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Next series of shots are made during a workshop with the artist Gina Folli, in December 2017. My shots are inspired from the exhibition at MoMA "Pleasures and terrors of domestic comforts".
Not your private function with fish and chips wrapped in the Daily Star.
No, they had hired the Royal Courts of Justice complete with Beefeaters and musicians to greet the guests.
I saw several people arrive, and none got off a bus.
The Strand, London WC2
10th June 2013
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The all new LEGO Mercedes-Benz Actros. Build in scale 1:16 and powered by LEGO power functions. The model is remote controlled by SBrick.
The model features the following functions:
• Powerful 8x4 drive train by 2 Power Functions XL motors
• 2 axle steering by Power Functions servo motor
• Openable cabin doors with realistic hinge design
• Openable storage doors with a lever located behind the seats
• Tilt able cabin with easy acces to the V8 fake engine
• 2 Power Functions front LED lights
• Fully adjustable seats and steering column
• Fifth wheel suitable for automatic steered trailers
• Front and rear tow bars
More information about this model on www.jaaptechnic.com/2016/12/mercedes-benz-actros-mp3_5.html
Although not intended to be pretty, the turntable elegantly solves a problem: how to turn the small locomotive round so that it can pull the coaches back up the track.
Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are shooting Pretty Pictures of Ugly Things.
For more pictures and a video please go here. And I'd appreciate it if You'd comment there as well as here. Thank You for stopping by.
Sanatan Association
York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ (Tube Station: Bethnal Green)
Durga Puja - the ceremonial worship of the supremely radiant mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals, is celebrated every year in the month of October with much gaiety and grandeur in India and abroad, especially in Bengal, where the ten-armed goddess riding the lion and killing the Buffalo-Demon (Mahishasura) is worshiped with great passion and devotion. In Durga, the Gods bestowed their powers to co-create a beautiful goddess with ten arms, each carrying their most lethal weapon. The tableau of Durga also features her four children - Kartikeya, Ganesha, Saraswati and Lakshmi.
Samsung 16mm f/2.4 i-Function Lens
SAMSUNG CSC
Locals refer to this unique and wondrous site merely as 'The Train Wreck'.
The Train Wreck, seven box cras scattered over a One kilometres patch of forest, the debris lfrom a high speed freight train crash in 1957 or 1958, South Of Function Junction near the Whistler Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, Canada. Too expensive to clear up, apart from the engine unit, the Whistler community decided to leave the wreck in situ and allow the birth of an amazing location, a bike trail and even an art gallery thanks to the incredibly vivid and stylish graffiti that covers each and every box car.
The train wreck is sort of a local secret, and I only found out about it's existence from one of the young hotel receptionists at the Crystal Lodge Hotel in Whistler village, who told me that it was great for photography and hiking. A local Gluten free food store assisted me with detailed directions, though the trail took an hour each way, and crossed over train tracks, passed by waterfalls and was not for the faint of heart. But hell, it was worth the trek.
Photograph taken at 11:21am an altitude of Six hundred metres on Monday 15th September 2014 off the Sea to sky highway 99 out of Whistler, South of Function Junction and on the banks of the Cheakamus River in Britsh Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D800 24mm 1/25s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Hand held. AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 46d 4m 50.72s
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Single receiver, Individual left and right drive with no lift capacity. Yet.
Original track inspiration by 2in1 with modifications to fit the chassis.
My mod of 8081 with PF elements. Very easy and almost withou change the original model. You can instructions on my LUGs topic:
CANNIS
Previous names: 1953 - 1964 Enticette
Status Registered: Certificate no 3004
DETAILS
Function: Service Vessel
Subfunction: Tug
Location: Devonshire River Torrage at Westleigh
Current use: Private use
CONSTRUCTION
Builder: Dunston, Richard, Thorne
Built in: 1953
Hull material: Steel
Rig: None
Number of decks
Number of masts
Propulsion: Motor
Primary engine type: Diesel
DIMENSIONS
Length: 77.00 feet (23.47 m)
Breadth: 19.50 feet (5.94 m)
Depth: 8.50 feet (2.59 m)
Air Draft: 288.00 feet (87.78 m)
Tonnage: 130.00 GT
HISTORY
Built in 1953 by Richard Dunstone Ltd ,Thorne Yard Number 862 she was registered No. 7 in 1953 at the port of Rochester in Kent for London and Rochester Trading Co, Rochester, Kent. She was purpose built to operate in Medway and Thames to tow barges for the company. At 80ft in length with a beam of 19ft 6ins she drew a deep 10ft 6ins. The GRT was 90.5 tons. She was powered by a single 600 bhp Crossley CRL 4/25 diesel engine controlled in the engine room with telegraph commands. This gave a bollard pull of 7.5 tons. Access to the engine room was via a sliding hatch in the engine room casing or there was a watertight door from the crew room/mess aft. This was accessed from a separate hatch and companion way ladder at the after end of the casing. Her Official Number184230 and her IMO number issued some years later was 6418194. An incident in 1968, the small cargo barge Knox VIC 59 (the fore runners of the clyde puffers) also owned by London and Rochester Trading Co ran high and dry in the marshes in Sittingbourne Creek on the biggest tide of the year. About a month later the wind came force 8 NW and this pushed the tide higher so skipper and his mate went to the Knox to affect refloating. When they entered the engine room to their amazement all the non ferrous metals had been removed off the Kelvin 66, thus it was not possible to use. A phone call to the Rochester office soon had their diesel tug "ENTICETTE" to the creek and towed Knox to the Rochester yard. The Harbour Master Capt Wilson, having discussed the advantages of diesel power over steam, chartered in the diesel tug SEDGECOCK and having arrivedon 7th February 1964 a towing contest was arranged with the St.Canute. Diesel won and the board decided to purchase a diesel tug.
