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Hover conversions for classic vehicles! Keep those old cars on the new roads with hover-drive retrofit kits from Sirius Cyberdine Industries! Don't be bound to the ground any longer! No more expensive tires! Greater comfort and ride-handling! Each kit is custom-designed for the classic auto of choice, and once prototyped, will be available in SCI inventory until all documented examples of that make/model are extinct. From cruisers, to sports cars, to utility vehicles, let SCI become your vendor of choice for updating your ride!
I need to check my notes on where this is from. I know it's from a tomb in Delhi. An old man roped us in to a guided tour of the tomb (actually, he just followed us around and told us about everything). He was insistent we see the patterns of light that appeared at the right time of day.
Scan from film negative
Delhi, India
December 2003
Children need to be saved and may be saved. The conversion of a child involves the same work of divine grace and results in the same blessed consequences as the conversion of the adult. But there is this additional matter for joy, that a great preventive work is done when the young are converted. Conversion saves a child from a multitude of sins. If God’s mercy shall bless your teaching to a little prattler, how happy that boy’s life will be compared with what it might have been if it had grown up in folly, sin, and shame, and only been converted after many days! It is the highest wisdom to pray for our children that while they are young their hearts may be given to the Savior. - C H Spurgeon
The 2nd half was a complete turn around from the first. Whatever Bath had in their half time cup of tea seemed to work as they ran out 27-21 winners thanks to two late tries.
That's it from The Clash - a great day out for my first trip to Twickenham.
I'm going to take a break now - Happy Easter everyone!
Hello Folks,
Repeatedly, I see our friends having problems understanding and making the best use of Raw Conversion. There is actually a lot that can be done, while converting a raw file. If you can make the best of the tools available, you actually don't need to do much in post processing at all.
Here you may read the rest of the story if interested.
This was done in Photoshop CS2. I may at some point do a similar interface tutorial for CS3 if the interest level happened to be high enough.
The bottom half of this shot is infa-red. I wanted to create some shadows in the trees so decided to just use a normal bw conversion for the trees and sky.
A Twin Cities & Western Friday flashback. TC&W has been a steadily successful spinoff that thankfully has not turned orange yet. Despite their success TCW's route from home rails in Hopkins to St. Paul continues to evolve. Originally it was a pretty straight shot on former Milwaukee Road rails, then the conversion of this corridor into the Midtown Greenway triggered a reroute, and now again the construction of Southwest Light Rail has shuffled the route again. Near the heart of the "29th St Ditch" this crossing at 5th Ave South was the exception to all the concrete overpasses seen in the background. TC&W is still a good show, just not in South Minneapolis any longer. December 12, 1994.
Went on an early (9am) trip to catch the morning light on the ice covered river this morning, but the weather report proved false so it was grey in grey instead so a harsh b/w conversion seemed in order to make this image pop.
Former Dublin Bus Leyland Olympian/Alexander RH RH90 is seen outcropped following conversion to a mobile Childcare facility March 2009
597AD, Kent, England. King Æthelberht meets Augustine who has been sent by Pope Gregory the Great as a missionary to the Anglo Saxons.
The group of missionaries landed on the Isle of Thanet. It’s recorded by Bede that Æthelberht thought that the missionaries would use sorcery and so refused to meet them in open and agreed to meet under a tree. Whilst Æthelberht was impressed he didn’t convert immediately though did allow the group to settle in Canterbury and allowed them to preach
Focus of this conversion has been the front end which as generally followed my Streetdeck process to create a fair representation of the real bus.
Windscreen is a home-made attempt which is ok, but needs further development and the next build, currently under way, will incorporate a few tweaks to this arrangement to help soften things a little.
The next one will also be lengthened to properly match the dimensions of the extended East Coast Buses prototype.
The Eclipse 2 donor is shown as comparison.
The donor for the Streetdeck conversion was the OOC Lancashire United Gemini Mark 1 with the frontal difference being illustrated in the photo.
Plans, even dimensions, for the Streetdeck are virtually impossible to get hold of, so the whole conversion is based on my own plans drawn up from photos and what dimensions I could find. I don't have access to any of the real things either, so the finished model does not set out to be a 100% accurate scale model, just a decent representation of the First Vantage bus.
Seen here back after a repaint and major conversion by our good friend HPF poses outside the depot. The work was mainly front based with windscreens dash grille and lights all being spruced up in the conversion to meet east lancs spec to represent the real thing! Repainted by a mate Model buses not related to any of the pictured company's in any way
I got lucky by the awesome dramatic sky that day...
About The Title Conversion:
this is where Calmness meets Drama...
you can see the calmness in the foreground and the drama reflected from the background.
About the image:
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm @11mm | F11
ISO 100
3XP HDR in Photomatrix then PS CS5
CONVERSION 2D>3D. From an illustration by Sheer Images
CROSSVIEW
To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.
Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.
The best lifeboat conversion I know of.
Fred Licht's boat 'Theodorus' is sailing high & fast and is very cleverly designed and re-built by himself.
Originaly a teak lifeboat built by Kerstholt for the Dutch merchant ship 'Batu'.
Photo: collection family Licht
What else do you do with a pair of sad Corgi diecasts?
This Panther Triaxle was created from a standard 12M OOC Panther and Paragon which had both seen better days.
I've found it
a bit of a pain to do, certainly when compared with the recent Van Hool one, with extensions needed to both wheelbase and rear overhang, and a real problem keeping everything 'square' and true. But has eventually turned out ok.
Could be a long time before I attempt another one of these!
