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Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Not quite The Titancic`s location that would be difficult for me to do, anyway it would just be a lot of water.......But here outside the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House behind Trafalgar Square now Texas Embassy Cantina a restaurant serving Tex-Mex food.......Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News telling of the Titanic maritime disaster which sank on April 15th 1912 more than 1,500 people were killed...Ned Parfett the Boy in the picture,his death just as tragic,as that of Titanic.....Six and a half years after this poignant photograph was taken, Ned was killed during a German bombardment while serving with the British army in France, just days before the Armistice. He was 22....Ned died on 29 October 1918, less than two weeks before the end of the war. Ned was killed near Valenciennes, when a shell landed on the quartermaster's stores, just as he was collecting some clothes before going on leave....He is buried in the British war cemetery at Verchain-Maugré in France.........Stop press,,,Texas Embassy Cantina has now closed down..
One of great things about Difficult Run is the complex rock formations. Water run through the rocks and creates interesting patterns. This is the middle section of Difficult Run and the patterns of water flow are great to photograph. They really make the image fun, like this swirl.
I consider this one of the most difficult of the Herschel 400 objects for small to medium-sized telescopes. Yes, it is a dim and small galaxy, but I believe that its real difficulty rests with it being so thin. In the above drawing I was not able, at first, to see NGC 4845 at the power (84x) used to make the drawing. It was only after I had developed a feeling of what I was looking for, by using a much higher power (232x), and then returning to the lower power was I able to see its tiny sliver-like glow. I found it far harder to see/observe than its 11.2 magnitude implies. I am surprised it made the Herschel 400 list!! On the upside is that if you can locate this galaxy in your telescope, you will likely not have too much difficulty with the other 399 objects on the Herschel list.
What NGC 4845 looks like with my 155mm refractor from my suburban backyard is very misleading. If you have the time, look up how this galaxy appears in the Hubble Space Telescope – it will shock you. This galaxy contains numerous dust lanes and an active core fueled by a 300,000 solar mass black hole. A magnificent Island Universe indeed!!
To see additional astronomy drawings visit: www.orrastrodrawing.com
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The T-34, a Soviet medium tank, had a profound and lasting effect on the field of tank design. At its introduction in 1940, the T-34 possessed an unprecedented combination of firepower, mobility, protection and ruggedness. Its 76.2 mm high-velocity tank gun provided a substantial increase in firepower over any of its contemporaries while its well-sloped armour was difficult to penetrate by most contemporary anti-tank weapons. Although its armour and armament were surpassed later in the war, it has often been credited as the most effective, efficient and influential tank design of the Second World War.
The T-34 was the mainstay of Soviet armoured forces throughout the Second World War. Its design allowed it to be continuously refined to meet the constantly evolving needs of the Eastern Front: as the war went on it became more capable, but also quicker and cheaper to produce. Soviet industry would eventually produce over 80,000 T-34s of all variants, allowing steadily greater numbers to be fielded as the war progressed despite the loss of tens of thousands in combat against the German Wehrmacht. Replacing many light and medium tanks in Red Army service, it was the most-produced tank of the war, as well as the second most produced tank of all time (after its successor, the T-54/55 series). T-34 variants were widely exported after World War II, and even as recently as 2010, the tank has seen limited front-line service with several developing countries
One of the unusual and rather unknown operators of the T-34 was Austria. 25 tanks (some sources claim 27 or even 37) of the late T-34/85 variant came as a gift from (well, they were actually left behind by) the Soviet Union in 1955 when the Red Army left the country, meaning that the Austrian Bundesheer was re-established. These vehicles became the young army's initial backbone, until more modern equipment (e. g. M41 and M47 tanks procured from the USA and AMX-13/75 tanks from France) replaced them in frontline service. Due to their ruggedness and simplicity, they were kept in service, though - primarily for training, and some vehicles were in the 1970s integrated into hidden bunkers, defending strategically vital "security space zones".
A revival of the Austrian T-34/85 fleet came in the late Sixties, though, when the Austrian Army recognized a lack in long range attack capabilities (at 1.000 m range and more) against hardened targets like enemy tanks, paired with high mobility and low costs, similar to the German Jagdpanzer profile from WWII. At that time, Austria operated roundabout 50 Charioteer tanks with 83.4 mm guns in this role, but these British vehicles were outdated and needed a timely replacement.
