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New Haven Railroad heavyweight Pullman parlor car Warwick Light, plan 3916 B, is seen in a yard, ca 1940's. This car has an air conditioning duct mounted on the roof. This car most likely has an electro-mechanical air conditioning system, since no ice storage bunkers are seen on either side of the under-body. The trucks used on this car are an older style six wheel bolt on pedestal style drop equalized truck.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W image that was on the Internet.
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This piece of American history, "the Equalizer," is a Colt model 1873, Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, the gun that you see in all the old western movies, and the gun that, along with the Winchester '73 repeating rifle, is generally referred to as one of the guns that won the west. You saw it in "Showdown at the O.K. Coral," and in real life, it was adopted as the standard U.S. military service revolver in 1892 and was favored by lawmen, cowboys and desperadoes alike. Often one would be armed with a Colt SAA and a Winchester '73, both chambered for the .44-40, a pretty meek cartridge by today's standards, but it got the job done and had the very real advantage of providing one round that fit both the rifle and the revolver.
I bought this one, chambered for the .44 special, 25 years ago, and had I really wanted to maximize the "Classic" value of it, I would probably have been better off buying one in the more traditional .45 Colt chambering; but this has the advantage that I can use the same dies for reloading the .44 special as I can for my .44 magnum, and with the cost of ammunition being what it is today, loading your own ammunition is a must, unless you're a lot wealthier than I am (I've been hand loading all my ammunition since I was 17}. I haven't shot it all that much (haven't done any shooting in the past couple of years), and when I have shot it, I've tended to baby it, using only light loads and staying far away from the near .44 magnum loads loads that Elmer Keith favored before he and Smith & Wesson developed the real .44 magnum by stretching the .44 special cartridge case a small fraction of an inch. It's a crying shame to leave it locked away in a dark closet, and I've really gotta take it to the range, which is only three miles from my house, and give it some exercise.
ODT, "Blast from the Past," "Arms," "Classic," "Historic."
Yesterday I attended TIFF to see the Premier of The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. During the show, the fire alarm went off and we all had to evacuate the building. Luckily the fire dept. gave us clearance to re-enter and see the end of the show. It was a violent, but very good show.
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My entry for Light Painting Competitions and Themes- December 2011 - Household Objects
Quite a frustrating shoot, first the switch on my digital light wand falls to bits and then my el wire breaks. Grrrrr. It could also really do with a slight exposure, contrast and white balance tweak, but the competition has a SOOC rule (although not everyone seems to obey it!)
Title and idea inspired by a comment made by Sprogz
New Haven Railroad Pullman heavyweight parlor car Noank, Pullman plan 3917, is seen in a yard, ca 1940's. This car is has an ice activated air conditioning system, with three ice storage bunkers mounted to the under-body. The trucks used on this car are of the more modern design six wheel straight equalized integral cast design with the pedestals included.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W image that was on the Internet.
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With the boyfriend away for the weekend I was all set to catch up on some reading and housework, when m'buddy (a fellow photographer, DJ and engineer) mentioned he'd planned to attend the Pride event in Cologne, and would I like to come along?
Reading can wait.
I'd been to Cologne before of course, admiring its beautiful Dom cathedral from without and within, though I remember it having a lot more scaffolding around it. I hadn't visited the city during a time when it saw not one but two important public events: the Pride celebration of diversity and equality and love and all that good stuff, and an apparently historic football match between Germany and Italy.
The latter dominated Saturday evening. Bars were crowded but quiet, occasionally surging with excitement that ebbed crescendoed as goals were attempted, missed, completed and then equalized, culminating in sudden-death overtime that went on a surprisingly (and evidently thrillingly) long time.
Germany won. Cheers and jeers rose throughout the city, beers were clanged, strangers were hugged and kissed and for the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of people in a nighttime city intersection, all headbanging in delirious ecstasy to an unannounced houm-pah-pah marching band playing Rage Against The Machine on brass and drums.
A gaggle of orange-shirted Dutch football fans celebrated with their Eastern brethren by chanting "Alle Duitsers zijn homo's" to which the Germans responded with "Alle Niederländer sind Homo's" in good spirits, accurate rhythm and surprisingly consistent key.
