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This rare example of railroad technology demonstrates how a steam locomotive was turned around, using only compressed air, over 130 years ago. Acquired by the Texas State Railroad in 1981, the turntable was originally built in the late 1890s by the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railroad located in Paris, Texas. Starting in 1902, it served a six-stall roundhouse at their Paris rail yard.
Engine number 316 is the oldest locomotive operated on the[Texas State Railroad. This engine was built in 1901 by the A. L. Cooke Locomotive Works for the Texas & Pacific Railway, and is the only operating T. & P. steam locomotive in existence. In 1951 the locomotive was saved from the scrappers torch by a remarkable Lady (who wished to remain anonymous). She purchased the engine and, with help from the T. & P., donated it to the city of Abilene in honor of its' seventy -fifth anniversary as a city. In 1974 the citizens of Abilene graciously donated the locomotive to the newly formed Texas State Railroad State Historical Park.
Let's face it now, it isn't everyday we see a genuine example of anti gravity anywhere let alone in agarden is it now? Yet here we have it along with the evidence, and not just any garden - it's in our garden! I know, it's incredible, but its not for sale so don't even go there.
The only other example I can think of is those UFO things that keep turning up on people's phones, but as folks don't believe in those, that makes this little baby unique does it not.
I'll tell you something else, it's totally silent, doesn't make a sound and you can pass your hands all around and underneath it like one of those stage magicians - it doesn't seem to mind. Nor, does it limit itself to any one flowerbed, oh no it moves with it's whims not just the sun, hot border in the morning, vegetable patch in the afternoon - it even followed me into the house one day!
A couple of days after taking this very photo, my wife and I had to pop to the garden centre (we were looking for something inter dimensional) and this little baby kept pace with us for an entire kilometre. It was only as we turned out of our road and my wife put the pedal to the metal that we thought we had lost it - I say 'thought' because when we pulled into the car park at the garden centre about 10 miles away there it was! I don't think anyone else saw it for it was hovering about 50 feet in the air directly over the compost bags, as it did so it slowly rotated and as the sun caught its petals it appeared to change colour - just like one of those bona fide UFOs that don't exist, and when we got home an hour later, there it was, sunning itself next to the garlic. I know, I know, it's incredible, but it isn't for sale so don't even go there....
The nature of a flower is to wait patiently for spring.
Flowers don't worry or complain about every little thing.
The nature of a flower is an example to all.
When wind and rain threaten, a flower stands straight and tall.
~ Roy Lessin, "Reflections"
Example of use of TOPAZ AI SHARPEN
A Chiffchaff taking off
Un pouillot veloce qui s'envole
It's impossible to recover a movement blur with a sharpening filter : a sharpening filter will only add noise in this case but it will never recover details.
TOPAZ AI SHARPEN includes a new function called STABILIZE that is different from a simple sharpening filter. It tries to find a movement on the photo and to cancel it. That's why sometimes there are small artifacts on the opposite side of the movement, but it is really easy to deal with them with GIMP or photoshop.
To conclude : this tool deserves a try as it is free for 30 days.
It is very usefull for animals in movement (birds in flight, animals running ...), but it can manage movement of the photographer too.
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The "Corral de Comedias de Almagro" is located in the Plaza Mayor of this city of La Mancha.
Declared a National Monument on March 4, 1955, it maintains the original structure of the 17th-century comedy Corrals, probably due to the continuity of its use as an inn.
It is the only example of theater of this kind preserved in its entirety; that occurred both in seventeenth-century Spain and in the England of Elizabethan theater.
Following the popularity of the Almagro Classical Theater Festival and the Corral de Comedias, in 1994 the National Theater Museum was installed in Almagro, where the history and evolution of theater in Spain meets.
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El Corral de Comedias de Almagro está ubicado en la Plaza Mayor de esta ciudad de La Mancha.
Declarado Monumento Nacional el 4 de marzo de 1955, mantiene la estructura original de la comedia del siglo XVII Corrales, probablemente debido a la continuidad de su uso como posada.
Es el único ejemplo de teatro de este tipo conservado en su totalidad; eso ocurrió tanto en la España del siglo XVII como en la Inglaterra del teatro isabelino.
Tras la popularidad del Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro y el Corral de Comedias, en 1994 se instaló el Museo Nacional de Teatro en Almagro, donde se encuentra la historia y la evolución del teatro en España.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Tradition".
