At the start of Golden Hour, you couldn't ask for better light as a westbound BNSF oil empty charges west out of Leyden. BNSF pretty consistently runs their eastbound oil loads in a 3x(0)x3 configuration. Consequently, it makes sense that this westbound empty has six units on the head end. Three of the unit move to the east end of the train for journey back east.

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Shinjuku Gyo-en is a large (58.3 ha; 144 acres) park and garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. It is now a national park. The current configuration of the garden was completed in 1906. Most of the garden was destroyed by air raids in 1945 & rebuilt after the WWII.

Known for its size in the heart of Tokyo, cherry blossom season, fall colors, 20,000 trees, & greenhouse with 1,700 subtropical & tropical plants. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Gyo-en

Fujifilm X-T20. Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS Lens. 25mm, 1/60 sec, f/6.4, ISO 400. Thanks for viewing.

To make the most of the beautiful sun of these days for shooting the full sun I have prepared this configuration: underneath the Lunt LS80T with Halfa filter and above an apochromatic refractor for the Baader Planetarium Herschel Wedge filter (visible light) or the Lunt B600 Ca-K filter

Le site des dunes de Tadoussac offre une configuration idéale pour l'observation de la migration des oiseaux. En raison de la largeur du fleuve Saint-Laurent, les oiseaux ne se risquent pas à le traverser à cet endroit. Il se crée des couloirs de vents favorables compte tenu de la configuration particulière du fleuve avec le Saguenay et son fjord, Le site des dunes est dégagé et offre à l'observateur un point de vue unique. On voit les oiseaux de proie arriver par-dessus la montagne, quand on regarde vers l'est-nord-est. Un premier couloir passe côté fleuve, à main droite, et on y voit souvent les oiseaux glisser le long de la dune avant de remonter. L'autre corridor passe plutôt côté terre, à main gauche. Ils suivent ensuite le fleuve jusqu'à ce que ce leur soit facile de le franchir, à partir de Québec et plus au sud. Ces temps-ci, un ornithologue professionnel fait le décompte des migrateurs. Sa connaissance des oiseaux est formidable. Il identifie les espèces à distance à leur silhouette et à leur vol. Il peut facilement statuer sur leur âge. Grâce à lui nous avons observé de nombreuses espèces qui nous auraient échappé.

Il y avait activité de baguage des passereaux, le jour, et des nyctales, la nuit, au pavillon des dunes. L'observatoire des oiseaux de Tadoussac, l'OOT, organisait et gérait tout ça.

The Tadoussac Dunes site offers an ideal setting for observing bird migration. Because of the width of the St. Lawrence River, birds do not risk crossing it at this point. Corridors of favorable winds are created given the particular configuration of the river with the Saguenay and its fjord. The site of the dunes is clear and offers the observer a unique point of view. We see the birds of prey coming over the mountain, when we look to the east-northeast. A first corridor passes on the river side, to the right, and we often see the birds gliding along the dune before going up. The other corridor passes rather on the land side, to the left. They then follow the river until it is easy for them to cross it, starting from Quebec and further south. These days, a professional ornithologist is counting the migrants. His knowledge of birds is tremendous. He identifies species at a distance by their silhouette and flight. He can easily decide on their age. Thanks to him we observed many species that would have escaped us.

There was banding activity for passerines during the day and owls at night at the pavilion des dunes. The Tadoussac bird observatory, the OOT, organized and managed all of this.

Airbus A330 - MSN 966 - C-GTSR

Airline Air Transat

Status : Active

Country : Canada

Date : 1986 -

Codes TS TSC

Callsign : Air Transat

Web site : www.airtransat.com

Serial number966

Type330-243

First flight date29/10/2008

Test registrationF-WWYP

Plane age7.9 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x RR Trent 772B-60

27/11/2008MexicanaXA-MXPCeased operations 28 aug 2010

30/09/2010Air TransatC-GTSRLsd From Cit

08/12/2015Air CaraibesC-GTSRlsd from Air Transat

16/04/2016Air TransatC-GTSRLsd From Cit

Boeing 737 - MSN 21467

Status : Active

Registration : C-GMAI

Airline Air Inuit

Country : Canada

Codes 6H 3H AIE

Callsign : Air Inuit

Web site : www.airinuit.ca

Serial number21467 LN:515

Type737-2Q2C

First flight date29/03/1978

Test registration

Plane age39.2 years

Seat configuration

Engines

31/07/1978Air GabonTR-LXL

22/07/1997Air InterTR-LXL

01/01/1998Air GabonTR-LXLCeased operations 24 feb 06

19/11/2010Air InuitC-GMAI

Captain Davie described the configuration of the great banking room. "Before conversion, three sets of four teller stations were placed between the square pillars on the right side. Each station included the main parts of classical architecture in reduced size, the horizontal entablature resting on the two vertical columns and consisting of cornice, frieze, and architrave. Strong structures supported a bronze hinged wicket at each of the 16 positions. Some of these groupings have been rearranged to accommodate hotel design requirements."

