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Current global population (of this BLACK KITE) estimates run up to 6 million individuals. Unlike others of the group, black kites are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge...Wikipedia.
Personal note: The Canon 5dSR/100-400mmII makes a difference, now I am happy with this shot of this very common raptor captured in Japan; and if you hadn't noticed, this camera and lens is now my everyday walk around combo.
Where this tower-like this is currently under construction, the space shuttle Endeavor was located. It was placed in an upright position, attached to an empty booster rocket -- at least I saw it in that position last May. I'm not sure what the purpose of this tower is, but I'm sure we will all soon find out.
I'm looking south, out the entrance of the USC Gould School of Law, towards the L.A. County Museum of Science.
maybe its weird but these guys bring me so much joy, and they mean a lot more to me than i could explain
these are my current teegle pet horses, i walked into my house on sl this morning and saw them like this i couldnt help but snap a quick photo.
I always wanted to build the Vickers Valiant and other larger planes but since I currently have a very limited storage room for LEGO, it was impossible to build those planes.
However, I saw some of the models of my friend Dornbi (Peter Dornbach), I got inspired and I decided to make an experiment and build a mini-scale Vickers Valiant.
The model features a large internal bomb bay and a large nuclear bomb inside.
This is the first mini-scale plane that I make in a while so I´m still learning how to make them.
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Ok, I had like a billion requests for this, so there ya go. Read notes, and the people tagged are showing my new sturf I got today. :3
NO NOTES! :P
All for trade, with the right offer.
Also, I am receiving:
1 x Gunmetal Viewfinder
1 x Gunmetal HLC
1 x Gunmetal Podgun
2 x Gunmetal Tac Sword
1 x Dark Red/Orange/Random Swired Podgun
1 x Cobalt/Trans-Green Swirled Podgun
1 x Black Chakram
1 x GitD/Blue Swirled Raygun
4 x Assorted Camo
1 x Green AC8
1 x Time Bomb
1 x Blue Raygun
1 x Gunmetal Ammo Box + Trans-Red/Bronze Swirled Raygun OR 1 x Gunmetal Grease Gun
1 x Champagne Raygun
1 x Rusty V1 Apoc SMG
1 x Rusty Tac Sword
And some more I can't remember. :3
I also have 8 moar D.O.G. Packs, but they are too big to be in this photo.
And, these notes took FOREVER, you better appreciate them. :3
-White M1 Pot Helmet is gone!
-Champagne Raygun is gone!
-Blue Phaser is reserved!
-Dark Red/Dark Orange/Lime Green/Random Swirled Podgun is reserved, unless you can beat a Gunmetal Kar98 and a GitD Trans-Clear/Milky White Swirled Tac Sword.
-2 Gunmetal Tac Swords reserved!
blustery day, you can really see the wind gusts on the water — and this was a brief moment of relative clarity, otherwise it's all weird brief rain showers on and off… and plenty of building wind
Here's a view of my studio, abode etc. It's way too small , but it will be a great place to get started, with smaller things. I sleep here most nights :))
Soon there will not be a sunset obove the arctic cirkle.
Picture taken from Hadseløya in Northern Norway
We are currently visiting the Benedictine abbey of Fleury in the small town of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, not far from the city of Orléans. There are at least two reasons why this abbey is famous worldwide among Mediævalists and beyond: an architectural reason, and a historical one.
The architectural reason is the presence of the enormous and splendid tower-porch built under Abbot Gauzlin, whose abbacy ran from 1004 to 1030. It is a wonder of Romanesque architecture and art.
The historical reason, which makes this abbey even more unique, is that it houses the bones of saint Benoît, Saint Benedict in English, the founder and father of all monasticism in the Western World. Benoît, born Benedetto around 480 in Umbria, founded the Monte Cassino monastery in 529 and died there in 547. His Rule remains to this day the governing law of all Benedictine monasteries worldwide.
Around 580, the monastery on Monte Cassino was destroyed by a Lombard raid. The place was left deserted and utterly unoccupied for more than a century. In the late 600s, the abbot of Fleury, who had heard about the desertion and the fact that neither the remains of Saint Benedict, nor those of Saint Scholastica, his sister who had been buried with him, were properly honored, sent out a search-and-rescue party of monks led by Aygulf. They went to Cassino, discovered the resting place of the saints among the ruins of the abandoned monastery, and brought them back to France in 703. The bones of saint Benoît remained to this day in Fleury, while those of Scholastica went to the cathedral in Le Mans.
