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The #KonicaMinolta #DimageA2 is still a beautiful little beast of a camera with an excellent 28-200 GT lens and 8Mp sensor that delivers beautiful images on lower iso. Great build quality and handling ergonomics.. I loved it and it will always have a special place in my photographers heart :)
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I am just going to go ahead and get this out of the way. Bireos’s bow-axe is functional. It uses a spring trigger mechanism to shoot a bolt.
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Backstory:
(Note: This references the backstories of my previous MOCs, Diaa, Ceth, and Ahi.)
A skilled huntsman and master of many weapons, Bireos is a battle-worn mercenary. In his youth, Bireos was hired by the Predecessors to hunt down and eliminate the leaders of the Conduit race in the Predecessor-Conduit war. Although he had no elemental abilities, Bireos was surprisingly successful. Although the war ended when the Conduits fled Okoto, Bireos still roams Okoto’s wilderness in search of Ahi, Bireos’s one charge that succeeded in eluding him. Bireos has grown old over the eons, but he is still as skilled and unrelenting as ever.
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Bireos is incredibly strong and cunning, preferring to attack from afar rather than engaging his opponents in short range combat. Bireos uses his crossbow in combination with his Kanohi Huna to strike unseen from a distance. When needed, he can switch from firing charged bolts to using his bow-axe’s axe form. He can also use his energized broadsword to battle in close quarters. With his versatile weaponry, powerful mask, immense strength, propensity for strategy, and unrelenting commitment to the hunt, Bireos is truly an opponent to be feared.
I don't think this boat will win any beauty contests, but here is the new Algoma Innovator downbound at Mission Point, taken from Sugar Island.
It has become winter with snow and minus degrees.
Therefore functionality over beauty.
Enjoy a nice evening.
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I have a fascination with functional machinery ... they look so interesting because they have a purpose. This one was found along Grote Street, near the Adelaide Central Market.
Solid, high quality, clear and dependable voice communication for decades. These vintage telephones always worked and never lost signal. I love my smartphone but I miss the quality and dependability of these old workhorses of the telecom industry.
Functional Sci-fi inspired wall lamps.
Touch activated, tintable lighting and two metal colours.
Out now on MP: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Apex-Recycling-Unit/23488919
Amtrak F40PH 406 rides the rear of Milwaukee-bound Hiawatha train 337 at Rondout. Given a second chance at life as a Cab Car but still technically a F40, the old EMD veteran was given a fresh paint scheme in 2011 to help Amtrak celebrate their 40th Anniversary and is always a nice sight to behold.
More frosty edges on Ripley creek. Not just on the land, but on the water - I love how cold creates new forms.
Editor's note: Happy Friday, Flickr friends! We're poaching this image from our friends at Johnson Space Center, but we couldn't resist. Those solar array panels are a work of art at this angle. Zoom in on the large size -- it's mesmerizing! Have a great weekend.
A portion of the solar array panels on the Zarya Functional Cargo Block (FGB) is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member aboard the International Space Station.
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Not quite sure why I like this farm building, but I was quite taken with it. I think it's the clean lines and simplicity. The building is typical of the area, very plain and simple, and in their way quite stylish. They have to withstand the most extreme weather (note the colour of the sky) and be earthquake proof. The landscape is very bleak with no large trees, the tallest trees we saw were perhaps 2m, and skinny spindly things. Anything with any substance would be uprooted fairly fast in the frequent powerful winds.
A free build for Guilds of Historica. This is my biggest castle yet, and one of few to actually have interior buildings: a stable and a barracks. It is viewable from all sides, and there are plenty of interiors. All of them are accessible by stairs or a ladder. The portcullis is functional, run by a crank in the gatehouse.
This build took more pieces (several thousand 2x2 tiles alone) and time than I had expected, and some parts I'm not super pleased with. However I'm pretty satisfied with the overall look.
Be sure to check out all the details here: brickbuilt.org/2015/Rekkrfell.php
The heat and rain have enabled the mosquitos to breed prolifically. Each night about 6.30 we need to light the citronella candles to deter them from coming inside.
"In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone." ~ Lafcadio Hearn
Ok...the hubby & I have always wondered what about the significance of the stone lanterns that are often found throughout Japanese Gardens, so I decided to Google it and see what I could find. Here's what I found....
"One thing worth remembering is the fact that - in Japan - stone lanterns are not actually used as light sources. They are placed in "functional" positions beside garden paths, but contrary to Western belief they are rarely, if ever, lit. Many myths exist that try to assign special meaning to certain lanterns. For the most part, these stories are misinformation that is fabricated by the tourism industry. In nearly every case, Japanese garden lanterns are simply handsome garden ornaments that express the beauty of stone." (source: www.rothteien.com/archives/ornament/lanternhome.htm )
Photographed in the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden....Have a great Monday!!!! Thanks for visiting and especially for all your much appreciated comments :-)
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Really enjoy the 40mm perspective and bought the Canon Pancake 40F2.8 lens. Enjoying the AF functionality and focusing is fast enough for my style of photography. View other shots taken with this lens here. A small but growing collection.
Another 40mm favorite is the Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm F1.4 MC lens. It renders images in a way that is reminiscent of film. View other shots taken with this lens here.
Have used a variety of 40mm lenses, view shots taken here.
This turned out to be one of the most joyous, life affirming places that we've visited on our travels. The sparkling, late summer sunshine, the arresting modern architecture set amid so much history, the superb collection of early 20th century paintings on the 5th floor, and the throng of tourists and Parisians enjoying themselves on a Saturday combined to make this a most memorable afternoon.
"Centre Georges Pompidou commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou; also known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. The Place Georges Pompidou in front of the museum is noted for the presence of street performers, such as mimes and jugglers. In the spring, miniature carnivals are installed temporarily into the place in front with a wide variety of attractions: bands, caricature and sketch artists, tables set up for evening dining, and even skateboarding competitions.
The nearby Stravinsky Fountain (also called the Fontaine des automates), on Place Stravinsky, features sixteen whimsical moving and water-spraying sculptures by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle, which represent themes and works by composer Igor Stravinsky. The black-painted mechanical sculptures are by Tinguely, the colored works by de Saint-Phalle. The fountain opened in 1983.
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
The sculpture, Horizontal by Alexander Calder, a free-standing mobile that is twenty-five feet high, was placed in 2012 in front of the Centre Pompidou.
The Centre was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano; British architect Richard Rogers; and Italian architect Gianfranco Franchini, assisted by Ove Arup & Partners.The project was awarded to this team in an architectural design competition, whose results were announced in 1971. It was the first time in France that international architects were allowed to participate. World-renowned architects Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouvé and Philip Johnson made up the jury which would select one design out of the 681 entries.
National Geographic described the reaction to the design as "love at second sight." An article in Le Figaro declared "Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness." But two decades later, while reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize in 2007, The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre "turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems. The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou "revolutionized museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city.".
Initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red."
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