Another limiting factor were severe budget restrictions. The eventual solution came from the Austrian company Saurer: a relatively simple conversion of the indigenous Saurer APC, armed with a version of the French AMX-13's FL-12 oscillating turret, armed with a powerful 105mm cannon, which had just become available in an export version. However, in order to bridge the new tank hunter's development time and quickly fill the defense gap, the Austrian T-34/85s were checked whether it was possible to modernize them with the new turret, too.
The first conversion was carried out by Saurer in 1963 and proved to be successful. Since the light FL-12 turret had a smaller bearing diameter than the old T-34/85 turret, the integration into the hull went straightforward with the help of a simple adapter ring. What made the conversion even simpler was the fact that the FL-12, with its integrated cannon and an automated loading system, was a complete, self-sufficient unit.
The French turret was only lightly armoured, since the tank was not supposed to engage heavily-armed enemies at close range. The turret's front armour protected the crew from 20mm armour-piercing rounds over its frontal arc, while all-round protection was against small arms bullets only. The commander was seated on the left of the turret and the gunner on the right. The commander was provided with seven periscopes and a periscopic sight. The commander's infrared night sight had a magnification of x6. The gunner had two observation periscopes, a telescopic sight and a one-piece lifting and swiveling hatch cover. Due to the design of the oscillating turret, all sights were always linked to the main and secondary armament (a standard NATO machine gun). For engaging targets at night, an infrared periscopic sight was provided for the commander. In order to simplify and lighten the tank, the T-34’s bow machine gun in the hull was deleted and its opening faired over and the crew was reduced to three.
The 105 mm gun could penetrate 360 mm of armour, and the internal magazines of 2x 6 shots allowed a very high rate of fire (up to 12 shots per minute), even though a crew member had to leave the tank in order to fill the magazines up again from the outside. Once the gun had been fired the empty cartridge cases were ejected out of the rear of the turret through a trapdoor hinged on the left. Beyond the 12 rounds in the turret, a further 42 rounds were stored in the tank's hull, primarily in a stowage rack for 30 shots where the former second crew member in the front hull had been placed, and a further twelve rounds in magazines at the turret’s base.
The T-34/85’s engine and transmission were not changed, since an update was beyond the conversion budget limit, but lighter “skeleton” wheels from Czech T-34 post-war production were introduced, so that the modified tank weighed roundabout 30 tons, 2 less than the standard T-35/85.
After highly successful field tests with the prototype in the course of 1963 and 1964, a further conversion program for 16 tanks was approved and carried out until early 1965. The modified tanks received the official designation T-34/105Ö and allocated to two tank battalions. Most of the time these tanks were only used for training purposes, though, in preparation of the arrival of the "real" tank hunter, the SK-105 "Kürassier" (Cuirassier) with almost identical weapon systems. The SK-105’s first prototype was eventually ready in 1967 and delivery of pre-production vehicles commenced in 1971, but teething troubles and many detail problems delayed the type's quick and widespread introduction. Lighter and much more agile than the vintage T-34s, it became a big success and was produced in more than 700 specimen, almost 300 of them for the Austrian Army and the rest for export (Argentina, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Morocco and Tunisia). In consequence, the small T-34/105Ö fleet was soon retired and by 1976, when the Kürassier was in service and other, heavy tanks had become available, none of the converted tanks was still active anymore. Nevertheless, a few Austrian T-34s that had become part of the hidden bunker installations soldiered secretly on, the last ones were dug out of their positions and scrapped in 2007(!).