Prescient in a way, because on Sunday that very much seemed to be borne out. I've visited and enjoyed Amsterdam's annual Canal Pride many times (our parade floats actually float, y'all) but hadn't yet seen a street parade, and I'm so glad m'buddy cajoled me into tagging along.
In the spirit of togetherness and diversity and exuberance I'd brought along my little photo printer. I sneakily befriended various couples and groups by giving them a portrait to take home, and in exchange was easily allowed to sneak to the front for a better view of the parade.
In one case, when a lady tried to give me two euros for the print and the only way I could demur was to ask for a peck on the cheek instead, the leather-clad beardo standing next to her proudly told me she was her daughter and that, by Westphalian law, I was now betrothed to marry her.
Soooo I'm rather glad I'm home and if anyone is well-versed in EU law, please let me know how far David and I will need to emigrate to escape the looming threat of that shotgun wedding, thanks in advance, please help, for real though please help thank you please.
The parade of course was more, shall we say, colorful than the wholesome and family-friendly joie-de-vivre here depicted, but I leave it to your delicate imaginations to picture how the great city of Cologne celebrates Pride!
— Alex "Khaki" Vance.
I'm @khakidoggy on Twitter; see more event photography at www.flickr.com/photos/alexfvance/albums/
View On Black My first tone mapped image I'm still not quite sure how I feel about this image is it overdone? I like how it brought out better detail in the clouds than on the original image it was taken when the sun was starting to blow out the highlights in the clouds tone mapped using the following software and parameters.
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The steam engine N2-293 (Н2-293) of the Finnish Railways of The Russian Empire. On August 9, 1917 it hauled the train on which Vladimir Lenin first left Russia and went to Finland, and then secretly returned to Russia on October 7, 1917, to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.
The locomotive was built at the Richmond Locomotive Works in 1900. It was bought in 1913 and operated by the Finnish Railway of the Russian Empire on the suburban section St. Petersburg–Raivola (Рощино). After 1924 it was transferred to Finland and returned to Russia in 1957 as a gift from Finland on the anniversary of the October revolution. In 1961 it was installed on the Finland railway station.
Exposition on the Finland Station (Finlandsky Vokzal / Stantsiya Sankt-Peterburg-Finlyandskiy) of Saint-Petersburg.
Yes My Dear Visitor .. You might wonder about my point … Well I will explain it for you, Sit somewhere in an open area I prefer the beach usually it makes me think a lot.
Then Start thinking about the universe we live in, think about every single creature in this world animals, birds, plants, humans .. Etc.
There is no one strong in it, yes NO ONE, the Lion can be hunt by human or by another lion, A big huge elephant you know how big they are but it can be killed if a small little mice goes in its ears, Human can be killed by animals or from their own kind.
NO one stays the hero Forever and no one stays the bravest or strongest in this world forever.
Countries they were leading the world one day and now its vice versa and they are controlled by the countries the were controlling earlier.
Read the news papers watch the news .. no one stays as they are.
God Made the universe in a very nice and perfect system that no one stays with their power so that they wont reach to the level of deception and destroy every and not to let people believe in their power.
Yes this is the amazing life we live one day you are the boss and control everything and one day you will be controlled by someone else.
But over all we are all controlled by only one person in this huge universe By GOD yes Some people under estimates the power of GOD and they don’t know what GOD can do in life, he can make you rich in a second or make you poor in another.
What made me write all of the above is when I was driving that day and the sun kept really bothering me with those sharp rays Since my sunglasses wasn’t with me and after a while the sun rays it was gone at that moment I saw the clouds covering the sun it even made me See the sun as its moon or a piece of candy.
Anyway myself I don’t have much time to write more so enjoy the shot.
A "tea equalizer" at the Chá Porto Formoso museum factory. Founded in the 1920, the factory operated until the 1980s, serving both the national market and exporting internationally. The operations ceased due to the small production, limited by Sao Miguel's characteristics, and in 1998 the facilities were restored to operate at small volumes, compensated for by the side operation as a museum. It is very interesting to go through the factory and see each stage of the tea production process. Porto Formoso, together with the nearby Gorreana Tea Factory, are the only facilities in Europe to process the leaves of "Camellia sinensis" for tea production. Some scholars argue that this plant, the source of green tea and black tea, was introduced in the Azores in 1750 by the ships returning from the East.
