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My wild river reflection…!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet…!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach…!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage…!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés…!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau…!!!
.....not only because of self-destruction,
it will also feel better for everyone
if we stop burning our planet all the time.
I think we covered the game with fire,
and many haven't even noticed.
Fire is a very powerful element, it can bring light
or the hell.
We got enough better Alternatives,then the fossil Combustion.
shamanic dream
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlT2BOJXzhw
N.Young-Be the Rain
King of road racing and Queen of elegance. This 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Berlinetta Speciale. was built for competition (the C) and yet would transport a couple at very high speed in complete comfort and class. In many ways, the 2900B Lungo Berlinetta was the finest closed car produced in the pre-war era. Built with race-proven engineering and with a style of unsurpassed elegance, these fastback Alfas are among the finest cars in world.
On the track, the 2900 competition cars benefited from a decade of Alfa Romeo progress and became the most successful of their time. A trio of 2900As placed first-second-third at the 1936 Mille Miglia, while three specially built 2900MMs accomplished the same feat at the 1938 edition. The decision to make a road-going variant of these winning designs must have been easy.
Touring of Milan was responsible for almost the entire production of 2900B bodies and their exceptional ‘Coupé Superleggra’ or ‘Coupé Ultraleggro Aeroprofilato’ took advantage of the Lungo chassis and exaggerated it with a huge rear overhang. In total, Touring constructed only around 10 of these masterworks. The 2900 chassis was outfitted very similar to the competition cars.
The engine was similar to the Tipo B unit but was made from new castings in aluminum instead of magnesium. They retained a 10-main bearing crankshafts that sat in white metal babbits. The cylinder head was cast integral to the block with hemispherical combustion chambers and domed pistons. The valvetrain and axillary devices were all gear driven.
The men responsible for this model were engineer Vittorio Jano (designer of Alfa Romeo's P-Series Grand Prix racers and road-going sporting models) and body stylist Felice Bianchi Anderloni (founder of the coachbuilding firm Carrozzeria Touring in Milan). With the help of chief designer Aquino Gilardi, Anderloni helped pioneer Superleggera (super light) body construction. Instead of using heavy frames and rigid axles like so many other competitors, Alfa Romeo employed an intricate latticework of lightweight but rigid steel tubes that formed the framework for the elegant, hand-fashioned aluminum body shell. Shapes were tested by attaching felt strips to the body and the car was photographed while moving to record how wind flowed over and around it.
The original 8C had won LeMans 4 years straight, and this car is a barely detuned racing chassis. What a way to tour Europe!
Leaves from a fabulous, huge, old Ornamental Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Ornatum') at Smith College's Botanical Garden earlier this morning.
A used spark plug, from a set I recently replaced. It got me to thinking how many times it would have sparked while in the service of getting me from point A to point B and back for around 50,000 miles (nearly 80,500km), but that would be difficult to calculate; if I did, the figure would be astounding.
Sometimes I like color. Maybe it's the cool blues with the warm steam and clouds. In case you're wondering, this is a combine cycle combustion turbine natural gas power station. It provides base-load electric power to the 100,000 citizens of the city of Burbank and powers Hollywood. Anyhow, I captured this on my evening walking commute.
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This weeks Macro Monday's theme is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
As many of these conveyances are powered by internal combustion engines, I thought a Spark Plug would be appropriate.
Of course it would have to be sparking.
Best viewed large.
HMM.
P.S.
This is a real spark recorded in this 2.5 second exposure. The spark plug was connected to a neon sign transformer that produced a continuous spark that you see here.
Soldering, a very smoky process.
The smoke is slightly sweet-smelling but, like smoke from other sources, very noxious. Because of the danger, I use means of exhausting or blowing the smoke out of my way while soldering.
Light painting in Frew Park, one of Brisbane’s best locations for light painting, at a Centenary Photographic Community meet. With a tricky climb up to to the top of the tower (especially when carrying up a fragile and sharp light blade), I had to make an accurate guess on the required exposure. The exposure was remotely triggered from within the cage. Thankfully I only required two trips up and down before I was happy with the final result. Fire effect from a Denis Smith made Arclight - Fireblade connected via LPB Universal Connector to a Thorfire TK15S flashlight (on 50% output). f/10, ISO200, 20secs. Post processed from RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6.
The Safety match was invented to stop spontaneous combustion when matches were rubbing against each other. For that you need a specific surface to strike them against as opposed to the selfstriking ones. Of course before High Viz gear, red and for that matter white were the original colours of warning alerts.. I'm not sure if 'pants on fire' has anything to do with dangerous matches:)
I was trying to catch up with the Tri-colored Heron as it scurried out of the frame with its double catch when a school of menhaden literally photobombed the image in a spontaneous explosion triggered perhaps by a predator beneath the surface. When the baitfish are thick and nervous, almost anything, even me clapping my hands, can set them off. Armand Bayou at the end of the Bay Area Park boardwalk.