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Lovely light fog this morning, so quickly changed my walking route to come over to this spot. Unfortunately when I arrived the sun was also obscured by enough thin cloud to not do more than provide a tiny bit of illumination so after a bit I wandered off to photograph some little bits and pieces safe in the knowledge that there are always other days.
Then the cloud went away and I dashed back to see what I could get... and to find that my camera battery was running out and the spare was at home on charge. Thankfully it just felt funny and I had enough left to do a fair bit of work.
We hadn't planned on going over to Bronte country today, but when the M62 turned into a car park near to Brighouse we did an 'exit sharp left' and headed over towards Haworth
I thought I had missed my chance of seeing this 'icon' after we had been away in Dorset last week whilst "Flying Scotsman" was wowing the crowds during its centennial tour...BUT we were lucky and the loco was providing an amazing sight at Haworth
The Flying Scotsman was completed at Doncaster, at a cost of £7,944, in February 1923 as 1472, an A1 pacific-class locomotive. Under ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER) it was renumbered the 4472 and christened the Flying Scotsman.
In 1924, number 4472 Flying Scotsman, renumbered and named for the occasion, was displayed at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley along with the first member of the Great Western Railway (GWR) Castle Class, number 4073 Caerphilly Castle.
At the 1925 British Empire Exhibition, Flying Scotsman was again exhibited; but this time, the GWR sent Pendennis Castle.
It was an immediate hit with the public, and its fame was sealed when in 1928 it launched the regular 10am non-stop Flying Scotsman Express Service from King’s Cross, London, to Waverley, Edinburgh. It had been fitted with a corridor tender in April 1928 in readiness for this and transferred from the depot at Doncaster to Kings Cross in order to work the service to Edinburgh.. It retained a corridor tender until October 1936.
For this the locomotives ran with a new version of the large eight-wheel tender which held nine tons of coal. This and the usual facility for water replenishment from the water trough system enabled them to travel the 392 miles from London to Edinburgh in eight hours non-stop. The tender included a corridor connection and tunnel through the water tank giving access to the locomotive cab from the train to permit replacement of the driver and fireman without stopping the train.
The Flying Scotsman became even more famous on 30 November 1934, when it travelled at 100mph breaking the world speed record.
In January 1947, the Flying Scotsman was converted to the A3 class that incorporated a larger boiler with a higher boiler pressure and, a year later, it was re-designated as the 60103 under the ownership of BR.
German type smoke deflectors were fitted in December 1961 but have not been carried throughout its service since it was preserved. The double chimney was fitted in January 1959.
Retired from regular service in January1963 after covering 2,076,000 miles
When it was withdrawn in January 1963 it had covered 2,076,000 miles in service. It was purchased by Alan Pegler for a scrap value of £3,000. Peglar removed the German-style smoke deflectors and fitted a corridor tender an applied a lined LNER Doncaster green livery. After 20 months of charter trains, it entered Doncaster for a change of boiler and overhaul. This time it was repainted in a traditional Darlington Green livery with black and white lining. With the demise of BR steam, water supplies were hard to get, and so in 1966 Alan Pegler added the Flying Scotsman’s famous second tender. This tender was a corridor type, which was adapted to store 6000 gallons of water. By the time of the next overhaul in 1968, it had to be overhauled by Hunslet (Leeds), because Doncaster was no longer able to overhaul steam locomotives.
From 1968 British railways imposed a ban on any steam locomotives operating on the national network. Flying Scotsman was the only exception as it was contractually covered to operate until 1970 as a result of an agreement between Peglar and the British Railways Board. The ban on steam trains operations was lifted in 1972.
The Flying Scotsma clocked up 119,000 miles in the UK whilst owned by Alan Pegler.
In 1969, then Prime Minister Wilson agreed to support Pegler via the Trade Departme
In 1969, then Prime Minister Wilson agreed to support Pegler via the Trade Department running the locomotive in the United States and Canada to support British exports. To comply with local railway regulations, it was fitted with a cowcatcher, bell, buckeye couplings and an American-style whistle. Starting in Boston, Massachusetts, the tour ran into immediate problems, with some states seeing the locomotive as a fire-hazard, and there-by raising costs through the need for diesel-headed-haulage through them. However, the train ran from Boston to New York, Washington and Dallas in the first year; from Texas to Wisconsin and finishing in Montreal in 1970; and from Toronto to San Francisco in 1971 — a total of 15,400 miles.
However, in 1970 Ted Heath’s Conservatives ousted Wilson’s Labour Party, and withdrew financial support from the tour. Pegler still decided to return for the 1970 season. By the end of that season’s tour, the money had run out and Pegler was £132,000 in debt, with the locomotive in storage in U.S. Army Sharpe Depot just outside of San Francisco to keep it away from unpaid creditors.
It took another businessman, Sir William McAlpine, to pay off creditors, buy the locomotive and bring her back to Britain in 1973. Whilst in the USA and Canada the locomotive covered 15,400 miles.
It was then based at Steamtown, at the old Carnforth motive power depot which is now the northern base of West Coast Railways. In 1974 McAlpine became a shareholder in Steamtown to allow Flying Scotsman to be based there which it was for fifteen years. He subsequently acquired a controlling interest in the company in order to fund the purchase of the complete site including the track from BR.
It was fitted with an A4 class boiler in 1977 when it was undergoing heavy repairs at Vickers at Barrow in Furness. Because of the slight difference in size from the original A3 class boiler the cladding had to be replaced.
In 1988 4472 Flying Scotsman ventured abroad a second time, this time to Australia for the Bicentenary celebrations. During this visit, it set a new record for the longest non-stop run for a steam locomotive by travelling 422 miles non-stop. The previous record was set in 1948 by a number of locomotives when flooding caused the non-stop services from London to Edinburgh to be diverted over the Waverley route.
By 1995, it was part-owned by Pete Waterman, and was once more being overhauled having completed 2,462,900 miles since entering service in February 1923 with nearly 400,000 of this having been done since it was withdrawn from service with BR in January 1963.
It was sold again to a company called Sovco, which was owned by businessman Tony Marchington, who in 1996 paid McAlpine and Waterman £1.5m for the locomotive.
