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68007 'Valiant' leads 88009 'Diana' on 4S44 Daventry - Mossend, which was being diverted via the Glasgow & South Western due to engineering works on the WCML over Beattock. The train is seen passing Closeburn north, the 'classic' shot to the south of the village having been heavily compromised by the erection of some stables!
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Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The erection of St Luke's Church was based on similar circumstances to Holy Trinity as both churches were initially proposed to be built of prefabricated materials. The need for immediate accommodation was pressing, given the expansion of Anglicanism in the city. In neither case was the prefabricated church fully erected, although some of the imported materials were incorporated into the earliest parts of them. Prefabrication was important to the expansion and consolidation of British colonial outposts and St Luke's, although a late example of prefabricated building construction, is historically significant as it represents this important tool of colonisation used by the Anglican Church. The need for a church in the south-western corner of the city was recognised by 1853. During Reverend James Pollitt's term it was decided to erect a church to seat 450 persons on the present site which was provided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Bishop of Adelaide, Dr Short, then in England, purchased an iron church on behalf of the Building Committee. However, when the committee was notified that the cost would be £2000 it was decided to erect a cheaper stone structure designed by Edmund Wright. In the meantime, however, the bishop had ordered an iron church to be fabricated and forwarded to South Australia. In September 1854 it was stated that an iron church '. . . expected soon to arrive' had been purchased for £750 which, with the cost of erection and other disbursements, would effectively double that figure.
St Luke's Church served a parish that was mainly residential and working class. In the 1920s and 1930s when the economic depression created much hardship the church involved itself in local missionary work, as did St. Mary Magdalene's Church on the western fringes of the Young Ward which was built as a mission church. Mission work at St Luke's continued after the Depression in the form of various social services. One of the early services was the setting up of Grey Ward Boys' Institute by the Reverend DJ. Knox. Now privately owned, the former rectory has been a night shelter for homeless youths for ten years and is shortly to become a boarding house.
Most Shots of this series, interiors and exteriors, were taken at Graylady Sedgewick Mansion, Bunyip
Chapter 15
Subsequent Aftermath
Once Vyper had reached the parking lot, her victim, still shivering naked to the cold night air, turned, then motioned to a hidden alcove on the far side of the water fountain…
Two detectives, ones who had been posted in the gardens to watch over her, came out quickly to aid her now that the Vyper had seemingly made her getaway.
They had brought her inside to the front parlour, a uniform was stationed outside the door.
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When he entered, her husband found her clad in one of his detective’s long coat, sitting by a lit fireplace, calmly drinking a whiskey and soda.
She had pulled off the blonde wig, freeing her longish red hair… The wig was now hanging from the head of a marble bust of Winston Churchill!
She looked up as her husband entered, and watched with a surprising casualness, as he gently laid her dress, negligee, and heels on a chair.
He then turns to face her, an apologetic grin on his beaded mug…
She rose, and without a word, fled into his arms.
He hugged his wife close, relieved that she was okay after her stint of acting out the rich decoy used to lure in the female master thief known as Vyper!
“We got her said soothingly, Caught the Vyper as she tried to wriggle free! Our operation called ‘Bindweed’ was successful….”
His wife, a method actress by trade, finally broke away, a subtle smile upon her lips as she spoke….
“You owe me mister; I don’t recall being stripped naked as being a part of your pre-plan preparations for the operation!”
He chuckled, rubbing a hand along his beard…
“You mean a whiskey and soda isn’t considered a hazard pay bonus?”
“Not, surely laddie!” She smirked, her Irish accent coming out as it did when she was in a teasing mood!
Her husband, hearing this banter from his wife, gratefully understood that she wasn’t scarred by the evening’s escapade, looked down into her eyes….
He sighed…
“So, what was up with you wearing your personal jewellery? Thought we had a chat about that my love?
She looked up endearingly at him…
“It was supposed to be a surprise, for later this evening, don’cha know, lad of mine!”
He had tried to admonish her, failing miserably, as usual!
Still, he wanted to make sure she knew the consequences by telling her…
“It will be later now, months before all of that will be released from evidence!”
She just smiled, like a cat who had caught, and was hiding, the canary!
“Ok, now what!?” he asked….
She answered with a wickedly happy smile…
“Well a little bird may have told me about a similar navel pin, one set in emeralds, you see!”