Although the use of the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank building changed ten years ago, from a bank and offices to a hotel with 245 guest rooms, the original features of the structure remain remarkably intact. The Courtyard-Marriott Hotel, located in the heart of a vibrant downtown San Diego, is a spectacular example of successful readapted use. The hotel stands proud in the bank's place, as the sentinel of an important piece of San Diego history.

Courtyard by Marriott - This excellent example of adaptive reuse was a 1999 People In Preservation award winner. 140

N871MY DC-8-71F MAS Air Cargo. Originally delivered as a DC-8-61 to United Airlines. Converted to cargo configuration and sold to to Fast Air Chile. Leased to MAS Air from 1999 until 2002. Sold to Promodal Cargo as PR-GPT. Now derelict at Manaus

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Captain Davie described the configuration of the great banking room. "Before conversion, three sets of four teller stations were placed between the square pillars on the right side. Each station included the main parts of classical architecture in reduced size, the horizontal entablature resting on the two vertical columns and consisting of cornice, frieze, and architrave. Strong structures supported a bronze hinged wicket at each of the 16 positions. Some of these groupings have been rearranged to accommodate hotel design requirements."

Although the use of the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank building changed ten years ago, from a bank and offices to a hotel with 245 guest rooms, the original features of the structure remain remarkably intact. The Courtyard-Marriott Hotel, located in the heart of a vibrant downtown San Diego, is a spectacular example of successful readapted use. The hotel stands proud in the bank's place, as the sentinel of an important piece of San Diego history.

Courtyard by Marriott - This excellent example of adaptive reuse was a 1999 People In Preservation award winner. 143

Airbus A320 - MSN 284

Status : Active

Registration : C-FLSS

Airline Air Canada

Country : Canada

Date : 1937 -

Codes AC ACA

Callsign : Air Canada

Web site : www.aircanada.ca

Serial number284

Type320-211

First flight date13/12/1991

Test registrationF-WWBU

Plane age27.9 years

Seat configuration

Engines 2 x CFMI CFM56-5A1

C-FLSS10/03/1992Canadian Airlines

C-FLSS04/04/2001Air Canada

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Benedetto Buffalino – La voiture sur le lampadaire, 2019 - Voiture Peugeot 406 blanche, métal, bois, système d’éclairage

Pour Benedetto Bufalino, chaque œuvre est une nouvelle aventure à imaginer. Ici pour le quartier de Paris La Défense il décide de poser une voiture sur un lampadaire. La voiture, symbole de la modernité du xxe siècle, a été pendant toute une période un élément central des villes, occupant tout l’espace (routes, parkings...). La voiture est un objet essentiel dans l’œuvre de Bufalino.

Victory Liner Inc.

Victory Liner Inc.

Victory Liner Inc.

Victory Liner Inc.

Configuration for the L22

Thanks to koigon for the basic idea.

So this is the picture that I've really wanted to take for the past few weeks, and I finally got everything lined up for it!

The vehicle is the same base as my previous picture, but in what I want to call the "Sentinel" configuration with the back changed out for a more armored module and a computer-assisted rocket launcher and machine gun combo on top so multiples of these can pretty much set up in a defensive position and hold their own against the enemy laying down some serious cover fire and firing off four rockets at a time. The rockets can be reloaded manually through the back.

In a rare configuration for this train, potash train CN B730 has a pair of DPU's (CN 3216 & CN 3859) shoving on the rear end as the train passes a cut of parked grain cars.

Boeing 737 - MSN 21467

Status : Active

Registration : C-GMAI

Airline Air Inuit

Country : Canada

Codes 6H 3H AIE

Callsign : Air Inuit

Web site : www.airinuit.ca

Serial number21467 LN:515

Type737-2Q2C

First flight date29/03/1978

Test registration

Plane age39.4 years

Seat configuration

Engines

Operators of the aircraft

Delivery dateAirlineRegistrationRemark

31/07/1978Air GabonTR-LXL

22/07/1997Air InterTR-LXL

01/01/1998Air GabonTR-LXLCeased operations 24 feb 06

19/11/2010Air InuitC-GMAI

Smile, people, it is Friday!

Thank you for staying around and enjoy your weekend!