Specifications:
Crew: Three (commander, gunner, driver)
Weight: 29.7 t combat load
Length: 8.21 m (26 ft 10 ½ in) with turret forward
6.10 m (19 ft 11 ¾ in) hull only
Width: 3.00 m (9 ft 10 in)
Height: 2,74 m (8 ft 11 ½ in)
Suspension: Christie
Ground clearance: 0.4 m (16 in)
Fuel capacity: eight internal tanks, total capacity of 545 l (145 U.S. gal; 118 imp gal),
plus up to four external fuel drums à 90 l each (24 U.S. gal; 19.5 imp gal)
Engine:
Model V-2-34M 38.8 l V12 Diesel engine with 520 hp (370 kW) at 1.800 rpm
Transmission:
5 forward and 1 reverse gears
Armor:
16 - 45 mm steel (plus composite armour in the turret)
Performance:
Speed:
- Maximum, road: 58 km/h (36 mph)
- Cross country: up to 40 km/h (28 mph)
Operational range: 250 km (155) on streets with internal fuel only,
up to 330 km (250 mi) with four additional fuel drums
Power/weight: 17.5 hp/t
Armament:
1× 105 mm CN 105-57 rifled gun with a total 54 rounds, 12 of them ready in the turret's magazines
1× 7.62mm (0.3") co-axial NATO machine gun with 2.000 rounds
2× 2 smoke grenade dischargers
The kit and its assembly:
This weird, fictional combo was originally spawned by an Israeli idea: some vintage M4 Sherman tanks had been outfitted with the AMX-13's swiveling turrets and armed with French CN-75-50 75mm a cannon, creating the so-called "Isherman". I kept this concept in the back of my mind for a long time, with the plan to build one some day.
Then I came a couple of weeks ago across a picture on FlickR that showed a T-34/85 with Austrian markings. At first I thought that it had been a fictional museum piece in fake markings, but upon some legwork I found out that Austria had actually operated the T-34!
So, why not combine both ideas into a new and fictional one...? The rest was straightforward kitbashing: the FL-12 turret with a 105 mm cannon came from a Heller AMX-13 (a shaggy thing with dubious fit, but it was cheap) and for the chassis I tried the relatively new Zvezda T-35/85. The latter is actually a very crisp snap-fit kit, just some light flash here and there. Detail and proportions are very good, though, as well as fit. I was only surprised by the construction of the tracks, because it is a different approach from both of the traditional vinyl tracks or IP track segments. Instead, you get complete, rather thin and delicate IP tracks, and Zvezda expects the builder to bend them around the wheels and stick them between the wheels' halves during the construction process. You actually have to mount the “inner” half of the wheels first, then the track is attached to a locator pin on one of the main wheels, bent into shape, and finally the wheels' “outer” halves are added. Sounds complicated, and it actually is, and it also makes painting the whole running gear quite difficult, but it works – even though the result is IMHO not better than the traditional solutions.
The AMX-13 turret’s integration was easier than expected. Building the turret was a little complicated, because all side walls are separate and there are no locator pins or other aides for orientation. Some PSR became necessary to fill some minor gaps, but nothing dramatic. Mounting the AMX-13 turret to the T-34 hull was made easy through a very convenient design detail of the Zvezda kit: the T-34 comes with a separate turret ring that could be used as an adapter for the Heller turret. Three ejection/sprue residues inside of the ring could be used as a foundation for the AMX-13 turret, and the turret’s lower half/ring was, after some sanding to reduce the gap between the turret and the hull, was also glued onto the adapter. Worked like a charm, and the resulting combo looks very natural!
In order to improve the turret’s look I added a cloth seal between the lower and the upper, oscillating turret section, simulated with paper tissue drenched in thinned white glue (OOB the turret cannot be moved vertically at all). A similar seal was added at the barrel’s base.
Other changes were only minimal: the machine gun port in the front hull was sanded away and faired over, and I omitted the spare track links attached to the front hull. For a modernized look I gave the tank an additional pair of front lights as well as stoplights at the rear, scratched from styrene bits.
Painting and markings:
Basically a very simple affair, because there is ONLY one possible livery and color that suits an Austrian Bundesheer vehicle or item from the Seventies: RAL 7013 (Braungrau). This is a very ugly tone, though, "greenish, fresh mud" describes it well: a dull, brownish olive drab, but definitively not a green (like the omnipresent NATO tone Gelboliv RAL 6014, which was used by the German Bundeswehr until the standardized NATO three-tone camouflage was introduced around 1984). I organized a rattle can of this special color, since the tank model would receive a simple, uniform livery.
Due to the kit's , err, unique running gear construction, painting became a little complicated. I had to paint the hull and the (still) separate wheel parts in advance, so that the pre-painted elements could be assembled around the tracks (see above). The tracks themselves were painted with a cloudy mix of iron metallic, black and leather brown (Revell 99, 8 and 84). The turret was painted separately.
After the kit’s major sections had been assembled they received a light wash with a mix of highly thinned black with some red brown added, and the washing was immediately dabbed off of the surfaces so that most of the pigments ended up in recesses and around details, while the rest received an blurry, light dirt filter.