Some Italians, of course, disagree and claim that the bones of the saint never left Cassino. You will even find some modern-day internet websites that claim it! Having researched the question quite extensively, and read in particular a comprehensive (150 pages!) memoir published in 1882 by R.P. Dom François Chamard, osb, a brother of the abbey of Ligugé, my opinion is that the bones of saint Benoît were indeed transported to France (19th-century forensic examination of the bones goes in the same direction), even though a few of them may have inadvertently been left in the tomb at Cassino because they were not properly identified as human bones. Some of them were also given back to the Monte Cassino monks who had come to Fleury around 750 to ask for them once the decision had been made to rebuild the monastery there.
The abbey is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
In the Middle Ages, people from the outside, whether they be parishioners from the village or visitors of the abbey, gained entrance into the church via the northern portal, which was on the side of the hostelry. The monastic enclosure with the cloister was on the southern side.
The northern portal is dominated by a splendid tympanum, amazingly sculpted probably during the 1100s. Traces of old polychromy are very visible. I will show several closeup views of details of that portal over the coming days, as they are worth examining.
Current Artifacts Abstract - The final image in a set of four showing abstract views of a laundromat glass door with weathered, faded, cracked and peeling adhesive signs. And old paper sign was pasted on top from the outside to show hours.
Svetlana Belova is currently performing at Budapest State circus with "Festival Plusss" show, from Feb 2 to March 24, 2008.
Then called Midnight Rose’s Candy Shop, was the ‘front’ where over 800 gangland murders were planned, ultimately executed across the USA. The likes of Bugsy Siegel, Dutch Schultz and Abe Reles hung out here.
I visited my parents at the weekend, and as there had been lots of heavy rain, we decided to visit Arbirlot to take some shots of the waterfall. However, on getting there, my mum heard a high pitched whistling in the river (clearly audible over the very loud roar of the deluge of brown muddy water thundering over the falls and down the river). After a while peering into the very dark gloom under the trees, we enjoyed superb views of an adult otter with three cubs. Unfortunately the light was terrible, and made worse by the shade of the trees over the river. I took this shot at ISO 6400, and f4.5! For me, it's as good a record shot of an awesome experience as I could manage.
To start with, I was quite concerned that we might scare the otters, and I would have hated them to get separated in the dangerous-looking water, so we stayed up on the bridge; however, we enjoyed great views of them swimming comfortably against the strong current, and them jumping in and out of the water and dashing about on the bank.. so we moved down to the bank, and, in fact, at one point, all four ran in a line just down the bank from us, only 6 feet away :)
I'm very busy at the moment and as usual this is the time when inspiration strikes.
It was a throwaway remark at the weekend which set me off on a tangent. The remark was to the effect that labels are dangerous.
When applied to people this has a profound meaning.
I am dreaming therefore of a textile piece with lots of featureless people. These will have labels with ambiguous meanings attached to them in some way.
Machine time is rare at the moment, so I'm using what time I have in creating wrapped and sculpted "dolls" to see what I come up with. I may eventually decide that I like the idea of machine outlined people.
Very exciting!
Currently without a livery scheme, Etihad Airways A6-DDA is seen on the south cargo rampo in Memphis. This 777 will soon sport the FedEx colors and be registered as N840FD.
Current projects! Nekkid/faceless Mattel Merida in the background: she's probably not going to be a version of Merida at all. I really like the potential of the blank sculpt, and the skin tone (and the hair); if I feel sufficiently flush, I hope to rebody her to an Ever After High Apple White body at some point.
Francie: ripped out the horrible kanekalon, trying to drum up the enthusiasm for a saran reroot.
Ryan: he's had a slight resculpt, and his hair ripped out, but I'm not feeling the direction of the face I've done so far. More consideration needed.
Flynn/Eugenes: haha! My long-promised tutorial on the Disney Store Flynn/Eugene resculpt is on its way soon. Here are the two stunt heads I was using to make it... watch this space...
I'm currently working on a project that will represent a 1/76 scale Transport Museum - an ideal way for displaying all kinds of transport models.
Using a couple of my GGX / MOD garage extension units, slightly chopped about gives plenty of capacity and allows for an easily removable roof.