It was given a major overhaul at a cost of £1m and returned to running condition in 1998. It was then operated commercially by Flying Scotsman Railways in an attempt to cover the costs of the rebuild and future maintenance work.
In 2002, Marchington proposed grand plans that included a Flying Scotsman Village linked to the main line in Edinburgh, creating revenue from associated branding for Flying Scotsman plc, floated that same year.
But the scheme failed to gain approval from Edinburgh City Council and the failure of these plans plus an overhaul that proved to be wildly over budget bankrupted Marchington. This led to Flyimg Scotsman being placed for sale in 2004. After a competitive bidding process ending in April 2004, it was announced that the National Railway Museum would be the new owner which removed the fear that the locomotive would be sold to an overseas buyer.
The National Railway Museum in York acquired the locomotive at a cost of £2.3m and when restoration began in 2005 it was estimated the work would cost about £750,000. This is roughly the same as the cost of building the new A1 pacific Tornado.
The money was raised to buy and restore the locomotive to mainline running-
£415,000 through public appeal matched by a donation from Sir Richard Branson on behalf of Virgin Group
The National Heritage Memorial Fund grant of £1.8m
When the restoration work started in 2005 it was anticipated that it would take twelve months to complete the task. In the event it has taken ten years and cost £4.2m to return Flying Scotsman to steam and be capable of mainline running again. As part of this work the A4 class boiler was replaced with the original A3 class boiler.
Much of the work on the locomotive has been completed by Riley & Son (E) Ltd at Bury after earlier attempts to undertake work at York had gone badly wrong.
Flying Scotsman finally returned to steam in December 2015 in readiness for its first public appearance in early January 2016 on the East Lancs Railway.
As part of the agreement between the National Railway Museum and Riley & Son (E) Ltd in 2013 to complete the restoration of the locomotive it was agreed that Riley & Son (E) Ltd at Bury would manage the operation of the locomotive for a period of two years after it returned to service.
In October 2016 the National Railway Museum issued a statement on the cost of acquiring the Flying Scotsman and returning it to service. This confirmed that the original purchase price for the locomotive was £2.31m which was funded by-
£1.8m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund
£441k from public donations
£365k match funding from the Virgin Group
The cost of restoring the locomotive was given as £4.5m (£4,537,892) which was funded by external funding, public donations and the sale of Flying Scotsman merchandise. Included was also a £275k grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Funds were also made available to the National Railway Museum from the Science Museum Group of which the National Railway Museum forms part. None of the money came from the normal annual budget of the National Railway Museum.
In October 2017 the locomotive suffered its first failure since returning to main line operations. The issue was that the middle driving axle ran hot. Flying Scotsman was lifted off the wheels at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway and the axle boxes were re-metalled before the locomotive returned to running a few days later.
In early 2018 the National Railway Museum announced that Riley & Son (E) Ltd would continue the operating and maintaining of the locomotive until 2024. In addition to the day-to-day running and maintenance the contract includes a comprehensive overhaul of 60103 in 2022.
In 2023 the National Railway Museum are planning to hold events to mark the Flying Scotsman’s centenary.
In July 2019 the National Railway Museum revealed that the locomotive would be main line certified until 2029 after which it would spend a further three years on heritage railways.
The locomotive was taken out of service in April 2022 for an overhaul which is anticipated to take three to four months which will enable the locomotive to be back in steam for its 100th anniversary. The overhaul is being undertaken by Riley & Son (E) Ltd at Heywood.
The locomotive was operational again by October 2022.
Down and under really down on this cross. Hill of crosses in Lithuania has many walks of live from every direction come and visit and like a pilgrim they get and they leave something here.
Another view across the Chinaman Creek Dam in Cloncurry. As different from the vast grass plains of Outback Queensland as you can get, (and they are only 50 kilometres or so down the road), these hills signify the change in geology around Cloncurry and west towards Mt. Isa. Them tha hills are full of rich mineral deposits, in fact, there is a mine about a kilometre away. Copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, gold and more have been or are mined in this massively rich area.
That is Black Mountain on the other side of the dam and the Black Mountain Hotel was once a stopover for bullockies (drovers driving cattle) and travellers coming in from the mining communities to the west. Water is pumped from the nearby Cloncurry River into the dam which was constructed in 1994 to keep it topped up.
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled,
Spurned by young, but hung by old
To the verge of a church yard mold;
Price of many a crime untold.
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Good or bad a thousand fold!
How widely it agencies vary,
To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless -
As even its minted coins express :
Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess,
And now of a bloody Mary.
.................... Thomas Hood
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
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“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
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There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
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3/02/17 pic - this time of an E200 straying on the R8. Unclear what's going on with the solos, probably broken. The ride was once again - interesting, especially when we had to reverse to make way for a van.
Tried to inquire with the friendly driver what buses R8 might get, and although he didn't know, he hinted Optare is off the cards due to unreliability, but they are looking into… baby MMCs! Lol, so the crazy squeeze might become ever-lasting xD
MEC55 / BF65HUU has also snuck into the picture.
Life is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
HAIR – *Dura* VALENTINE G-GIFT 2015
JACKET – L&B Swear Scout Armored Jacket
JEANS – L&B Swear Destruction Jeans (EVENT faMESHed May 2017)
BOOTS – = REBELLION = “RONIN” BOOTS
HAIR – *Dura* VALENTINE G-GIFT 2015) Although I have things I dislike about this hair, i have plenty more I like. It comes with a texture hud, with 6 hair colors, and 6 hat colors. I personally prefer black on black, but I think you can see that by my previous posts! The texturing is great, and the simplicity of this hair is perfect for me.. I love wearing hats with hair showing, and this punches that ticket! Now for the things I don’t like, (and this could be because I’m a small avatar) When I size this hair for my head, some of the hair underneath the hat comes out randomly. So I have to reset the entire hair, and start over, several times until it doesn’t happen.. However, like I said, I have a very small head, and I’m betting I’m past the proper threshold of the scripts.. lol SO Its FREE, it looks great! go get it. Last I checked it was still in their store about a month ago.
