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“I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.”
― David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
A nice surprise on Sunday 6th March 2016 is a DB Schenker Red 67 hauling a failed Virgin East Coast Trains 225 set.
With cloud covering the sun at the wrong moment, 67018 hauls a failed 91129 on 1S07, the 0937 Doncaster - Edinburgh Waverley. At this point it is passing Inveresk 50 minutes late at 1314
A nice colourful combination the two liveries make.
This fence behind the Mundt barn is on it's way down. This must be like the old saw, "All hat and no cattle." This is, "All hay and no cattle." I tried to tell the cows that the hay was that-a-away but they stampeded this-a-way and almost runned me over. When they ran an IQ tests on cattle, they came up with negative numbers. That's what moves the righties up the bell curve. There are more possibilities than the Mundt barn out here. I found many prizes.
As long as eDDie is around, he always finds barns for my agricultural series. I passed this place a lot and it usually had a large dump bin in the view of the barn. This was shot north of Longtown and the barn. The place is about as abandoned as this corral fence. Today, he hauled me up Taylor mountain; I showed him that in the first place.
A great sky showed up for a while and I raced north but could have found better skies a hour earlier. Any sky dictated a day of trolling around Mundt with the camera. There have been too many blank and milk skies lately... and here I am with overcast coming on.
92032 dragging failed 92028 on 5m11 Milton Keynes Central - Wembley depot,92028 failed at Northampton on 1m11 Glasgow Central - London Euston,photographed at Headstone Lane,Greater London on 15/04/2015
Dropping Twitter. Photoshop Animation
Original Illustration: www.yiyinglu.com/?portfolio=lifting-a-dreamer-aka-twitter...
Detail of an aborted sketch that was not what I expected. Too campy. Simply wrong.
(EDIT: That´s why it´s unbeliveable that it has gathered enough attention by enough people to make Flickr bots include it in the Explore group, which in turn has skyrocketed views and faves... Well many thanks, I appreciate it a lot, no irony... but did you read the title, Flickr bots? This was a fail!! I feel half flattered half embarrased... Well, fellow humans, thanks for visiting and favoriting and, if you are in the mood, you may have a look at other drawings I´m prouder of, here: www.flickr.com/photos/joaquinagreda/albums
Thanks again. END OF EDIT)
I have no idea how long ago this failure might have happened, or for what reasons; could've been 150 years ago or more. Things don't always work out in the long run. Most societies fail in fact.... Simple disease kills most. Anyway, something to contemplate on Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Giant Fail photo of my entire crew (bar one) at this time. Still missing a few wigs, tattoos and other little bits and bobs o w o~
Atrium of the monumental headquarters of bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos in Lisbon. Designed in 1986 by Portuguese architect Arsénio Raposo Cordeiro (1940-2013), inaugurated in 1993.
When I upload photos to Flickr, I generally choose the least worst of literally hundreds of photos that I take. This is one of the failures.
No, I did not purchase these, and no, they are not for sale/trade.
I will shoot all weeklypics this year with Instax Wide (and the Instax Wide 300). This was intended to be a camera selfy with four cams. However, the damn camera did flash on a bright sunny day (although inside) and that ruined the picture. I hope I get better soon.
Final shot of the morning of 6A65.
Finally around 0920, 6A65 leaves the loop at Drem on its way to Aberdeen. Further west we see 60095+60021 ( failed ) pass Spittal with the now 170 minute late Cement train at 0925 on the 2nd November 2016.
Dominating the background is North Berwick Law, known locally as Berwick Law, on the outskirts of the town of the same name......North Berwick.
I figured I'd share these unfinished projects that have been sitting around for 7 or 8 years. I figure, if I haven't finished them yet, I never will.
With this one, I was planning on doing some sails using the Jaba's Sail Barge sails.
I was basing the design off of this concept art piece.
www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/lighthouse_list/portla...
Portland Bill
50° 30'.82 N 02° 27'.30 W
History
Portland Bill and Chesil Beach are the graveyards of many vessels that failed to reach Weymouth or Portland Roads. The Portland Race is caused by the meeting of the tides between the Bill and the Shambles sandbank about 3 miles SE. Strong currents break the sea so fiercely that from the shore a continuous disturbance can be seen. Portland Bill Lighthouse guides vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth through these hazardous waters as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel. The Shambles sandbank is marked by a red sector light.
