Brienz, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is an historic site located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.

The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The oldest and tallest of the structure is the well preserved round tower, dating from c.1100. Its entrance is 12 feet from the ground, necessitated by a shallow foundation typical of round towers. The tower was built using the dry stone method. Modern conservationists have filled in some of the tower with mortar for safety reasons.

Cormac's Chapel, the chapel of King Cormac Mac Carthaigh, was begun in 1127 and consecrated in 1134. It is a sophisticated structure, with vaulted ceilings and wide arches, drawing on contemporary European architecture and infusing unique native elements. The Irish Abbot of Regensburg, Dirmicius of Regensburg, sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland. Other notable features of the building include interior and exterior arcading, a barrel-vaulted roof, a carved tympanum over both doorways, the magnificent north doorway and chancel arch and the oldest stairs in Ireland. It contains one of the best-preserved Irish frescoes from this time period. The Chapel was constructed primarily of sandstone which has become waterlogged over the centuries, significantly damaging the interior frescoes. Restoration and preservation required the chapel be completely enclosed in a rain-proof structure with interior dehumidifiers to dry out the stone. It is now open for limited tours to the public.

The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle. The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the 15th century. The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services. At Cashel, there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal. This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836. The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Through it visitors now enter the site.

In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops looted or destroyed many important religious artefacts.

In 1749, the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. Today, what remains of the Rock of Cashel has become a tourist attraction. Price's decision to remove the roof on what had been called the jewel among Irish church buildings was criticised before and since.

Queen Elizabeth II visited the Rock of Cashel during her 2011 visit to Ireland.

that's the biggest dehumidifier that I've seen ;-)

20 Fenchurch Street

They are all in a better state of repair than Jonathans bungalow at the moment :(

Perched precariously on the cliffs to the east of Trewavas Head are the two engine houses that form the remains of Wheal Trewavas mine. The mine worked four copper lodes which ran in a south easterly direction under the sea bed. These were the North Lode; Sowan Way Lode; Trewavas South (Old) Lode and Nimble Cutter Lode. There was also a tin lode which ran across the other lodes in an east to west direction.

I cropped this considerably to cut of most signs of civilisation but think 🤔 I prefer the original tbh…..

Please count as a set… we have hardly been home because of that leak. Had industrial dehumidifier in there that has achieved nothing. This shot was taken on a very hot day yet the sky even with those few clouds was dire. I thought I would die on the relatively short walk to here so Jonathan suggested we go back on a crisper looking day.. my reply wasn’t in the affirmative…

I don’t suppose he meant to kill me off 🤔

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R09 3.6ml in 350ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

Agitation: invert x 2, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 20 mins

Invert gently x 2 @ 40 mins

Wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 9 mins with

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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The boat is a Westerly 22 designed by Denys Rayner and built betwen 1963 and 1967

see also for current condition (mast and rigging added)

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OM1n

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R09 3.6ml in 300ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

Agitation: invert x 2, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 30 mins

Wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 8 mins with frequent agitation

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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Celtic cross

The Rock of Cashel (Irish: Carraig Phádraig [ˈcaɾˠəɟ ˈfˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]), also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is an historic site located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.

The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The oldest and tallest of the structure is the well preserved round tower (28 metres, or 90 feet), dating from c.1100. Its entrance is 12 feet (3.7 m) from the ground, necessitated by a shallow foundation (about 3 feet) typical of round towers. The tower was built using the dry stone method. Modern conservationists have filled in some of the tower with mortar for safety reasons.

