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Competing in the UNLIMITED Class; "Hi-Tec Oils" #10 with Michael Cunningham driving along with Narelle Grayland during the evening qualifying session at the Penrite V8 Superboats meet at Temora.
New South Wales, Australia.
A group of Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina) was framed during the moments of take off run! The symmetry and wing displays made them like the athletes competing for the gold medal. The action shot was framed to their eye level to make the best of it. I had to lie down with the tele in front from a country boat to have them desirably. Pics was taken from purbasthali wetland in West Bengal, India.
Meadwolark. The Eastern and Western Meadowlarks overlap and compete over a large part of their territory, including here. They tell each other apart by distinctive calls, so listen carefully to these 3 photos to distinguish the species. There were quite a few active that day. Not sure how many individuals are shown here.
Competing with the Euphorbia in my garden are these Hellebores, also pale green but not quite so bright. They seem very robust and require hardly any attention, which is always an advantage!
And so Tuor beheld a vision of Gondolin, once so beautiful and fair, now broken and covered in red hot flames and thick black smoke.
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They told me not to build all of Gondolin, so I had to scale down and just do the King's Square, with the images of the two trees upon King Turgon's Tower, which fell and caused his own death.
Ecthelion also, of the Fountain, faces Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs, with the spike upon his helmet. From the battle, Tuor the messenger of Ulmo, with his young child Eärendil, the hope of Elves and Men, just barely escapes. But that is for another time.
I’ve wanted to do a minifigure battle for so long. I felt like finally I had enough figs! I figured out I was wrong, but still, I did put a lot of figures into this… and that consumed more time than you would expect! And finally, this is the second full castle that I've ever made. Yes, it's the first full minifigure scale castle or keep that I've ever made! It was an immense endeavour, especially for just a couple weeks.
This is my entry to the Finale of MELO, which I am honoured to be able to compete in! I attempted to recreate each scene from a different book throughout the competition, thus this one is meant to be derived from the recent book, The Fall of Gondolin. I tried my best to make this version of the Palace of Gondolin resemble fair Tirion Upon Tuna, from the Undying Lands, as well as to capture the horrible moment of it's fearful betrayal and fall, while the last of the Greatest Noldor fought bravely and desperately to the last. I hope you like it! To God be all the Glory!
Loved how the tree and sunset worked with each other ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW
This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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The Short-eared Owl may compete with the Barn Owl in some areas. Some successful nest box programs to attract Barn Owls have coincided with the decline of the Short-eared Owl in the same area.
The Short-eared Owl is one of the few species that seems to have benefited from strip-mining. It nests on reclaimed and replanted mines south of its normal breeding range.
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One of those sparrows tried to fly off with the piece of bread,but I guess it was too heavy.I've seen them do that,how selfish.
Shoreline at Mountain View, Mountain View, CA. The water is reflecting the colors from the pedal boats.
1951 Cunningham C2R (race), one of three that Briggs built to compete in that year's LeMans.
Very few privateers have been as successful in sportscar racing than Briggs Swift Cunnigham. Born as a rich banker's son in 1907, Cunningham got actively involved in motor racing rather late at the age of 41. He had previously backed others, but he did not drive himself until after his mother died, who very opposed to him racing. His first race was at Watkins Glen and the car was a Buick / Mercedes-Benz hybrid, known as the 'Bumerc', the construction of which Cunningham had backed in 1939. This race really spiked his interest in road racing, in which he actively participated for two decades.
More than anything, Cunnigham was interested in long distance racing and he set his sights on the most legendary of all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He did not just want to win the event, but he wanted to be the first to do so with an all-American team. After the Duesenbergs and Millers of the 1920s, very few American successes were scored in Europe. Prepared by Phil Walters and Frick and with the help of 1949 winner Luigi Chinetti, two Cadillacs were entered in the 1950 Le Mans race. One of these was fitted with a stock body, but the second was fitted with a custom built, supremely ugly body, which for obvious reasons was nick-named 'Le Monstre' by the French.
