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Finally grouted my guitar. The photos don't ever do iridized glass justice. Most of the glass on this is iridized. It turned out really nice. I'm happy with it. I just have more cleaning to do....:o(
2014 HSR Classic Motorsports Mitty
Road Atlanta
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Surprise - when you move your mug, you're greeted with a little butterfly!
What do you think, partner? Bright and cheery enough for you on a gloomy day?
3001National Railway Equipment Company3,000 hp (2,200 kW)C-CMarch 2020278-3001-03-2020NRE Model E3000CC-DC. Electro-Motive Diesel 16-645E3C prime mover. Partially completed in 2012 for Qube Holdings, Australia as #1110 but not delivered. Retained by NRE as Demonstrator #1110. Completed and sold to WP&YR in 2020.
Preliminary opening of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first art storage facility in the world that offers access to a museum’s complete collection.
I’m an independent person but put me in a delightful housewife dress and suddenly I’m meek, submissive and the perfect traditional housewife. No idea why, but I’m sure there are red-blooded men out there who would adore having a Stepford wife all of their own to play with.
First attempt at capturing a star trail under the expert tutelage of Eric Mc Donald and Mark T . This shot was taken at Black Tor on Dartmoor and consists of some 90 frames, stacked and blended in Photoshop. The orange and red glows at the bottom of the image are caused by ambient light coming from Princetown and the mast at North Hessary Tor.
Working on my portraits, thought I'd start asking permission. These two were nice enough to let me take a photo. Everyone is so friendly and kind here, it's never really a problem to ask people to take their photos here. I've only ever really been turned down by people who were obviously just too busy to stop for a minute.
After completing the run-round manoeuvre (see previous image), Class 58 No. 58031 heads away from Bloxwich and approaches Sneyd Lane bridge with the empty MGR rake for Essington Wood Disposal Point on 15th July 1986. The 'new' Bloxwich station, which opened in 1989, is now located by the bridge in the background. It replaced the earlier station, which closed in January 1965, which was located beyond the background bridges close to the signal box seen in the previous image. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
You'll shoot your eye out kid!
I took R.S. Pacman's advice on the colour, and PWSP's advice on modifying FLBW's stock, and I do believe I'm finished (apart from the stock detail that I'm hoping R.S. will do)
I made a compass for it (probably not too accurate though
Yesterday I uploaded a wall (fence?) mural at Redcliffe and a shot of the rusting Gayundah just down the road. The mural is fairly lengthy and what I didn't include was the LHS which featured a painting of the Gayundah as she was in her heyday. So to complete the picture and the whole story, here is the lost bit, the last bit.
Unfortunately, much water has ebbed and flowed through her rusting hull plates since those days. I suspect it may not be that many years before what is left becomes quite a danger and will be removed to protect those who won't protect themselves, just as occurred at Caloundra with the wreck of the "Dickie" which was more a danger because of what lay beneath rather than above. But its skeleton was eventually cut up and removed.
Finall completed with one, two more to go by 2018 Star Wars Days. Now back to Echo Base. Many thanks to some of the awesome builders whose builds I viewed many times to help get my done. Thanks to Peter Brookdales (although his is quite larger), Jhaelon Edwards, which push me to redesign my 10 year old designs and lastly Maciel Szymanshi's beautiful ATAT, which is just soooo awesome!!!
Here is my completed image of the Eagle Nebula (M16) imaged with Sulphur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen narrowband filters. This false-color widefield image of the nebula represents the strong oxygen signal as cyan, hydrogen as yellow/orange, and the stronger sulphur signal as red. Naturally, this nebula is nearly all red in color, as hydrogen-alpha dominates the field. With selective filters and processing I have stretched the intensity of the Oiii and Sii to better represent where they lie in the nebula.
