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of paradise ducks gliding in to land on the lake.
Sadly we lost the cricket quite comprehensively :(
I read the comprehensive book my travel agent prepared for me for our trip to Western Canada again last night . It said the Peak 2 Peak experience at Whistler would give me spectacular views over the mountains . Clearly the weather gods had not read the book, we got spectacular views of low cloud mist and drizzle
To use the Peak 2 peak you have to take a gondola either up Whistler or Blackcomb mountain which takes about 25 minutes . You then take the Peak 2 Peak that crosses over the Fitzsimmons Creek valley between the two mountains and it feels like you are hanging in space . Perhaps the weather that day meant it was fairly quiet we shared a cabin with two Canadian women who rode it regularly and clearly loved it . On the return trip we were on our own, what was odd was how quiet the machine was it was very peaceful and dreamlike slowly drifting through the mist across space .
I am not one for getting excited by engineering but this was an exception the design of this thing was clearly of a very high quality . A few facts about the peak 2 peak . It is the worlds highest lift of its type , it's the worlds longest unsupported span . The total length is 2.7 miles of which 1.8 is unsupported by any towers the highest point is 1427 feet above the valley bottom .
At the top of Whistler mountain you can even climb higher and walk across the Cloudraker Skybridge and Raven’s Eye Cliff Walk. This was pretty scary but I will post a shot of it sometime
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The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) is a unique and ambitious endeavour.
This new facility, delivered as a public private partnership between the Victorian Government and the Plenary Health consortium, has been designed to be a landmark Melbourne site, in a renowned biomedical precinct.
The outside of the window is comprehensive: Building, trees, highway, fence, sidewalk. I think it's a nice whole.
De buitenkant van het raam is veelomvattend: Gebouw, bomen, autoweg, hek, stoep. Een leuk geheel vind ik.
Comprehensive description of Pfälzerwald in German and English:
The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) is a unique and ambitious endeavour.
This new facility, delivered as a public private partnership between the Victorian Government and the Plenary Health consortium, has been designed to be a landmark Melbourne site, in a renowned biomedical precinct.
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Like a witness to a violent death, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently gave astronomers an unprecedented, comprehensive view of the first moments of a star's cataclysmic demise. Hubble's data, combined with other observations of the doomed star from space- and ground-based telescopes, may give astronomers an early warning system for other stars on the verge of blowing up.
"We used to talk about supernova work like we were crime scene investigators, where we would show up after the fact and try to figure out what happened to that star," explained Ryan Foley of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the leader of the team that made this discovery. "This is a different situation, because we really know what's going on and we actually see the death in real time."
Telescope Teamwork
The supernova, called SN 2020fqv, is in the interacting Butterfly galaxies, which are located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered in April 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California. Astronomers realized that the supernova was simultaneously being observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a NASA satellite designed primarily to discover exoplanets, with the ability to detect an assortment of other phenomena. They quickly trained Hubble and a suite of ground-based telescopes on it.
Together, these observatories gave the first holistic view of a star in the very earliest stage of destruction. Hubble probed the material very close to the star, called circumstellar material, mere hours after the explosion. This material was blown off the star in the last year of its life. These observations allowed astronomers to understand what was happening to the star just before it died.
"We rarely get to examine this very close-in circumstellar material since it is only visible for a very short time, and we usually don't start observing a supernova until at least a few days after the explosion," explained Samaporn Tinyanont, lead author on the study's paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "For this supernova, we were able to make ultra-rapid observations with Hubble, giving unprecedented coverage of the region right next to the star that exploded."
Telling the Star's Story
The team looked at Hubble observations of the star going back to the 1990s. TESS provided an image of the system every 30 minutes starting several days before the explosion, through the explosion itself, and continuing for several weeks. Hubble was used again starting only hours after astronomers first detected the explosion. And from studying the circumstellar material with Hubble, the scientists gained an understanding of what was happening around the star in the previous decade. By combining all of this information, the team was able to create a multi-decade look at the star's final years.
"Now we have this whole story about what's happening to the star in the years before it died, through the time of death, and then the aftermath of that," said Foley. "This is really the most detailed view of stars like this in their last moments and how they explode."