The New Years Eve tradition of 'Bleigießen' (molibdomancy/lead-pouring), is commonly found in certain parts of Europe and some other countries, if online sources are to be believed. Small metal figurines (in shapes of good luck symbols, bottles etc.) are molten in a special spoon over a candle and then poured into a bowl of water! The shapes which are created by that are then interpreted as signs/symbols for the coming year!
In my home country of Austria it‘s not something everybody does, but it seems to be common enough for these little metal figurines to be sold in grocery stores all around! If you stop to think about it, it‘s probably not the best idea ever to add molten metal and fumes into the mix of fireworks, lack of sleep and alcohol that accompany that night, but I guess part of tradition is also not constantly questioning it 😅!
Shot with a Fuji "Fujinon-EFC 108 mm F 5.6" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
The Yellow Mongoose, also known as the Red Meerkat, is a member of the mongoose family and was persecuted in the past as it was believed to be a predator of newborn babies. In the wild it eats insects, rodents, birds and lizards. This example is captive.
In an example of good retention-pond design, the verges of the polishing pond of Cross Creek Ranch are lined with reeds, thick in many places, which prevent erosion, of course, but which also provide refuge for birds. Fulshear, Texas.
Victoria and Albert Museum:
Examples of the works of Art in the Museum – South Kensington Museum – Published in 2 Volumes in 1881 – Book 1
Sometime ago I posted some of the illustrations from the above book and I hoped that would be able to find them physically in the museum and photograph them. I took the second set of 15 illustrations from this book and went on the V & A website; Search the Collections. My results were based upon the following criteria:
(1) Items I couldn’t find anywhere
(2) Items that were in storage
(3) Items I did locate and photograph.
So I will be posting them, along with their locations in the museum, against the original plate and photograph from storage (where possible). The original price and any further information I might find.
One thing I didn’t count on, was that internal renovations would alter the interior of the building so drastically. I have found it very difficult to pin some of these locations down but in the main they have been found which now completes Volume 1.
Pearl is proud of her ability to adjust to weekend lockdowns. It's all a matter of getting comfortable, she thinks.
Cases dropped in Turkey from 32,000 daily before the restrictions to just 6,000, but last week they rose back up to the 8,000 level. Disturbing.
A great example of clouds - this is taken when I visited Mt Fuji. I was so excited to see the mountain and essentially it was socked in for all but 2 min we were there! I only caught a glimpse of this massive cone. This was one of my attempts to grab a picture - the clouds were just too much. That day those clouds actually produced snow...we were on Mt Fuji and it snowed, which was really cool even if I didn't get my "epic" shot.
And one of the finest examples of Flowing Decorated tracery in this stained glass window!
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Another place I made a few trips to during the Denver years was Tennessee Pass. I think my trip in June 1996 was my last trip there. Any empty ballast train is rolling Eastbound as the roll through Pando. Another example of ETTS.
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style. Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of this style, which came into fashion having slowly spread from Florence. Its arrival in Britain coincided with the period when it was no longer necessary or legal to fortify a domestic dwelling.- Wikipedia
Today's example of AI comes from some stuff I've been generating for my wife, the world's biggest Lucille Ball fan.
Portrait of a Cornflower.
The cornflower is considered a beneficial weed and its edible flower can be used for culinary decoration, for example to add colour to salads.
Cornflowers have been used and prized historically for their blue pigment.
Cornflowers are often used as an ingredient in some tea blends and herbal teas and is famous in the Lady Grey blend of Twinings.
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The original northern lights image (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/23645466565/in/album-7...) is considerably enhanced to bring out the shadows and improve on color balance, with this revision.
Red aurora is rare at high latitudes so when this occurred, I took lots of exposures. In the day of film, the spectrum of color was not always captured accurately. In this version which occurred at the on-set of twilight, I managed to record the aurora lit by the first rays of the sun. That purple-blue is this resulting phenomena.
More specifically: This photo is taken shortly before sunrise, when the sun illuminates the upper part of the aurora. Ions that are produced by the aurora at these altitudes scatter the blue part of the sunlight, causing the upper edge of the aurora to look blue.