JACKET – L&B Swear Scout Armored Jacket) Between L&B and Gabriel, I don’t know why I shop anywhere else.. This jacket comes sized for (Aesthetic, Slink, and XS-XL classic) I’m currently wearing the XS-XL (its one size fits all I guess) I have the signature body, and aside from the arms needing alpha, the rest fits great, can wear this with or without the shirt, with no clipping. The Texture hud comes with 12 jacket stripe colors, the main portion of the jacket stays black, but all the straps and buckles change; as well as 22 t shirt textures, and an on off option for the t shirt. All of the textures are stellar, and well done.. I find myself wearing this style of jacket a lot, and this is one of my favorites..
JEANS – L&B Swear Destruction Jeans (EVENT faMESHed May 2017)….Ohhh faMESHed….. you always full son of a B%#%H lmao I fought for 4 days trying to get in, to buy these damn pants….. Only a little anger there.. side eyes faMESHed.. OKAY! So afer I FINALLY got these..heres what I think. Although they are similar to L&B’s other jeans.. you CAN’T go wrong with these.. This one pair of jeans makes all their others kinda worthless to have actually.. Cause the texture hud does it all. 18! different jean textures.. 20 different belt textures, and 5 metal textures for the belt. Now normally its one style of jean with just different colors, but oh no.. not with these.. They have a Dirty muddy texture, paint spot texture, a ton of different torn and abused textures… all different colors.. Now here is where the genius of these pants come in, they have the Bonus textures so 5 solid just very nice jean textures, no tears, no mud.. for us country folks, these are going out jeans.. you can pair these with damn near any shoe, and thin boot, or their patrol boots as these also come in a tucked version! 100% worth the cash.. I don’t exactly know how much of my money I’ve given L&B, but I really don’t wanna know…
BOOTS – = REBELLION = “RONIN” BOOTS) I got these I believe on another 50L sale at Rebellion.. I get a lot from those sales.. textured really nicely, come rigged for slink and non rigged. Has a hud that has 7 different boot colors, and 7 different lace colors, 3 different metal textures for eyelets. Totally worth getting, and very easy to fit. For those of you who wear skinny jeans, I’m not sure how easily these will fit for you.. they are not high on the leg, but not tight to it either. Most boot cut jeans that I’ve tried fit easily. So just TRY THE DEMO! lol
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NEEDLES IN THE HAY
(Curated by Sasha Bogojev for The Curators Room)
12 December 2021 – 31 January 2022
Opening reception: Sunday 12 December 2021, 12 – 17 hrs
Location:
Prinsengracht 675, 1017 JT Amsterdam. The Netherlands
www.thecuratorsroom.com | hello@thecuratorsroom.com | +31(0) 625005374
Open:
Thursday – Saturday
13 – 17 hrs or by appointment
Artists:
Grgur Akrap, Zac Yeates, Anna Jung Seo, Chiaki Kadota, Donglai Meng, Joseph Noderer, Eskubi Joseba, Erkut Terliksiz, Stijn Bastianen, Harry Rothel, Adam Štech, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Yonel Watene, and Frank Jimin Hopp.
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The Curators Room is proud to Announce Needles in the Hay, a group show curated by Sasha Bogojev.
One of the things we’ve become more aware of in the past two years of the global pandemic is the unforgiving power of odds. No matter how small and insignificant a certain probability might be, recent times taught us that its mere existence is predestined to make an impact on the elements connected to it. And it’s this concept of chances and the related idea of risk and hope, as well as the general sense of liability, that prompted Sasha Bogojev to put together an exhibition where numbers work to our advantage.
As much as social media, namely Instagram, might have contributed to the democratization of the art world and have provided a historically unseen platform to creatives to introduce their work, the abundance of content makes this experience increasingly harder. With the growing interference and influence of both genuine and wannabe art advisors, collectors, curators, galleries, foundations, or institutions, the haystack we’re working through is becoming exponentially more convoluted and deceiving. And while this situation can be difficult for art aficionados and collectors, it can certainly turn frustrating for the artists themselves.
Overlooked by the almighty tastemakers or generally misrepresented, they are still out there, in the shadow of the mesmerizing spotlight of art trends, making the work that deserves more attention than it might be currently getting. And with this show, Sasha Bogojev and Gabriel Rolt from Amsterdam’s The Curators Room are doing their part to make the difference, find these gems hidden in plain sight and present their works in a large two-floor, multi-room space in the historic center of Amsterdam.
With an extensive overview of numerous studio practices and the positioning of people working there, Juxtapoz magazine’s contributing editor eye-picked a selection of international artists whose works deserve their own time in the spotlight. Whether looking at the general concepts of their practice, the particularities of their process, or their ways of handling and utilizing the chosen techniques or mediums, Needles in the Hay are having an important role in the ongoing development and conversation about figurative art, and especially painting. Frequently focusing on the atmosphere suggested by chosen colors and the sense of dynamics or movement conveyed through the often fluid yet determined paint manipulation, the work is having its footing in historic timeline with references to Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, as well as outsiders art, illustration, and abstraction. Hailing from all over the world, from New Zealand, over Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, to the USA, and across Europe and the UK, the exhibition is meant to provide a focused digest of exciting practices taking place at (mostly painters’) studios at the present time.
The exhibition will be including a selection of works by Grgur Akrap, Zac Yeates, Anna Jung Seo, Chiaki Kadota, Donglai Meng, Joseph Noderer, Eskubi Joseba, Erkut Terliksiz, Stijn Bastianen, Harry Rothel, Adam Štech, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Yonel Watene, and Frank Jimin Hopp.
Text by Sasha Bogojev
Today's story and sketch "by me' we are in Baja California for the 48th year of the Baja 500.
But in reality the Baja race started hundreds of years ago when it was started by Stewie Gofish,
seen riding his 49cc Hallasa Motorbike, this is the actual bike Stewie rode in his home Crater
as a youth on Lippo his home Moon for a very long time, well until he was told by his neighbors
to knock off the noise.
That was when he journeyed to Earth, and found Baja was a perfect place to ride from his
Uncle Mike's, to the coast and back. And he has ridden every year from that first time, and returns every chance he gets.
And just above in the sketch you see his brother Malcom who has been Stewie's Pre Runner and
Lookout in case of any danger on the path, he carries a supply of Moon Pies and Adult beverages
if Stewie makes a pit stop.