As early as 1669 Sir John Clayton was granted a patent to erect a lighthouse, but his scheme fell through and it was not until early in the eighteenth century that Captain William Holman, supported by the shipowners and Corporation of Weymouth, put a petition to Trinity House for the building of a lighthouse at Portland Bill. Trinity House opposed it suggesting that lights at this point were needless and shipowners could not bear the burden of their upkeep. The people of Weymouth continued their petition and on 26th May, 1716 Trinity House obtained a patent from George I. They in turn issued a lease for 61 years to a private consortium who built two lighthouses with enclosed lanterns and coal fires. The lights were badly kept, sometimes not lit at all, and in 1752 an inspection was made by two members of the Board of Trinity House who approached by sea to find "it was nigh two hours after sunset before any light appeared in either of the lighthouses". With the termination of the lease the lights reverted to Trinity House. In 1789 William Johns, a builder of Weymouth under contract to Trinity House, took down one of the towers and erected a new one at a cost of £2,000. It was sited so that it served as a mark by day or night to direct ships moving up and down Channel or into Portland Roads clear of the Race and Shambles. Over the doorway on a marble tablet was the following inscription:-
Anno 1789.
In August 1788 Argand lamps were installed, Portland being the first lighthouse in England to be fitted with them. In the upper or old house there were two rows, seven in each row, lighted with oil and furnished with highly-polished reflectors. Low light tests were made by Thomas Rogers with his new lens light, and six Argand lamps were installed, their lights increased by lenses.
In 1798, when Napoleon threatened invasion, two 18lb cannons were installed at the lighthouse.
A 7 metre tall white stone obelisk was built in 1844 at the Southern tip of Portland Bill as a warning of a low shelf of rock extending 30 metres South into the sea, which still stands near the current lighthouse.
New high and low lighthouses were built in 1869, but early last century Trinity House announced its intention of replacing them with a single tower - the present lighthouse. The old towers can still be seen from the outside - the low light, which is now a bird observatory and field centre, has retained its original appearance but the high light lantern has been removed.
The present optic at Portland Bill is very unusual as due to the arrangement of the panels the character gradually changes from one flash to four flashes between the bearings 221°and 224° and from four flashes to one flash between bearings 117° and 141°.
Portland Bill Lighthouse was demanned on 18th March 1996 when monitoring and control of the station was transferred to the Trinity House Operations & Planning Centre at Harwich.
Specifications
Established1716
Height Of Tower41 Metres
Height Of Light Above Mean High Water43 Metres
Automated1996
Lamp1 Kw Mbi
Optic4 Panel 1St Order Catadioptric Fixed Lens
CharacterWhite Group Flashing 4 Times Every 20 Seconds
Intensity635,000 Candela
Range Of Light25 nautical miles
Fog Signal Character3.5 Second Blast Every 30 Seconds
Fog Signal Range2 nautical miles
Location
Portland Bill Lighthouse is located on the Southerly tip of the Isle of Portland, 1.2 miles south of the village of Easton.
Parking
There are a number of car parks very close to the lighthouse.
Public Transport
Frequent bus service from Weymouth - Route 1A
Visitor Centre
For nearly 300 years a lighthouse has stood on Portland Bill to guide vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth and acting as a waymark for vessels navigating in the English Channel. A red sector light warns mariners of the hazardous Shambles Bank lying three miles offshore.
The ‘Lighthouse Visitor centre’ at Portland Bill is owned and operated independently from the actual tower lighthouse therefore there are occasions that the tower lighthouse would be closed to the public, whereas the ‘Lighthouse Visitor Centre’ would remain open. Further details on the 'Lighthouse Visitor Centre' opening times can be found here.
Tours of Portland Bill Lighthouse are organised by The Crown Estate under licence from the Corporation of Trinity House.
Last Tour at 16.30. Tour lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Opening subject to weather conditions and Trinity House's operational requirements.
Another character that won't be appearing, but is a somewhat important part of JL: Overlords. Prepare yourself, his story is kinda out there.
Jor-El
Born during the height of Kryptons era of great expansion, Jor-El was one of the first to know something was wrong with Krypton. As one of Kryptons elite scientists, he had been chosen to crew one of Kryptons most important and well equipped space stations, 'Rao's hand'
From his orbit above Krypton, Jor-El could see that something terrible was happening to the planet. His instruments confirmed his suspicions when they found that Krypton was wobbling on its axis, and its core had become unstable. Naturally, he rushed back to Krypton to inform the high council of his concerns.
