View allAll Photos Tagged compound
Winding upgrade toward the summit at Sand Patch on 16 July 2004 is CSX eastbound intermodal train Q-148, ducking under the US 219 expressway extension at Meyersdale PA with SD50 No. 8581 leading leased HLCX (ex-BNSF) SD40-2 No. 7167.
An extreme macro shot of this interesting orange fly in my backyard that shows off it's wonderfully complex compound eyes.
Taken 6 June 2023 near Wasilla, Alaska.
Compound eyes of a small robber fly ( Dysmachus trigonus )
Tech info | 97 natural light exposures stacked at f4, exp.time 2.5sec, ISO200
Stacking Soft / Zerene Stacker
The scene lit by two IKEA Jansjö led lamp and diffused with a foam cup
Canon Macro Photo Lens 35mm f/2.8 | Nikon PB-6 Bellows | Sony A7
c1.staticflickr.com/5/4553/37597475735_9bdfbeecc7_k.jpgLARGE version!
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.
The Istana Negara is the official residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the monarch of Malaysia. It is located along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim in Segambut, northwestern Kuala Lumpur. The palace opened in 2011 and replaced the old Istana Negara which was located at a different compound in central Kuala
These apartment compounds are everywhere in Budapest, but having a friends that knows where all the good ones are is the best!
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607186471302/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
1309 is a Mallet articulated locomotive. This design was a compound locomotive where steam was expanded once in smaller rear cylinders and the exhaust captured and expanded a second time in larger lower-pressure front cylinders. Compound locomotives are more efficient than single-expansion machines,
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.
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
Copyright John Whitehouse & Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved
Little vig, showing a lone smuggler truck making its way to the fortified star port on the phoenix colony.
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
The only natuarally occuring cockroach in Sweden is the dusky cockraoch (Ectobius lapponicus). This is a small species which don't like it indoors, but rather prefer to hang out in the forest.
One other noteworthy thing about them is the eyes. The way they glitter on a dark background makes me think of a starry sky.
Join me on Facebook | Google+ | Twitter | 500px | Instagram
~~~~~~~~~
A caravanserai (Persian: كاروانسرا kārvānsarā) was a (usually Persian-inspired or built) roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey. Caravanserais supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of trade routes covering Asia, North Africa, and South-Eastern Europe. Most typically a caravanserai was a building with a square or rectangular walled exterior, with a single portal wide enough to permit large or heavily laden beasts such as camels to enter. The courtyard was almost always open to the sky, and the inside walls of the enclosure were outfitted with a number of identical stalls, bays, niches, or chambers to accommodate merchants and their servants, animals, and merchandise.
Caravanserais provided water for human and animal consumption, washing, and ritual ablutions. Sometimes they even had elaborate baths. They also kept fodder for animals and had shops for travellers where they could acquire new supplies. In addition, there could be shops where merchants could dispose of some of their goods. The word is also rendered as caravansarai or caravansary. The Persian word kārvānsarā is a compound word combining ''kārvān (caravan) with sara (palace, building with enclosed courts), to which the Persian suffix -yi is added. Here "caravan" means a group of traders, pilgrims, or other travelers, engaged in long distance travel.
This particular shot was taken in Virani caravanserai in Mashhad currently used as Mashhad Anthropology museum which nicely shows how the daily life in such a caravanserai looked like. The woman in the photo is actually no mystery to me but a dear friend Mashid who was kind enough to take her chador (A chādor or chādar (Persian چادر) is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many Iranian women in public spaces; it is one possible way in which a Muslim woman may follow the Islamic dress code known as ḥijāb. ) to "model" for me to add a human element into such an environment. I have purposely chosen low shutter speed (1/15 s) to capture the movement.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM; Focal length: 17.00 mm; Aperture: 6.3; Exposure time: 1/15 s; ISO: 1600
All rights reserved - Copyright ﾩ Lucie Debelkova - www.luciedebelkova.com
All images are exclusive property and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, transmitted, manipulated or used in any way without expressed, written permission of the photographer.