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This is what i did yesterday morning.. was so lazy that i drew this on the back of my drawing book..yes on the cover..ddint even bother to pick up a pencil...drew it with a blue ball point pen and edited in picasa to make it B/W ...i love Hobbes holding the umbrella :)..
Have a great week ahead ..
Went on a house tour Saturday. Took this shot in the backyard area of one of the houses on a farm. There are times when the elements of a composition and the lighting just present themselves perfectly... of course, you have to see it... :) The animals arranged themselves diagonally and seem to be walking toward the fading afternoon light, all implying motion. The way the sheep looked back at me, almost asking me to come along with them, was priceless. Even the house in the upper right adds balance to the whole scene and that red splotch on the one rooster draws the eye forward to the upper right. In a good photo, each of the elements adds to the whole and if you remove even one of the elements... the barn with the closed door, the house in the upper right, even the tree in the upper center, the photo ceases to be as strong an image.
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”
- Ansel Adams
CSXT's ex Pan Am BO-1 local has a little seven car train seen hustling up the Keolis/MBTA (ex Boston and Maine) Eastern Route mainline at MP 9.5 crossing Saugus Draw enroute to Salem and the Danvers Branch headed to Peabody. The 487 ft long double track bridge dates from 1911 and has a 65 ft movable span. According to the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) it is a single-leaf Strauss overhead counterweight bascule which is believed to be the oldest known example of its type in Massachusetts. It is particularly significant for its innovative engineering design and association with a prominent bridge engineer, Joseph Baermann Strauss, whose company designed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Alas like so much other legacy Boston and Maine infrastructure, this bridge has reached the end of its useful life and a replacement is in the works as described here: archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/799579/ocn...
Leading the freight is CSXT's ex Pan Am Railways GMDD GP40-2W MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472) which was given this mysterious retro fresh Guilford gray paint job at Waterville in August 2020 and has been frequently assigned to BO-1 since then. If you haven't seen what she looked like sparking fresh check out this shot:
This view looks west from the crumbling sidewalk of the Route 1A General Edwards Bridge at the industrial waterfront of the Saugus River. At left is the controversial Wheelabrator Saugus trash incinerator that processes some 1500 tons of municipal waste every day generating up to 37MW of electricity. At right on the Lynn shore is the massive River Works plant of GE Aerospace that employs nearly 2500 and per their web site: has a history that dates back more than 125 years and is recognized as one of the founding sites of the General Electric Company. The site is home to the first U.S. jet engine (1942) and other prominent aviation industry milestones. The Lynn plant is recognized as a U.S. Department of Defense facility that designs, produces, assembles, and tests military and commercial aircraft engines and components.
In the foreground is a grafitti covered pipeline leading to a derelict pumping station on pilings. Alas I've not been able to find any info on when it was built and what it served so if anyone here knows it's history or purpose I'd love to know more.
And while everything looks normal at the moment, change is on the horizon as it was recently announced the Rousselot in Peabody is closing which means the end of the last freight customer remaining north of Boston on the Eastern Route. That may mean the end of BO-1 (or L055 as CSXT now symbols it) which has long been based in Somerville, as it's possible CSXT may choose to serve their Chelsea and Everett customers via Framingham. Regardless of what happens there your chances to photograph freight trains on this bridge or anywhere else on the line will be over by June....so shoot it now, you might not get a second chance.
Saugus, Massachusetts
Thursday March 9, 2023
Inside the draw tunnel of the limekiln at Mere Hill near Waterhouses in the Staffordshire Moorlands. A kiln of this size was a surprise in this remote hilltop location and the transport of the coal to fire it and the finished product must have been difficult.
Now for 0L at the main store provide gifts for everyone to enjoy during these more difficult times in real life. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fox%20Borough/106/33/2498
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10:22
I designed this a few weeks ago but I wasn't able to post it until now. College and traveling and making decisions and spending time with my favorite people certainly gets in the way of doing ordinary things like posting on flickr. Excuses aside, this design was supposed to be my design for New Year's, and I thought I'd explain a little why I decided to choose it for New Year's or not. I don't know if you guys realize it or now, but the verses I choose for my designs are not random. All of them have distinct connections to what's going on in my life and my heart. When I look back at a year of designs I see not only the designs and pictures as places I've been, but also the things that I've learned. You see, I'm sharing with you a verse that personally meant something to me. This verse is my personal challenge for this year. I guess usually we have a vague idea of wanting to progressively come closer to God as time passes, but here we have some clear direction about how to do that. We draw near to him with a clear heart, first. No fog between our heart and the Father. We must clear up our heart before Him. When we do, we can come before Him with confidence and in full assurance in His love for us and in who He is. We can draw near and be close and seek to know Him. Life moves really fast. Days pass, then months, then years. We find our lives passing before our very eyes...but what are we filling the days with. One day when you and I stand before the throne of God, without any worldly goods or accomplishments–we will only have the eternal things. I want to take God up one the things He's asking me to do. I, We only have a little while. Let us draw near to Christ and when He filled our cup to overflowing let it flow out in all that we do. Let us see that the all the "good" and "beautiful" in us is Jesus becoming more and more apparent in our lives and hearts and attitudes. Let us become more like Jesus this year.
Gladys Willems (Belgium) and Carolin Landesfeind (Germany)
World Field Archery Championships 2016
Killruddery House and Gardens - Wicklow - Ireland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=woR_NpKJr3s
To Archery competitors and everyone else, please feel free to use any of the photos from this World Championship photoshoot on your online accounts. Please credit the photo: Photograph by Owen J Fitzpatrick
The exterior of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building is the site of internationally renowned Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s newest artwork. “Draw the Curtain”. It wraps 360 degrees around the temporary scaffolding that encases the Museum building and spans a circumference of 829 feet, becoming the artist’s largest work to date. September 23rd, 2021.
OI-16 has an impressive and colorful four-unit consist, all of which are former Conrail units now assigned to the Conrail Shared Assets Operation. The train is crossing NJ Transit's River Draw which crosses the Raritan River between Perth Amboy and South Amboy. NS 1700, the Erie Lackawanna heritage unit, had been leading the train earlier in the week but was trailing on this day. The trailing two GP38-2s are enroute to local assignment out of Browns Yard.
Oh hey look a Vintage Fair Blog with Vintage Fair stuff and A pretty gabe with chops. tragiclystyled.com/2012/07/30/draw-a-card/
I cant seem to get enough book prints in the shop. :) I think I enjoy drawing them too much!
anyhow, this one is just listed!
Your turn. Draw the line.
Hope you enjoy it!
Technical info:
f/22
ISO100
35mm
61.6s exposure
Software:
Photoshop CS3
SEP2
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Right now my avatar's draw weight is 65,058.
To put that in perspective, most avatars that look similarly detailed have a draw weight between 150,000 and 350,000
The mask, shield and shoulder pauldron are all super high-poly, but I haven't found anything to replace them with. I also still have a fair number of sculpted prims I still need to replace.
If content creators were more concerned with efficiency, it would be easy to achieve this look with a draw weight under 30,000.
LL's mistake was in not realizing that if you do not encourage efficiency, people will not even try to be efficient with their content.
Prim counts on land forced people to create environmental objects with as few prims as possible.
Land Impact did the same with forcing people to take polygon counts into consideration.
Avatar attachments have no such resource limits, so nobody tries to optimize avatar attachments.
Likewise, there are no limits on texture use, so SL is packed with uselessly large textures dragging down framerates.
Hopefully they realize this going forward with their new virtual world endeavour. Their success likely depends on it.