Cormac's Chapel with parts of the cathedral on either side

Cormac's Chapel, the chapel of King Cormac Mac Carthaigh, was begun in 1127 and consecrated in 1134. It is a sophisticated structure, with vaulted ceilings and wide arches, drawing on contemporary European architecture and infusing unique native elements. The Irish Abbot of Regensburg, Dirmicius of Regensburg, sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland. Other notable features of the building include interior and exterior arcading, a barrel-vaulted roof, a carved tympanum over both doorways, the magnificent north doorway and chancel arch and the oldest stairs in Ireland. It contains one of the best-preserved Irish frescoes from this time period. The Chapel was constructed primarily of sandstone which has become waterlogged over the centuries, significantly damaging the interior frescoes. Restoration and preservation required the chapel be completely enclosed in a rain-proof structure with interior dehumidifiers to dry out the stone. It is now open for limited tours to the public.

Irish High Cross at the Rock of Cashel

The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle. The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the 15th century. The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services. At Cashel, there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal. This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836. The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Through it visitors now enter the site.

In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops looted or destroyed many important religious artefacts.

In 1749, the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. Today, what remains of the Rock of Cashel has become a tourist attraction. Price's decision to remove the roof on what had been called the jewel among Irish church buildings was criticised before and since.

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Looking North West from the A478 towards Mynachlog-ddu (Preseli Mountains), Pembrokeshire, Wales

Canon EOS 55e

Canon 24-70 f4 L

Ilford XP2 Super @ Box

Semi-stand Developed

R09 3.6ml in 350ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

Agitation: invert x 2, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 20 mins

Invert gently x 2 @ 40 mins

Wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 9 mins with

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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Sadly we did not have any snow overnight just heavy rain against the windows, 18 mm of rain fell in 12 hours, some parts of the country had snow but I doubt even on the high ground above us it would only have been rain, but having said that we only have been out on a local dog walk this morning and got another soaking, the dehumidifier is on in our utility room to dry everything off again.

The shot was taken at Clayton in Sussex from a track to the Jack and Jill windmills, this track forms part of the 100 mile South Downs way from Winchester in the West to Eastbourne In the East.

An old house in Mykonos town furnished with furniture and objects to show how a Greek house of that time might have looked like....of course, the dehumidifier in one of the bedrooms is a present day addition or necessity.

According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.[1] Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.

The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The oldest and tallest of the structure is the well preserved round tower (28 metres, or 90 feet), dating from c.1100. Its entrance is 12 feet (3.7 m) from the ground, necessitated by a shallow foundation (about 3 feet) typical of round towers. The tower was built using the dry stone method. Modern conservationists have filled in some of the tower with mortar for safety reasons.

Cormac's Chapel with parts of the cathedral on either side

Cormac's Chapel, the chapel of King Cormac Mac Carthaigh, was begun in 1127 and consecrated in 1134. It is a sophisticated structure, with vaulted ceilings and wide arches, drawing on contemporary European architecture and infusing unique native elements. The Irish Abbot of Regensburg, Dirmicius of Regensburg, sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland. Other notable features of the building include interior and exterior arcading, a barrel-vaulted roof, a carved tympanum over both doorways, the magnificent north doorway and chancel arch and the oldest stairs in Ireland. It contains one of the best-preserved Irish frescoes from this time period. The Chapel was constructed primarily of sandstone which has become waterlogged over the centuries, significantly damaging the interior frescoes. Restoration and preservation required the chapel be completely enclosed in a rain-proof structure with interior dehumidifiers to dry out the stone. It is now open for limited tours to the public.

The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle. The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the 15th century. The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services. At Cashel, there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal. This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836. The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Through it visitors now enter the site.

In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops looted or destroyed many important religious artefacts.

In 1749, the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. Today, what remains of the Rock of Cashel has become a tourist attraction. Price's decision to remove the roof on what had been called the jewel among Irish church buildings was criticised before and since.

Visitors have access to the bottom of the Great Western Dock. This is a sealed environment in which a dehumidifier reduces moisture in the atmosphere to just 20% arrest to hull corrosion.

The hull plates were made at he Coalbrookdale Foundry at Ironbridge. Visible in the hull are the scuttling holes created to deliberately sink the vessel whilst she was used as a storage hull in the Falkland Islands as well as the crudely plated great crack in the hull.