He smirked, placing a hand so it cupped his wife’s chin, lifting her eyes to meet his…
“Would that bird have the same name as my twin sister, the one you are thicke like thieves with?”
His wife just smiled smugly, then said…
“That’s just for starter, you know!”
He sighed, giving in, happy that the nights' adventures were over, and had not taken an even worse turn then they had!
“Okay lass, let’s have the rest of your payoff demands!”
His wife picked up her drink, and while sipping it, walked over and ran her hands lovingly, stroking along the white taffeta dress.
She then looked up at her Detective Chief Inspector husband, and purred her answer…
“Since your office paid for this, and I wouldn’t call it evidence, I think I should have it for keeps, and a certain DCI needs to treat me to a real night out on the town wearing it, as opposed to this this roleplay mush! That may begin to satisfy this lass!”
Holding up his hands, he agrees…
“I thought you were going to demand the jewels, of course, they were only on loan!”
She smirked, saying playfully as she raised the glass to her lips,
“I’ll be wearing my own emeralds luv, thanks just the same, along with my new pin! Now be off with you, I need to dress, or then, maybe I won’t ?!”
He arched an eyebrow, as she blew him a coyly executed kiss…
Then he turned on heel and made, a bit stiffly from his newly formed erection, for the door, saying as he did so….
“I need to see how the questioning is going on, anyways….”
He left as he heard his wife giggling merrily behind him….
“Bring back another drink for me, and one for yourself, eh lad! I will keep my fires burning!”
Fini
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Macro Mondays - In a Row
-explored 3.10.2016-
OM-D E-M10
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro
Nissin i40
Since my bitchy buddy dave has showed off his big woods yesterday, i can't lose out too so i need to find some woody poles shot to TOP him off (oh did i just say that? LMAO!) This, as u might know, is an old shot but in a different angle again. I reckon this truly presents the verticals of the verticals! Ta da! The wonder of multiple erections (esp for those who haven't seen this before! :P) Hope u will enjoy this still! :))) Happy Tuesday!
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The Remains of the Old Jetty at Port Wilunga
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to enhance the foreshore
- Added 1 layer mask effects of 'saturation' (blues) to adjust the the sky
- Applied digital blending of 1 tonemapped hdr to correct the water movement
- Applied 'spot heal' tool to get rid of the stained marks from the lens
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
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This large masonry building was erected in 1895 as the principal offices and warehouse for Burns, Philp & Company Ltd, one of North Queensland's most successful trading enterprises.
The firm was founded in Townsville in 1873, when James Burns established a general retail business in Flinders Street. Robert Philp (later Sir Robert, KCMG and twice Queensland premier) acquired a share in the business in 1876. Due to ill health, Burns returned to Sydney in 1877, leaving Philp to manage the Townsville store.
In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Burns and Philp individually established trading networks in North Queensland, which were amalgamated as Burns, Philp & Company Ltd in 1883. By 1887 the company had disposed of their retail concerns, concentrating on the importation and wholesaling of general merchandise, and general shipping and insurance, with branches in London, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island, Normanton, Charters Towers, Cooktown, and New Guinea. The firm was employing 300 persons, owned their own fleet of small trading vessels, and was pioneering trade, communications and exploration throughout North Queensland, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. The company also had interests in North Queensland sugar, gold, and pastoralism. Although Robert Philp was bankrupted in the 1890s and resigned his interests in the firm in 1893, the name of Burns, Philp & Company Ltd was retained.
In Townsville, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd had acquired approximately 200 metres of Ross Creek frontage, on which they erected wharves and warehouses, with their offices in an old building which had been erected in the 1860s for Robert Towns and John Melton Black, the founders of Townsville. By 1895, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd dominated trade in Townsville, and their importance to this town and to North Queensland in general was illustrated in the erection of substantial new premises.
The new building was erected in nine months by contractor GS Gordon, and was opened on the 12th of November 1895. It was designed by Sydney architects the McCredie Brothers. Claude Chambers, in partnership with the McCredies from 1889 - 1893, supervised the construction of this building to the design of George McCredie. Arthur McCredie designed Burns, Philp & Company Ltd's principal Sydney offices, completed in 1901 and extended in 1909.
