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RF354 (MLL991) stands at Downside having worked a 215A in from Kingston at Amersham & District's amazing RF40 Running Day based in Weybridge, Kingston and Staines on Sunday 24th March 2019.
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“Sky, why are you downside up?”
“It’s a clever ploy Bertie. I am trying to think of an answer to a question I have and I thought that if I was downside up, all my cleverness would be sure to be in my head where it needs to be.” Said Sky proudly.
“Wow! Did you think of that on your own Sky?”
“I did Bertie, and now I have to see if it works, so I can answer my questions.”
“Could I help you do you think Sky, only it feels a bit strange talking to fluffy kneecaps?”
“Maybe Bertie, after all you are known for your cleverness. I think I’ll stay like this though just in case you fail…again.”
“What is your question then Sky?”
“The man was talking to that screen picture thing he has and this hooman who he was talking to said they were having “Lunder and Tightening”. I was trying to work out what that is, do you know Bertie?”
“Lunder and Tightening, now let me think Sky. Eeermm, no sorry can’t help you with that one but then knowing hoomans, they probably don’t know themselves.”
Just then Icecap and Posh Bear came along and sat down beside them.
“Hi chaps, can either of you two help poor Sky before all his intelligence goes to his head and comes out of his ears?” Asked Bertie.
“I can’t see there being enough of it to make that happen to Sky.” Giggled Icecap.
“Well anyway, Sky wants to know what Lunder and Tightening is, as he heard the man’s screen hooman say it earlier.”
“What was actually said Sky?” Asked Icecap.
“Well, the man said it was sunny here and the screen hooman said they had Lunder and Tightening. I had a thunk and couldn’t work out what it was Icecap.”
“I think you must have misheard Sky; I think the screen hooman actually said Thunder and Lightning.” Declared Posh Bear.
“Well, I was close, so what is that then Posh?”
“Well, up high in the air Sky, higher than even the fluffiest white ship that floats on by, there lives lots of us bears that are waiting to be able to come down here, and give love and cuddles to a hooman and try to teach them some basics in intelligence. Well, every so often the food for them is late arriving and they have rumbly tummies and because there are so many of them it is very loud and we can hear it down here. Hoomans call that thunder. Now, to alert the food place that they are hungry and have rumbly tummies the bears switch the lights on and off and that causes flashes of light down here. Hoomans call that lightning. It is nothing to worry about Sky for the flashing lights always works and the bears get their food and then the rumbling stops.”
“Gosh! You are so clever Posh, you know everything.” Said Bertie clearly impressed.
“I know.” Said Posh smiling.
“Posh, how come you are so clever and yet don’t stand downside up like me?” Asked Sky.
“I don’t think it is necessary Sky, I should get back on your feet again.”
“Oh, I thought that because of what hoomans call gravy, everything travelled downwards and this was my plan to have all my intelligence where it needs to be.”
“No Sky, you have that wrong, hoomans don’t call it gravy, they call it gritty...I think.” Chipped in Icecap.
“Actually, it is called gravity and you don’t need to worry about that yet Sky. I have a good idea, let us see how much honey we have and break open a jar or two.” Said Posh Bear.
“Sounds like a plan, I’ll just nip to the freezer thingy and get some fish.” Said Icecap before realising that Sky and Bertie were no longer there.
“They never were that big on fish.” Mumbled Icecap shaking his head sadly.
I've been fiddling with tube stereo since the early 1990s, and I think this system is as musically satisfying as any other I've ever pulled together.
It’s also the least expensive by far, so I thought I'd write it up. You can get a good taste of what modern tube audio sounds like with this system. The amp and speakers cost $350, and you'd be hard put to find a more natural, lyrical system for chamber music at four times that price. A system with deeper bass? Yes. A system that plays louder? Assuredly. But a system that better conveys the beauty of a performance? I can't think of one.
This little stereo is pure magic on vocals, and it’s 90% of what I'd ever want for jazz, folk, piano and chamber music. It’s great with percussion -- lots of kick!
It sounds more than decent on orchestral music and rock at modest volumes. The little APPJ N3 amp has three tubes and produces only 3.5 watts per channel. It’s tiny, yet it makes classic, water-clear, nineties-style tube audio.
I'm using it at my desk with the speakers about one meter from my ears. In this situation, the amp is called on to produce a fraction of a watt to play as loud as I want to play it. Thus, 3.5 watts is more than enough. With the speakers shown above it can produce ~95 dB SPL at 1 meter, far louder than I want.
