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Yeh, I know I know. I am back after a long time. Busy life doesn't make things easier. But this is an image I wanted to make for many years. Somehow never got the right conditions. In fact this time also the condition was not the best. I wanted to have a bit more snow on the mountains. So the hunt probably continues.
With the earth warming up in rapid speed; a perfect shot with more snow will become more and more difficult. Because the snow will not stay on the ground for long. So one need to plan this shot just after a heavy snowfall. But that minimizes the probability of getting a good sky. However it also keeps the challenge and excuse to go back to this beautiful village some more time. :)
I knew about the exact location for many years. But this time when I reached there; to my surprise I saw a temporary safety barrier next to the road. Large enough to cover the view. Surely done for good intention as this road becomes a ski route in winter and this place has an open fall on a turn. And probably it is not that safe in winter to stand there with camera on tripod either. Skiers will not see you next to the turn and can hit you and the camera and in the process all three can get damaged.
But I needed to take the image. So I just went up the hill next to it. Luckily there was no snow at that part as it wouldn't have been possible to go up if there was snow. It was too steep to go up with loose snow. We used the age old Himalayan technique to stand on the base of the grass to get grip on a steep hill. As always I was there 30 minutes in advance. So had plenty of time to set up everything. Was really lucky with a lovely sky.
I still wish I had a bit more snow. But maybe next time. Till them; I will stay happy with this one as a prize for that evening.
A special thanks to my son for accompany me there. We spend the time waiting for the sunset playing chees. So the time passed quickly. He also enjoyed the little adventure and gathered the experience that is so important to have while going off route on the mountain.
If you are interested on the natural beauty of the location, I did make a little video that might interest you here.
Please have a look at my website www.avisekhphotography.com for all my recent works.
Have a nice weekend.
Hope you will enjoy the picture.
Any suggestions or criticisms are always welcome.
digital art 2008
inspired by a memory of walking at night when the car had broken down,thinking of life,the multiverse and everything and what it all means ??????????????
A historic sign on its last legs.
Permanent rentals, pool, air conditioning, I can go for that right now.
Taken on Water Street back in 1986, here's a wharf that's in such bad condition that it has sprouted a crop of grass and weeds in a number of areas, probably benefiting from steady fertilization provided by the heavy population of gulls. There are about a half dozen pigeons in residence, but it's clear that the gulls "own" this roost. The wharf and buildings are gone now, and have been for many years. I could have walked out to the wharf but it didn't look safe. The area around the building was undoubtedly spongy and rotten so I figured any photos would best be taken from the shore. I've been visiting Nova Scotia since 1976 and can't recall seeing this structure in any better condition than shown here. I have no idea when it disappeared, but it might have been removed by the town in a "revitalizing" of the waterfront area.
The original color negative image was taken with a Pentax 6x7, 300mm f/4 Takumar lens, using Kodacolor CP-100 roll film.
The original negative was copied using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, fitted with a Nikon 4T close-up lens, a 1.6x Sigma achromatic close-up lens on the 4T. Exposure was 1 second at f/11, ISO set at 100. The light source was a 13.5 watt LED bulb (5000K).
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Under the watchful eyes of Air Traffic Control, smartly finished Rockwell Commander 112B N1350J sits all alone on Lydd Airport's apron
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Pavlov
Dans sa célèbre expérience, Pavlov sonnait une cloche chaque fois qu’il servait de la nourriture à un chien. Puis un jour, Pavlov sonna la cloche mais ne servit aucune nourriture au chien : celui-ci saliva quand même.
I first saw this one a couple of years ago. Many barns in this condition can endure far longer than one might expect. It would not surprise me if this is still standing 5 years hence.
This view is from standing 4,000 feet above sea level at the top of the Kalalau Valley overlooking the Na Pali Coast. The calm breeze creates a blue casting ripple on the ocean. The condition here is always changing as it was fogged up about 5 minutes later and rained about 30 minutes earlier.
Montana Rail Link westbound freight "LM" (Laurel to Missoula) awaits departure from yard. The time is 6:05 in the evening of a successful day, spent in both directions to and from Helena. My friend who had provided the ride and expertise for the day was a signal maintainer with his headquarters in the well-kept depot built by Northern Pacific. The MRL restored the depot clock to working condition.
Night after night... floating in warm waves of expectation. He always ends up here... with me
♬♬ youtu.be/-I2i5cPHgW8 ♬♬
In pristine condition, probably It just emerged from its Pupa,
Please see this video of Monarch emerging.
Love seeing one owner cars from new, this one was in amazing condition wish I knew how many miles it had, wouldn't of been much.
edit it has 125,000 miles wow
Hasselblad 205tcc w/50mm Distagon lens on expired Kodak T-Max 400 dev. in Kodak HC 110B and scanned with an Epson V500
Common house gecko inside the house. I have quite a few of them living inside the house and outside of the house. This one has lost part of its tail possibly caused by me turning air conditioner that i think it lives in. I have another larger gecko that lives in the house that caught killed and removed a centipede that was crawling near my bed which was good because one night i was woken up by another very large centipede crawling on me, not a nice experience.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
For my art exam on The Human Condition. This is development work. It is all seperate works, i have just merged them together in photoshop.
All images are inspired by Francis Picabia : www.askart.com/AskART/photos/COL20080204_5647/153.jpg
Image 3 also has influences from Edvard Munch: 1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qfmy1iBc5N8/SKdlxixVZJI/AAAAAAAAAxw/yF...
Images 4 and 5 have influences from Arnulf Rainer: www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&w...
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Image 1 and 2: watercolours
Image 3: colour photocopy of img2 with oil paint on top
Image 4: colour photocopy of img2 with added photos and chalk pastels
Image 5: chalk pastels
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"I will get back into the car under one condition: you allow me to listen to my music, meaning the one song I listen to, however long or however many times I feel like. After that you can have a turn and can listen to songs and or music on my short approved list."
Testing my new Canon T1i. Tried in low lighting condition. Auto ISO worked OK. ISO1600 is not too bad, and better than my Canon xTi.
This photo is a tribute to those people who volunteer their time to restore and maintain these old steam locomotives in working condition. In this photo, two men are performing minor maintenance tasks while waiting the two hours or more that it takes to fire this engine up. This engine runs a tourist loop at New Hope Pa. and was out of service in 2014. Hopefully it will be back this year. Parts have to be hand made and there are not many people that know how to repair or operate them anymore.
Preserved London transport country area Daimler Fleetline XF3 which was unique in having a slightly bigger bonnet over the rear engine due to the engine being slightly larger than the other seven in the fleet. Sadly this is the only example in preservation but is beautifuly restored to original condition.
Advertised as in 'excellent condition' but if your definition of 'excellent condition' means a working camera then it's not. The shutter is broke.
Astana - Capital City of Kazakhstan
The city was renamed into Nursultan in honor of the former President Nursultan Nasarbajew.
The weather condition looked very promising, clear skies and low wind, and the mornig had all that just not at the same time. I wanted the Alpine glow on Pen Yr Ole Wen and the reflection. Alas it was one or the other. Once the light started to hit the mountain the wind had picked up and distroyed the reflection. Anyway I'm happy with this blue hour picture.
The James Scott Memorial Fountain on Belle Isle in Detroit Michigan..
Quite the controversial character, Mr Scott only got this fountain because part of the condition of him donating his estate to the city upon his death was that they build the fountain in his honor and a life sized statue of him as well. Done and done...