The Rosetta Stone of Supernovae
Tinyanont and Foley called SN 2020fqv "the Rosetta Stone of supernovae." The ancient Rosetta Stone, which has the same text inscribed in three different scripts, helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In the case of this supernova, the science team used three different methods to determine the mass of the exploding star. These included comparing the properties and the evolution of the supernova with theoretical models; using information from a 1997 archival Hubble image of the star to rule out higher-mass stars; and using observations to directly measure the amount of oxygen in the supernova, which probes the mass of the star. The results are all consistent: around 14 to 15 times the mass of the Sun. Accurately determining the mass of the star that explodes in a supernova is crucial to understanding how massive stars live and die.
"People use the term 'Rosetta Stone' a lot. But this is the first time we've been able to verify the mass with these three different methods for one supernova, and all of them are consistent," said Tinyanont. "Now we can push forward using these different methods and combining them, because there are a lot of other supernovae where we have masses from one method but not another."
An Early Warning System?
In the years before stars explode, they tend to become more active. Some astronomers point to the red supergiant Betelgeuse, which has recently been belching significant amounts of material, and they wonder if this star will soon go supernova. While Foley doubts Betelgeuse will imminently explode, he does think we should take such stellar outbursts seriously.
"This could be a warning system," said Foley. "So if you see a star start to shake around a bit, start acting up, then maybe we should pay more attention and really try to understand what's going on there before it explodes. As we find more and more of these supernovae with this sort of excellent data set, we'll be able to understand better what's happening in the last few years of a star's life."
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C.
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Joaquín Sorolla Bastida ( Valencia , February 27, 1863 - Cercedilla , August 10, 1923 ) corner of 59 street (1911) gouache on paper - Madrid, Museo Sorolla - Royal Palace Milan
Mostra Joaquín Sorolla Pittore di Luce - Palazzo Reale Milan
dopo la prima tappa alla National Gallery di Londra, prosegue a Milano l'esposizione più completa dei dipinti di Joaquín Sorolla fuori dalla Spagna.
After the first stop at the National Gallery in London, the most comprehensive exhibition of Joaquín Sorolla's paintings outside Spain continues in Milan.
Poco noto al pubblico italiano, Sorolla è stato uno dei massimi rappresentanti della moderna pittura iberica a cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, contribuendo in modo determinante al suo rinnovamento e aprendola al clima della Belle Époque.
Tra gli artisti più amati e apprezzati del suo tempo sia per la grande qualità tecnica che per il carattere umile e benevolo, Joaquín Sorolla ottiene una fama che travalica ben presto i confini nazionali, partecipando e ottenendo prestigiosissimi premi alle grandi manifestazioni internazionali. Sarà però l’ambìto Grand Prix, ottenuto alla nota Esposizione Universale di Parigi nel 1900, a lanciare la sua pittura di luce e colore definitivamente sulla scena internazionale. A Londra nel 1908 viene acclamato come “il più grande pittore vivente al mondo”.
Exhibition Joaquín Sorolla Painter of Light - Palazzo Reale Milan
After the first stop at the National Gallery in London, the most comprehensive exhibition of Joaquín Sorolla's paintings outside Spain continues in Milan.
Little known to the Italian public, Sorolla was one of the greatest representatives of modern Iberian painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, making a major contribution to its renewal and opening it up to the climate of the Belle Époque.
Among the most beloved and appreciated artists of his time for both his great technical quality and his humble and benevolent character, Joaquín Sorolla achieved a fame that soon transcended national borders, participating in and winning prestigious prizes at major international events. However, it was the coveted Grand Prix, obtained at the renowned Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, that launched his painting of light and color permanently on the international scene. In London in 1908 he was acclaimed as "the world's greatest living painter."
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A sculpture titled “Still Life with Spirit and Xitle” by sculptor Jimmie Durham at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. The piece depicts a 1992 Dodge Spirit crushed under the weight of a 9-ton volcanic boulder.
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Ingredients here: Grape vine tendril, daisy-like flower, water droplets and a weevil!
This vine tendril was wrapped around the wire of a tomato cage, and it got me thinking: what if I can get a droplet to fill in the center of the spiral and refract? In combination with droplets on the outside, all carefully placed with a hypodermic needle, this curved magical wand began to take form. I knew I needed an actor for this shot, and I had spotted some Green Immigrant Leaf Weevils in our front gardens recently (and had used for other images too). Not hard to track one of these down, and into the studio we go.