Norfolk Southern AC44C6Ms #'s 4002 and 4004 charge through Princeton, IL leading ethanol empties for Mina, South Dakota. The train is traversing BNSF's Mendota Sub instead of the Aurora Sub due to flooding issues in Wisconsin.
These locomotives are recent rebuilds of NS's DC to AC conversion program, having been rebuilt from Dash 9-40Cs.
the conversion of constantine
the conversion of constantine, and thereby the late roman empire, has had an enormous impact on world history. i have always wondered how a break away minor jewish sect based on the short and confused ministry of yeshua ben pantera was transformed into the christian juggernaut. the early christian community (from the death of yeshua to the 4th century) was an often persecuted lot. the common history is that christ appeared to constantine before the battle at pons milvius (where constantine was leading a machiavellian challenge for the control of the western half of the roman empire against the legitimate emperor) and bid him to follow the banner of the cross to victory. after said victory under said banner, constantine relaxed proscriptions against the christian community, and eventually adopted christianity as the legal state religion of the empire. this formal sanction led to the explosive political growth of the church [catholic and otherwise] and is the reason we worship christ the savior.
however, but for a figurative coin toss of history, we would be praying to mithra the redeemer. mithra who? you say. mithraism was another near east faith based on a son of god as savior motif very popular in the eastern half of the roman empire at the time of constantine.
mithra:
the cult of mithra (sidebar) was revered as a light-bringer, a protector and judge of immortal souls. mithra the god-figure remained celibate throughout his life, and valued self-control, renunciation and resistance to sensuality among his worshippers. mithras represented a system of ethics in which brotherhood was encouraged in order to unify against the forces of evil. mithraic rituals involved the symbolic consumption of wine/blood and bread/flesh, baptismal purification, and celebrated the birthday of mithra on december 25th. sound familar? consider then, that the myth of mithra predates christianity by many many centuries. cross-pollination of myths and ethos in the ancient near east was very common. it is important to understand that there is no single pure theology. they are all quilt-work.
the mithraic belief system was focused on the role of mithra as enforcer of truth. the avesta, the zoroastrian holy book, relates that ahura-mazda, the zoroaster Lord figure, sent mithra to guarantee the sanctity of promises and bonds. in fact, mithra is persian for 'contract'. mithras was worshipped as guardian of arms, and patron of soldiers and armies. the handshake was developed by those who worshipped him as a token of friendship and as a gesture to show that you were unarmed. when mithras later became the Roman god of contracts, the handshake gesture was imported throughout the mediterranean and europe by roman soldiers.
mithraism was adopted first by the roman legions garrisoned in the east during the republic. i presume they were attracted to its emphasis on honor, strength, and action. by the late empire under diocletian (284 - 305 AD), mithra was the de facto (and de jure) state religion. mithraic temples, known as mithraeum, were found at all corners of the empire, from northern england to northern africa.
mithraism was a revealed mystery faith. you did not merely convert to mithraism with a ritual baptism and declaration of submission. like the free masons, you had to be chosen and initiated in secret ceremonies into the ranks of the believers. perhaps this was a critical shortcoming of the faith in competition against the more liberal membership rites of christianity. an initiate was first required to prove their courage and strength in tests of danger (crossing swift rivers, jumping through fire bound and blindfolded, etc...) the mithraic initiation process led the acolyte through seven stages of greater revealed knowledge: Corax (Raven), Nymphus (Male Bride), Miles (Soldier), Leo (Lion), Peres (Persian), Heliodromus (Sun-Runner), and Pater (Father); each respective grade protected by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, the Moon, the Sun, and Saturn.
mithraism was the faith of the realm for several centuries before constantine supplanted it. but for his conversion, the west, and the world would be a dramatically different place.
Manage to catch exactly the effect I was looking for with this one with a textbook image of a conversion being kicked.
Lens: Jupiter 8 50mm f/2.
Temporarily retiring this bike as I steal parts for a different build. May get some brazing work done on the frame to make it feel less clunky, but have to sit with it and see if it's worth it.
Hover conversions for classic vehicles! Keep those old cars on the new roads with hover-drive retrofit kits from Sirius Cyberdine Industries! Don't be bound to the ground any longer! No more expensive tires! Greater comfort and ride-handling! Each kit is custom-designed for the classic auto of choice, and once prototyped, will be available in SCI inventory until all documented examples of that make/model are extinct. From cruisers, to sports cars, to utility vehicles, let SCI become your vendor of choice for updating your ride!
A northbound flask train stands in the centre roads at Workington on 7 June 1984. Between the two RBX barrier wagons is MJJ flatrol 550003 built in 1969 at Shildon. The TOPS codes for these wagons seemed to change frequently and were always a bit confusing to me. The batch that included 550003 (seen here) is often quoted in railway publications as XKB (until 1983 when they became air brake only and designated FNA). The TOPS panel on this picture is unclear but has obviously been overpainted to (possibly) FKB or FXB. This overpainting probably reflects the modification made to this wagon when it had a sliding cover added.
In the 1980s BNFL decided they wanted flasks to be covered. This gave an extra level of security but also weather protection. In the 1970s, radioactive contamination was occasionally detected on flasks in transit. The levels were extremely low, but one source of the contamination was thought to be rainwater flushing out small amounts of material from areas of the flask that were normally inaccessible. Keeping the flasks dry also ensured nothing could be flushed off the wagon.
The new design of stainless clad FNAs were introduced in 1984 but - as an interim measure - older open, steel framed wagons like this one were converted, with the new girder work to support the sliding cover clearly visible here. Also, note the fillet inserted to block the gap between the sliding cover support girder and the floor of the well.