m.t.”ENTICETTE” having been put on the market seemed to fit the harbour commissioners requirements and the harbour master inspected her on 25th May. By 29th June the commissioners’ offer of £26,500 through brokers H.E.Moss and Co had been accepted subject to survey. On 6th July the tug was hauled out of the water in Rochester and the survey was carried out by a Mr Burn and the harbour master. All was found to be satisfactory re-floated on 8th July. The tugs master and engineer, Messrs Hunkin and Salt, having arrived, departure for Fowey was made at 1145 hrs. An engineer from the sellers made the trip to familiarise the Mr Salt FHC engineer. Shelter was sought in Dover as the winds strengthened. Early next morning passage was made as far as the I.O.W. where shelter was again sought this time in Cowes Harbour. She left there at 2045 hrs on the Sunday passing Portland Bill at 0300hrs and arrived in Fowey at 1130 hrs on Monday 15th July. Her funnel markings were painted over the following day and she entered service nearly straight away. She was renamed CANNIS, after the outcrop of rocks off Gribbin Head about one mile south west of the harbour entrance, by the board with St.Cadix and St.Winnow kept as reserves. She had become the first diesel tug to be owned and operated in Fowey.
Because of her low freeboard and low bulwarks, rails were fitted shortly after arrival especially necessary for towing barges to the dumping ground. She was registered in the Port of Fowey on 24th September 1964. Once the dumping ground had been reached the speed was reduced and when the skipper of the tug was happy he sounded the whistle, a signal to the barge crew to knock out and open the barge doors. The 150 tons of mud would normally drop out easily but on occasions the barge would need to be towed in circles until the motion dislodged the material in it. If the weather was calm the barge would be brought alongside for the passage back and the barge crew could go on board CANNIS for a cup of tea. If not the operation would happen in the calm waters of the Harbour and the barge would be slid alongside the dredger or pontoon. By this time the next barge would be loaded and the operation commenced again. The operation would stop for ship movements that needed two tugs or if CANNIS was the only tug available.
CANNIS was laid up on skids in Bristol Harbour in 2008. Reservation has been ongoing since 2001. She has been restored, re-engined and re-purposed to a liveaboard motor vessel (NOT a "houseboat). She is on the History
Built in 1953 by Richard Dunstone Ltd ,Thorne Yard Number 862 she was registered No. 7 in 1953 at the port of Rochester in Kent for London and Rochester Trading Co, Rochester, Kent. She was purpose built to operate in Medway and Thames to tow barges for the company. At 80ft in length with a beam of 19ft 6ins she drew a deep 10ft 6ins. The GRT was 90.5 tons. She was powered by a single 600 bhp Crossley CRL 4/25 diesel engine controlled in the engine room with telegraph commands. This gave a bollard pull of 7.5 tons. Access to the engine room was via a sliding hatch in the engine room casing or there was a watertight door from the crew room/mess aft. This was accessed from a separate hatch and companion way ladder at the after end of the casing. Her Official Number184230 and her IMO number issued some years later was 6418194. An incident in 1968, the small cargo barge Knox VIC 59 (the fore runners of the clyde puffers) also owned by London and Rochester Trading Co ran high and dry in the marshes in Sittingbourne Creek on the biggest tide of the year. About a month later the wind came force 8 NW and this pushed the tide higher so skipper and his mate went to the Knox to affect refloating. When they entered the engine room to their amazement all the non ferrous metals had been removed off the Kelvin 66, thus it was not possible to use. A phone call to the Rochester office soon had their diesel tug "ENTICETTE" to the creek and towed Knox to the Rochester yard. The Harbour Master Capt Wilson, having discussed the advantages of diesel power over steam, chartered in the diesel tug SEDGECOCK and having arrivedon 7th February 1964 a towing contest was arranged with the St.Canute. Diesel won and the board decided to purchase a diesel tug.