Equipment:
OTA: William Optics GT81 w/0.8x reducer (382mm fl at f/4.7)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G (HEQ-5)
Guidescope: Orion 50mm guidescope
Guiding camera: Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Accessories:
DeepSkyDad Autofocuser
QHYCCD PoleMaster
Software:
SGP
PHD2
CdC
PixInsight
Acquisition:
Location: Flower Mound, TX for Ha(Bortle 7), Atoka, OK and Ft. Griffin State Historic Park, TX for Oiii and Sii(Bortle 3)
Dates: 5/12/18, 5/26/18, 5/27/18, 6/29/18, 6/30/18, 8/2/18, 8/3/18, 8/6/18
Gain: 200 Offset: 50
Camera temp: -10C
Sii: 36x600" Astrodon 3nm
Ha: 160x300" Astrodon 5nm
Oiii: 37x600" Astrodon 3nm
Total integration time: 25hr 30min
64x darks per calibration (master from library)
30x flats per calibration
200x bias per calibration (master from library)
Preprocessing:
Batch PreProcessing script to generate calibrated images
StarAlignment
LocalNormalization
ImageIntegration
DrizzleIntegration
DynamicCrop each master
DBE each master
Luminance Processing:
Duplicated the master Ha to use as the luminance
Deconvolution
TGV & MMT noise reduction (via Jon Rista's method)
HistogramTransformation bring to non-linear
Duplicated the image to create a starless version, using a starmask and several iterations of MMT and MT. Then pushed the faint nebulosity in the starless version using PixelMath expression: "1-(1-$T)*(1-$T)"
Combined the starless version with the image using PixelMath expression "F=0.4; (1-(1-$T)*(1-s)*F)+($T*~F)" followed by the same function but with F=0.2, (s=starless photo).
HDRMultiscaleTransform to reveal core
MultiscaleLinearTransform for sharpening
LocalHistogramEqualization
MMT and MT for star size reduction
MMT for noise reduction of the darker areas
Preparing separate Sii, Ha, and Oiii linear masters for tonemapping (applied to each master individually):
TGV & MMT noise reduction (via Jon Rista's method)
Removed stars via a StarMask and a few iterations of MMT and MT
Further removed background artifacts with an unmasked MMT
HistogramTransformation to bring to non-linear
HDRMultiscaleTransform to reveal core
Combined prepared Sii, Ha, and Oiii masters with ChannelCombination:
R: Sii
G: Ha
B: Oiii
Tonemap Processing:
Invert>SCNR green>Invert to remove magenta
Several a/b channel CurvesTransformations using ColorMasks to alter the colors to an aesthetically pleasing palette
CurvesTransformation for saturation
DBE to remove color bias in the corners
Combined Tonemap with Luminance using LRGBCombination
HistogramTransformation to stretch image slightly
UnsharpMask with a StarMask to harden up the soft stars a tad
CurvesTransformation for slight saturation
ACDNR for final noise reduction
Resampled to 40% for web posting
This is my completed Supernova quilt. I call mine a babynova because all of the fabric squares and rectangles were cut at half the original pattern size. The finished quilt measures 26.5" square. It is hand quilted with black perle cotton size 8. This was a wonderfully put together quilt along hosted by the talented Lee of www.freshlypieced.blogspot.com.
I FINALLY completed my Cara collection!!! I have a special history with Cara, Barbie’s short-lived ‘Fashion Model Friend’ (so it says on Quick Curl Cara’s box!) I was visiting my favourite ‘Mom and Pop’ toy store one Friday night in 1978 or 1979 a few suburbs away, (which had a great shopping square and bigger variety stores, so my folks would do their Friday night shopping there…) as I saved up all my pocket money so I could finally buy my first ‘real’ Barbie, as opposed to years of parent-bought clones. I remember staring at those ‘Barbie Fashion Centre’ shelves for ages, trying to decide which one would be my first, and I was immediately drawn to that exotic gal called Quick Curl Cara, with her fabulous multi-coloured outfit. I also remember that gal was the Canadian version, as it had that mysterious ‘Frisse Vite’ on the box, which I assumed meant ‘Quick Curl’ back then! LOL … This being Australia in the 1970s, there was only one amidst all the blonde smiling Barbies. Though ultimately, I decided that my first Mattel doll shouldn’t be a Barbie ‘friend’ and went for I think a Superstar Barbie instead, vowing to come back for Cara when I had saved up for her. Alas, I didn’t know at the time that she was old store stock and was gone by the time I went back for her, and even though I searched for her in other stores for another year or two, I never saw her again for decades…. Until I became an adult collector, that is! The first Cara I got quite a while back was the ‘Free Moving Cara’ you see in the centre there to complete my Free Moving collection of dolls, (she was NRFB and still has her box, original outfit and accessories, but she is wearing that 1973 Best Buy pantsuit as I love how it matches her hair ribbons!) Then I got that Deluxe Quick Curl Cara on the right…. She was without her box and original outfit, but her hair was in perfect untouched condition. She is wearing the Get-Ups ‘N Go outfit from 1975; ‘Bright ‘n Gay for Holiday Play’. Then I got that first edition Quick Curl Cara from 1975 on the left who was MIB, still attached to her card, (and she was the very same Canadian version that I saw in that toy store all those decades ago!) She has on her original outfit, which I love so much, so I’m thinking of keeping her in it for a while. (She also has bright yellow panties on under that cool wrap skirt!) And of course, there is my ‘new’ Ballerina Cara! She is wearing Ballerina Barbie Fashion Originals #9326. It is a costume of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.