Looking up from the bottom of the dry dock visitors can see through glass sheets which surround the vessel and seal her in the dry dock. Above these sheets there is a shallow layer of water which makes the ship appear afloat in the dock when viewed from the dock side.

My father John W. Luxton can be seen looking up at the bow.

For more photographs of SS GREAT BRITAIN please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/Historic-Ships/SS-GREAT-BRITAIN/

The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historic site located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.

The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The oldest and tallest of the structure is the well preserved round tower 28 metres high, dating from c.1100. Its entrance is 3.7 metres from the ground, necessitated by a shallow foundation (about 1 metre typical of round towers. The tower was built using the dry stone method. Modern conservationists have filled in some of the tower with mortar for safety reasons.

Cormac's Chapel, the chapel of King Cormac Mac Carthaigh, was begun in 1127 and consecrated in 1134. It is a sophisticated structure, with vaulted ceilings and wide arches, drawing on contemporary European architecture and infusing unique native elements. The Irish Abbot of Regensburg, Dirmicius of Regensburg, sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland. Other notable features of the building include interior and exterior arcading, a barrel-vaulted roof, a carved tympanum over both doorways, the magnificent north doorway and chancel arch and the oldest stairs in Ireland. It contains one of the best-preserved Irish frescoes from this time period. The Chapel was constructed primarily of sandstone which has become waterlogged over the centuries, significantly damaging the interior frescoes. Restoration and preservation required the chapel be completely enclosed in a rain-proof structure with interior dehumidifiers to dry out the stone. It is now open for limited tours to the public.

The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle. The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the 15th century. The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services. At Cashel, there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal. This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836. The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Through it visitors now enter the site.

In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops looted or destroyed many important religious artefacts.

In 1749, the main cathedral roof was removed by Arthur Price, the Anglican Archbishop of Cashel. Today, what remains of the Rock of Cashel has become a tourist attraction. Price's decision to remove the roof on what had been called the jewel among Irish church buildings was criticised before and since.

Queen Elizabeth II visited the Rock of Cashel during her 2011 visit to Ireland

In this image I tried to process it between packages, opening in one, doing some edits, then saving it and opening it in another with the aim of creating a charcol drawing type of finish. In effect, I've over-processed the image, degrading it with each step. The hard ecision was when to stop.

Canon EOS 55e

Canon 24-70 f4 L

Ilford XP2 Super @ Box

Semi-stand Developed

R09 3.6ml in 350ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

Agitation: invert x 2, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 20 mins

Invert gently x 2 @ 40 mins

Wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 9 mins with

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

PlusTek 8200i SE @ 3600 ppi

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An old house in Mykonos town furnished with furniture and objects to show how a Greek house of that time might have looked like....of course, the dehumidifier in one of the bedrooms is a present day addition or necessity.

Film 12

OM2n

Zuiko 35-70 f3.5-4.5

Red Filter

Fomapan 100 @ 100

Semi-stand Developed

R09 3.6ml in 350ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

30 Sec agitation: invert x 2 and twirl, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 20 mins

Invert gently x 2 @ 40 mins

wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 10 mins with frequent agitation

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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Neat, huh? :)

An old house in Mykonos town furnished with furniture and objects to show how a Greek house of that time might have looked like....of course, the dehumidifier in one of the bedrooms is a present day addition or necessity.

Dehumidifier

Film 12

OM2n

Zuiko 35-70 f3.5-4.5

Red Filter shooting ealry afternoon with the sun just out of picture

Fomapan 100 @ 100

Semi-stand Developed

R09 3.6ml in 350ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

30 Sec agitation: invert x 2 and twirl, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 20 mins

Invert gently x 2 @ 40 mins

wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 10 mins with frequent agitation

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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The Argento-class is designed for long-distance patrols and protecting Montefalcan colonial possessions. It carries six 21" torpedo tubes with 24 spares, including 6 in deck storage, enabling it to engage enemy warships while submerged. But these stores would be quickly depleted in an extended commerce-raiding mission, so the Argento also mounts two heavy 6" deck guns for use on the surface. It can target enemy freighters or even shore positions. On the cigarette deck of the conning tower, an AA position protects against enemy aircraft. Due to its size, the ship is slow to submerge, requiring upwards of 90 seconds even in an emergency, so careful scouting with the periscope is recommended before taking her to the surface. The crew has all the comforts of home, including two galleys, a rudimentary dehumidifier, and a powerful fresh water distillery connected to the generators. They can even take a shower once every two weeks!