Although the cars were not on the pace, the 10th and 11th place finishes ensured that Cunningham's entries for the 1951 race would be accepted by the picky Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which organized the legendary race. To take on the strong competition Cunnigham bought Walters' and Frick's shop to form B.S. Cunningham Co, which was based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. Over the winter of 1950/51 a prototype racer was constructed, the C-1, powered by a Cadillac engine. Cunningham quickly abandoned the Cadillac engine, because of a complete lack of support from the company. He turned to Chrysler, who were willing to support the development and offer their HEMI engines at a 40% discount.
Dubbed the C-2R, the HEMI powered Cunningham was a sophisticated and well constructed affair. A simple, but effective steel tubular frame chassis formed the basis of the C-2. It was suspended at the front by unequal A-arms and at the rear by an exotic DeDion rear axle. The only gearbox available strong enough to cope with the Chrysler Firepower's enormous torque was a Cadillac three speed 'box. The package was clothed in a simple aluminium barchetta style body. Being very well built and very large, the Cunningham was rather overweight, which made the car very hard on the brakes. This was made even worse by the lack of engine braking by going down the gears compared to other cars fitted with four or five speed 'boxes.
Chrysler modified the Firepower engine to produce around 250 bhp, from the 180 bhp available in stock form. Despite the enormous weight of the car, the C-2Rs proved surprisingly competitive. Three cars were entered livered in white with two blue stripes, the first use of racing stripes ever. Two crashed out, including this car, but the third car held 2nd position when a bearing and valve failure threw it back considerably. It eventually finished in 18th position. Back in North America, Cunningham started to rack up victories with his racers. At the West Palm Beach factory work was started on a new racer for 1952 and a road car, of which the ACO required 25 to be produced to make Cunningham eligible to run as a separate manufacturer.
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Looking south from north Surrey, with the Milky Way competing with the light pollution from Gatwick airport (left) and Crawley.
These Scaly-breasted Munia were all interesting in consuming as much greens as possible ! Seen along the Meadowbrook at the Los Angeles County Arboretum
Trish is competing in a contest with the magazine Max Muscle. At one time she was over 240 lbs and doctors told her the only way for her to lose the weight and be healthy again, was with surgery. Well, she did it on her own! The contest is a celebration of all the hard work put in to get her back to a healthy state of body and mind.
shes proof that hard work, dedication, and determination can all pay off.
you also may notice ive put my JT logo in the corner, with the new flickr changes i need to protect my work alittle
Strobist: EX 150 into softbox cam left high, EX 150 bare bulb far cam left, AB through a beautydish above back cam left for hair and spotlighting triggered via PW's
Darrell Griffin is a long standing centre who has now moved into the second row a role he has proved most effective at. He is seen here outpacing Craig Hall of Doncaster. Craig Hall used to play for Wakefield but as he is knocking on a bit now he has gone part time as he nears retirement. Griffin now also in his thirties seems to be holding back his body clock and fingers crossed will head into next season in good form.
The (Australian native-) Gymea lily is one of the tallest flowers in the world. It can reach up to 4 meters in height. Of course it is not as tall as the 'Tower of Power', that is just the PoV. Such lovely flowers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryanthes_excelsa. Gymea Lily
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Near The Gulf Of Mexico
Naples, Florida
USA
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Parakeet photographed while it was eating fruit from a tree.
Native to southern Asia and central Africa, this big, long-tailed parakeet has been very popular as a cage bird all over the world. Apparently it is also very adaptable, because escaped birds have managed to establish feral populations in many regions of the globe.
Most of these are centered around cities, in areas as diverse as Hong Kong, Singapore, Jerusalem, Paris, and London. In the U.S. there are wild flocks around Los Angeles and Bakersfield, California, and around Naples, Florida, with scattered sightings in many other locales.
P. krameri is a common, medium-sized bird found in a variety of forested and other habitats such as light secondary forest, riparian woodland, mangroves, savanna grasslands, open farmlands with scattered trees and parks and gardens in urban areas In its natural range, P. krameri is known to cause considerable agricultural damage.
Due in large part to its popularity as a cage bird, it has succeeded in establishing feral populations almost worldwide, but especially in Europe. Population sizes range from only a few tens of birds to several thousands and although several populations are growing exponentially, the rate of spatial spread seems to be rather. In Europe, P. krameri is known to compete for nesting cavities with native hole-nesting birds. P. krameri is included in the DAISIE list of 100 of the worst invaders in Europe and is considered a pest species in Western Australia. - Wikipedia
Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini