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Cessna 550 Citation Bravo msn550-0906 de 2000
aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur
21/07/2011
C-GLCE, N850GM, D-CSSS, HB-VNZ, N906MS.
These power lines in northern Santa Clara County may originate at Hetch Hetchy Dam across California's Central Valley (will verify).
Each summer, clouds of monsoonal moisture from Arizona visit Central California, sometimes providing a rare thundershower around Greater San Francisco Bay.
I grew up around San Francisco, where brief thundershowers happened once or twice a year. As I my experience widened to Santa Clara County near the Santa Cruz Mountains and Contra Costa County near Mt. Diablo, I experienced more thundershowers.
An inukshugaq (the likeness of an inuksuk) in the moonlight.
"You stir my soul, and whet my hunger and weave that spell that pulls me under ..."🎶
Just watching yet another sunset, three weeks before permanently leaving the family home of 62 years.
They didn't. Most of California is again in Severe Drought. As of the first week of April, it is the third driest year on record.
Caboose hop with South Shore GP38-2 is seen at the long gone Hammond crossover, in July 1988. South Shore used to accomplish interchange with the B&O at this location.
The first of two big storms started here at mid-day. The foreground is in sun, but there are very dark clouds to the west and a strong wind is coming from the east.
26 January update: underwhelming precip for western Tuolumne County so far this winter. The clouds in this photo are over the New Melones Reservoir and the next county to the north.
Then we arrive at Stanley and The Nut
see the trip here... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/albums/72157631942907757
Another part of our #roundaustraliawithspelio Adventures!
Now 11 years later I will have to look up my diary to see where this is!
Arthur R to Stanley..
From our camp in Corinna, nice spot above the store. $20 for a spot with axe, firewood and loos supplied...
Went for a walk along the river, see shots around here..
Found it boring! So back downstream to see some tall ferns.
Headed off along the Western Explorer Rd, a steep winding Rd. to Lindsay River for lunch.
Rolling button grass drive to Arthur R. And a walk to the Edge of the World, see shot here.
At Marrawah, we phoned Jill for Sam's birthday, today..
On past Dismal Swamp to Stanley where we hade gale force winds and found a sheltered spot behind the toilet block..beer and bacon and eggs then a flapping tent for the night!
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Godfreys beach provides clean sand and water for swimming, surfing & fishing. BBQ & Picnic facilities are available, as well as a playground. The Penguin Rookery is also nearby.
see www.touchwoodstanley.com.au/attractions.php
Too chilly for us!
PB080010. The walk from Penguin to Cockle Creek..
www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2022/08/taking-the-h...
Taken from North Berkeley Hills, the sunset around the Winter Solstice appears over the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. On the Solstice, the sun sets over Fort Point, at the northern tip of San Francisco.
Taken about 96 hours before the sun crosses the Equator, signaling Fall for the Northern Hemisphere.
Daytime highs dropped 30 degrees between Wednesday and Friday. There were several intense showers today, but it's good to see a lot of blue sky now.
Hail core outflow from the supercell that had large hail over Illiopolis and spawned tornadoes in Sangamon county.
At the location of the former Olympic Stadium @ Stadionplein Amsterdam Zuid. Also served as the stadium for the AFC Ajax for many years, before the AmsterdamArena was taken into use.
It was mostly cloudy all day, twenty degrees cooler than yesterday, and unusually humid for June. When the sun did peek out from behind the clouds, it was very hot.
Une belle et délicieuse soirée à la Cabane à Sucre "Sucrerie à L'Eau d'érable" à St-Benoît de Mirabel en compagnie des membres du club social du CSSS Thérèse-De Blainville; Bravo la Gang!
Much needed precipitation in the form of rain in low elevations and snow above 2,500 feet arriving soon.
Alas, it stayed north of the low end Tuolumne County. Only half way through winter, but below "normal" rainfall, or "former normal."
Keep gate closed
Pink Roadhouse sign beside the Oodnadatta Track
and here is the old video..
