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Trinity House vessel Patricia (IMO: 8003632), built by Robb Caledon in Leith in 1982, docked in Lowestoft inner harbour.
Trinity House’s Multi Functional Tender (MFT) Patricia operates around the coast of England, Wales and the Channel Islands undertaking aid to navigation maintenance work, towing, wreck location and marking amongst other projects.
Architectural Harmony at Barcelona Airport - I captured this photograph while waiting in the first-floor lounge waiting for my flight to Brussels, captivated by the interplay of lines and shapes. Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, commonly known as Barcelona Airport, is the city’s international airport. The airport's design embodies a modern and functional approach, with terminal buildings that exhibit contemporary aesthetics and efficient layouts to cater to the high volume of passengers and air traffic. While functionality takes precedence over aesthetics, if one takes a closer look at the various shapes and lines, there is an undeniable beauty that emerges - Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
NYC: NYGASP / Utopia Limited
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
Stephen Quint, Laurelyn Watson Chase, David Wannen, Erika Person, Stephen O'Brien
Nikon D700 | Nikon 70-200@175 | ƒ5.6 | 1/125s | ISO400 | Handheld
SB-600 #1 off-camera left at TTL -0.3, SB-600 #2 off-camera right at TTL -1.0
Post-Processing: +0.33 EV (+/- as needed), +0.05 contrast, crop (as desired), +0.05 definition
The supporting wall at Crewe station separating platforms 11 and 12 has a beauty all of its own. Weather worn and stained with the soot of previous generations of railway activity it has tones of cream brown and bronze that are inspired in its construction. The arches are masterpieces of symmetry.
The soft curves of the northbound Pendelino compliment the design features of the wall.
Thanks to David Hayes for the inspiration.
Functional LEGO WInd Pump. Instructions on Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-63257/MasterBuilderKTC/functiona...
While wondering the Fields of “Art Omi” in Ghent NY in search of a restroom, I came across this elaborate flushing system, WOW
Fully functional minifig size front end loader. Two "cylinders" makes it possible to adjust liftarm and bucket in any position, and bucket can be filled with bricks without lowering.
One of Modiin's iconic buildings (Yigal Yadin street). Modiin, established in 1993, is one of Israel's youngest cities and a bold urban project at the same time.
Panorama from the base of Echo Peak #1 overlooking Cathedral Peak and Tuolumne Meadows. Left to right, Echo Peak 1, Lower Cathedral Lake, Fairview Dome, Cathedral Peak, Tuolumne Meadows, Budd Lake, Lembert Dome peaking out, and Unicorn Peak. California, Sierra Nevada Mountains,Yosemite, Echo Peaks. Off the John Muir Trail near Mile 018.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way... (Ray Stevens)
Beauty can be absolute, abstract or functional. Many beautifully functional items are not always beautiful in the traditional way. Brass pipe fitting in a carwash for the Macro Mondays group, topic: defining beauty. Happy Macro Monday!
For today's Steam Sunday here's a wide panoramic take on this scene that I lke from my second visit to New England's own Steam Mecca this past holiday season. It's a bit of a tradition to meet my Dad and step mom at the historic Griswold Inn for lunch and hot buttered rums and since we hadn't done that yet this year another visit to the lower Connecticut River valley was in order. As a nice bonus the weather was cold and clear with a light dusting of snow, perfect conditions for another try at shooting some steam after being skunked by engine problems a month prior.
For five weeks before Christmas the Valley Railroad (dba Essex Steam Train and Riverboat) runs an astonishing amount of holiday trains branded as the North Pole Express. Most are steam powered and this requires all three of their steam locomotives to be under steam at once. Excepting the Strasburg Railroad I don't believe there is anywhere else in the United States where three standard gauge rod connected locomotives are regularly under steam at the same time. But here, every weekend, it is a normal occurrence as the railroad runs 13 sold out departures between 2 and 8 PM every Sat and Sun (only 9 on Tue-Fri) using four consists one of which is led by one of the road's center cab GEs.
Here's Valley Railroad 2-8-2 'Mikado' New Haven 3025 leading the 2:30 PM train to the North Pole just a few minutes out of the station putting on a grand show thru the open field near MP 4.5 on the old New Haven Valley Line north of the bridge over the Falls River.