The speaker is a four-inch (105mm) Fostex Kanspea kit from Madisound. It took less than an hour to assemble both speakers, so it’s only nominally a kit. Anyone with an icepick and a screwdriver can put them together. (I’ve heard that selling it as a nearly-completed kit lessens import duties, so that may be why it’s marketed in this fashion).
One rather special driver (Fostex FF105QWK) per channel covers the entire audio range from ~80Hz to 20kHz. Fresh out of the box, it sounds pretty sibilant, but once the speaker has played for 100 hours or so, the sound is remarkably sweet and coherent. (I left it playing all day in a room with the door closed for several days to burn it in.)
Despite the missing tweeter, there’s plenty of well-rendered treble response. In fact, I swapped out the stock Shuguang EL-84 tubes because the treble was a little too hot. The cabinet is a simple bass reflex design. Apart from the driver, the materials are nothing special, a 9mm fiberboard box with a wood-grain vinyl finish, cheap connectors and no speaker grill.
I've listened to a lot of fancy stereos over the years, including a few in the $100,000 range (which were not mine, obviously). This little system punches well above its price class. To my ear, it’s more musical – more listenable – than our big system downstairs, though it lacks that system’s extended bass and ability to play orchestral works at concert-hall levels.
On the downside, the system is mercilessly revealing when there are recording defects. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because that kind of system also reveals the details in good recordings with great delicacy and accuracy. My favorite badly done recording of a good song is Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors”. It'll make your ears bleed on this system. Also, if you use Bluetooth or play MP3s you'll likely hear the compression artifacts.
It deserves a good turntable or CD-or-better quality digital sources. Give it good source material and it'll bring tears to your eyes.
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Amp: APPJ N3 PA PA0901A (Amazon)
Input tube: RCA long, black plate 12AX7 (Ebay)
Power tubes: New JJ EL-84s (Ebay)
Speakers: Fostex P1000E kit with FF105QWK. (Madisound)
USB DAC: Schiit Audio Modi 2 (Manufacturer)
Source material: CD-resolution files from Mac hard disk
One minute you can be bathed in full sunshine rushing to your next photo location then the next minute you can be swamped in low cloud spilling over the top of Whernside. . Such were the events surrounding Ribblehead Viaduct where I had decided to head for to bag a shot of the ECS from Skipton to Appleby Sidings.
Luckily the livery combination lent itself to a moody black and white interpretation of the scene.
37521 at the head 47593 at the rear.
X One of the downsides of photographing plants in my garden is trying to find a different image. I wanted to post a shot of an iris without being repetitive. I could not decide between a full flower or a detail. Opted for the latter as I think it show off the beard of the iris quite well .
The image is SOOC
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT HAVE A GREAT DAY
I don't have a clue what this is but it is pretty. The downside is that it grows on a vine that seems to go everwhere
The Fall color was on the downside.
After the retreat of the Wisconsin Glacier, the land that is now Herrick Lake Forest Preserve grew into prairies with scattered woodlands. For thousands of years, different groups of indigenous people passed through the area, some to hunt and move on, others to settle for varied periods of time. The last of these groups to call this land home was the Potawatomi, who had settled in the area by the late 1600s. Their well-traveled trails served as the basis for Butterfield and Warrenville roads.
In 1833, around the time of the Treaty of Chicago, which moved the Potawatomi west of the Mississippi River, Ira Herrick moved near the small settlement of Wheaton and built his homestead in a densely wooded parcel that surrounded a small marshy lake. This marked the beginning of the land’s agricultural period, which would last over 100 years. Old fencerows, woodlot edges and fields of European grasses still stand in Herrick Lake Forest Preserve as remnants of this era.
In 1925, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County purchased 90 acres of the original Herrick homestead. From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, additional scattered acquisitions expanded the preserve to 885 acres.
The only real downside to this very interesting photo trip in Spain was that, after almost three weeks on the road, we were just as shot as the churches we visited! Of course, we had planned in advance so as to not have to re-pack and move to a different hotel every single day, but that had not always been possible, and Spain is a large country: even though we only went through a part of it and the accommodations were, most of the time, top-notch (we will always remember our two-night stay at a “pilgrims’ inn” on the Path to Compostela, the wholesome, heartwarming food and the awfully nice people), we had driven around quite a lot, unpacked and re-packed quite a lot, shot a lot as well (and that does require some concentration!), and we were a bit tired.
Therefore, and as a gesture of self-congratulation, I booked us for three nights into the best ocean-view room of the nicest hotel in a small coastal resort in the Pays Basque, about two dozen kilometers from the French border. There, we recovered from the fatigue of the trip, ate local fish, slept late and drove around for the absolute minimum distances required to see the surrounding sights. Knowing me, you know I had to take a few photos, and here they are.