This afternoon's collection. There's no doubt this place is damp! Stone walls absorb nothing at all!

Very grateful thanks to Monsoon Lover for giving me its name.

Still got the dehumidifiers going they reckon for another week then they can start doing all the repairs & hopefully my life can get back to normality !!

This runs 24/7 and drags out 1/2 a litre of water from the air each day in this room. It is very quiet and efficient. It is way cheaper to run than a heater and keeps humidity to tolerable levels, if not ideal.

it's getting positively Marquezian, as in Gabriel Garcia fella,

in his ever so popular Hundred Years of Solitude, that I read back when I led life much more indulgent, reading books, big thick books, reading thick books is a privilege of a indulgent class of so called intellectuals who have too much time of their hands, I was one of them back then, but I digress ...Gabriel Garcia fella in his Hundred Years ... was like

"It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days. There were periods of drizzle during which everyone put on his full dress and a convalescent look to celebrate the clearing, but the people soon grew accustomed to interpret the pauses as a sign of redoubled rain."

and today I was like

"it's getting Marquezian"'

and my dehumidifier that was presented with a dilemma of a drier running inside generating shitloads of humidity and a Marquezian rain outside was like

"you are kiddin' me, right? what the fuck is that?

I am a dehumidifier, ok, but I haven't signed up for this sort of shit, I quit "

what i am saying is that Tom Waits had this Rain Dogs number but I really think It was meant to be Rain Cats number , Tom, you there? mind writing a companion tune for your classic?

(and as you, Tom, ever so insightfully observed in this very clip

"songs are just very interesting things to be doing with the air"

and, I mean, I couldn't have put it better myself)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhJQNGKIGpw

WIP- mixed media sculpture in progress.

by Diane Marie Kramer

(cd rack, fur, dehumidifier filter, tree branch, empty pastel container, duct tape, ceramic head, mirror from lipstick tube, vintage tablecloth from childhood, paint.....

Film 13

OM1n

Zuiko 35-70 f3.5-4.5

FP4+ 125 @ 64

Semi-stand Developed

R09 3.6ml in 300ml water @ 20 Deg C

5 min pre-soak

Agitation: invert x 2, plus 2 bumps

Invert gently x 2 @ 30 mins

Wash in plain water

Fix: Adofix 1 + 7 8 mins with frequent agitation

Wash 5 x 500ml (I use distilled water from my dehumidifier as my tap water is from my ship's water tank)

Final rinse with wetting agent

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Suddenly in the past few days it's become springtime. The dehumidifier has needed emptying after sitting idle all winter.

The colors of the trees aren't really this bright - their leaf buds and blossoms are much more ethereal than the masses shown here - but this will have to do.

Drawn March 13, 2016

Atlanta (Unincorporated DeKalb County), Georgia, USA

Note to self about what the trees actually look like today: The Bradford pears and redbuds are looking great. Star magnolias are past their peak and dropping their petals. Red maples have reddish-orange buds and some other kind of tree has golden leaf buds. Azaleas and forsythias are coming into bloom. Pines are in their winter color of dark green. Most other trees still have bare branches, like the ones I drew yesterday at the Fox.

The title might seem a bit misleading but this really is in the cemetery, just hidden behind a building.