In the early days there was no official, or unofficial race, it was just Stewie scaring the occasional
Donkey riders off the path between Encenada and uncle Mike Gofish's Interstellar Tourist Ranch, at that time the the local farmers, fishermen, and tortilla makers would ride their donkeys to the sky ranch with fresh veggies and Lobsters to trade for Shinny bits (Blue Mood Stones) from Lippo, So that Mike could make his famous signature (Baja Fresh Moon Pies), which is the reason so many aliens from around the Galaxy will stop just for a Lobster Moon Pie, when they are traveling the universe through Worm Hole Nine. Which is an easy In and Out route in Worm Hole Nine,
if you take the Blue Planet off ramp. (But that is a story for another time, the off ramp was unmarked for many "Eon's", a very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for humorous or rhetorical effect). The Baja 500 and other off road motor events, started when people could
see how much fun Stewie was having chasing people and donkeys off the Pathways, Oh and after
Earthlings invented the noisy internal combustion engine just for such a purpose.
till next time taa ta the Rod Blog.
Always be thankful to the people who make your life special.
Rod
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
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Tommy - So the report just came in, Dr. Polaris was moved to Stryker's island yesterday.
John - He should've been taken to rehab center or something. He needs help, not captivity.
Tommy - I know what you're saying, but some people are crazy forever, it doesn't matter how much help they get. And it seems professor Don got away with 2 months probation.
I look down, I promised Emerson that Don would serve for his crimes, what a load if shit that turned out to be. As we are discussing Lee walks into the building, sitting down next to me.
Lee - So what's going on? Why'd y'all two call me here?
Tommy - We want to help you learn how to use your… abilities.
John - Training was a big part of me becoming Green Lantern, to become whatever you want to be, you need practice.
Tommy - But when we're training we gotta call you your codename instead of Lee. You can be “Ink Master”.
We both look at him.
Tommy - Too on the nose?
Lee - Listen I appreciate y'all but…
He is cut off by a big crash outside. Me and Tommy look at each other, then slide out if the booth we are in. I clench my fist, causing my ring to form my suit. Lee gets up and follows us as we run outside. A man in a gold suit is standing in the middle of the street.
Tommy - Oh no, John you need to call Hal.
John - What? Why?
Tommy - That's Goldface Hal's first villain.
Lee - We can take this fool.
Keith - I'd love to see you try. Green Lantern, I want your predecessor. You have 24 hours to oblige or people will die.
John - Yeah that's not gonna happen.
I lung forward to strike him in the head.
Tommy - No John don't touch him!
As I'm about to hit him, he catches my fist. My ring creates a life support field as it begins to be engulfed by gold.
Lee - No! Now you really gonna get a smack down.
I see through the gold shell, as Lee creates a snake from his arm. He sends the snake forward but Goldface catches it, turning it gold. He uses it as a rope, swinging Lee through the air into a bench. Tommy finishes rounding up the civilians in the area and begins to lead them out before Goldface stops him.
Keith - I knew I recognised you. You're that pie faced weasel. You were the rat. If I kill you, he'll come runnin’.
Goldface raises his arms and slams the ground, sending a wave of gold energy towards Tommy and the civilians
John - Nooo!
I burst out of the gold, putting a barrier around Tommy and the rest of the civilians just in time before Goldface's ground pound can hurt them.
The gold feeds from my barricade up to my ring causing me to fall. Goldface walks up to me about to grab my face before Tommy hits him in the head with a street sign.
Keith - I think I've had just about enough of this city.
He grabs the sign and hits Tommy with it. He then throws the sign into a building, causing rubble to fall on top of me.
Rolling Clouds Invasion Tampa Bay Florida Sunset Time Lapse - IMRAN™
Watch how dramatic the clouds get, and the winds whip the palm trees. A rolling clouds invasion of the skies above Tampa Bay, Florida as day turned to night. One week before last Christmas, this was the surreal timelapse I captured at my blessed home.
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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we are so different,
yet we're the same
things that I remember, that I wish I could change.
/do you ever have entire conversations with someone inside
your head? and you say everything you never got to say,
and in your mind it plays out like a super calm movie where
the voices stay soft and every word makes sense and is
understood. the edges stay a cool blue black, and
hands are held and truths exchanged and
souls thank each other and apologize.
damn, does my brain ever rationalize the hell out of stuff
during those mind films.
of course people and emotions aren't always rational,
and sometimes
that movie mind reel is the closest to closure we'll
ever get.
and sometimes it's enough, and sometimes it's not.
and sometimes it's superheated.
//this photo was taken almost six years ago. it's been
sitting on my hd for so long...
pictures have a funny way of telling you when they want to be seen.
i like the quiet tension.
/clocking in at 5:04, probably my favorite song off the new New Order album.
I grabbed a pretty large cardboard box from our warehouse and took it home. I cut out big wall to wall windows in both sides and the top of the box. I lined these windows with a plastic shower curtain liner to diffuse my lights. I have two LED continuous lamps and two speedlites so I can actually light up both sides and the top and front if I want. I put a white poster board along the back wall and another white sheet on the floor of the box. I put the potted orchids in. I placed the two LED lights on the sides and a speedlite in the front.
I shot with an 85 mm 1.8 all manual at f/10 for some dof from a tripod and the speedlight was on a light stand off camera controlled by a hot shoe controller. I pointed up to avoid the flower pot and arranged the flowers in such a way as to not see the grey stalks that are common to orchids, just the flowers. I kept the exposure up to keep the background as true to white as I could get and get a high key look. I hoped detail and colors of the flowers could stand their own against the all whiteness and I think they did.
Geez, I forgot my Flickr Anniversary last week (January 19th) --- 3 Years of Wonderfulness!! I can't even begin to put into words my Gratitude for this major part of my life -- the Friends I've made all over the world --- people I would love to meet "in person" but find that even knowing them "just" through the Flickr, many relationships have become so strong and meaningful to me, I get a lump in my throat when I think about it.