Once dry, I applied the decals. The tiny Austrian roundels come from a generic TL Modellbau sheet (never expected to find any use for them!), the tactical code comes from another tank kit sheet. In order to add some more highlights I also added some small, white markings on the fenders.
Then I gave the model an overall dry-brushing treatment with olive drab, medium grey and finally some ochre, just emphasizing details and edges.
Since the uniform livery appeared a bit dull to me, I decided to add a few camouflage nets to the hull, which also hide some weak points of the Zvezda kit, e.g. the missing rails along the hull. The nets were created from gauze bandages: small pieces (~1”x1”) of the material were dipped into a mix of white glue and olive drab acrylic paint and then carefully placed on hull, turret and barrel. Once dry, they were also dry-brushed.
As final steps, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (rattle can again) and I dusted the lower areas with a greyish-brown pigment mix, simulating dust and some mud crusts.
What started as a weird idea turned into a very conclusive what-if project – in fact, the T-34 with the French FL-12/44 turret does not look bad at all, and the Austrian colors and markings make this piece of fiction IMHO very convincing. Adding the camouflage nets was also a good move. They hide some of the details (e.g. the omitted bow machine gun station), but they liven up the rather clean and bleak exterior of the tank. I am positively surprised how good the T-34/105Ö looks!
Recently got these stunning liftarms! Lacquered and chrome parts are always weird because determining authenticity is very difficult, here is where they came from according to the seller:
"[the supplier] said that they were involved with LEGO [Mindstorms] in Denmark for a few years. They did special beams officially for a contest and/or media stunt. These are the extras."
"LEGO was invited to be a founding partner of the Google Science Fair (GSF), an international competition for students to present innovative ideas and win big awards.
Marketing manager Steven Canvin, in charge of the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics platform, was the point of contact for the GSF, and was tasked with putting a prize package together for the future winners.
All winners would receive a LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics kit, and to make the prizes more exclusive, a limited amount of gold TECHNIC beams were produced, to go with each kit."
This story is pretty detailed, even naming the marketing manager. After some digging, the only thing online I was able to find was some vague details about the prizes:
"The finalist winners (Kohn and Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual in the 15 to 16 age group) all receive a $25,000 scholarship, a Google Chromebook kit donated to their classroom, an assortment of Lego-related gifts, a Google goodie bag, a “prize experience,” and one year of digital access to Scientific American archives for their schools. Wenger, the grand-prize winner, gets a 10-day trip to the Galápagos Archipelago, a $50,000 scholarship, a set of Lego Mindstorms signed by the design team and Lego’s CEO and owner, first pick of prize experiences, and everything else that the finalists receive."
[from Fast Company]
The excerpt above is referring to GSF 2012, but similar lines can be found for GSF 2011 and 2013.
Considering the scope of the fair and the other awards being scholarships and opportunities, these parts are the probably the least interesting thing to the finalists, so if they were actually given out, verifying that would be very difficult. I have tried to contact Mr. Canvin, but have been unsuccessful.
Ultimately, I think the authenticity of these parts is likely, the story lines up pretty well, if anyone wants to continue investigating this topic, that would be awesome! And these parts are still available on bricklink if anyone wants to pick some up, the price is a little high, I was able to work out a discount from the seller and maybe you can too :^) The seller did have some other non-production parts, like a Magenta 44728 and some trans-clear slopes, which I think adds some credibility imo.
I do find lacquered liftarms to be a strange idea, they would probably get worn out really fast if you were to actually use them in a build!
[I am not sure if a 1x9 liftarm was also made]
After a difficult but successful searching of cougars in sectors close to the Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Patagonia, and fighting against a strong wind and low temperatures with the pioneer in tracking of pumas in Patagonia, biologist and wild photographer, Rodrigo Moraga, we achieved the great reward of finding this mother with her four cubs of no more than three months and feeding on a guanaco recently hunted by her. Finding a family feeding and playing together, forced us to spend long hours contemplating at a discreet and silent distance their games and activities, which invited us to remember when we were cubs too, with those same antics, bothering our mother, and she, with that patience that all mothers have, looked at us with love and patience. A very exciting moments of those that photography will help me to remember forever, and also that helped me to think in moments of my childhood.