3025 is China Railways SY class built new in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for Pennsylvania's Knox & Kane Railroad where it spent its life until that railroad's demise following the collapse of that lines signature attraction, the Kinzua Viaduct. It was purchased by the VRR in 2008 and was rebuilt as a functional replica of a New Haven J-1 'Mikado' locomotive like the type that once plied this line in local service and re-numbered 3025, one number above the last of the original class on the NYNH&H.
Information above courtesy of the Valley Railroad web site and more history can be found here: essexsteamtrain.com/about/history/
Essex, Connecticut
Saturday December 21, 2024
Stoneware from the Beardsley Pottery on Denman Island, in the "Leaf" pattern. Purchased in Victoria circa 2005.
Yes, it works: imgur.com/kmJb8pL
My seventh Iron build against jaapxaap using the White 4x4 Flower with Rounded Petals White 4x4 Flower with Rounded Pedals. Check out Iron Builder to follow the whole battle!
I used all 100 seed part in this build.
Jaffa Port (Hebrew: נמל יפו, Nemal Yafo) is an ancient port on the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Old City of Jaffa, now Israel.
Jaffa and its port have a history spanning over three millennia.[citation needed] The port itself is mentioned in various ancient works, including the Hebrew Bible, such as the book of Jonah, and the works of Josephus describing Jewish history and the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. For over 7,000 years it has been actively used, predating Muslims, Christians, Jews, and even Egyptians.[citation needed] Still functional as a small fishing port, the port is currently a recreational zone featuring restaurants and cafés. A lighthouse, Jaffa Light, is located above the port.
In 1917, during World War I, British troops under General Allenby defeated the Ottomans and took Jaffa, which became part of the British-administered Palestine Mandate (1922–1948).[citation needed] In 1947 and 1948 there was sharp fighting between Jaffa, which was largely inhabited by Arabs, and the adjoining Jewish city of Tel Aviv. On 13 May 1948 (a day before the proclamation of the State of Israel), the Arab forces in Jaffa were defeated after long fighting with the Zionist underground Haganah and Irgun Zva'i Leumi forces. On 24 April 1950, the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the Arab city of Jaffa were unified, and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality was established.
Today,[when?] Arabs of various denominations constitute about 25,000 inhabitants out of a total of 35,000 people.[citation needed] Jaffa has an old fishing harbor, modern boat docks, and a tourism center.[1] Jaffa is a major tourist attraction with a combination of old, new and restored buildings.[2] Its visitor attractions include art galleries, souvenir shops, restaurants, sidewalk cafes, boardwalks, and shopping. It offers a variety of culture, entertainment and food (fish restaurants). The city is noted for its export of the Jaffa oranges.
The architecture of the East Coast Main Line 14 mile Selby Diversion won’t win any beauty contest and can at best be described as functional.
Built to avoid risks to trains from mining subsidence, a new diversionary route, the first purpose-built section of high-speed railway in the UK runs to the west of Selby, construction started in July 1980, paid for by the National Coal Board and opened to British Rail Intercity East Coast Services on the 3rd October 1983.
LNER Azuma is the third generation of High Speed Intercity train to use the diversion, here Class 800 Bi-mode 800106 speeds under Field Lane Hambleton with a service for Edinburgh.
800106 1S19 13:53 St Neots to Edinburgh Waverley Services not running into London due to Kings Cross rebuilding work.
20th June 2020
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.
All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.
Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.
Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.
sex.
Pistons and anemones and giggling and frustration and epileptic frenzy and The Vacuum. It is plain that the female unit and the male unit are, while functionally complimentary, stylistically at odds. They have different RPMs and different metabolisms. Boys grow up programmed that sex is about jack hammers and stud horses, James Bond, coitus as imperator in triumph.
I wont feign to understand the deeper currents of feminine sexuality, but its clear to me that it operates in a realm of textures and emotion, glide and leverage, a voluptuous blooming.
On the levels of forms, sexuality is a country dog mounting a windowsill cat. But not always...
We all have a gentle fantasy of lovemaking as a spockish melding of spirits. Theoretically it might just happen, but in a world of flat tires, overdue bills, and workplace deadlines lovemaking is more a sharing of pleasure, of relief, of a delicious distraction. There is little enough time for a real daily spirituality, let alone a blinding spiritual sexuality.