So, Jor-El stood before the high council and made his case. He urged them to seriously consider evacuating the planet, and resettling on one of Kryptons many colonies. They laughed at him. They dismissed his concerns by fobbing them off as 'Gravitational re-alignment'. But Jor-El new they were wrong. He had estimated that there was around 3 years until the planets core would destabilise, and cause the planet to be destroyed.
So, for three years, he planned. Eventually, he came to a conclusion: the council must be removed. Luckily, he was friends with one of Kryptons great military leaders, General Zod. Although Zod, being a soldier, didn't entirely understand the matter at hand, he agreed with Jor-El that the high council were incompetent.
And so, the general and the scientist led a revolution, to remove the high council, and assume command of the planet, and give the evacuation order. Suffice to say, they failed. They were outnumbered and Zod was arrested, imprisoned in the Phantom zone for high treason.
Jor-El, however, was lucky. His wife, Lara, was pregnant, and he knew that if he couldn't save Krypton, he could at least save their child. Jor-El managed to escape, and went into hiding. He made a recording, of himself, explaining his sons heritage, and preparing a message for whoever found him. He also created an interface based on himself, to help guide his child as he grew up. He was able to build a ship, load his child on it, and blast him off to a planet called 'Earth'. Once this was done, he loaded a second rocket with the codex, a device that stored all of Krypton. Culture, customs, all the important aspects of Kryptonian life. He set this rocket upon its course and headed to the roof. As he entered the turbo-lift, the ground shook. Violently. Kryptons destruction had begun.
The first rocket, containing his son, named Kal-El, set upon its course, taking it straight to Earth. However, the second rocket, went off course, still on track to Earth, but the long way round.
As Jor-El and Lara watched their son head off into the blackness of space, a look of horror swept across Jor-Els face. He had mixed up the messages. He had meant to put the interface on his sons ship, and his message on the other. He had made a mistake, which could have devastating consequences. He was powerless to fix his mistake, so he did the only thing he could do. He held his wife, as his world burned. He could only hope his son would live to see a brighter future.
Everyone shares his most beautiful pictures, today I wanted to put a failure, nothing goes well on this one but in black and white I love it anyway.
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Tout le monde partage ses plus belles photos, aujourd'hui j'avais envie de mettre une ratée, rien ne va sur celle là mais en Noir et blanc je l'aime quand même.
After running from Kalgoorlie towards Parkeston to assist a failed 5MP9, Q4005 had made it only a couple of hundred metres before itself failed with Q4005,SCT015,SCT007 once again a failure and waiting for another assistance loco on 13-7-13
A heavy crop as my long lens is cheap and a bit rubbish. First record of a fieldfare in my garden, during the recent snows.
WCRC Ex Works Class 47 47813 on the Northern Belle, Denton - Manchester Victoria at Denton Before it failed 15/06/2022
In case this picture is misleading anyone, I’ll clarify that the idea with a side loader is to empty the bin into the hopper, not all over the arm itself. I’ve failed this concept a few times in the past and not because I’m a complete retard, rather due to distraction and/or a lack of observation. In view directly beneath the hopper access ladder is a white plastic bag..... this caused the catastrophe. As the previous bin lowered towards the ground, this bag flew out, floated in the air and caught my attention just as I grabbed the next bin. As per usual I hooked the joystick in the back right corner to simultaneously retract the slide and raise the arm, but instead of watching the arm movement in the mirror, my attention was diverted to this flying bag. To my dismay I witnessed the bag come to rest on top of the slide beam and cover up one of the sensors, which resulted in signal blockage and stoppage of the slide retracting.
As soon as I saw where the bag landed, I flicked my gaze around to the side mirror, seeing the slide stationary in the shown position and the arm continuing to raise the bin towards the hopper. After getting a visual of the unfolding circumstances in the mirror, I literally shouted out “NOOOOOOO!!!” in terror, then next thing the bin was inverted with the contents pouring all over the arm and onto the road. Fail. Of course the bin didn’t hold a single bag or two, it was fully loaded with sloppy and badly contained garbage, plus it was raining and a few members of the public witnessed the unsuccessful lift. My mind registered the likely outcome once I saw the bag cover the sensor, but everything happened so quick I didn’t even get the chance to consider releasing the joystick! After a few swear words and brief dissatisfaction over the event, I quickly got some humour out of the disaster and knew this was something worth sharing =]
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Terribly underexposed (had to really pull up the exposure on the RAW file), out of focus, noise. Ah, isn't "art" fabulous? :-)
My work is too "tidy". I need to mess it up a bit more.