The two-storeyed section with frontages to Wickham and Flinders Streets housed the main offices: the shipping department on the ground floor and the manager's office and cashiers' and correspondence department on the upper floor. There was also a strong room and lavatory at each level. The three-storeyed section fronting Flinders Street was mainly warehousing, although the merchandise department, and behind this, the spirit room, were located on the ground floor adjacent to the shipping office, and accessed from this office via a door beneath the front staircase.
The building was designed for expansion. The walls, including the north-western end wall of the warehouse, were constructed with bricked-in arches to facilitate later extensions. In 1903 the company planned a three-storeyed brick extension to the warehouse along Flinders Street; this scheme was not carried out, but in 1913 - 1914 a long, single-storeyed, concrete warehouse extension was erected (no longer extant).
In 1922, the company's architect in Townsville, Walter Hunt, designed alterations to the offices and ground floor of the warehouse, extending the office area. These were carried out in three stages during 1922 and 1923. At this period, the arches separating the shipping and merchandising departments were exposed, and the large arched doorway from Flinders Street into the warehouse was bricked in, and three windows were placed in the bay.
On the 22nd of January 1949, fire gutted two floors of the hardware section of the building, causing substantial damage to the interior of the warehouse, including the collapse of the first floor. The roof and floors were replaced.
Burns, Philp & Company Ltd retained the building until 1977. At this stage the two-storeyed section was converted into a night club, a doorway was cut in the second end bay of the former warehouse, and the latter was converted to office accommodation. The building (including the former office accommodation) has largely been used as an entertainment venue since its initial conversion, with the property transferred to new owners in 2021.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
After 10 summers of cruising the lake, I initially saw from a distance these unfamiliar shapes arising at the entrance to a small sheltered bay. Eager to investigate further, I arrived to find these cairns mysteriously stacked by some anonymous but clearly patient visitor. I was impressed and paddled as closely as possible to investigate, my initial thought being that they might be glued together and placed. Not so.
The middle structure being remarkable in that there was a secondary small stack also rising from the base stone. The far stone had only one small addition...purposeful or out of time?
Checking later, the cairn in the foreground had collapsed, returning to the shallow bottom filled with stones which had perhaps inspired the effort in the first place.
Goodness is like an erection ... if you have it, everyone can see it:
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La bondad es como una ereccion.. si la tienes, todos pueden verla:
Anónimo
On Explore! November 7, 2007! #149
Thank you very much to all of you my dear Flickr friends for your so kind comments!
Dedicated to my Wild River!!! :)))
Just look at her wonderful curves… all the trees are in erection along her banks and want to protect her!!! :)))
Wild Child… by Enya… just see the fabulous coloration of this video!!! :)))
“APOLLO 10 ERECTION----The first (S-1C) stage of the Saturn 505 launch vehicle being prepared for erection in the high bay area of the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Saturn 505 is the launch vehicle for the Apollo 10 mission.”
Okay, so this parking of “non-flight” CSM/SLA stacks - off to the side(s) - of the VAB transfer aisle, over the years, has always been somewhat confusing, to me at least, with regard to identification.
None more so than in this photograph.
I’m thinking M-11 is to the rear. If so, then what the hell is the nearer one? Further confounding matters is that - to me - the length of the foreground SM is truncated. It actually looks like the forward-most circumferential ring/panel(s) has/have been removed, thus also exposing a wider than ‘normal’ sized gap between CM & SM. What was that gap about anyhow???
Talking about SMs, they appeared to come totally sans, partially or fully equipped with RCS quads, evident here. Which configuration went with what CM??? Was there interchangeability? What determined the configuration?
HOLY COW! FANTASTIC:
www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/apollo/vaisseaux/...
Credit: The consistently amazing "CAPCOM ESPACE" website
Hope you like this nice & strong erection ! lol! :D & there is a tiny weeny rainbow too!
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The Cape Du Couedic Lighthouse in Kangaroo Island, South Australia
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) in RAW taken handheld
Camera :: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens :: Canon EF 17-40mm F/4L USM
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 2 layer mask effect of 'curves' for overall contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens) to darken the vegetations
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues & cyans) to slightly tone down the sky
- Applied 'free transform' to straighten the horizon
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Erection of the Mars habitats is entirely automated. Drone transports send supplies and materials from orbit to a predetermined drop-zone. The resources are unpacked by robots and sent onto smaller courier drones (pictured above) that deliver the components to the outlying build sites.
When Man does arrive on the Red Planet he will have warm coffee waiting for him in his new Martian habitats.