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Dit is het belangrijkste stukje van de International Zone in Den Haag, dat tijdens de Nuclear Security Summit, 24 en 25 maart, volledig van de buitenwereld wordt afgesloten omdat hier dan 58 wereldleiders komen vergaderen over hoe het verder moet met de nucleaire toestanden in de wereld. Niet alleen hier worden wegen afgesloten maar ongeveer half west Nederland is tijdens die top slecht bereikbaar.
Links het gebouw van Nobelprijswinnaar OPCW, daarachter het blauwe blok van het World Forum met daaraan vastgebouwd het Novotel. Rechts, achter de bosjes, ligt het Catshuis.
Achter het Novotel ligt het Joegoslaviëtribunaal en links - evenmin zichtbaar op de foto - het enorme Europolcomplex. In de schaduw van al dit veiligheidsgeweld ligt dan het Museum, het Gemeentemuseum en het fotomuseum GEM, die tijdens de top helaas gesloten moeten blijven.
En dan nu in het Engels, vertaald via Google Translate:
This is the most important piece of International Zone in The Hague, which is closed because during the Nuclear World Summit, March 24 and 25, all from the outside world here than 58 world leaders will meet to discuss how to proceed with the nuclear states in the world. Not only here, roads closed only about half west of the Netherlands is difficult to reach during that summit.
Left the building of Nobel laureate OPCW, behind the blue block from the World Forum with permanently built the Novotel. Right behind the bushes, is the prime minister's residence.
Behind the Novotel is the ICTY and left - not visible in the picture - the huge Europol Complex. In the shadow of all this security force lies the Museum, the Municipal Museum and the photo GEM, which must remain. Unfortunately closed during the summit
Difficult days in the lockdown - I had to resort to McDonald's coffee ! Albeit a lot cheaper than Costa! The 1J96 Holyhead - Shrewsbury, running with TfW's 158 828, heads for Belmont Tunnel and the stop at Bangor before proceeding along the coast.
Taken in difficult light.
The Mute swan is a very large white waterbird. It has a long S-shaped neck and an orange bill with a black base and a black knob. It flies with its neck extended and regular, slow wingbeats. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species.
The mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America – home to the largest populations outside of its native range – with additional smaller introductions in Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species.[2][3][4] Measuring 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in) in length, this large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange beak bordered with black. It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males.
It is difficult to understand how Disney could spend a huge amount of money renovating the Polynesian to make it less Polynesian themed. I loved the old lobby rainforest. This picture is the best I could do considering how bland and boring the new lobby area looks.
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The Ringtheater fire in Vienna on 8th December 1881 was one of the biggest fire catastrophes of the 19th century in Austria-Hungary. According to official data, the number of death victims was 384; it was estimated that more deaths occurred. Ludwig Eisenberg writes of nearly 1,000 deaths.
Cause and sequence
On that evening, Jacques Offenbach's Hoffmanns stories (Les contes d'Hoffmann) were given in the Ringtheater, Schottenring, 7, which had been opened as a Komische Oper/Comic Opera Vienna on 17 January 1874. When the visitors took their seats for the start of the show at 7 pm, gas lighting was lit behind the stage within five showcases. By the failure of the electropneumatic ignitors, gas escaped, which exploded in the next ignition attempt. The resulting fire leaped into the flybars before it spread rapidly over the rest of the stage and finally into the auditorium.
Not until half an hour later was made an attempt to save the viewers, made difficult by fundamental problems: The emergency lighting consisting of oil lamps should not have burned, because - from lack of money - the lamps were only filled for checks. In addition, the emergency exits only opened inwards, which prevented the fleeing visitors from leaving the building in time. A stream of air passing through a side window fanned the fire further. On the basis of a misjudgment of the situation, the police in the theater room helpers with the remark "everything saved!" prevented from further rescue attempts.
Among the dead was Ladislaus Vetsera (* 1865), a brother of Mary Vetsera.
In order to identify the corpses, the method of identification based on the tooth position was practiced for the first time, thus laying the foundations for the later renowned "Viennese School of Criminalistics". It was an introduction to forensic dentistry.