This is lit with a NiteCore SRT7 LED flashlight (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336259-REG/nitecore_srt7g... ) which is bright enough for very fast shutter speeds at close range, but it was also needed for the “secret weapon” of this image: The Lumix S1R “high resolution” mode which requires continuous lights. This is a heavy crop from a 187MP image taken with the Lumix S 24-105mm F/4 kit lens. No close-up filters, no extension tubes, and we’re firmly into the macro universe. It’s a focus stack of five images taken as quickly as possible – there is a few second delay between images as the camera builds the high resolution image from 8 shots taken in rapid succession. Really liking that feature on the S1R (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1455068-REG/panasonic_dc_s... ), but wait a minute… how did the weevil stay still?!
It’s fairly hot and dry today (30C / 86F), so I shouldn’t be surprised when I lead this weevil up the grape vine. When it encountered water, it stopped for a drink! I saw that it wasn’t moving, but the snout was stuck into a droplet… so time to act fast. If he (or she?) is sitting still, maybe I could balance another droplet on its head? Oh what the heck, why not try! Also, with little movement between frames this is when I had the idea to utilize the high-res mode on the S1R. When focus stacking the shot, there was some movement from the weevil – mostly the antennae – that required some manual corrections.
The flower in the background is a hardy osteospermum, my best guess is “Purple Mountain” Sun Daisy. These flowers are tricky, because their colour is so vibrantly intense that a camera might often record it a little off. I had the opportunity to test out the new xrite ColorChecker Classic Nano for this shot (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1486402-REG/x_rite_msccext... ) which is a camera calibration chart of Lilliputian dimensions. Worked like a charm, so no more need to fiddle with a million sliders to try and get the right colour – such a tool would be a huge timesaver for my macro product photography work.
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A comprehensive view of the château at Bonnétable on a postcard by A. Dolbeau of Le Mans.
The Rochefoucaulds
Prior to the Great War, le Château de Bonnétable was the residence of la Famille Rochefoucauld.
If you go to the cemetery in Bonnétable, you will see a very impressive-looking monument - you can't miss it, it's by far the best one in the cemetery. The monument tells you:
"Ici repose Charles Marie Francois,
Vicomte de la Rochefoucauld, Duc
d'Estrées, Maire de Bonnétable.
Decedée a Bonnétable le 25 Février
1907 dans sa 44ême année.
De Profundis".
Charles' ancestor, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) once wrote:
"Hypocrisy is the homage that
vice pays to virtue".
The Great War
During the Great War, the château was the base for Military Ambulance No. 4 under the orders of Dr. Mikanowski. The château welcomed wounded men from both sides of the conflict.
A Thought From Nietzche
This is nothing really to do with the above image, but it's very thought-provoking. It's a comment by the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche (1844 to 1900). Here it is:
"One can promise actions, but not feelings,
for the latter are involuntary.
He who promises to love forever or hate
forever or be forever faithful to someone
is promising something that is not in his
power".
- One of only 274 early “H-Series” homologation examples built during the inaugural year of 911 Turbo production, 1975
- Comprehensive service conducted by Sportwagen & Mobiler Rennsportservice in recent years, exceeding €23.000 invested from 2020-2025
- Matching-numbers 3.0-liter, air-cooled flat-six engine rated at 260 PS
- Desirable German-delivery example
- Finished as delivered in iconic Grand Prix White over Black leather with MacLachlan tartan seat inserts
- Equipped with a factory electric sunroof
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Known for its lack of restrictions on engine power and aerodynamics, the Cam-Am racing series provided an ideal venue for Porsche to experiment with turbocharging. Partnered with Penske Racing, Porsche definitively conquered the Can-Am championship in 1972 with George Follmer behind the wheel, and again in 1973 with Mark Donohue driving turbocharged variants of the 917 racer. When Can-Am's organizers effectively banned the all-dominant 917/30 for 1974 by imposing a fuel limit on turbocharged cars, Porsche looked for a different application for its turbocharging technology.
The path forward lay with the FIA's Group 4 category, which required Porsche to homologate its 934 contender for the inaugural 1976 season. Introduced at the 1974 Paris Motor Show, the 911 Turbo (Type 930) would serve as the 934's homologated counterpart, featuring a 3.0-liter flat-six engine fitted with a single turbocharger, flared wheel arches to accommodate wider wheels and tires, upgraded suspension, and a “whale tail” rear spoiler. Zero to 100 km/h occurred in 5.7 seconds on the way to a 250-km/h top speed—figures few other cars of the period could match.