The top of the tennis court net curtain that allows flexibility in court configuration. Closed during play, and open for easy access.

An artwork by the artist Jean Arp (1886-1966), a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. Jean Arp was broadly known as a Dadaist and abstract artist.

Seen in Museo Casorella, Locarno, Switzerland.

Thank you for your visits / comments / faves!

I just finished reading Kristin Cashore's new book, "Bitterblue", and found it entertaining and thoughtful, with a wide range of interesting characters. This quote stuck with me. It's taken from a scene in which the Queen (Bitterblue), sits down to dinner with a few others, and on her mind is the topic of Po and Katsa's relationship, turbulent as it may be.

Bitterblue stabbed a mystery pie across the table with her fork and was delighted when it turned out to be made of winter squash. She pushed her plate closer and shoveled herself a generous portion. "It's just that while I'm sure I would like the making up, I don't think I have the heart for constant fighting," she said. "I think I might prefer something--more peaceful in execution."

"But people do, you know," said Bann, perhaps a bit slyly. "I wouldn't worry about them, Lady Queen, and I wouldn't worry about what it means. Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."

Wise words, I think. Anyway, here's a scene from a recent hike up Silver Star Mountain... the light? Was incredible at this particular point in the trail. And I couldn't stop swooning over the wildflowers.

Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.

Victory Liner Inc.

Victory Liner Inc.

A robin in our back garden landing on the fork Rachel wasn't at that point using. This is not a Photoshop job!! (Well, beyond a crop, levels, slight sharpen.) I just happened to have the macro lens (f=105mm) on the camera, which helped.

ALMA radio telescope; antennas in compact configuration

Pangasinan Five Star Bus Company

Interesting antennae configuration spotted on top of a tin shed.

Jee, got a Harry Potter look after a use of my portrait in photolab.

Have a nice week everybody and thanks for passing by.

Turtle helps Batman reconfigure Lighthouse to emit bat signal. Bossy Bear doesn't mind this, so long as everyone recognizes the Lighthouse is his.

Different configurations of collected steel sculptural forms. Two being magnetic allowing for reconfiguration at the whim of the owner/curator. The diameter of the round base is about 200mm.

Deers

The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very long-ranged design. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic single handed in one, and Wiley Post flew his around the world twice.

Designed by John Knudsen Northrop and Gerrard Vultee, both of whom would later form their own companies, the plane was originally intended to serve with Lockheed's own airline routes. They set out to build a four-seat aircraft that was not only rugged, but the fastest aircraft as well. Utilizing the latest designs in monocoque fuselages, cantilever wings and the best engine available, the Vega delivered on the promise of speed.

The fuselage was monocoque, built from sheets of plywood, skinned over wooden ribs. Using a large concrete mold, a single half of the fuselage shell was laminated in sections with glue and then a rubber bladder was lowered into the mold and inflated with air to compress the lamination into shape. Two fuselage halves were then nailed and glued over a previously made rib framework. With the fuselage constructed in this fashion, the wing spar had to be kept clear, so they decided to make a single spar cantilever mounted on the very top of the aircraft. The only part of the aircraft that wasn't particularly streamlined was the landing gear although production versions wore sleek "spats". For power they chose the Wright Whirlwind, which delivered 225 horsepower (168 kW).

The first Vega 1, named the Golden Eagle, flew from Lockheed's Los Angeles plant on 4 July 1927. It could cruise at a then-fast 120 mph (193 km/h), and had a top speed of 135 mph (217 km/h). However. the four-passenger (plus one pilot) load was considered too small for airline use. A number of private owners placed orders for the design however, and by the end of 1928, they had produced 68 of this original design. In the 1928 National Air Races in Cleveland, Vegas won every speed award.

Looking to improve the design, Lockheed delivered the Vega 5 in 1929. Adding the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp engine of 450 hp (336 kW) improved weights enough to allow two more seats to be added. A new NACA cowling increased cruise speed to 155 mph (249 km/h) and top speed to 165 mph (266 km/h). However, even the new six-seat configuration proved to be too small, and the 5 was purchased primarily for private aviation and executive transport. A total of 64 Vega 5s were built. In 1931, the US Air Corps bought two Vega 5s; one designated C-12 and one as the C-17. The C-17 differed by having an extra set of fuel tanks in the wings.

The Vega could be difficult to land. In her memoir, Elinor Smith wrote that it had "all the glide potential of a boulder falling off a mountain."

Tram arch

The railway overpass over Syromyatnichesky passage was built in 1865 for the Moscow - Kursk railway line and is designed to pass six tracks. In the narrow tunnel, the tram rails are laid in a "plexus" - this is the last such configuration of rails in Moscow that has survived.