Consequences
The Viennese Volunteer Rescue Company was founded as a spontaneous reaction to the fire. The fire had both domestic and international effects on preventive fire protection especially in the theater sector and the corresponding legal provisions for the theater building in Austria. For example, the Iron Curtain was introduced to separate the stage from the auditorium and the decorations had to be impregnated from this time onwards. The larger theaters were obliged to have a uniformed security officer participate in every performance, who had to take the necessary orders to control the great quantity of human beings in the event of a fire. He had to remain in the theater until the last spectator left. The regulation still applies today.
The theater director Franz von Jauner was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, but was released after a few weeks' imprisonment by an Imperial Decree.
In 1829, Vienna had received the first, 30 paragraph-comprehensive building regulations. This was replaced by a new building code in 1859 and 1868. The building regulations for Vienna of 1883 taking into consideration the Ringtheater fire, a Lower Austrian provincial law, was valid until the middle of the 20th century.
The so-called "Sühnhaus/Atonement house" was erected on the site of the burned-down theater from private funds of the Emperor Franz Joseph. The rental income of this interest house benefitted charitable purposes. The building was heavily damaged in 1945, and had to be removed in 1951. Today the office building of the LPD Wien (Landespolizeidirektion = State Police Headquarters) is located on the site.
Two of the pillars of the Ringtheater were later installed in the basilica of Kaisermühlen.
The process against the persons responsible for the fire was described literally in the 1960s by Helmut Qualtinger and Carl Merz under the title Anatomy of a Catastrophe. The text was filmed under the title "Everything saved. The Ring Theater Process".
Der Ringtheaterbrand in Wien am 8. Dezember 1881 war eine der größten Brandkatastrophen des 19. Jahrhunderts in Österreich-Ungarn. Die Zahl der Todesopfer betrug nach offiziellen Angaben 384; Schätzungen gingen von noch mehr Toten aus. Ludwig Eisenberg schreibt von nahezu 1.000 Toten.
Ursache und Ablauf
An jenem Abend wurde im Ringtheater, Schottenring 7, das am 17. Jänner 1874 als Komische Oper Wien eröffnet worden war, Jacques Offenbachs Hoffmanns Erzählungen gegeben. Als die Besucher für den Vorstellungsbeginn um 19 Uhr ihre Plätze einnahmen, wurde hinter der Bühne bei fünf Schaukästen die Gasbeleuchtung entzündet. Durch Versagen der elektropneumatischen Zündvorrichtungen strömte Gas aus, welches beim nächsten Zündversuch explodierte. Das entstandene Feuer sprang auf die Prospektzüge über, bevor es sich rasch über den Rest der Bühne und schließlich im Zuschauerraum ausbreitete.
Erst eine halbe Stunde später versuchte man die Zuschauer zu retten, erschwert durch grundlegende Probleme: Die aus Öllampen bestehende Notbeleuchtung soll nicht gebrannt haben, da – aus Geldmangel – die Lampen nur für Überprüfungen gefüllt worden sein sollen. Außerdem öffneten sich die Notausgänge nur nach innen, was die flüchtenden Besucher hinderte, das Gebäude rechtzeitig zu verlassen. Ein durch ein seitliches Fenster einströmender Luftzug fachte das Feuer weiter an. Aufgrund einer Fehleinschätzung der Lage hielt die Polizei im Theatervorraum Helfer mit dem Hinweis „Alles gerettet!“ von weiteren Rettungsversuchen ab.
Unter den Toten befand sich Ladislaus Vetsera (* 1865), ein Bruder von Mary Vetsera.
Zur Identifizierung der Leichen wurde erstmals die Methode einer Identifizierung anhand der Zahnstellung praktiziert und damit eine Grundlage für die später renommierte „Wiener Schule der Kriminalistik“ gelegt. Es war ein Einstieg in die forensische Zahnmedizin.
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Als spontane Reaktion auf den Brand wurde die Wiener Freiwillige Rettungsgesellschaft gegründet. Der Brand hatte innerstaatliche wie internationale Auswirkungen auf den vorbeugenden Brandschutz vor allem im Theaterbereich und die entsprechenden gesetzlichen Bestimmungen für den Theaterbau in Österreich. So wurde beispielsweise der Eiserne Vorhang zur Trennung der Bühne vom Zuschauerraum eingeführt, und die Dekorationen mussten ab diesem Zeitpunkt imprägniert werden. Die größeren Theater wurden verpflichtet, an jeder Vorstellung einen uniformierten Sicherheitsbeamten teilnehmen zu lassen, der im Brandfall die nötigen Anordnungen zur Lenkung der großen Menschenmenge zu treffen hatte. Er hatte bis zum Abgang des letzten Zuschauers im Theater zu verbleiben. Die Regelung gilt bis heute.