m.t.”ENTICETTE” having been put on the market seemed to fit the harbour commissioners requirements and the harbour master inspected her on 25th May. By 29th June the commissioners’ offer of £26,500 through brokers H.E.Moss and Co had been accepted subject to survey. On 6th July the tug was hauled out of the water in Rochester and the survey was carried out by a Mr Burn and the harbour master. All was found to be satisfactory re-floated on 8th July. The tugs master and engineer, Messrs Hunkin and Salt, having arrived, departure for Fowey was made at 1145 hrs. An engineer from the sellers made the trip to familiarise the Mr Salt FHC engineer. Shelter was sought in Dover as the winds strengthened. Early next morning passage was made as far as the I.O.W. where shelter was again sought this time in Cowes Harbour. She left there at 2045 hrs on the Sunday passing Portland Bill at 0300hrs and arrived in Fowey at 1130 hrs on Monday 15th July. Her funnel markings were painted over the following day and she entered service nearly straight away. She was renamed CANNIS, after the outcrop of rocks off Gribbin Head about one mile south west of the harbour entrance, by the board with St.Cadix and St.Winnow kept as reserves. She had become the first diesel tug to be owned and operated in Fowey.
Because of her low freeboard and low bulwarks, rails were fitted shortly after arrival especially necessary for towing barges to the dumping ground. She was registered in the Port of Fowey on 24th September 1964. Once the dumping ground had been reached the speed was reduced and when the skipper of the tug was happy he sounded the whistle, a signal to the barge crew to knock out and open the barge doors. The 150 tons of mud would normally drop out easily but on occasions the barge would need to be towed in circles until the motion dislodged the material in it. If the weather was calm the barge would be brought alongside for the passage back and the barge crew could go on board CANNIS for a cup of tea. If not the operation would happen in the calm waters of the Harbour and the barge would be slid alongside the dredger or pontoon. By this time the next barge would be loaded and the operation commenced again. The operation would stop for ship movements that needed two tugs or if CANNIS was the only tug available.
CANNIS was laid up on skids in Bristol Harbour in 2008. Reservation has been ongoing since 2001. She has been restored, re-engined and re-purposed to a liveaboard motor vessel (NOT a "houseboat). She is on the small ships registered..
“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.”
~Albert Einstein.
[my hero!]
At the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario).
Today we visited the new and improved AGO, and I must say, I was impressed. The building itself is now a work of art, as with this newly installed Frank Gehry designed spiral staircase that winds right through the glass atrium of the Walker Court, and into the sky (well, actually just into the galleries on the upper floors).
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself....Serve and thou shall be served."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned from KOLO this new project since last year May's National Stationery Show, a portable travel notebook which combines photo storage and journaling functions using a flexible refill system. As you know, KOLO is almost entirely about photo archiving and presentation, they obviously did a great job to create clean and stylish product lines but most of these products are to be used *afterward*. You select photos, plan layouts, do scrapbooking stuffs, archiving and presenting the final outcome as a decor or sharing with friends and relatives after events. I was extremely excited to see how they would execute this travel notebook idea and come up with a final product, which you can carry with you during travel and making memories on the fly. I had a lot of expectations because bringing archival quality to a product you use everyday inevitably requires a whole new mindset. I mean KOLO can be perfect in their top notch material quality but an object you would use on daily basis subjects to a whole new set of hazardous situations especially when we are talking about travel. What a challenge.
I got this prototype Essex in small size (they have a medium sized one) a few weeks ago and tried to use it during my Frankfurt/Tokyo trip. Since I was going to taste what it's like to do photo journaling in real-time on this product, I carried it everyday along side with my Polaroid camera. I also used my Pivi-300 portable printer to print photos from my digital IXUS. The best companion to Essex seems to be instant cameras and instant photography is obviously going to come back as we are probably going to have new Polaroid films available in end 2009. Fujifilm is refining their Instax mini line while there is a rumor that they are working with Lomo to have something soon to be released in April about 'instant', not to mention Zink's collaboration with Polaroid (PoGo), Dell (Washabi) and Tomy (Xiao). IMHO, I think KOLO should gear Essex to work with instant photos coz you won't want to wait until you go back home to print photos and write something about your travel afterward.
Essex features the same wonderful cloth cover with a small window on the front. You can choose to have one of the following refills held by elastic band on the spine: monthly/weekly diary, ruled/blank notebooks, photo pocket notebook, etc. I think you can put 3 notebooks inside the cover but if are like me loving to capture everything from receipts, stamps, photos, restaurant name cards, boarding pass, tags to maps, the photo pocket pages will not be enough and it quickly blow Essex up into a thick wallet the elastic enclosure won't close. The tiny little back pocket on the back cover also seems to be useless in my case.