One of just a mere 274 built in the first year of production to meet the homologation requirements of FIA Group 4—which mandated 400 units within the first 24 months of manufacture—this “H-series” 930 epitomizes the raw, purpose-first character of the earliest Turbos. These pioneering cars are readily identified by 1975-only features like body-colored flag mirrors and cabins that—by Porsche's typically luxurious standards—are deliberately spartan, featuring provisions for roll-cage mounting points and, on RoW examples, omit both the double-stitched door panels and center console. The result is a lighter, more responsive driving experience, standing apart from later, more luxuriously trimmed 930 variants. Completed in April of 1975, this example was finished as it presents today in iconic Grand Prix White over Black leather upholstery, accented by bold MacLachlan tartan seat and door inserts. Factory equipment included staggered 7 by 15-inch front and 8 by 15-inch rear Fuchs alloy wheels with low-profile 50-series Pirelli P7 Cinturato tires and an electric sunroof, and it was distributed new via MAHAG in Munich, Germany.
The car is believed to have resided in Germany during its early life and later found its way to Italy. There, it was purchased by the current owner after it had undergone a comprehensive restoration which saw the odometer reset to zero. The current owner brought the car back to Germany in 2020 and has since traveled only some 7,000 kilometers as indicated by the odometer.
In recent years, the 122nd Turbo ever built has been expertly maintained by Sportwagen & Mobiler Rennsportservice in Langenfeld, where the car was comprehensively recommissioned in 2020 with an engine-out service including a new clutch and flywheel, rebuilt CIS fuel distributor and warm-up regulator, comprehensive electrical work, and new sunroof seals, followed by new front brake discs and pads. In 2021, the transaxle was overhauled with fresh synchros and shift components, 2022 brought routine service with oil/brake-fluid changes and renewed oil lines, and in 2023 both fuel pumps and the V-belt were replaced. In 2024, the Turbo received fresh Pirelli P6000 tires, while in 2025 the turbo hardware was replaced to original-type specification—including the factory rear silencer and turbo/wastegate carrier—as well as a new battery and radio antenna. The total investment between 2020-2025 has exceeded €23.000, documented in invoices on file.
Presented in lovely, largely original condition and wearing its era-evoking livery, this early 911 Turbo crucially retains its matching-numbers engine, with the number corresponding to a copy of the factory data card on file. Well-maintained, the car has benefitted from recent mechanical work and is fitted with the original exhaust system, a rare feature indeed. A compelling, first-series Turbo with the desirable early features, this H-series 930 offers a rare opportunity to acquire an extremely early homologation model (the 122nd built) of the iconic 911 Turbo, which had reached a staggering 87,520 examples by 2019.
The almost completed VCCC
The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) Project is a $1 billion world-class cancer centre for the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Health and The University of Melbourne comprise the building partners for this project. The project will provide a brand new home for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and new cancer research and clinical services for Melbourne Health (including the Royal Melbourne Hospital), new cancer research facilities for The University of Melbourne and new education facilities for all building partners.
The development comprises a new 13-storey building bordering Flemington Road, Grattan Street and Elizabeth Street known as the 'South site', and the construction of four new floors on top of the existing Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), known as the 'North site'. The new building and the extension to RMH will be linked by covered bridges above Grattan Street, allowing cancer patients, visitors and staff to move between the two buildings.
4 shots auto-stitched in LR6 (Pano)
My Flickr is not only my life's work: it is a comprehensive, if not detailed, photographic document of my life. To have lived my life as openly and as quasi-publicly as this has brought many boons and blessings to me. However, there have also been prices to be paid, and in writing and publishing what follows I pay the highest and most difficult cost yet.
Somebody wants to hurt me. A few days ago, a Flickr member with the account name 'Guess what TGKW did last summer?' posted comments to several of my photographs which read 'This is not spam. Want to see what a naughty boy Tom is?' and included with them a link to a video of me having sex. The story of the video and others like it is not important: suffice it to say that once something is on the internet it's not going away. I will, however, provide some background.
I have, throughout all my teenage and adult life, battled with issues around sex. I persisted in, and still fight against, the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair. Eventually, I sought counselling and therapy for sex addiction. I consider the problem to be under control now, but for several years I was unable to maintain stable, healthy relationships, and I spent much of my life wracked with guilt at having caused a great deal of pain to those I cared for most, and probably to people I don't even know. To that latter group, I can only offer a vague statement of apology and regret. I have never acted with malice or vengeance, never once wanted to hurt another human being, but through selfishness, thoughtlessness and insensitivity I did so anyway. It therefore comes as no surprise to me that somebody wants to cause me pain.