CLAHE stands for Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization, implemented as plugin module for ImageJ.
Suggested by Bushman.K it was found to be not quite compatible with the solar images, but works well on the Moon :)
The lunar image of 04.07.2015, around 23:30 MSK, taken with TIS DMK23 via 2x Barlow on Meade series 6000 80 mm f/6 triplet refractor.
Panoramic image of six panels, 20% of 1000 (ok, 200) frames stacked, stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved (AstraImage Richardson-Lucy, Cauchy, 0,3-9), wavelet-sharpened (1-10-15-5-1), CLAHEd in ImageJ (127-255-2), wavelet again (1-5-10-5-1) and some contrast added in PS.
Note: the white square is the histogram trap for deconvolution to correctly normalise the processed image. I was finally able to save Aristarchus from becoming saturated.
A Model 2 coilgun, heavily customized by an unknown interplanetary gang. Has a cut-down stock, a different, much more compact barrel assembly made from an ''Ultracompact'' kit. Has a customized Mk.3 bayonet found on an M2c MIR, but it can come without it as well. The gun itself is fairly rare, as the gang didn't last long before disappearing.
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I got bored and did this. Hope you like it I guess.
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Credit goes to caiobrazil (a fella from dA), for the inspiration.
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May Day Eve - Sony A77 II with Hoya Cross Screen Filter on Sony DT 18-70 mm 1:3.5-5.6 Zoom - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Student activists from CT Students for a Dream (C4D) and supporters rally to demand justice in higher education for undocumented students with legislation that equalizes access to student-generated funds: State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, Thursday, April 13, 2017.
"In Connecticut, public colleges and universities set aside a proportion of tuition revenue to be used as ‘institutional aid’ to assist students with a demonstrated financial need. However, immigrant students who have grown up in CT and have graduated high school here are not eligible for this student-generated aid. All Connecticut students, including undocumented students, pay tuition and therefore contribute towards this institutional aid pool of funds. Yet Connecticut does not allow immigrant students access to institutional aid themselves. This aid is student funded, we believe all students who pay tuition should be be eligible to receive it.”
The Equalizer / El protector
--¿Qué ve cuando me mira?--¿Qué ve usted cuando me mira a mí?..
--"What do you see when you look at me?"-- "What do you see when you look at me?"...
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the great equalizer.
Water is in short supply in the deserts of Namibia. All kinds of animals gather in these small collections of water called waterholes. They drink together peacefully till some of the big cats show up.
A little girl splashing her mother with brightly colored powder celebrates the Indian Hindu festival of Holi in Foster City, California. The look of joy on her face is worth a million dollars. The ancient tradition "Holi", also known as the "Festival of Colors" dates back to as early as the fourth century and commemorates the beginning of spring, the harvest and the triumph of good versus evil. Rooted in Indian mythology, the festival also celebrates equality. The colors that people throw at each other during the festival serve as a symbolic equalizer in the contest of India's caste system (it means that the caste doesn't matter anymore).
An der Ecke Sachsendamm, Erfurtplatz in Braunschweig - Heidberg macht ein Bagger seine Arbeit. Ein direkt an der Tram Haltestelle gelegener Kiosk hat seinen Zweck erfüllt und wird dem Boden gleich gemacht. Die Zeit der Kioske geht damit zu Ende, zumindest an dieser Stelle.
At the corner Sachsendamm, Erfurtplatz in Braunschweig - Heidberg, an excavator makes its work. A kiosk located directly at the tram stop has served its purpose and is equalized to the ground. The time of the kiosk ends with this, at least at this point.
Jupiter has its "Great Red Spot"...our sky the other night had a yellow one.
Equalized clouds are pretty darn cool!
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This is my first attempt at making a stereographic projection. I was amazed how long it took to process this image with Hugin. It took several hours and I am on a very fast computer. There still are a few flaws in it, but overall it turned out pretty nicely I think. I posted adrian3.com/3/15 if you are curious to learn a little more about the panoramic shots I have been posting recently.