A local camera club recently had a facility clean-out and presented me with another lot of unwanted optics and photography related "bits and Pieces". While going through the lot I was separating the material into groups: "usable", "unusable...for parts only", and "trash". The trash category is almost always reserved for items that have been stored in a basement and have become moldy, to a degree that is beyond any hope of rehabbing. In the lot was an obviously moldy, tattered small leather bag (big as a Grapefruit), containing something heavy. The top was tied in a tight knot but I worked the contents out through a large hole in the bottom. What emerged was a "Kowa 2x Anamorphic lens for Bell & Howell"... a real gem, with good glass showing no hint of element separation. It was already fitted with an adapter allowing mounting on a lens having a 52mm filter ring. This was a totally unexpected and very welcome find. I use my Iscorama anamorphic lens on my Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens for macro / close-up shooting and had been looking for another that I could leave on a 50mm lens for wider shots. Iscoramas are almost prohibitively expensive in top condition and I had almost ruled out the possibility of finding one. This Kowa is a very highly rated anamorphic, generally considered to be ranked just below the Isco.

Before I could use it I had to remove its very obvious "moldy" scent. I lightly cleaned all exterior surfaces (lens too), with Ronsonol Lighter Fluid, allowed it to dry thoroughly in front of a dehumidifier, then left it and a clothes dryer sheet in a zip-lock bag overnight. In the morning the moldy odor was gone.

Fitting it to my 50 mm lens was easy, but when tightened securely the anamorphic compression element was skewed, not vertical. I rigged a rotating adapter from a junk polarizing filter, after removing the glass elements. Before framing a shot I simply rotate the Kowa's focusing reference mark in line with the center of the flash shoe on the camera, then compose and shoot. The picture above is one of several dozen test images taken at Ridgewood Cemetery. My intent was to check the lens for sharpness, and in particular... how the focusing worked. Using the Kowa, you have to synchronize its focus with that of the camera-mounted lens. I worked this by setting the estimated subject distance on the Kowa, then focusing the 50mm until the green "In focus" indicator in the viewfinder lit up. The process worked VERY well. Resizing in Photoshop was easy... decompressing the image by multiplying the height by 2.7 seeming to give the correct aspect ratio.

DSC-0583K-WS

i've been keeping a journal, with only a couple of breaks, since I was 13 (january 1980) -- just started volume #35 yesterday, quite a pileup of scribblings over 28 years now.

i started because my sister had a diary & I thought it was cool, so i wanted one too -- those early ones are pretty hilarious to read, lots of days when I would actually take the time to write, "nothing happened" or "totally boring" -- the teen ennui is just dripping off the pages. but somehow i stuck with it, it became a habit, and now it's a solid part of who I am -- I need to write, to make little drawings, to paste in tiny prints of photos i've taken... and the books form a memory crutch of sorts, a real core of my sense of self.

but i made an unfortunate discovery last night -- a few of my books were sitting on a shelf on the boat that had a very small leak of rainwater behind it -- the books are all a bit damp (even a bit mildewy, although thankfully only on the outside & it cleaned up easily), but in one, the ink on the bottom fifth or so of most pages has dissolved -- just washed away.

i've taken the books to my office at school to dry out, & ordered a dehumidifier for the boat -- and realize I need to re-think how I store some of my stuff here.

but in an odd way, it feels ok -- I realize a lot of why i keep a journal is simply for the act of writing stuff down, rather than necessarily going back and re-reading it later? I'd hate to lose a whole book, or all of them, but somehow i think i can deal with this funny gap in my story (from 2001, not necessarily the best year in my life anyway), will just have to try harder to remember the bits that washed away...

Emptying the dehumidifier this PM (reminds me of a muppet)...

My new dehumidifier. Expensive prior training from ages ago enabled me to work out that this uses maximum 60 watts (like an old fashioned lightbulb) only. Less damp in my kitchen with luck.

This one from a thrift shop. As much as €125 and £50 from shops nearby.