I could never have imagined having so many wonderful people in my life
I know I have not been the most attentive comrade, especially this last year or so, but I will do better. Because of your kindness and caring, I have been able to weather some pretty tough storms, and come out of them stronger and happier and even kinder and more caring, myself. What a Gift!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
These first 2 pics are of the same Blue Jay -- you can tell by the unique little bit of feathering at the top of his wing. (note) The last is the 3rd photo I ever posted back in Jan 2009. Wouldn't you know #1 and #2 would be of a male Cardinal!!?? Anyone who has posted their own Cardinals will know how "Pea Green With Envy" I get and make no bones about telling you!! (-: (-: (-:
But I do have my lovely Blue Jays -- from beginning til this day! They do seem to like me, and Boy, oh boy, do I really like them -- Grumpy, Sassy, Bullying, or not.
The Luxury of being yourself
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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While photography is a passion for me, as I may have mentioned (about a gazillion times) stage/concert photography is absolutely what I enjoy most.
Why? Because there is the potential to capture moments of drama like this...and (in truth) because they are often not easy shots to get (and I love a challenge).
These are two performers from the famous Cirque du Soleil, who were performing their show 'Quidam' at the SECC in Glasgow tonight at the start of their UK tour. The show is at the SECC until Sunday.
This was taken from quite a way back, with my 70-300mm lens, ISO 3200 and 1/20 sec, hand-held.
There were spectacular moments in this show...my only frustration was that the lighting levels were often very low at these points. So, much as I love my Canon EOS-5D (with which this was taken), the facility to go to 25,600 ISO with the 5D Mark II looks increasingly tempting.
Oh...and a MAJOR thank you to Alex Hewitt from The Scotsman for arranging my photo pass...and to Marie-Josée Gagnon (the Publicist for Cirque du Soleil) for looking after us at the SECC.
In contrast to gigs (where the three song rule generally applies), we were able to photograph the entire show. Woo-Hoo! :-)
Oh...and the title of this shot partially refers to 'Cirque du Soleil' (naturally) but is also the title of a song from the Yes album, 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' and surely we all love prog rock? I know I do! :-)
You can see another of my shots of this couple in action here: Children of the Sun
South of Anchorage we have an area called Potter's Marsh. There are numerous water fowl that use this area. Quite a few years ago they built a boardwalk along the edge bordering the Seward Highway. Later they expanded it, to a very long wandering boardwalk that sits high above the marsh. Jan, likes to walk it for the exercise she gets and also to see the birds. I like to walk it hoping for a photo opportunity. Sometimes you might see moose, eagles, black bears and of course lots of waterfowl. Anyway, this is a shot taken about a week ago. They have put up lots of bird houses out there and the tree swallows love them. I shot this with my Canon 70-200mm. I was able to move in close enough (under 4 feet) that the lens wouldn't focus. I backed off just a bit and got this shot.
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
Ever since I got back from Spring break, I’ve been uber busy with schoolwork and my ‘Road To Infinity War’ re-reviews that I’ve missed out on telling you guys about all the new movies that I’ve seen in theaters! Now I have a little bit of free time today, so instead of spending an hour or more on five movie reviews as I usually do, I’m just going to give you guys my overall thoughts on five films that I’ve seen recently. I’ve done this before but with video games, but for those of you who don’t remember, I’ll title the movie, give my thoughts, then give a score. So let’s check it out!
Isle of Dogs -
Another classic Wes Anderson film. The stop-motion animation is so impressive in this film and the story so heartfelt, I’m a sucker for a “boy and his dog” film. The voice cast is spectacular with standouts like Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, and Bryan Cranston. Ever since Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson has really been diving deep into world building and this movie is no exception. Teaming up one of my favorite directors with one of my favorite settings makes for a fantastic film based in quirky futuristic Japan. I really feel My one complaint is that there was a subplot with a American exchange student in Japan that I wasn’t quite a fan of, but that’s probably because I was so invested with the other plot with the boy named Atari and the group of dogs. Overall, Isle of Dogs isn’t my favorite Wes Anderson film, but it’s up there as one of his best.
Score: 8.5/10
Pacific Rim: Uprising -
I was massively disappointed this sequel of my favorite Del Toro film. While there are a few good moments from the always likable John Boyega and some action sequences. There’s not enough material to save this film from being just a bunch of visual noise on screen. The action in the original Pacific Rim was so stylized and beautiful, but this in this film, it’s just so over the top and hard to track, it’s like a Transformers film. The CGI in this film is absolute garbage as well, the action looks like cutscenes from a PS3 game. The film also ruins certain characters who I loved in the first film with these dumbs twists and gives us these completely unlikeable and amateur Jaeger pilots. Overall, Pacific Rim: Uprising just made me sad and confused. Hopefully Steven S. DeKnight can stay away from films and just go back to TV after this because his work on Daredevil is incredible!
Score: 3.5/10
Ready Player One -
A solid Steven Spielberg film that feels so reminiscent of his filmmaking in the 80s, but stylistically and what was actually shown on screen. Ready Player One is a buffet of references and easter eggs to almost all pop culture, you will definitely find something or someone in this movie that you will recognize and make you a least a little giddy. There were a few of those for me, the characters go to a certain movie world and they fight a certain character that gave me a huge smile on my face the entire time. This film also does a great job of world building without making it seem like boring exposition. This film wouldn’t be as good if it weren’t for how likeable the characters were. My favorite character of the film was Aech, they have some great comedy and plays a big part into my favorite sequence of the film which I won’t spoil. My biggest problem with the film is I don’t think Spielberg stuck the landing and the ending was a little cliched. Ready Player One is one of those films where I know everything that’s going to happen before I even saw it. The sound mixing of this film was absolutely terrible as well, songs were played too quietly and some other things were too loud, the film was very messy in terms of sound. But the characters, references, and world building were so great that in the end gave me a great time at the theater.
Score: 8/10
The Death of Stalin -
A fantastic dark comedy that felt like a modern Monty Python film, and that’s not purely because Michael Palin stars in the film. The cast of this film was absolutely fantastic, we got some all-stars such as Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor who play great caricatures of Soviet leaders dealing with Stalin’s death. The movie doesn’t really pay attention to being historically accurate, but more of the writing and the dialogue between the characters. It’s hilarious to watch Buscemi play Khrushchev, but with that classic Buscemi accent. There also some great non-slapstick visual comedy and improv in the film, one improv line that sticks out to me is “Who would put a lamp on a chair?” The Death of Stalin is a super dark comedy that over time, may go up as one of the classics as more people watch it. I can’t wait for others to discover this hidden gem in a pretty packed year of film.
