn't great, but I'm determined to make something presentable with the new green and dk tan bricks I recently picked up so we'll see.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!
- Tommy
Yesterday from Half Moon Bay, I saw whales breaching way off on the horizon. It was the first time I'd ever seen such a thing and was amazed. So I got fired up to see more and booked a 2 hour tour with SF Whale Watch Tours today. As soon as we went out we started seeing whale spouts. Then a bit later, my camera was at my side and I started to see this whale breach and shot without looking through the viewfinder. Luckily it all lined up. BOOM.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - Downsampled from ~20 MP, hotsampling! using SRWE; HattiWatti's Cinematic Tools, fog edit, freecam, and hide HUD; timestop; IDK's AR Unlocker for cutscenes and CT for henchmen coordinates; my own ReShade config (also available on Nexus)
Here is my build for week two of the RogueOlympics where the prompt was “Internet”. It took a lot more thought this time to settle on a concept I liked.
In the end, I went with this imaginative cyber scenario of a firewall under attack by vicious viruses. The scene uses 100 elements.
There are a few more images including the parts spread on Brickbuilt.
Here's a web tidbit on breaching: Humpback whales are very acrobatic and known for their energetic breaching, as are gray whales and right whales. Humpbacks breach more frequently when the seas are rough (and their normal vocalizations are less likely to be heard over the roar of the seas). This suggests that the noise of breaching may be used as a signal.
That's the way it was - late in the afternoon, ocean rough, and I can tell you this close uncropped breach image was a surprise. Note the whale is I don't know how to describe - belly to the sky... remembering this was my first ever whale watching excursion.
Bridgewater Canal, Worsley
I’ve been following the recent breach of the Bridgewater Canal on YouTube by ‘Taylors Aboard a Narrowboat’ which occurred on the 1st January 2025 at Little Bollington near Dunham Massey.
I’m not sure what or how it happened, although the consensus is that the 16 hours of non-stop heavy rain filled the canal up to the towpath that washed the embankment away from beneath it causing its complete collapse. What is surprising is that this is the second time this has occurred… and at the exact same location. The previous breach occurred on the 2nd August 1971, which isn’t bad considering it was constructed back in 1761, some 260 years ago and I dare say maintenance has been minimal in recent decades.
I’ve learnt a great deal about this canal in the last week –
It’s 39 miles long (65kms)
It runs from the Castlefield Junction (Manchester) to Runcorn (Cheshire) with two arms: the Leigh Arm and the Preston Brook Branch
There are no locks on the canal, it was built at one level and follows the contours of the land to avoid the use of locks.
However, this may be considered its Achilles’ heel. Such a breach could in theory empty the entire canal, but for the inclusion of ‘stop plank’ points along its length. These are simple devices that consist of slots cut into the towpath walls that enable planks to be slotted across the width of the canal to form a temporary (usually wooden) wall to seal off a section of the canal. A crane is usually found at these points to assist in the lowering of the planks.
So, I now know that this crane in my picture is called a ‘stop plank crane’ and the wall can be seen just to the left lying against the embankment. I had a good look at this and it looks in pretty good condition unlike the one that they tried to use to section off the Little Bollington breach which was rotten and failed resulting in probably 10’s of thousands of gallons leaking out of the canal system before an alternative dam could be put in place – the price of poor maintenance!
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Little Jimmy earned his Laser Badge today with an impressive demonstration. He's headed to Mount Rushmore next!
Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, California 2012
Here's a baby Humpback Whale breaching. It was so relatively small and streamlined it barely made a splash as it rose from the water, and didn't really make much of a splash when it hit the water. This is a view of its head and back and its eye is clearly visible. In the northern hemisphere Humpback Whales breed in warmer waters from December to March and return to give birth about eleven and a half months later, having spent the summer feeding in colder, more productive waters. So this baby whale is probably no older than two months.
Incidentally breaching is when a cetacean, usually a whale, jumps high out of the water. But a breech baby (NB different spelling) is one that presents backside first in the uterus rather than the normal head first. But my title was more of a play on words from a summer hit from my early teens (1974) called Beach Baby by First Class.
No one is quite sure why Humpback whales do this, but I assure you it is very exciting and spectacular.
Whale watching out of Cape Ann, Massachusettes.
After the Rythar victory at Dartry, the Rythar's hoped to have a period of peace. Sadly, this would not be so. While the battle raged on, something happened that baffled the kingdom. A breach was made in the outer wall near the Elwood Mountains. No one knows how yet as the guards in that region were killed. Of course, the Rythar's see this as a counter-strike from the Bardals, but they will soon find out that it is something far worse.