It even works 😅

We've had a tiny leak in the upstairs bathroom and they had to open up part of the kitchen's ceiling. They brought the big guns to tackle the humidity, it's been super loud, I was amazed the whole crew was not hyper freaking out...

Like Pharaoh, be led by the gods of the beyond in the Valley of the Kings.

Tips:

A ticket allows you to visit Three Tombs ($ 8.91) except the tombs of Ramses V / VI ($ 4.46), Ay ($ 4.46) and Tut Ankh Amun ($ 11.14).

The ticket to shoot and film costs $ 16.71, but pay attention, I was not warned, you can only use the ticket in three tombs and of course, the main tombs, nor with the ticket. I went on five graves.

I spent on tickets only $ 41.22, off tips / gratuities ('Baksheesh').

I had studied the tombs, I wanted to visit. Those lists in all book guides or experts claim to be THE BEST TOMBS, along with the tombs paid separately.

* Tuthmosis III

* Amenhotep II

* Horemheb

All three were closed on this day. All lost study.

It has 63 magnificent royal tombs of the New Empire (1550-1069 BCE), all very different from each other.

The tombs have suffered great damage from treasure hunters, floods and, in recent times, mass tourism: the carbon dioxide, friction and moisture of the 2.8g of sweat that the visitor's house leaves on average affect the dyes and pigments of wall paintings. The Antiquities Department installed dehumidifiers and glass walls in the worst-case tombs and introduced a ROTARY SYSTEM to open some tombs to the public while others were restored.

The 'rotary tomb system' is a great idea and fair, but they only let you know which ones are open at the box office that day. There is no planning for the tourist to know if plans and tomb choices will take place. There is no website.

What to visit? If you do not have an Egyptologist guide to give you options, as I did.

I was lucky, the tombs of Tut Ankh Amun, Rameses V / VI (are two pharaohs in a tomb) and the most wonderful tomb of all, Nefertari Tomb in the Valley of the Queens were open in my days. Ay's tomb was closed.

The foreigners/tourists (we) complain about corruption, but do not pay the ticket to take pictures in the tombs, but they take out. The guards ask to see the tickets that authorize the photos, the tourists offer $ 1.00 or the guards ask for $ 2.79 to close their eyes. Thus corruption in the country became shameful. Please, buy the tickets and help the sites and the country. Say no to corruption.

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How to make your own dry box

Why does the camera lens get molds?

Molds love to grow on DSLR lens coating as they love growing in warm, moist and humid places. Generally, molds will grow when the relative humidity (RH) is more than 70%. And there is a very specific type of molds which can only grow when the RH level is less than 20%.

The most ideal RH level to store the camera gear is between 40-50%.

The RH level at my home during winter time is around 75% and I use a 20L dehumidifier to help reducing the RH level. Unfortunately, dehumidifier is expensive to run, so I had to find a cheaper alternative.

My friend suggested a dry box with silica gel & hygrometer. I shopped around and discovered that dry box for one camera and one lens is quite affordable. However, if you have more than one lens, dry box can be quite expensive, it costs more than $100.

If you don't want to spend a fortune to purchase a dry box, why don't you make your own? Making your own dry box will cost less than $60

CONTENTS AT A GLANCE

Making your own dry box

1. Airtight Lock & Lock Container

2. Small wireless dehumidifier / silica...

3. Hygrometer Digital Hygrometer Dry Box on the market More

Note:

When you use the dry box for the first time, put the silica gel & hygrometer inside the box and keep the box empty & airtight for a minimum of 6 hours.

The reason?

Because when the silica gel is used for the first time, it is in full strength means that it will absorb the moisture in full capacity making the dry box drier than anticipated.

It is based on my friend's personal experience, he put his camera & gear inside the brand new dry box & silica gel; and he found out that the RH level was 35% (too dry). After several hours, the RH level stabilized to 50% and stayed around that level until the silica gel needed to be recharged / renewed.