Score: 8.5/10
A Quiet Place -
This film is by far one of the scariest films I’ve seen yet. I had a fantastic time at the theater watching this painfully scary film with a large crowd. John Krasinski completely surprised me with this directorial debut. The film consists of a tight and excellent cast, incredible cinematography and set design, and incredible sound mixing as well. Since this film is called “A Quiet Place”, sound really acts as a character of its own in this film. Krasinski makes completely mundane sounds utterly terrifying because of their implications, and let me tell you, those implications are horrifying. The monsters in this film are so cleverly designed and thought out that they are truly some of the most terrifying movie monsters! I have no idea what I’d do if I saw these fuckers in real life! This film is packed with scares but it also has a lot of heart. The family dynamic may be a little cliched in the film with a defiant teenager that creates trouble, but there are such heartfelt moments throughout the film that it makes up for some pretty basic horror cliches in terms of characters and their relationship to their family, which probably my biggest complaint with the film. My other complaint with the film is that it starts with a bang, but then slows down for a large percentage of the first act, but then it kicks back up again and has one of the best ending is any horror film. Overall, A Quiet Place is probably my favorite modern horror film so far. It’s got some slow parts and some cliched family dynamics, but it doesn’t overshadow how fucking scary this film can get and how fun it was to watch with my friends in a full theater. I saw this film yesterday and it’s all I’ve been thinking about since!
Score: 8.5/10
Anyways, those are my mini reviews! I’ll make sure to get back to my normal reviews for new movies soon, but in the meantime, make sure to leave your thoughts on any of these films that I spoke about in the comments below!
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Nekite River - Great Bear Rainforest | BC, Canada
A message to my few faithful Flickr followers
Over the past few days I’ve been posting photos of the main bit-part players from this trip, as I’ve been concentrating on the star of the show and prime purpose of going to BC, which was the bears - Grizzly (brown), American Black, and the rare Kermode (subspecies) more commonly known as the ‘Spirit Bear’. The sorting, culling and developing has been challenging, particularly when so many shots were taken at ISO6400, but the time taken has been worth it as I now have the portfolio of images I wanted. Ideally the ‘quality’ of some of the shots could be better, but it’s the subject and setting that’s important - high ISO’s are a necessity when you’re shooting in poor light and, not surprisingly, when you’re in the rainforest you have lots of tree cover and dull wet days!
Hopefully I will be uploading a number of images to my website in due course. I say hopefully, simply because at the moment www.tickspics is undergoing some enforced background adjustments to make it ‘mobile friendly’, which has destroyed the layout and functionality! I’ll resist further comment other than to say the task of getting it back to how it looks today appears daunting so it could be a while until I’m in a position to add new content. In the meantime, I’ll probably post more photos to Flickr than I would normally have done!
However, there will now be a lull in proceedings as I’ll be off Flickr for a few days, but when I’m back normal service will be resumed, including getting back to commenting!
I’ll leave you with one of my favourite Grizzly shots from the trip. I suppose it could be regarded as the iconic photo as the bear charges through the shallows in pursuit of a salmon. We’ve all seen these shots but, unless you’re on the beach in Alaska, getting one is far from easy! It was one of the photos I really wanted, but thought I’d missed out on as the conditions weren’t conducive, primarily because it was a poor salmon run and there were not that many fresh fish in the river for the bears to chase. Most of the time the bears were taking dead or discarded remains, so any photos of them with a live salmon were few and far between. But right at the end of our final session on this river a bear started charging through the water towards me - fortunately I was in the right place at the right time, the bear was at distance and kept coming, the mid-morning light was as good as it gets, and I had just put the long lens on the faster D500 body. I took the longest burst of shots I think I’ve ever taken - just short of a hundred and, incredibly, to my surprise all but three were sharp. Happy days!
I've been pretty unhappy with how my Nikon Z7-ii performs on closeup work. Just not crisp. Got the cheapest Z-mount Nikon prime I could get and now I guess it's time to re-evaluate things. Z7-ii probably OK, 24-200 Nikkor lens I had been using, maybe not so much.
On the night of May 10th to 11th, there was a solar storm rated G5 (as big as it gets) and the Earth go hit with a lot of solar wind which gets ions in the atmosphere very excited. Lots of people in the northern hemisphere got to witness a very rare event!
LaVern: "When I was coming up back in the late 1920s and early '30s, you had do do the publicity shots and promote the films in order to give your career life. Remember, there was no internet back then. Think how much work it took to get--and stay--famous!
Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, Suffolk
My favourite church in England.
Ten years earlier, I had written:
Perhaps some counties have a church which sums them up. If there has to be one for Suffolk, it must be the church of the Most Holy Trinity, Blythburgh. Here is the Suffolk imagination writ large, as large as it gets, and not overwritten by the Anglican triumphalism of the 19th century. Blythburgh church is often compared with its near neighbour, St Edmund at Southwold, but this isn't a fair comparison - Southwold church is much grander, and full of urban confidence. Probably a better comparison is with St Margaret, Lowestoft, for there, too, the Reformation intervened before the tower could be rebuilt. The two churches have a lot in common, but Blythburgh has the saving grace. It is so fascinating, so stunningly beautiful, by virtue of a factor that is rare in Anglican parish churches: sheer neglect.
Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, is the church that Suffolk people know and love best, and because of this it has generated some wonderful legends. The first is that Blythburgh, now a tiny village bisected by the fearsome A12 between London and the east coast ports, was once a thriving medieval town. This idea is used to explain the size of the church; in reality, it is almost certainly not the case. Blythburgh has always been small. But it did have an important medieval priory, and thus its church attracted enough wealthy piety on the eve of the Reformation to bankroll a spectacular rebuilding.
It is to Lavenham, Long Melford, Mildenhall, Southwold and here that we come to see the late 15th century Suffolk aesthetic in perfection. But for my money, Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, is the most significant medieval art object in the county, ranking alongside Salle in Norfolk. Look up at the clerestory; it seems impossible, there is so much glass, so little stone; and yet it rides the building with an air of permanence. Beneath, there is a coyness about the aisles that I prefer to the mathematics of Lavenham. Here, it could not have been done otherwise; it distils human architectural experience. If St Peter and St Paul at Lavenham is man talking to God, Holy Trinity at Blythburgh is God talking to man.