Sent a postcard from Oodnadatta to S L and J 1/07/2011 found in Amex Atlas 21-07-24
Card by Peter Rowe Coober Pedy Underground Potteries
www.desertdiversity.com
Algebuckina Water Hole 55km south of Oodnadatta on the Oodnadatta Track
"We are passing through Oodnadatta on our way to Lake Eyre - this very pretty water hole is down the road. Lots of love, Nana & Grandpa xxx
#Roundaustraliawithspelio
With one of many signs made by Your Mates in the Bush at the Pink Roadhouse, 1800 802 074
Get a free mud map from them with all the tips and Points of Interest for driving the track
they were in Scullin IMG_0746"
Hot air Ballon drifts down past Weston Park & Yarramundi Reach towards Scrivener Dam
See the story of Yarramundi whose daughter married a convict and received land. A descendant is now part of our family..
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lock-maria-13050
A better nice lake reflection here..
www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?album=lastup&...
Guidelines for linking to commercial sites to promote a business etc..
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On the ABC Local radio ..
ABC Radio are running a program on getting your life back?
Moments in your life that were relaxing moments out of the rat race where you were " In the moment" rather than rushing and absorbed in a career or running a family, dashing to work, taking the kids to sport or filling up the car.
I thought of all the 1/125th sec moments at f5.6 that I have in my photo collection
I could select some of my 33,000 images for an album of "Moments in Life" then realised that 95% or so would be suitable.
At least most images in my "Favourites of my shots by others" might be suitable..
Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast. She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her. Endeavour was beached on the Australian mainland for seven weeks to permit rudimentary repairs to her hull. Resuming her voyage, she limped into port in Batavia in October 1770, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands that they had visited.
An unusually wet spring brings more precipitation for the normally hot Memorial Day Weekend. Snow in the Sierra Nevada may come as low as 6,000' above mean sea level. Photo taken at elevation of approximately 2,000 feet.
I mess around with Photoshop to the point of getting the most out of my images (that is using wet darkroom techniques in a dry lightroom) while keeping them natural, but never post a "fake" landscape, and in fact this is a real rainbow. Actually, a double or even triple rainbow if you look closely.
Of course what is unique about it is the angle, and that is going to throw people off. What is more interesting to me, is the fact that the rainbow gently arcs over the castles on the Castleated Ridge!
People are convinced good weather is a sunny blue skied weekend, but you simply cannot come upon a scene like this without at least the prospect of rain, and in my opinion the best landscape images are made from the most dramatic weather.
It did rain on us a bit on this our 3rd and final day in the Northern Presidentials of NH, but barely enough to even get us damp. Not until we got back to the car, changed and were on the road did the skies unleash downpours.
The upside of getting out even when there is a not so sunny forecast is seeing scenes like this not once, or twice but many times on the hike out. I never did find the pot of gold, but I bet both were hiding in the castles down below the rainbow.
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Pentax K10D, Sigma 10-20mm @ 20mm, ISO 160, F/11.
Sold in aid of the Fondazione Damiano Tamagi
Over the course of the past few months, the car offered here has become one of the most celebrated of all Bugattis, having lain submerged beneath the waters of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland for more than 70 years. The whereabouts of the sunken Bugatti had been known to the local sub aqua club for many years but in February 2008 a tragedy occurred that would eventually lead to its retrieval. On the 1st of that month, Damiano Tamagni was attacked by three youths and beaten so severely that he later died from his injuries. Damiano and his father Maurizio were both members of the local sub aqua club in Ascona (Centro Sport Subacquei Salvataggio Ascona, CSSS) and it was decided to raise the Bugatti and use the funds from its sale to further the work of a charity set up in Damiano's name, 'Fondazione Damiano Tamagi', which seeks to address the issue of juvenile violence.
But how did the Bugatti come to be in Lake Maggiore in the first place? Subsequent research has uncovered much of its history. On the 11th April 1925, chassis number '2461' was registered in Nancy, France in the name of Georges Paiva, 49 Rue des Dominicains with the number '8843 N 5'. A small brass plate found on the car after its removal from the lake bears the name 'Georges Nielly, 48 Rue Nollet, Paris' but the registration plate is only partly legible, the last digits being 'RE 1'. This registration was issued in Paris between May and June 1930, which perhaps indicates that Georges Nielly bought the car earlier in 1930 at Nancy and had it registered in Paris in his name. These French registration plates have remained on the Bugatti ever since.
