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So, uhhhmm...
I actually started this moc about half a year, back in Summer 2015. Since then I've changes a few details, for example, I never had those clips with a hole in black, etc.
But here it is, my Second Transformer. Does fully transform, the only part that needs to be moved is the horn.
These apartment compounds are everywhere in Budapest, but having a friends that knows where all the good ones are is the best!
Cicada. 2024 is a special year for periodical cicadas. Two broods with periodical emergence, one 13-year (XIX) and one 17-year (XIII), are emerging from their underground nests across a large swath of the Eastern United States. Cicadas are everywhere ...
Nashville, Tennessee
Manual Laowa lens, 100mm f/2.8 macro 2X, set to f/2.8; 45 mm extension tube for Fuji GFX, for additional magnification. 58-image focus stack using a macro rail and Helicon Focus.
I didn't find birds around - it was cold and windy where we were staying at the beach. I did note that flies were landing in the sun on the trees, trying to warm up. So, I got out the macro lens and started shooting. Any time I take pictures of flies, I shoot hand held, and focus manually. My goal is for the compound eyes to show. This shot, I tried to shift eh focal plane to get both in focus, and made it i tis shot!
Midland Railway Compound 4-4-0 no.1000 is pictured near Castleton on 28th September 1983 working a private charter from York to Rochdale via Hebden Bridge.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Kwun:
Tai Kwun, or the Former Central Police Station Compound (CPS Compound) includes three declared monuments in Central, Hong Kong: the former Central Police Station, the Former Central Magistracy, and the Victoria Prison. Surrounded by Hollywood Road, Arbuthnot Road, Chancery Lane, and Old Bailey Street, the compound underwent a heritage revitalisation and reopened to the public on 29 May 2018[1] as Tai Kwun (Chinese: 大館), a centre for heritage and arts.
The Former Central Police Station Compound (FCPSC), built between 1841 and 1925, comprises 16 historic buildings grouped under the former Central Police Station, the Former Central Magistracy, and the Victoria Prison. Most of the city's historic colonial architecture had been bulldozed for development before the British government handed it back to China in 1997.
The first building in the FCPSC is the Magistrate's House, with jail blocks, which were built in 1841. In 1899, the former Central Prison was renamed to Victoria Prison (or Victoria Gaol). The site underwent numerous expansions and reconstruction over the next century. In 1862, the number of prisoners increased to 650, and the government decided to develop the land nearby. The series of compounds hence formed Tai Kwun. Victoria Prison was decommissioned in 2006.
In 2008, the government of Hong Kong partnered with the Hong Kong Jockey Club to conserve and revitalise the complex, which turned into one of the most significant and expensive revitalisation projects in the territory, costing HK$1.8 billion; work began in 2011.
The conversion was completed in phases. Work faced a setback when a wall and roof collapsed in 2016. The Buildings Department prosecuted a subcontractor it deemed responsible for the accident, which was reportedly triggered by the failure of a brick pier that had been structurally undermined. Tai Kwun partially reopened to the public in May 2018.
A Former Central Police Station (CPS) Revitalisation Project was established to conserve and revitalise the heritage site for reuse. The project was operated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and took eight years and HK$3.8 billion or about US$480M in 2018.
Tai Kwun, named after the historical colloquial name of the compound, is a mix of heritage and contemporary architecture. 16 heritage buildings have been restored for reuse. An additional two new buildings have been constructed, featuring designs inspired by the site's historic brickwork.
As early as the 1880s, the name Tai Kwun has been recorded in news articles in reference to the Former Central Police Station.
In 2018, Time listed Tai Kwun in its "World's Greatest Places 2018" list.
In 2019, Tai Kwun was awarded "Award of Excellence" from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
A male marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on a imperforate St John's-wort (Hypericum maculatum) where the yellow wasp mimicry became more if a camouflage.
This is a manual focus stack made from three exposures and combined using Photoshop CC 2015 as my dedicated stacking software thought there were to much movement between the shots and went mental about it.
Another shot of the same guy on a leaf here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/44027690645/
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
With an impressive column of steam Compound 41090 is leaving Birmingham New Street with a semi-fast train. The tender is full of coal and on top of that coal are the fire irons, to me they look further back from the footplate than I would expect and also rather precariously balanced too.
The old Midland station roof is still in place and the signal is a square wooden post.
This picture (and the rest of this batch) is from Peters 33mm square negatives, the camera had an excellent lens but Peter's habit of pushing his luck with the light did mean the negatives are grainier than we would expect, I think he push-processed the film.
41090 was built for the LMS (1090), the 4-4-0 H. Fowler designed compound was built at Horwich Works, it entered service in July 1925. 41090 was withdrawn 20/12/1958 at Derby. When Peter took this picture, the locomotive was based at Derby (17A) and had 37 days of active service life left.
Peter Shoesmith 13/11/1958
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This compound of dwellings sits on Gravina Island in Alaska. The island is 21 miles long and has a population of 50 people. The only access is by boat.
Interestingly, the state of Alaska applied for federal funding for a bridge in 2005 to connect the island to the mainland and the town of Ketchikan. The projected cost was $398 million dollars. The proposed bridge was quickly dubbed as "The Bridge to Nowhere" and became the poster child for unnecessary pork barrel spending. The project was eventually cancelled and the bridge has never been built.
I wonder if it was a relief to the residents. It seems like the kind of place where isolation may be a cherished value.
Gravina Island, Alaska
A compound eye may consist of thousands of individual photoreceptor units or ommatidia (ommatidium, singular). The image perceived is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia (individual "eye units"), which are located on a convex surface, thus pointing in slightly different directions. Compared with simple eyes, compound eyes possess a very large view angle, and can detect fast movement and, in some cases, the polarisation of light.
I was almost an inch away from this dragonfly, holding my breath, bent in an awkward position over the shoulder of a stream -- a slight loss of balance and I would have been swimming -- and Steve was behind me reassuring not to worry as the dragonfly hadn't seen me!
Click on the little '+' sign on the top right corner of the picture to view it enlarged.
Shot with my 1964 Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm F/1.8 rare 8 aperture blade version.
This East German Zeiss was manufactured until 1991 and was usually found attached to Praktikas via the M42 mount.
This lens was produced with rare-earth compounds containing lanthanum are extensively used in carbon lighting applications, especially by the motion picture industry for studio lighting and projection. Lanthanum (III) oxide is used in some camera lenses. It’s added to reduce dispersion and improve the clarity of images.
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I recently found this new sign, which obviously isn't official. But apparently everybody thinks it's funny, so nobody takes it down.
(Background story: When IKEA wanted to build a new store in the area some years ago, they didn't get permission at first, as endangered field hamsters were living on the compound. They were all caught and relocated, so IKEA could build exactly there. Maybe somebody in the area preferred the hamsters as neighbors as compared to IKEA...?)
Little vig, showing a lone smuggler truck making its way to the fortified star port on the phoenix colony.
I came across this male ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) on the ruin wall of the old mill at Åva. there were loads of stinging nettles around, about chest high, so I were glad I had chosen long pants. Just as I reached the wall, the dragon fluttered away - but it immediately came back around so I tried holding my hand out. Success! It decided to land on me and that's when I saw that it had caught something.
The victim here is some sort of fly and I watched through the lens as the darter devoured it. In part 1, the face and one compound eye of the fly was still showing, but those mouthparts soon turned into an unrecognisable pulp. Dragonflies definietly are effective - if somewhat grisly - eaters.
Part 1, a little more from the side and with the victim more easily recoginzable as a fly, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52278164892/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53693356687/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53935912691/