In fact, I should've chosen a medium sized Essex because the photo pocket notebook in small size Essex is for 3x5 photos so my Polaroids and even Instax mini photos don't fit well with it. Up to this point during my trial, I decided that I had probably mis-used Essex as a capturing tool for everything. "How to use Essex" becomes the next question in mind, and I'm sure this will happen to any user in the future. When you think about it, a clean and stylish product also demands certain usage restrictions, like in a beautiful KOLO album, you just don't put every photo in it.
Having said that, I still want to pursue my perfect photo journaling notebook with the following requirements:
works well with Polaroids and Instax mini
portable size but smaller than A5
pockets to store receipts, tickets, etc
paper good for roller ball, fountain pen and watercolor
soft cover to handle bulging contents
refill notebooks can be filed pleasantly to an album or archive system
customizable to personal style
enclosure not intruding front cover
photo and writing on the same page possible
clean cover design, tough to resist travel tortures
archival quality
I'm sure these requirements are not that far fetch, but execution will eventually meet design and inevitably facing lots of scrutiny versus brand identity and personality. Product design and innovation, a fun game to watch as a by-stander but I never forget to appreciate the ingenious hard work behind.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/photo-journaling-with-kolo...
Brillaint sculpture hanging in the entrance to the Maritime Museum..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO1600 f/2.8 55mm
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex
For more pictures and description please go here.
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The Holy Trinity Church is a church building in Constance at the lake with the same name. Since it was built in the late 13th century for the local monastery of the Augustinian Hermits, it is also known as St. Augustine's Church. It functioned until the dissolution of the monastery in 1802 as a monastery church as well as from the 17th century additionally as a garrison church, then as a hospital church, Old Catholic church and today ecumenical "City Church". Through its harmonious combination of plain Gothic mendicant order architecture, late Gothic frescoes and Baroque painting and stucco decoration it is one of the most important sacred monuments of the city and one of the sights of Konstanz.
History
Middle Ages
The bishopric of Constance had in the thirteenth century already two monasteries of mendicant orders; the Dominicans (1236) and the Franciscan (1240) had settled here. 1268 was established within the city walls near the lakeshore the monastery of the Augustinian hermits. The city assigned the monks a site in the heaped shallow water zone. The church was built immediately after the establishment; single ground-level components can be dated to 1279.
Originally the church was probably under the patronage of Mary Magdalene; the saint Augustine of Hippo is only mentioned in the late Middle Ages. In 1398 a fire destroyed part of the city and among other things, to an unknown extent, the Augustinian church, which was, however, built up again unchanged.
During the Council of Constance King Sigismund was at the turn of 1417/18 a guest of the monastery as well as other dignitaries. The King donated a painting for the church interior which was executed by Constance painters. Since Sigismund was known as a defaulting debtor it is questionable whether he has the painter actually paid.
During the Reformation the church was desecrated, the cemetery leveled and the facilities largely destroyed. After recatholicization of the city, the monastery was repopulated and the church in 1551 re-consecrated.
Baroque period
From 1684, the Augustinian church served as garrison church of the Austrian regiment which was stationed in the city. From 1686 to 1687, instead of the sacristy arose a Marian chapel in which a miraculous statue of Mary was housed, previously it stood on the Nikolaus altar.
From 1740 the church building was redesigned in the style of the southern German Baroque. It emerged baroque ceiling frescoes, stucco decorations and a vault in the nave. The windows of the clerestory were rebuilt and rearranged so that large parts of the late medieval murals were destroyed in this area. At the latest at this time disappeared the remaining medieval frescoes under a uniform color and stucco layer. 1745 was changed the patronage to the Trinity.
Die Dreifaltigkeitskirche ist ein Kirchengebäude in Konstanz am Bodensee. Da sie im späten 13. Jh. für das örtliche Kloster der Augustiner-Eremiten errichtet wurde, wird sie auch Augustinerkirche genannt. Sie fungierte bis zur Auflösung des Klosters 1802 als Klosterkirche sowie ab dem 17. Jh. zusätzlich als Garnisonkirche, danach als Spitalkirche, altkatholisches Gotteshaus und heute ökumenische „City-Kirche“. Durch ihre harmonische Kombination von schlichter gotischer Bettelordensarchitektur, spätgotischen Fresken und barocker Bild- und Stuckdekoration gehört sie zu den bedeutendsten sakralen Baudenkmälern der Stadt und zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten von Konstanz.
My latest TT is based off a sorta-modified chassis pioneered by Zetovince/Mahjiqa. Due to this the L20 is actually bigger and heavier than the Blazefury, an F1 car for the road. All in the sacrifice for detail. Let's just imagine IRL that the L20 is smaller like is should be.
The 'Lady Daphne' is a classic wooden sailing barge built in 1923, now available for hire for private functions. We were invited for a friend's birthday, travelling from Greenwich upstream to London Bridge and downstream to the Thames barrier.