The Idaho State Capitol in Boise is the home of the government of the state of Idaho. Although Lewiston, Idaho, briefly served as Idaho's capital from the formation of Idaho Territory in 1863, the territorial Legislature moved the capital to Boise on December 24, 1864.
Construction of the first portion of the capitol building began in the summer of 1905, 15 years after Idaho gained statehood. Architects were John E. Tourtellotte and Charles Hummel. Tourtellotte was a Connecticut native whose career began in Massachusetts and skyrocketed further when he moved to Boise. Hummel was a German immigrant who partnered with Tourtellotte in 1903. The final cost of the building was just over $2 million; it was completed in 1920. The architects used varied materials to construct the building and their design was inspired by Classical examples.
Tourtellotte and Hummel used four types of marble: red marble from Georgia, gray marble from Alaska, green marble from Vermont, and black marble from Italy. Architectural inspirations included St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, St Paul's Cathedral in London and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The most prominent feature of the capitol is its dome. Surmounting this dome is a bronze eagle, 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall. The capitol building is 208 feet (63 m) high, occupies an area of 201,720 square feet (18,740 m2), and contains over 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of artistically carved marble.
There are 219 pillars in the original building – Doric, Corinthian, or Ionic – and each pillar is made up of marble dust, plaster and scagliola. Scagliola is a mixture of granite, marble dust, gypsum and glue dyed to look like marble. This artificial marble was created by a family of artisans in Italy.
On the first floor of the capitol building, when looking upward to the dome, 13 large stars and 43 smaller stars can be seen. The 13 large stars represent the thirteen original colonies and the 43 smaller stars indicate that Idaho was the forty-third state to enter the union. The floor contains a compass rose. In its center is a sundial that has minerals found in Idaho. The first floor also houses a statue called the Patriot by Kenneth Lonn, for those who worked in the mining industry.
The second floor may be accessed via three entrances; from the east, the south and the west. The lieutenant governor’s office is located in the west wing, just opposite the governor’s office. On the north side of the second floor rotunda is a sculpture of George Washington astride a horse. And to the rear of the George Washington statue is the attorney general’s suite of offices. The space was home of the Idaho Supreme Court until it moved to the new Supreme Court Building in 1970. The east wing houses the office of the secretary of state offices in whose reception area is the official copy of the Great Seal of the State of Idaho.
The third floor contains the Senate in the west wing and the House of Representatives in the east wing. The two chambers were remodeled in 1968. Also on this floor is the old Idaho Supreme Court room, now used for hearings and committee meetings of the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee. On the fourth floor are balcony entrances to the senate and house galleries. The galleries enable members of the public to watch the Legislature while it is in session. The northeast, northwest and southwest corners of this floor contain many historic paintings as well as three murals by Dana Boussard.
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Back Shot from April 2017
On a walk around the city April 27, 2017 Christchurch, South Island New Zealand.
History and heritage
Because classroom space was in short supply, a hall was considered a luxury for Canterbury College. The Great Hall opened to both acclaim and controversy on Diploma Day 1882.