Next time you are at a theme park or a bowling alley or a DMV, look around. Notice all the different species of people. Everyone one of them has a history, a hope, a couple of real mind-blowing secrets, a bank account, a paralyzing fear, a place where they sleep, frustrations, and a sexuality. They have all French kissed. They have all learned how to drive. They have all crawled into the dark corner, pulled a baby nipple over a bottle of booze, and whimpered themselves into the null and the void. They all have...just like you.
This isn’t about some Orwellian cultural homogeneity. This is about human beings. We aren’t Ford's black cars. We are more like a library of books, shelves and shelves and shelves of stories. The difference is that some are poorly written, some have simpering plots, some are technical manuals, some are trashy romances - and some, a few really, are actually great literature.
I highlighted in my photo titled "Pass the Parcel - 2" that in Autumn 2015, Pembrokeshire County Council took on the lease of a Plaxton Centro-bodied VDL SB200 for contracted Service 322 (Haverfordwest & Withybush Hospital-Narberth-Whitland-St Clears-Carmarthen & Glangwili Hospital) on behalf of the then contractor, Silcox.
Silcox had been regularly using a UVG-bodied Dennis Javelin, P780 WDE, on the contract, which had replaced an 08-plate Alexander Dennis Enviro300. January 2016 was the deadline for single-deck service buses used on registered local bus services to comply with the Public Service Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 2000 (PSVAR), which no doubt prompted the Council's actions in leasing the VDL.
Whilst Silcox had built up a sizeable fleet of former MoD vehicles, P780 WDE had been purchased new, presumably as as a cheaper option than a buying a standard coach.
This shot from March 2014 shows her in a foggy Blue Street in Carmarthen when she was on her way to Glangwili Hospital after dropping off in the Bus Station.
Echium is a genus of approximately 70 species and several subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. The type species is Echium vulgare. Species of Echium are native to North Africa, mainland Europe to Central Asia and the Macaronesian islands, where it reaches its maximum diversity. Many species are used as ornamental and garden plants and may be found in suitable climates throughout the world. The seed oil from Echium plantagineum contains high levels of alpha linolenic acid (ALA), gamma linolenic acid (GLA) and stearidonic acid (SDA), making it valuable in cosmetic and skin care applications, with further potential as a functional food, as an alternative to fish oils. 5440
No reason to build a new barn when the old one is still standing ....Maybe some more paint.... South of Oyen, Alberta.
We have many old bridges and viaducts here and further north. All seemed to have been built with such pride and elegance, and this is but one example.
The bridge carries something quite mundane, pipes which carry water further southwards. The stonework is very good, and the whole design aesthetically pleasing.
The River Lune floods severely very frequently, so this bridge has to be sturdy (on the other side of the bridge is a record of some of the flood heights).
Taken in the Lune Valley with a small compact Canon camera
About 20 kilometres (around 12 miles) outside Orange, New South Wales is the genuine heritage town of Millthorpe and we had to have a look at this. We realised we had been through before. This is the railway station, recently reopened as such which is also a very smart cafe where we had a lovely lunch. Sadly the town's success in many ways is also a bit of a negative, despite it being a weekday, the streets with their refurbished and upmarket shops were also busy and the preponderance of parked cars somewhat inhibited the photographic ambience of the widespread heritage architecture and values. It happens!
For anyone travelling, as I have said before some of these magnificent towns look like a page out of Australian history. There are quite a few around which will have you stepping back into the 19th century, colonisation architecture still standing doesn't go back further than that really. If you are travelling, you will find them more in the older states where primary building materials were stone and brick, like Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. Some wonderful ones are places like Campbell Town, Oatlands, Ross and Rothwell in Tasmania, several through the centre of Victoria, Millthorpe, Gulgong, Sofala, Hill End, Carcoar, Canowindra and the little towns I have mentioned recently in New South Wales and places north of the Barossa in South Australia. There are many more, these are just a sprinkle but well worth the visit. All are on good roads. I come from Queensland where there are also some rarer good ones (it was settled a little later and much was made of the less durable timber for building) but Charters Towers is a good one as is Ravenswood and places in the scenic rim around Brisbane. I am not so familiar with Western Australia, anyone want to chime in with other recommendations, please do so.
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