Making your own dry box

Three essential things you'll need to make your own dry box:

1. Airtight container

2. Silica gel or small wireless dehumidifier

3. Hygrometer

1. Airtight Lock & Lock Container

Choose the right size container that will fit all your camera gear (camera & lenses).

The airtight container will prevent the outside air to enter into the container hence maintaining the right RH inside it.

Place the sealed container in a cool dry area

Cost: Start from $8.00 from Amazon or less than $20 at any of your local / DIY store

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Tips On Hygrometer

A hygrometer is a simple device that is used to measure relative humidity. Yet as simple as hygrometers may be, they can be quite delicate, and prone to giving inaccurate readings over time or with use. Using nothing more than a few kitchen supplies, however, you can determine the accuracy of your hygrometer, and calibrate it accordingly.

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

•1/2 cup of table salt

•1/4 cup of water

•Hygrometer

•Ziploc bag

1.

o1

Mix the salt and water in a small cup, stirring until totally saturated. After a few minutes, the mixture should resemble wet sand.

o2

Place the cup and hygrometer in a Ziploc (or otherwise resealable) bag. Keep the salt and the hygrometer completely separate.

o3

Seal the bag and place it aside to sit at a consistent room temperature, away from drafts or direct sunlight. Let sit for 8 to12 hours.

o4

Check the hygrometer, while keeping the bag completely sealed. In ideal conditions, the humidity should read as 75 percent. (Your hygrometer may be off by a couple of points.)

o5

Remove the hygrometer from the bag. If you can, quickly adjust it to read 75 percent; otherwise, simply make a note as to how much you need to adjust your figure for each reading.

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compressor is either an Americold or Samsung

My plants enjoy the damp but it's not healthy to live with. This is a chemical dehumidifier and the blue is the absorbed moisture.

Stoss entluftung aka opening the window (!) is a current craze. It is obvious really but energy is expensive and people are unwilling to lose heat. It's all about balance really.

A camel cricket, found on a very damp, rotting branch on the ground. This one not very big but relatively fast.

Per bugeric, (bugeric.blogspot.com/2014/10/camel-crickets.html) there are roughly 150 species found in North America north of Mexico. There is apparently a problem with Greenhouse Stone Cricket which is native to China and other parts of Asia and became established in North America before 1900.

Is the one shown here the "evil" one? It seems like there are homes that really need a dehumidifier!

Found at a heritage woods park in Marion, Iowa.

Family Rhaphidophoridae - Camel Crickets. Id help/corrections appreciated.

In case anyone on Flickr wonders why I haven't posted any pictures ince June of 2022, there is a reason. On July 4th, 2022, while I was showing my '57 Ford Convertible at a car show in Hennepin, Illinois (about 25 miles away), a very violent storm came up, with torrential rain and lots of lightning. The car show was rained out, but it was raining too hard for windshield wipers to keep up, so a number of us decided to wait it out there in the park. While waiting, I received a phone call from my son that my 1901 Victorian home had been struck by lightning and that the fire department was on the scene. I arrived home about 45 minutes later. By then, the fire, which was confined to the attic, was out. The next door neighbor had called it in right after the strike. The local vounteer fire department had just returned from another call and were all still at the station. Their response was immediate. They did a very professional job and had the fire out before it could spread to the rest of the house. Although the fire damage was confined to the attic, the water damage (around 1800 gallons) was extensive, soaking all of the lath and plaster in the entire two story part of my ten room house. The house had to be completely gutted of all plaster, both walls and ceilings, down to the bare studs. Needless to say, the hardwood floors also had to be torn out, down to the subfloors.

It has now been rewired and insulated and the new drywall is being hung as I type this. New flooring will be on order this coming week. Meanwhile, I am living in a house owned by a close family friend. My antique furniture mostly survived, about 95% I would say, but everything is currently in storage.

This industrial dehumidifier is one of 12 that Werner Restorations had running in the house from the time of the lightning strike untill all of the plaster was removed, about two months later.

it only takes 7.4 amps!