Der Theaterintendant Franz von Jauner wurde als Verantwortlicher zu drei Jahren Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt, wurde aber nach nur einigen Wochen Gefängnisaufenthalts durch einen kaiserlichen Gnadenerlass entlassen.
1829 hatte Wien die erste, 30 Paragraphen umfassende Bauordnung erhalten. Diese wurde 1859 und 1868 durch eine neue Bauordnung abgelöst. Die den Ringtheaterbrand berücksichtigende Bauordnung für Wien von 1883, ein niederösterreichisches Landesgesetz, war bis über die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts gültig.
Aus Betroffenheit wurde auf dem Bauplatz des niedergebrannten Theaters aus privaten Mitteln des Kaisers Franz Joseph das so genannte Sühnhaus errichtet. Die Mieteinnahmen dieses Zinshauses flossen karitativen Zwecken zu. Das Gebäude wurde 1945 bei Kriegsende schwer beschädigt und musste 1951 abgetragen werden. Heute steht auf dem Areal das Amtsgebäude der Landespolizeidirektion Wien.
Zwei der Säulen des Ringtheaters wurden später in der Basilika von Kaisermühlen verbaut.
Der Prozess gegen die Verantwortlichen des Brandes wurde literarisch in den 1960er Jahren von Helmut Qualtinger und Carl Merz unter dem Titel Anatomie einer Katastrophe beschrieben. Verfilmt wurde der Text unter dem Titel „Alles gerettet. Der Ringtheaterprozeß“.
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Cimitero Centrale, Cementerio Central, Cimetière Central de Vienne, Central Cemetery, Cmentarz Centralny w Wiedniu
This was a difficult challenge for me, as I live in the country, and the nearest towns are “bedroom cummunities” with not much to see except homes and shopping malls. I thought of this 50’s diner that has recently been moved to this spot and restored. I didn’t have a chance to go inside this week but it’s definitely “on my list.” I'm not totally happy with the processing on this, but I didn't have enough time to play around some more. Too many extra things came up at the end of the week.
52 Weeks of 2015 - Week 22 - Theme: A tourist in your own town/country - Category: Creative
The bird you are seeing in front of you is a Common Sandpiper (in Dutch: oeverloper). For us Dutchies it isn't that common at all since they are pretty difficult to find. Imagine my surprise when one landed on my kingfisher branch! These are quite small and funny birds. They run around like crazy along the waterside looking for small insects in the mud or between rocks. They hardly ever land on branches but this one did! I guess it needed it's moment of glory in front of the camera.
Tomorrow I'll post the best photo of the weekend. This evening I'm going to go back to the place where I took that shot, this time with some camouflage gear on (it's going to be a hot afternoon I'm afraid). That reminds me, I have to take a shower before I go so the deer won't smell my Hugo Boss Bottled I put on this morning ;p.
Until tomorrow!
I know, it looks grim and fierce, but actually these creatures are very calm and peaceful. Here is what WWF has to say about them:
"Gorillas display many human-like behaviors and emotions, such as laughter and sadness. They even make their own tools to help them survive in the forest. In fact, gorillas share 98.3% of their genetic code with humans, making them our closest cousins after chimpanzees and bonobos. The largest of the great apes, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large, human-like hands and small eyes set into hairless faces.
Gorillas live in family groups of usually 5 to 10, but sometimes two to more than 50, led by a dominant male who holds his position for years. Females become sexually mature around seven or eight years old but don’t begin to breed until a couple of years later. Males mature at an even greater age. Once a female begins to breed, she’ll likely give birth to only one baby every four to six years, and only three or four over her entire lifetime. This low rate of reproduction makes it difficult for gorillas to recover from population declines. Both gorilla species have been decreasing in numbers for decades, and a 2010 United Nations report suggests that they may disappear from large parts of the Congo Basin by the mid-2020s."
Technically, I went low key again. I have a high key version with a white background here on my Mac, but it just isn't ready for prime time yet. And it may never be.
I left just a little bit of color on the teeth.