In its early years, it housed the College’s small library and was used for public lectures and formal graduation ceremonies. Over time, the University allowed greater use of the hall for events such as music recitals, student dances and society gatherings. Prior to the earthquakes, the great hall held a wide range of events and performances year-round.
The Great Hall provides a strong reflection of local heritage and culture. It makes rich use of native timbers, with kauri and rimu panelling, along with rewarewa, totara and matai lozenges.
It provides space for memorial plaques and icons, the first of which was dedicated to Helen Connon, the first woman to graduate with honours in the British Empire.
In 1938, a large stained glass window was dedicated to the sacrifices of College students in the First World War. This Memorial Window was rededicated in 2016 after its restoration following the Canterbury earthquakes.
The Idaho State Capitol in Boise is the home of the government of the state of Idaho. Although Lewiston, Idaho, briefly served as Idaho's capital from the formation of Idaho Territory in 1863, the territorial Legislature moved the capital to Boise on December 24, 1864.
Construction of the first portion of the capitol building began in the summer of 1905, 15 years after Idaho gained statehood. Architects were John E. Tourtellotte and Charles Hummel. Tourtellotte was a Connecticut native whose career began in Massachusetts and skyrocketed further when he moved to Boise. Hummel was a German immigrant who partnered with Tourtellotte in 1903. The final cost of the building was just over $2 million; it was completed in 1920. The architects used varied materials to construct the building and their design was inspired by Classical examples.
Tourtellotte and Hummel used four types of marble: red marble from Georgia, gray marble from Alaska, green marble from Vermont, and black marble from Italy. Architectural inspirations included St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, St Paul's Cathedral in London and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The most prominent feature of the capitol is its dome. Surmounting this dome is a bronze eagle, 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall. The capitol building is 208 feet (63 m) high, occupies an area of 201,720 square feet (18,740 m2), and contains over 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of artistically carved marble.
There are 219 pillars in the original building – Doric, Corinthian, or Ionic – and each pillar is made up of marble dust, plaster and scagliola. Scagliola is a mixture of granite, marble dust, gypsum and glue dyed to look like marble. This artificial marble was created by a family of artisans in Italy.
On the first floor of the capitol building, when looking upward to the dome, 13 large stars and 43 smaller stars can be seen. The 13 large stars represent the thirteen original colonies and the 43 smaller stars indicate that Idaho was the forty-third state to enter the union. The floor contains a compass rose. In its center is a sundial that has minerals found in Idaho. The first floor also houses a statue called the Patriot by Kenneth Lonn, for those who worked in the mining industry.
The second floor may be accessed via three entrances; from the east, the south and the west. The lieutenant governor’s office is located in the west wing, just opposite the governor’s office. On the north side of the second floor rotunda is a sculpture of George Washington astride a horse. And to the rear of the George Washington statue is the attorney general’s suite of offices. The space was home of the Idaho Supreme Court until it moved to the new Supreme Court Building in 1970. The east wing houses the office of the secretary of state offices in whose reception area is the official copy of the Great Seal of the State of Idaho.
The third floor contains the Senate in the west wing and the House of Representatives in the east wing. The two chambers were remodeled in 1968. Also on this floor is the old Idaho Supreme Court room, now used for hearings and committee meetings of the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee. On the fourth floor are balcony entrances to the senate and house galleries. The galleries enable members of the public to watch the Legislature while it is in session. The northeast, northwest and southwest corners of this floor contain many historic paintings as well as three murals by Dana Boussard.
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Completed in 1851, as a country house, Harlaxton has had a fascinating history. It is currently owned by the University of Evansville and has been used as the university’s overseas campus since 1971. Harlaxton is well worth reading up and there is plenty of information on Google and Wikipedia.
Completing its performance at Wings Over Meridian Air Show is Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver N92879. Taken by the US Navy in July 1945 where it was initially used as a trainer on the California west coast. it later served at NAS Alameda then NAS Corpus Chirsti before being removed as surplus in 1948. It came to the Commemorative (Confederate) Air Force in 1971.
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