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"In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind."
- Sandra Cisneros
dreaming of Immaculate Perception-Immaculate Reflection @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA22/128/128/21
sleeping in Kyoto Kagai, Mineko @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mineko/73/45/29
Well, I must admit I was inspired and intrigued by a few *belt buckle* images which have come up on my stream the last few days, so decided to post two more special items from my *sheep* collection!
After much deliberating I decided to use this item for my Macro Mondays Corner theme, I counted at least 54 visible corners on it!
I came across it in the garage when looking for a suitable subject, and knew (sentimentally) after coming across this old piece of work, that I just had to use it!
Thirty-six years ago, a (far) younger Kev Gregory was undergoing his technical aircraft engineering training at RAF Halton in England, and one of the first phases on the course was Basic Engineering, where each student had to produce a test piece.
Set against stringent criteria laid down in an engineering drawing, the plate and block had to be handmade, shaped, and within tight tolerance to size and square, with the addition of blind and through holes to accommodate the rod and bolts, with threads cut as necessary.
This was a ‘rite of passage’ for students, there could be no progression on the course until this part had been mastered.
Despite being stored in a plastic bag for all these years, it’s succumbed to corrosion in a few places, but I managed to remove the majority of it before taking the shot.
Happy New Year and Macro Mondays everyone.
I see this life, like a swinging vine,
Swing my heart across the line,
And in my face's flashing signs,
Seek it out and ye' shall find.
Old, but I'm not that old,
Young, but I'm not that bold,
And I don't think the world is sold,
On just doing what we're told.
I-I-I-I feel something so right,
Doing the wrong thing,
I-I-I-I feel something so wrong,
Doing the right thing,
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie,
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive.
Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep,
Dreaming about the things that we could be,
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,
Said no more counting dollars,
We'll be counting stars.
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OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Well I only made it to Brownville Junction one time and it only was for a couple hours but I was blessed with a train and it was a good one in my opinion. Sm eastbound is getting ready to roll with 4719, 4727, 8767 and 8756 with 91 cars on May 8, 1981.
Even though I had only a dusting of snow the poor hummers could not break through the iced up holes. Don't forget to keep on top of that. They are counting on us.
I was very happy to find these in a shop today. When I was younger, gooseberries were a cheap fruit used for pies, crumbles & jam. Now, because of the way they have to be picked, they count as a luxury fruit & rarely appear in the shops. These have now been frozen, to enjoy during the winter.
365#206
How many can you count? Bits of icebergs on #iceland sea changes every day. Countless small icebergs. I hopped for a nice sunrise but that never happened. Time to play long exposures and some black and white.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35 F4 VR
Post Production with Lightroom, Nik Software and CS6
©2014, byVini photography
#formatthitech #formatt-hitech #iceland
#byviniphotography #photography
An RQ-7B Shadow UAV from VMU-4 on the ramp at Camp Pendleton.
Shot for my article on VMU-4's use of its RQ-7s for nighttime wildlife survey missions in the November issue of Air International: www.airinternational.com/the-magazine/view-issue/?issueID...
I used to ask people to try and count the sheep in some of landscape shots. This time if anyone is suffering from insomnia maybe counting these cows may help :-)
Do you ever wonder how many sunsets this rock has seen?
Sometimes I do.
Innova 6x9 pinhole / Kodak Ektar 100
I've said my bit on what counts as Cyberpunk or not before and I won't do it again. I'll just say that I never liked the scale of Lego's official motorcycles, All being massive, bloated, ugly hunks of plastic dwarfing the minifigs that are supposed to ride them. I wish they would go back the scale they had in '83-'96, and if I ever start up a 3rd party part maker properly-scaled motorcycles are on my list of pieces to make. Either way, I tried to solve that issue myself with just stock pieces. I ended up with something that's only so marginally smaller than Lego's current offerings that it really doesn't make a difference, but the design took too much effort and I'm honestly too proud of to dump. So here we are.
This is the other shot from my corrupted card yesterday... 2 minute exposure with ND x1000 filter...
What is this...that stands before me?
Figure in black...which points at me...
Turn round quick...and start to run...
Find out I'm...the chosen one!