I'm not particularly ashamed or embarrassed that there are sex videos of me online. My perspective may be narrow, but I can't see that they hurt anyone. I know that my friends won't care. I know that my partner - without whose encouragement and ability to make me laugh a lot about the whole thing I probably wouldn't be writing this now - doesn't care. I hope they won't affect my professional life, but my reason for wishing to keep them a secret - or at least confined to the seamy underbelly of the internet - would be to spare embarrassment and hurt for my family, who I know - and I assume my attacker knows - reads my Flickr regularly.
As my public profile increased over the years, the fear that my family would someday, somehow, find out about them chewed at a little corner of my heart. Now that a threat or an attempt to make them public has been made, that fear has become very real. I could allow it to consume me; to wait, ever fearful, for my attacker to strike again.
Instead, I have chosen to write this: to confess, and to make it public knowledge on my own terms, so that nobody can try to hurt or to embarrass me, my friends or my family with this ever again.
Bangkok, 2012.
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In these days of comprehensive internet data, it's comparatively rare to come across some aircraft you are unaware of, especially if it is in your own county.
I was driving to a butterfly hotspot, when this Hunter suddenly came into view, so had to turn back. It's actually on the southern periphery of Dunsfold airfield, and an accompanying illustration shows it sitting inside a building - a new museum that is envisaged. Whether it's a pipedream or not, we will have to see.
The aircraft itself was previously at the Gatwick Aviation Museum in Charlwood, and is actually a composite using three airframes. The fuselage is an old Royal Danish Air Force aircraft [E-430] whilst the wings come from two different RAF examples.
Dunsfold, Surrey
25th June 2025
20250625 IMG_8754 E-430 AH
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United Airlines long-haul network is nothing short of impressive; within the Big 3, the carrier operates by far the most comprehensive within the United States and that doesn't appear to change as the airline revealed both new and reinstatements for the upcoming W23 schedule taking place from late-October 2023.
For United Airlines, the airline has 2 hubs located in the West Coast of the United States and both are in the state of California, the largest being San Francisco which is their primary hub within the area and a major gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, whilst Los Angeles comes second place owing to extensive competition with their market share in third place behind American Airlines and Delta Air Lines who both also have hubs here.
Where United Airlines may lack in domestic connectivity, they make up for it with their long-haul network which is due to expand come late-October 2023 as the carrier is introducing 5 international routes across the Pacific, trumping both American and Delta.
When you look at United Airlines history, their international network started to take shape in 1986 when the carrier took over Pan Am's lucrative Pacific Division, inheriting a large chunk of routes towards Asia with both legacy hubs at Los Angeles and San Francisco benefitting, as well as Seattle which that hub would be gradually wound down at the turn of the 21st Century. By 1991, United Airlines international network expanded when they acquired Pan Am's London Heathrow operations as well as their Latin America and Caribbean network in 1992.
Today, United's long-haul network out of Los Angeles is solely filled by their Boeing 787 fleet and that has been the case since 2016 when the carrier converted Los Angeles pilot base into solely Boeing 787s on long-haul flights. On a daily basis, the Boeing 787-9 and longer Boeing 787-10 provide the bread-and-butter of the carrier's long-haul operations out of Los Angeles and that's not expected to change.
Out of the 4 international routes that United Airlines currently serves out of Los Angeles for the S23 schedule, 3 out of 4 are operated by Boeing 787-9s which includes London Heathrow, Melbourne-Tullamarine and Sydney-Kingsford Smith. The sole Boeing 787-10 flight operates daily to Tokyo-Haneda (UA39/38). For the W23 schedule, 3 out of the planned 8 long-haul routes will be filled by Boeing 787-10s, not only with the reintroduction of direct flights to Tokyo-Narita, but also when London Heathrow goes back to daily operations, capacity will shift from Boeing 787-9s to the larger Boeing 787-10.
Currently, United Airlines operates 71 Boeing 787s, which includes 12 Boeing 787-8s, 38 Boeing 787-9s and 21 Boeing 787-10s. United Airlines have 100 Boeing 787s on-order, split between the -8 to -10 models.
November One Six Zero Zero Nine is one of 21 Boeing 787-10s operated by United Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on 26th April 2019 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B engines.
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner N16009 on short finals into Runway 24R at Los Angeles (LAX), California on UA38 from Tokyo-Haneda (HND).