The Bugatti chassis number plate is missing, as is the enamel Bugatti radiator badge. Apart from that, all the relevant numbers are to be found in their usual places. The chassis number '2461' is on the round boss, located on the right front engine bearer (on the side of the exhaust manifold and steering-box) while the engine number '879' is visible on the little round boss, located on top in the middle of the cam box, as well as at the front face of the lower crankcase, next to the water pump.
The gearbox bears the number '964' at the back as well as the usual place on the cover. The rear axle has no number, which is normal for a Bugatti Brescia, but the ratio is stamped on the central casing and reads '12 x 45'. The radiator is made by Chausson, as indicated on a plate just above the cranking handle, while the two rear spring carriers still bear the little brass plates with 'EB, Bugatti, Molsheim (Alsace)' on them. Contrary to the factory data, which mentions a Solex carburettor, the actual carburettor on the car is a bronze Zenith, correct for this type of Bugatti. The two magnetos (twin ignition) are made by SEV and mounted in the middle of the dashboard as usual for this type of car.
There are indications that the body may have been modified or replaced, the first one being, probably, a simple racing body lacking electrics and mudguards. The valances below the bonnet are in two pieces, where normally they would be in one piece, while the mudguards are slightly flared at the rear, which is unusual for 1925. All this possibly indicates a modified or new body made at the end of the 1920s.
So far, it has not been possible to determine with certainty the identity of the Bugatti's owner in Ascona. However, the most likely candidate is Marco (Max) Schmuklerski, a Zurich-born architect of Polish descent. He is known to have stayed in Ascona from 17th July 1933 until 25th August 1936 when he left and returned to Zurich. At Ascona he designed, among other buildings, the 'Casa Bellaria' an apartment block that has only recently been demolished. If Marco Schmuklerski studied architecture at the famous Beaux Arts school in Paris, it is possible that he bought the Bugatti from Georges Nielly and brought it back to Switzerland but without paying any import duties. It is also possible that he acquired the car from a French tourist (or client) at Ascona. Whatever the case, the Bugatti has always been driven in Switzerland with its last French plates and import duties have never been paid. Nor has the car ever been registered with Swiss plates.
The story going around Ascona is that Marco Schmuklerski left in 1936, leaving behind the Bugatti, which was stored in the yard of a local building contractor, Barra. Its owner at this time is not known, but the local customs officers knew of the car's existence and insisted on payment of the import duties owed. At that point these duties may have amounted to more than the value of the Bugatti, which was 11 years old and well used. In the case of non-payment of the duties, the car had to be destroyed and the simplest way to do so was to tip it into the nearby lake. To facilitate its recovery the Bugatti was attached to a heavy chain, but when this finally corroded away the car fell to the lakebed at a depth of 53 metres.
It remained there, undiscovered, until 18th August 1967 when diver Ugo Pillon located the mythical Bugatti, which was lying on its left side, partly buried in the mud. Pillon had been searching for it for some time and after its rediscovery the car became a popular target members of the local sub aqua club. On 12th July 2009, after a 73-year sojourn in Lake Maggiore, the Bugatti was finally rescued from the lake by Jens Boerlin and his comrades from Ascona's sub aqua club. Local dignitaries and members of the Bugatti Club Suisse were in attendance, and the whole story was covered in a report by Renato de Lorenzi shown on Television Ticinese (RSI 1) on 23rd July 2009.
The Bugatti was transferred by crane onto a trailer for inspection by the sizeable crowd of onlookers. Its long immersion in the lake had resulted in extensive deterioration, ferrous components being badly affected, particularly on the car's exposed right-hand side. Other materials like wood, aluminium, brass, rubber, etc have survived in much better condition. It would, of course, be possible to restore the car, but it has been estimated that only some 20% of the original is reusable. Alternatively, a faithful replica could be created, using '2461' as a pattern, for approximately the same cost as a full restoration. Arguably, it would be more appropriate to preserve the Brescia in its current state for static display, but that is for the fortunate new owner to decide.
No reserve
Sold for €260,500 inclusive of Buyer's Premium