A spacious forecourt and adjacent roadway will also be included. Here the shell of the building is complete and filled with a variety of 1/76 scale vehicles from my shelves.
Overall view with the roof in place.
More to come.
www.flickr.com/photos/kingswayjohn/30070330491/in/album-7...
British Airways is currently in the process of updating their schedule for the next S18 schedule as the current scheduling period is due to come to a close...
At present, British Airways is rescaling its South American flights, notably to Brazil which is recovering from a major economic downturn where demand for flights were downsized... British Airways at present only serves 2 destinations in Brazil.
Let's begin with Brazil's financial centre, São Paulo... The service continues to operate daily but the service has seen considerable capacity adjustment since the W16 schedule. BA246/247 which saw frequent appearances of Super Hi-J Boeing 747-400's later saw Mid-J Boeing 747-400's and later Boeing 777-200ER's.
From 29th October 2017, Boeing 777-300ER's will take-over operation of BA246/247 and will continue through the S18 schedule period where Boeing 777-200ER's were previously diagrammed. So far, São Paulo is now getting its capacity back...
The next one is Rio de Janeiro, a destination that has suffered considerable frequency reduction and capacity cuts. With the Rio 2016 Olympics now over, demand has dropped although the frequency is slowly returning back to daily.
Initial plans for BA248/249 for the W17 schedule were that the flight increases to 6 times a week operation, and Boeing 777-200ER's were supposed to be replaced by Boeing 787-9's, but now by Boeing 787-8's from 29th October 2017. From 10th May 2018 for the S18 schedule will see BA248/249 returning back to daily operation, still utilising Boeing 787-8's.
Whilst it is good to see Rio de Janeiro regaining its daily frequency, the use of Boeing 787-8's is still a considerable capacity cut from Boeing 777-300ER's which were prevalent before the S16 schedule ended.
Currently, British Airways operates 58 Boeing 777's, which includes 3 Boeing 777-200's, 43 Boeing 777-200ER's and 12 Boeing 777-300ER's.
Yankee Mike Mike Lima is one of 43 Boeing 777-200ER's in service with British Airways, delivered new to the flag-carrier in April 2001 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 895 engines. Since February 2015 following a repaint into Crest livery, she gained Masha Ma designed GREAT Festival of Creativity special colours featuring artwork inspiration from Eastern Asia incorporating Bamboo and Western Europe of the Rose.
Boeing 777-236/ER G-YMML on final approach into Runway 27L at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA246 from São Paulo-Guarulhos (GRU).
In honor of November's COP at Belem, here is my latte art that illustrates the passage of ocean currents. Also I can't do latte art 😁
Former Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant located at 7568 NC-48 in Battleboro,NC. The motor lodge is currently branded as a Rodeway Inn while the restaurant is currently vacant. The property which opened in 1979 was one of the last complete HJ complexes built by the Company. This is the last property to still feature its gleaming orange roof tiles spanning across the entire facade from the motor lodge lobby to the restaurant. The exterior of the property remains completely intact aside from the removal of the beacon cupolas that topped both the motor lodge and restaurant. The restaurant remained a Howard Johnson's until the late 1990s while the motor lodge hung on to the HJ name until the late 2000s. After the HJ Restaurant closed the building was converted into an independently owned eatery which operated under the name Four Seasons Restaurant.. The independently owned Four Seasons restaurant closed by the early 2010s and the building was still vacant at the time of my visit in February 2019. The motor lodge was renamed Travelers Inn after dropping the HJ name, however in late 2018 the property was rebranded as a Rodeway Inn. Despite having the notoriously low budget Rodeway Inn brand, I felt the property was being fairly well maintained. Despite opening in 1979 the motor lodge still featured the common amenities which included double vanities, balconies, and even pamper panels. The property appeared to be catering to both nightly and long term guests, however the long term rooms were located in a separate wing.
Note the holdover of the pamper panel which has been modified to include extra outlets.
Getting back into the swing of building again with a second updated Scania truck finished yesterday evening. I started on the chassis of a third at the same time but quickly ran out of parts so I'll need to source them either from older builds or bricklink. The Varley will continue to fill one of my fire station bays as a SEV and get its own minor upgrade in due time.
Comments, criticism and questions are welcome, and keep an eye out for more.
Self portrait utilizing the interactions between warm continuous light and ringflash.
Olivia K. James 2013