Either you view this in the lightbox with all other light sources dimmed or you'd better let it be. So please press 'L'.
Enjoy!
Well, here it is, my first ever concept photo! Like I said yesterday, I knew it would be difficult, but even that thought couldn't prepare me for the real process. Mentally I knew how I wanted to go about it all, but then when you actually do it, everything changes. It's not exactly how I pictured it in my head, but for my first ever attempt, I'll go with it.
January 2013 // Losing Ground
This was created for David Talley's Concept Collaboration 2013 project, where anyone can join in on the monthly theme and create a photograph around it. Originally when I heard January's theme, I had a million ideas go through my head and couldn't settle on just one. Then I had this idea, inspired by the episode "White Rabbit" from Lost. For anyone who is not familiar with the show, the episode focuses on Jack's background story before the crash, and his journey as he chases the figure of his dead father through the island's jungles. Through dehydration, post traumatic stress, and overwhelming circumstances, your mind can play mean tricks on you, and that's what I tried to show: losing your ground of thought and losing touch from reality. I bought some overly baggy clothes to give it more of the "Lost" feel, as if salvaged from the wreck, and wanted to show a bit of the "don't turn your back" theme in Lost.
On the technical side, I tried my hand at expanding. There's a lot of issues with this, as I didn't photograph everything around me at the focuses I needed to give it the depth of field I was looking for, and the blending is really horrid, but I didn't want to miss the deadline of the 31st either. I tried some colouring as well. It's so different than shooting landscapes, but I'll learn as I continue to explore with conceptual photography.
Also if anyone has suggestions on good wireless shutter remotes, please let me know!
And finally, I want to give a big thank you to David for coming up with this project, as it's a great way for a beginner like me to join in and learn from such wonderful photographers!
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Fake UC on Left has ovals with2 raised lines you can see. FrFr Takara RBL mold on Right has very faint circles , but NO raised lines.
Difficult to see in this picture, but the shape of the curve(where the neck is placed to join the body) Is totally different on the fake.
The fake has a square shape , that has been rounded on the top. RBL Takara on Right has a totally curved shape that is clear to see.
Another member of the difficult to identify Trachandrena subgenus of Andrena. I think that I have the females sorted out (more or less) but the males...oi! This specimen from Maryland. Picture by Amanda Robinson.
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It is difficult to explain to younger generations how much simpler life was when our country was 90% agrarian. Quietness reigned on farms for the most part, no video games, no electronic tablets and the sounds that permeated our lives were sounds of nature, a meadowlark singing from its perch on a fencepost, the cawing of a crow or the gentle cries of cattle, sheep and chickens. A young man or woman had time to think, plan and grapple with their future.
Nod to Jeff Revell for pointing out the Difficult Run trail near Great Falls www.revellphotography.com/blog/?p=2824
Some days are long and hard and difficult and the world feels alike it is filled with nothing but loud mouth idiots more worried about pride than common sense.........
And you all wonder why l love the serenity of nature. Because you can deal with nature. Sure, it can be rough. But when winds and rain and tornadoes are everywhere.
You no to hunker down and ride out. And if it's too sunny in spring. You put on sunscreen so you don't burn like a hotdog on a grill.
Even animals get in fights, and the stupid ones die. Because nature, although it can be bullheaded. Doesn't have pride.....
Babble, babble, babble.........
Anyways. Rough day. Shit is still flying from inspection other day.
I'm trying to bring everything in for a soft landing. But all parties are more interested in aviation warfare.
So l came home. Had a long warm bath. A glass of wine. And no grizzlies tonight... Nope..... Just Mr. Snuggles. He always listens and obeys me. Unlike Jojo. He just loves cuddling.
And when he wants to rest. Well Sandra will come in and take his place. Stroking my hair. And other private things. 🐣🐤🐥🐇🐰🌹🌹🌹❤️💋
A deceptively difficult picture to take, as the boys were fussing the entire time I was shooting.
Yes, my dogs love bananas - and every time I have one, I am required (apparently) to share a few bites.
And the only time I handle the bananas is when I'm going to have one.
Except today - when I needed the bananas to be models.
Try explaining that to a dog.
Our Daily Challenge - CLOSE TOGETHER is the topic for Monday 5th to 11th February, 2024
Color My World Daily (YELLOW DAY on WEDNESDAY)
366:2024 - #37