Scotney Castle
Country House
Scotney Castle is an English country house with formal gardens south-east of Lamberhurst in the valley of the River Bewl in Kent, England. It belongs to the National Trust. The gardens, which are a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a celebrated example of the Picturesque style, are open to the public. The central feature is the ruins of a medieval, moated manor house, Scotney Old Castle, which is on an island on a small lake. The lake is surrounded by sloping, wooded gardens with fine collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmia for spring colour, summer wisteria and roses, and spectacular autumn colour.
Example done for a review and giveaway of the emnotes notebook that will be posted on 6/6/17 at my Life Imitates Doodles blog.
Hội An, formerly known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo, is a city with a population of approximately 120,000 in Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province and noted since 1999 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Old Town Hội An, the city's historic district, is recognized as an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century, its buildings and street plan reflecting a unique blend of influences, indigenous and foreign. Prominent in the city's old town, is its covered "Japanese Bridge," dating to the 16th-17th century.
Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, This example was seen in the garden of The Charterhouse in Hull,
To be very frankly. Until now, I still have no idea what is that bright colour reflection in the water drop?
May be it is the shed in my backyard. This is the water drops macro done in my backyard in 2013.
Would you take a closer look and make a wild guess too? :o)
Have a great evening!
Have you examined and studied your inner micro-universe?
If photography is art of seeing, then philosophy is art of thinking. Philosophy guides us in asking the right questions and reviewing the basic assumptions and working mechanism in our mind.
For example, you may tease the idiot followers of technology that line up in front of the Apple stores. However do you believe that Photoshop and RAW files are going to help you improve your photography? Is this coming from the similar kind of ideology? Do you think you have a critical mind independent of all the mass media and internet brain-wash?
Are you able to doubt or challenge the words of God and/or those from the leaders in the political, religious, academic or scientific fields? The philosophers can give you a hand on this.
This is the galaxy of micro-universe I saw in my backyard.
Have a great philosophical Wednesday!
Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. - René Descartes
我思故我在。 - 笛卡爾
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeonghuigung:
Sungjeongjeon (崇政殿) is the main hall of the palace. It was built in 1616 but was moved to Dongguk University in 1926 and repurposed as a buddhist temple in Japanese colonial times, and moved back to original location and renovated between 1988 and 1994. It’s considered an example of mid-joseon period architecture. Sungjeongjeon is designated as Municipal Treasure 20.
They're all around us, textures, those lines and patterns, seemingly purposeful, sometimes random.
Look closely in nature and you'll find them everywhere, they draw you in, sometimes they are impossibly perpendicular. Here is an example of textures that at a cursory glance make no sense, how could this monolith possibly form naturally with lines that are virtually opposite those a mere few feet below them. Bry will give you the precise explanation, it'll blow your mind, time scales and natural evolution of the landscape which one can barely comprehend. Nature is awesome.
10 exposures went into this image, 4 for the sky and 6 for the foreground, shot with an h-alpha modified Nikon Z6 and Tamron 35mm f1.4 on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. Foreground exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 1600, sky exposures are 2 minutes at f2 and ISO 800.
The Master III meter finally bit the dust, glass fell in which is a common fault, so although nostalgia means it is retired with honour a replacement was due.
Step forward the advance that was the following model the IV which enjoyed only a short reign from 1960 until 1963 when the model V was introduced.
Why only the IV given decent examples of all the more modern models are common but the IV, due to the short run or perhaps to photographers like me that see it's advantages, less so?
The IV was a complete redesign, new casing smaller size, lighter but more importantly higher sensitivity (an extra stop at the low end) and with the needle lock. In this model an intuitive slider, replaced by a press action, far inferior in use IMHO, in all later models. A redesigned Invercone, marked IV as it will not fit earlier models, the V invercone is the same but marked IV and V, much confusion in poorly informed e-bay sellers, beware, I had to return a IV supplied with the "correct" cone, no it wasn't it was a Model III fit.
Now rather like early M3 Leica production there seems to have been much "tinkering" during the shortish run. There are certainly two calculator dials one, as in my Serial M example, that is "simplified" ie much clearer to read but with a silver "Setting" arrow and a more "traditional" one seen in at least the Y series more like a complex slide rule with a red arrow resembling the Series III. Some models have the ASA rating, yes Weston Ratings are gone, with a ratchet type click lock others seem not to but that could be wear perhaps, on others the slide lock button works in the opposite direction, all interesting but the light still gets measured.
This one tested accurate against my "standards".