I hope you enjoy this “Goodbye to Spain!” series.
The next morning’s low tide uncovered the slippery walkway built to access the small uninhabited island in front of the town. It was overcast that morning but the ocean breeze soon cleared up all the clouds!
a downside to photography:
hmmm. that's really hard. because photography is the only thing that hardly ever frustrates me. i think it would be when your camera dies in the middle of a really well thought out photoshoot.
or when you get the perfect picture, but it's slightly out of focus, or too grainy.
hai guise.
busy week ahead.
SO! i just found out today that my good friend jessica got accepted into the modeling agency she had applied for only a month beforehand! i'm so happy for her, and i'm extra happy because the pictures she put up were some i put up of her!
yay! happy day...
i'm continuing to work hard on kendal's pictures, and i'm hoping to have them back to her mother tomorrow afternoon or so. i already gave her a preview. she's super pleased! great success!
to celebrate, jessica is planning to have some more photos taken this saturday so that she can give the modeling agency something else. i'm pumped.
i'm planning a shoot with a canoe and a pretty sunbrella for saturday. i have a concept in mind, but i can't spoil it.
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this picture was taken sunday, when i got my lens.
i love the movement but it is a bit grainy. that's alright though.
enjoy the rest of your week, everybody!
once more people start to follow, i'll do a print giveaway!
hey guise! i just got in trouble for drinking all the orange juice in three hours. now my mom said she won't buy me anymore. now my life sucks.
Please 'Like' my Facebook Page and when I reach 150 likes I'll go ahead and do my print giveaway!
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The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) is a swamp bird, preferring to breed in low-lying forests and wetlands, often over water. It is quite a streak brilliance in an otherwise gloomy swampland. A blaze of yellow flitting in shadows, as though it were a stolen ray of sunshine.
Once common in southern Canada, it is now considered an endangered species due primarily to habitat loss (it was once thought that fewer than 50 lived in Ontario). In the U.S., its numbers are still strong, but are also in decline. These striking birds--photographed here is a female, whose yellow head coloration is slightly less radiant than her mate's--are named for the Roman Catholic clerks who once wore hooded yellow robes.
Buddy was an inside/outside cat before my move. He had woods and fields to roam. SInce my move into a subdivision I’ve been keeping him in the house. I was afraid he wouldn’t be happy stuck inside but he’s adjusting better than I had hoped. The only downside is that he’s very playful and tends to get into things. But that makes things fun. He’s the sweetest cat I’ve ever had.
Very slightly cropped, otherwise SOOC
52 Weeks of 2016 - Week 38 - Theme: High Key or Low Key - Category: Creative
The downside of this location is that unless you arrive by boat, its a good 20 minute walk from either of the 3 ways to get here. So you have to forfeit a second shot should there be one.
The hugely impressive Basilica of St Gregory the Great or Downside Abbey as it is better known is a Benedictine monastery in Stratton-on-the-Fosse in Somerset. Building was started in the 19th Century and it was completed just after World War I. It has been described as "the most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in England". Downside School, a Catholic school is attached on one side.
From the streets of Hallstatt one morning, I looked up at the looming houses and was rewarded with this site.
I love the architecture of this small town, and the surrounding trees and thick fog really gave the place such an atmosphere. It *almost* made up for the fact that the rest of the day was rained off, and I got very depressed.
Still, I got to play cards with Russell whilst watching the lake outside so, not all bad.
Most of my current collection of cameras and lenses. The part on the left is actually immediately above the part on the right.
May look like a lot to some/most, but most of that stuff is quite cheap (at least with some patience looking for the right deal), and about half of the lenses have come with the camera bodies (or the other way around, depending on which I was more interested in getting). Best deals are usually found as lots, like when someone is offloading something they're selling as “camera and lens(es)”. The downside(?) is that you end up with a bunch of bundled stuff. =) All in all, there's only one lens I've paid more than €400 for and only three I've paid more than €150 for (including the €400 lens). Most are under €50 (and some practically free), but certainly worth a lot more in quality and use.
A couple of film camera bodies are missing from the picture (duplicates I'm planning to sell). And so is (obviously) my DSLR (since I took these pictures with it), and my older digital camera, the Konica-Minolta DiMAGE A2. Of course(?) there's also a huge pile of leather camera cases in my wardrobe.
Everything here works, except for the Petri SLR (though I've since obtained a working copy of the same) and one of the Zorki-4's. I've replaced the light seals in most of the retro SLRs and measured the shutter speeds of all the retro cameras. This picture was taken with an M42 mount MIR-1V 37mm f/2.8 on a Sony DSLR-A100.