Dehumidifier hospital.

The company I work for manufacture Dehums. As is usual, customers wait until they really need them before sending them in all at once and wondering why they don't get repaired in 2 days!

First time i have seen this beauty at the harbour, she looked magnificen

Ship Name : Vectis Pride

Yard no. : 997

Delivery date: August 2012

Type: Multi-purpose low emission dry cargo ship

Yard: Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Co Ltd, China

Port of Registry: Douglas

Flag: Isle of Man

Classification: BV

P+I: Standard

Notation: 100 A5 E3 G IW NAV-O BWM DBC DG Multi-Purpose

Dry Cargo Ship, Equipped for Carriage of Containers,

Strengthened for Heavy Cargo Machinery: MC E3 AUT EP 2011

Ice Class: Finnish Swedish 1A

Technical Management: Green Fleet

Length o.a. : 123.95 m

Beam mld. : 17.40 m

Depth moulded to main deck: 11.40 m

Draft: 8.00 m

Air draft in ballast: approx 33 m

Deadweight (approx): 10252 tonnes

Gross tonnage : 7227

Net tonnage : 3124

Volume cargo hold 1: 3234m3

Volume cargo hold 2: 9420m3

Total cargo hold volume (excl tweendeck): 12655m3 =446900 cuft

Heavy fuel oil: 252 m3

Gas oil: 222 m3

Ballast water: 4324 m3

Fresh water: 69 m3

At sea in good weather conditions: about 11.5 knots on

about 11.5 mt IFO 380 cst Eco speed: about 10.0 knots

on about 8 mt IFO 380 cst

no G.O at sea, 1.5 mt in port idle / 2.5 mt working

Efficiency Monitoring System : Fitted

Above parameters are based in good weather conditions whilst vessel on even keel, maximum force 3 in Beaufort scale and sea state 2 in Douglas scale, no negative currents, swells or tidal streams and in temperate water.

Main Engine: MAK 6M32C

Aux Engine: CAT C-18 Acert DITA, 400 ekW, 1500 rpm

Shaft generator: AEM SE 400 S4, 525 kVA, 1500 rpm

Emergency Generator: CAT C-18 Acert DITA, 275 ekW, 1500 rpm

IMO number: 9626132

TPC: 20.2 t/cm

Panama NT: 6145

Suez NT: 6749

WLTHC in ballast: 9.6 m aft / 8.2 m fore

Call Sign: 2FVR8

ISPS: Compliant

CO2 holds: Yes

Dehumidifiers holds: No

Mamiya RB67

127mm 8 sec exposure f3.8

From what I inderstand this is a new Dehumidifier they set up sometime ago. Most all this equimpemt and machinery is built by hand

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Thanks to Sue, we seemed to have remedied the problem as she found what looks like the fix on YouTube, a corroded sensor.

So far so good, these have a $300-400 replacement cost so fingers crossed. These are very necesssary in basements here due to the very high humidity levels thanks to the great lakes. Luckily I had all the right tools to get into these space restricted places to clean them quickly & correctly, the ones shown on the video did not work well on the heavily corroded parts on our unit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwwBi1u-eA&ab_channel=MegaSa...

takes 9.6 ounces of R-500 refrigerant

So far this year I've canned:

rhubarb jelly- 7 half pints

rhubarb sauce- 5 half pints

rhubarb jam- 5 half pints

red currant jelly- 4 quarter pints

strawberry balsamic black pepper jam- 8 pints

garlic dill spears- 9 quarts

British bread and butter pickles- 8 pints

sweet pickle relish- 3.5 pints

killer peach salsa- 6 pints

POW! tomato jam- 3 half pints

roasted golden plums with honey and sage- 5 half pints

We're going to put the rest of the canned goods in the cellar. It was too damp last year but now we keep a dehumidifier running down there at all times when the wood stove isn't going. When the stove is going, the whole house is dry as a bone.