Isarog line S2

Engine

Seating configuration 1x1x1

Model Higer Sleeper's KLQ6129QWE3 "V92W"

Chassis Higer KLQ6120QE3

So, here is what’s happening. I was going to show a different equipment configuration because I am planning on using the EOS70D next time round for another go at the gyrfalcon. That would eliminate the need for the 1.4 extender and possibly speed up autofocus a bit. To that purpose, I was diligently testing at home getting some encouraging results even up to ISO 3200. A bit softer but still quite useable and I actually liked that effect. So, since the light turned dark and miserable today, I abandoned that trip and focused on showing my result with this configuration on a female red crossbill. And then of course, I got sidetracked and came across this little beauty (yes, also the female Red Crossbill) in some wonderful lighting conditions that I was unable to resist. The cool thing here is that the water in the birdbath is releasing some steam that is clearly visible in the early morning sun and the light on the bird itself is something that I could not turn a blind eye to. (yes, bad grammar I know). She is obviously quite captivated by the steam as well. No need to talk about her beak or her non-red color. And even though I suspect that she’s an adult female, just on the off-chance she’s not, she will be one soon.

Girl, you’ll be a woman soon – Urge Overkill

The Claymore heavy fighter is designed to engage capital ships. It is typically deployed from carriers where it is transported in a folded configuration, stacked in racks of eight.

It is armed with two dual plasma projectile cannons. The cannons can be configured to shoot short salvos where the four cannons fire in succession, or they can fire a single coordinated shot with devastating power.

Because of it's thin profile the Claymore is hard to hit from forward and behind. A capital ship without escort will not last many minutes against a wing of these.

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Built for SHIPtember 2021!

Length: 44 studs

Width: 64 studs

Height: 106 studs

With only a few days left before september 1, I decided to build my verison of a concept by Theo Stylianides:

I've wanted to build it for some time but didn't really know if I could pull of the delicate design.

I had to rebuild it many times during the month. Because I wanted it so thin, it was hard to assemble all the parts. At one point the whole ship just broke apart and I had to rebuild everything. The vertical body of the ship is only 1 stud thick, but built with SNOT-bricks so I can attach plates on the sides. The black stripe on the side on the ship plus the engines are what's keeping it together. The upper and lower part are held together with a technic tructure that also contains the mechanism for folding the wings.

There is a small doodle on the original concept art that suggests the "wings" can be folded. I didn't know if I should bother with it, but I thought it would make the ship a bit more interesting if I could manage that feature. So after much experimentation I was able to build a mechanism that folds one wing up and the other one down.

An other thing that gave me problems during the build process was gravity. Again. The design makes it very tail heavy. My original plan was to just make it stand on the cannons, but that would have made the whole ship tip over backwards. The solution was to build a stand for it. It's not really that pretty. I might have to redesign the stand later.

I've spent many late nights on this. Sacrificing sleep. It was fun, but now I'm fed up with it! 😄

Thanks to everyone who helped me and gave me feedback!

Swoosh: youtu.be/HzVBos--tQM

Folding wings: youtu.be/wNyWjHF0wzU

Engine 6D22

Seating configuration 2x3 - 66

Model AMC travel Star ord

Chassis RP118

Editor's note: HUGE positive announcement about SLS today. Read all about it here! www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton Block 1 configuration. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first SLS mission -- Exploration Mission 1 -- will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the moon and bring it back to Earth to demonstrate the integrated system performance of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft’s re-entry and landing prior to a crewed flight.

Image credit: NASA/MSFC

More about SLS:

www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

More SLS Artist Concepts:

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Space Launch System Flickr photoset:

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The four configurations of cardinal buoys indicate the safe side

of a danger with an approximate bearing. For example, the North cardinal buoy has safe water on its North and the danger on its South side.

Les quatre configurations de bouées cardinales indiquent le côté sûr d'un danger avec un relèvement approximatif. Par exemple, la bouée cardinale nord a de l'eau sûre sur son côté nord et le danger sur son côté sud.

De vier configuraties van kardinale boeien geven de veilige kant aan van een gevaar met een benaderende peiling. Zo heeft de Noord-kardinale boei veilig water aan de noordzijde en het gevaar aan de zuidzijde.

N143G : McDonnell Douglas MD-87.

After its first 8 years with Aero Lloyd as D-ALLG, this MD-87 has been in executive configuration since 1996, and is still active in 2024, now registered N111RE.

Some configurations somehow turn surreal....... At Goðafoss, a bizarre pattern of constantly moving clouds, periodically changing, diffused, dusk light and a beautiful fall together made a hypnotic configuration.