At the east end, a curious series of initials in Lombardic script stretch across the outer chancel wall. You can see an image of this in the left hand column. It reads A-N-JS-B-S-T-M-S-A-H-K-R. This probably stands for Ad Nomina JesuS, Beati Sanctae Trinitas, Maria Sanctorem Anne Honorem Katherine Reconstructus ('In the name of the blessed Jesus, the Holy Trinity, and in honour of holy Mary, Anne and Katherine, this was rebuilt'). A fanciful theory is that they are the initials of the wives of the donors. However, note the symbol of the Trinity in the T stone, and I think this is a clue to the whole piece.
High above, an old man sits on the gable end. Incredibly, this is a medieval image of God the Father, and extraordinary survival; we'll come back to this in a moment.
The porch is part of the late 15th century rebuilding, but it was considerably restored in the early 20th century. Interestingly, the angels crowning the battlements look medieval - but they weren't there in 1900, so must have come from somewhere else. Pretty much all the porch's features of interest date from this time. These include the small medieval font pressed into service as a holy water stoup, and image niche above the doors. This has been filled in more recent years by an image if the Holy Trinity; God the Father holds the Son suspended while a dove representing the Holy Spirit alights; you can see medieval versions of this at Framlingham and Little Glemham.
Of all medieval imagery, this was the most frowned upon by puritans. An image of God the Father was thought the most suspicious of all idolatry. As late as the 1870s, when the Reverend White edited the first popular edition of the Diary of William Dowsing, he actually congratulated Dowsing on destroying images of the Holy Trinity in the course of his 1644 progress through the counties of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
William Dowsing visited on the morning on April 9th, 1644. It was a Tuesday, and he had spent most of the week in the area. The previous day he'd been at Southwold and Walberswick to the east, but preceded his visit here with one to Blyford, which lies to the west, so he was probably staying overnight at the family home in Laxfield. He found twenty images in stained glass to take to task (a surprisingly small number, given the size of the place) and two hundred more that were inaccessible that morning (probably in the great east window). Three brass inscriptions incurred his wrath (but again, this is curious; there were many more) and he also ordered down the cross on the porch and the cross on the tower. Most significantly of all, he decided the angels in the roof should go.
Lots of Suffolk churches have angels in their roofs. None are like Blythburgh's. You step inside, and there they are, exactly as you've seen them in books and in photographs. They are awesome, breathtaking. There are twelve of them. Perhaps there were once twenty. How would you get them down if ordered to do so? The roof is so high, and the stencilling of IHS symbols would also have to go.
Perhaps this was already indistinct by the time Dowsing visited. Perhaps Tuesday, 9th of April 1644 was a dull day.
Several of the angels are peppered with lead shot. Here is another of those Suffolk legends; that Dowsing and the churchwardens fired muskets at the angels to try and bring them down. But when the angels were restored in the 1970s, the lead shot removed was found to be 18th century; contemporary with them there is a note in the churchwardens accounts that men were paid for shooting jackdaws living inside the building, so that is probably where the shot arises from.
Similarly, the splendid church guide repeats the error that the Holy Trinity symbol in the porch filled a gap that had been 'empty since 1644'. But there was certainly no image in it when Dowsing arrived here, or anywhere else in Suffolk; statues were completely outlawed by injunctions in the early years of the reign of Edward VI, almost a hundred years before the morning of Dowsing's visit.
Another feature used as evidence of puritan destruction is the ring fixed into the most westerly pillar of the north arcade. Cromwell's men stabled their horses here, apparently. Well, it almost certainly is a ring for tying horses to, and the broken bricks at the cleared west end also suggest this; but there is no reason to think that Cromwell and the puritans were responsible. For a full century before Cromwell, and for nearly two hundred years afterwards, a church as big as this would have had a multitude of uses.
Holy Trinity was built for the rituals of the Catholic church; once these were no longer allowed, a village like Blythburgh, which can never have had more than 500 people, would have seen it as an asset in other ways. It was only with the 19th century sacramental revival brought about by the Oxford Movement that we started getting all holy again about our parish churches. Perhaps it was used as an overnight stables for passing travellers on the main road; not an un-Christian use for it to be put to, I think.
In August 1577, a great storm brought down the steeple, which fell into the church and damaged the font. This was at the height of Elizabethan superstition, and the devil was blamed; his hoof marks can still be seen on the church door. Supposedly, a black dog ran through the church, killing two parishioners; he was seen the same day at St Mary, Bungay. Black Shuck is the East Anglian devil dog, the feared hound of the marshes; and Holy Trinity is the self-styled Cathedral of the Marshes, so it is appropriate that he appeared here.
You can see where the font has been broken. You can also see that this was one of the rare, beautiful seven sacrament fonts, similar in style to the one at Westhall; but, like those at neighbouring Wenhaston and Southwold, it has been completely stripped of imagery. Almost certainly, this was in the 1540s, but there is a story that the font at Wenhaston was chiselled clean as part of the 19th century restoration.
More importantly in any case, the storm, or the dog, or the devil, damaged the roof; it would not be properly repaired for more than 400 years. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, accounts note that Holy Trinity is not impregnable to the weather. By the 19th century, parishioners attended divine service with umbrellas. By the 1880s, it was a positively dangerous building to be in, and the Bishop of Norwich ordered it closed.
Why had Holy Trinity not been restored? Simply, this is a big church, with a tiny village. There was no rich patron, and in any case the parishioners had a passion for Methodism. Probably, repairs had been mooted, but not a wholesale restoration as we have seen at Lavenham, Long Melford and Southwold. By the 1880s, attention in England had turned to the preservation of medieval detail; in short, restorations were not as ignorant as they had been a quarter of a century earlier. Suggestions that Holy Trinity should be restored in the manner of the other three were blocked by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, and this owed a lot to the energy of William Morris, the Society's secretary.
The slow, patient restoration of this building took the best part of a century; indeed, when I first visited in the 1980s I was still aware of a sense of decay.