"Clancy, I should be the one saying that."
I asked you to and you declined.
"No, you asked me to sing it like the Black Sabbath
song and I declined."
You're not much of a Halloween person, are you?
"Hey, I'm a great Halloweener."
More like a great Halloweiner. And speaking of weiners,
my diet is finished, right?
"Yes. You've lost five pounds sinse April 1 and look
fine to me. The vet said I should see an hourglass
shape when I look at you from above, and if I'm not
seeing an hourglass shape, I'm at least seeing a
3/4hourglass shape, good enough for me. So, yes,
when we get home you can have a weiner."
Really? I take it back, Dad, you're a Hallowinner!
(Happy Halloween and stay safe, from Count Clancy, B-Rat and Ding-Bat!) (And me!)
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391. Clancy, 6yrs 49wks
Clancy's YEARBOOK 7: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157703683494665
MONOCHROME Clancy: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157655760302498
Ad occhio nudo, in una notte perfetta, si possono contare circa 5000 stelle...
ad occhi chiusi, si riescono a vedere i confini ultimi della nostra Galassia.
Autoritratto, passo Giau, Dolomiti, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 VC su Canon EOS 6D, treppiede, posa singola.
#stelle #count #stars #selfie #vialattea #orion #wideangle #passogiau #dolomites #neve #snow #luce #lightpollution #dream #pace
"1 sheep, 2 sheeps, 3 sheeps, 4..."
"Barney it's not sheeps is sheep!"
"Pfft. 5 sheeps, 6 sheeps.... ....29 sheeps, 30 sheeps"
"You'll send yourself to sleep counting all those sheep Barney!"
"Won't. I'm gonna send YOU to sleep then, then, I'm gonna go round up all the sheeps and me and some other collies from down the hill are gonna have a sheep trial!"
"You mean a sheepdog trial!"
"No. I haven't done anything wrong, it's the sheep that are on trial. Bad things them are. With their bleatin and worrying dogs and stuff."
You can't see them here, but there were sheep all around the spot I took this! They teased poor Barney all day long, popping out of the undergrowth in front of him and trotting jauntily ahead, just out of reach (he was on a lead!)... Barney is friendly with cows, he is polite with horses and cats and slightly frightened by chickens and goats but sheep are just too tempting - he can't help trying to stalk them, so he stays on a lead around them, apart from when I'm standing still, taking a photo of him, when he knows to stay put!!
Well, you'll never guess what but I'm back at university again! This time, I'm at Birmingham, which is great as I can commute up from home. For the time being, I'm only going up for three months - to work on a research project, but it's very likely I'll actually be there a lot longer - possibly doing a PhD next year. It's all happened so quickly, I can barely believe it! My dad works for a professor at the university and mentioned me to him a couple of weeks ago. At the end of last week, I went and had a chat with him and this Wednesday, I was offered the temporary job. I pretty much started the project that day! It's all rather sudden but I'm very pleased as I'm sure you can imagine :)
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Reached Explore #111
My 16th Winter Count. The mid-January photo is a bit different because there's nothing in it that says Winter, it is a view over Riddarholmen from Monteliusvägen at Mariaberget. We had a school shooting in February. Eleven people died, including the shooter. This photo shows flags at half-mast at the Royal Palace the day after that horrible incident. In March, I obviously ate a semla during Fat Tuesday. I got a virus in April and was out of action for two weeks. So I missed most of the Cherry Blossom mania, but managed to visit Kungsträdgården at the end of that frenzy. Sköna maj. Everyone's favorite month. When all the colors returns. Somenone stole my eBike in June. A bigger blow than I had ever expected. Quite a few walks with camera through the old town this year, snapping away at tourists. I checked out two classic car meets in August. This one is from Sveavägen. Sure was a fine Autumn day in September when I took this candid photo of a happy woman at Vattentorget. Can't have a Winter Count without a photo of That Old Tree. I took a few night shots as we entered the 100 Days of darkness. We finish with a photo from the Nobel Lights Week.
"Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said, "No more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars"
Yeah, we'll be counting stars…"
*OneRepublic*
There are three great white sharks in this shot, along with two yellowfin tuna, and a yellowtail amberjack. Can you spot them all?