A tip for buyers is to look for one sold with a tatty or well worn case, that means, hopefully, it has been stored protected from light most of its life which is what preserves the cell. The lock by the way is often instructed to be engaged when stored, the manual says the opposite of course !!
I am more than happy with my £10 expenditure with cases for both meter and invercone and the year 1960 matches one of my favourite M2 bodies, win, win.
For the curious the red blocks against 25th 50th 100th are speeds of 30th 60th and 125th for the cameras with those speeds.
Texas and Pacific 610 is the only surviving example of the Texas and Pacific Railway's (T&P) class I-1AR 2-10-4 locomotives. Built by the Lima Locomotive Works in June 1927, No. 610 and its class were based on Lima's prototype "Super Power" 2-8-4 design. Seen here pulling into Toccoa, Ga back in the lte 70's
Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
Some species in the genus Knipolegus are best separated by the differences in females, rather than in males. For example, males in Sao Francisco Black Tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus), Velvety Black Tyrant (Knipolegus nigerrimus) and Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) look almost identical, but females in each of these species have their own look.
On other hand, the species Crested Black Tyrant (Knipolegus lophotes) doesn't have sexual dimorphism, with male and females looking exactly the same. But the species is unique in the genus in having a conspicuous crest, which helps the id.
The genus name combines the Ancient Greek knips meaning "insect" and legō meaning "to pick".
Known locally as "maria-preta-de-bico-azulado".
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Tyranni
Family: Tyrannidae
Subfamily: Fluvicolinae
Genus: Knipolegus F. Boie, 1826
Species: K. cyanirostris (Vieillot, 1818)
Binomial name: Knipolegus cyanirostris
An example done for my review of the Ocher 'Terra' Watercolour - 24 half pan palette from Sister’s Ink.
Sister’s Ink Ocher 'Terra' Watercolour palette is a unique palette of handmade paints full of earthy yellows, reds, and browns. This is a palette designed to create rich Australian Outback landscapes. It also has enough blue and green to make it possible to paint a wider range of subjects - you know me. I like to show you just how flexible a palette can be!
These are pan paints with a lovely felt case to hold the clear acrylic palette. You can find my review at Doodlewash: doodlewash.com/ocher-terra-watercolour-palette-sisters-in...
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(Yet) another shot of the fabulous Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Lisbon. There's still a few more to come........
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From Wikipedia : "The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery, (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), is a monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome located near the shore of the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.
The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby Tower of Belém, in 1983.....
The church and the monastery, like the nearby Torre de Belém and Padrão dos Descobrimentos, symbolise the Portuguese Age of Discovery and are among the main tourist attractions of Lisbon. In 1983, UNESCO formally designated the Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém as a World Heritage Site.
When Portugal joined the European Economic Community, the formal ceremonies were held in the cloister of the monument (1985)."
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Example done for my review of the book Ink and Watercolor: Learn to Create Quick, Stylized Sketch Paintings in 30 Days by Anastasia Kozlova. It includes 30 projects that take you through the process of drawing the subject in ink and then painting it in with watercolor.
A great book for beginners and those who want to sharpen up their drawing skills, but still focus on watercolor painting. And it’s a great book for those who want to paint in a realistic, yet whimsical way.
Interested? Find the whole review at Doodlewash: doodlewash.com/iwak1
This smaller Aster has a perfect example in front, the full bloom... FOR ALL THE LOVELY DETAIL, BEST View HERE On Black
Always keep a bit of mystery... you show all... loss of interest?
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Why not view the set as a slide-show?
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This is a good example of why any serious street photographer should always carry a camera. I left the building at lunch and saw this outside a nearby church. I of course had left my Leica on my desk. So I ran back, and luckily they were still at it when I got back. Next time I might not be so lucky.
An example of a primary school could be found in many villages in Togo at the end of the 2000s. It is very ecological but uncomfortable for students and teachers!!! Fifteen years later, the situation changed little on the site, which still contains temporary buildings, but this time, it was covered with sheet metal.
Exemple d'une école primaire telle qu'on pouvait les rencontrer dans de nombreux villages au Togo à la fin des années 2000. Très écologique mais inconfortable pour les élèves et les enseignants!!! Quinze ans plus tard, la situation n'a que peu évolué sur le site qui renferme toujours des bâtiments provisoires mais cette fois couverts de tôles.