Nothing could be further from the truth today. You step into a wide, white, open space, one of England's great church interiors. There, high above you, is the glorious roof and the angels of God. The brick floors spread around the scraped font, which still bears its dedicatory inscription and standing places for participants. You turn into the central gangway, and more than twenty empty indents for brasses stretch before you. Dowsing can be blamed for the destruction of hardly any of them. In reality, you see the work of 18th and 19th century thieves and collectors.
The bench-ends are superb. The benches themselves were reconstructed in the late 19th century, supposedly from the main post of Westleton windmill, but the ends are some of the county's finest medieval images. There are basically three series: the seven deadly sins, the seven works of mercy, and the four seasons. There are also angels bearing symbols of the Holy Trinity and the crown. Examples of all of these can be seen below; hover on them to read a description, click on them to see them enlarged.
The rood screen is a disappointment; most of it is modern, and the medieval bits perfunctory and scoured. Having said this, note how tiny the exit from the north aisle rood loft stair is. Also at this end of the church, notice a bare scattering of medieval glass, including some Saints.
But step through the central aisle to see something remarkable. The choir stalls are fronted by exquisite carvings of the 12 apostles, evangelists, and even figures who may be King Anna and his daughter St Etheldreda. She founded the priory that became Ely Cathedral, and there is a local connection because her father was killed at the Battle of Blythburgh. It seems likely that there was a shrine to them here.
Seeing these sixteen carvings is a bit like gobbling up a very large box of chocolates, but it is worth stopping to consider quite how genuine they all are. For a start, there could not have been choir stalls here in medieval times, and in any case we know that these desks and their frontages were in the north aisle chapel until the 19th century. They were used as school benches in the 17th century; they still bear holes for inkpots, and the graffiti of a bored Dutch child (his father was probably working on draining the marshes) is dated 1665 - you can see it in the left-hand column. There is nothing at all like them anywhere else in Suffolk, and although we know that they predate the restoration of Holy Trinity (and therefore almost certainly come from here originally) they seem of too high a quality to come from such a rural outback. In short, they are not medieval, whatever the guidebooks say.
Whatever, the east end of the chancel and aisles are thrillingly modern, wholly devotional. In the north aisle, traditionally the Hopton chantry, extraordinary friezes of skeletons become symbols of the four evangelists behind the altar. Beside them, with a view into the sanctuary, is one of Suffolk's biggest Easter sepulchres, tomb of the Hoptons. In the surviving sedilia of the high altar, we find Peter Ball's beautiful Madonna and Child and a fine Holy Trinity plate, which distract perhaps only slightly from the Jewish imagery above the reredos. It is all just about perfect.
Tucked to one side of the organ is a clockjack; Suffolk has two, and the other is down-river at Southwold. They date from the late 17th century, and presumably once struck the hours; at high church Blythburgh and Southwold today, they are used to announce the entry of the ministers.
You may be reading this entry in a far-off land; or perhaps you are here at home. Whatever, if you have not visited this church, then I urge you to do so. It is the most beautiful church in Suffolk, a wonderful art object, and it is always open in daylight. It remains one of the most significant medieval buildings in England. If you only visit one of Suffolk's churches, then make it this one.
Warning: This is a very long true story.
I saw my stepsister's LJ the other day for the first time. Damn. I really don't know her at all, but I have more respect for her than most anyone else. She just fucking gets it. She understands. She knows that life isn't about getting here or there, but it's about the life itself. It's about experience. Relationships. Day-to-day happiness. Fuck ups. BIG ones. It's about learning from whatever the hell it is you're doing. It's life. It's exactly what everyone knows it is, but what no one seems to understand. You can't prepare someone for life. You can't sit someone down in a classroom or on a couch and tell them about life. Life is subjective. Life is what you take from it. Life is certainly not a career and a house and a car. It's a late-night conversation about everything and nothing with your best friend, eating Truffle in Paradise ice cream on the couch. It's a beautiful fall day in the park with your dog, a ball, and not a damn thing to do until the next morning. It's a perfect afternoon, lying in bed with your lover for hours, laughing so hard you cry. It's fucking up so badly that you have to have time to yourself. It's being so happy that you live in oblivious glee to the rest of the world. It's getting everything taken from you in an instant. It's hiccupping nonstop for an entire night. It's falling asleep with a book on your chest and David Gray playing in the CD player. It's waking up to kisses on your neck from the one you love. It's knowing that things really will be okay. It's hating time but loving the results. It's a thunderstorm when you left your windows open and you're stuck at work. It's spending an entire day just taking pictures. It's not knowing a damn thing about tomorrow, but planning for it, anyways. It's realizing that age doesn't matter, but maturity does. It's getting goosebumps. It's wiping a butt and changing a diaper while fumbling with the remote and trying not to gag and hoping the candle in the kitchen got blown out earlier and attempting to make your baby girl laugh in the midst of it all. It's the first night you get drunk out of sorrow. It's constantly worrying about money. It's going to get a mint chocolate chip concrete with your best friend your first night back in town. It's having a full tank of gas, a desire to drive, and a mix CD on repeat. It's having a gun pointed at your head by a drunk man. It's never knowing what to expect from Lodge. It's crying for someone else's problems. It's wishing that bras and shaving didn't need to exist. It's holding hands the right way. It's seeing your dad cry for the first time. It's not knowing a damn thing about what's going to happen and hating that. It's wanting so desperately to help and being unable to. It's going through a car wash on an already amazing day. It's realizing that for the first time in your life, you don't want your birthday to be here. It's trying to make a connection to every song you hear. It's not knowing your sisters and brothers. It's anxiously anticipating your new baby. It's going fishing with your grandpa. It's riding horses with your grandmother. It's wanting a marriage so badly with the one you love. It's wanting to finally know the recipe to your mom's salsa. It's getting text messages during work that make you burst out laughing or send shivers up your spine. It's having the fun now and paying the consequences later. It's sleeping on the streets for three days in a row. It's hearing someone say that you're beautiful and for the first time, knowing that they mean it. It's actually listening to Bobby's advice. It's getting and giving a sidemouth. It's having two of your best friends force you to wear a skirt for the first time and still enjoying it. It's the girl's nights at Ruby Tuesday. It's holding your first baby. It's getting a warm sweater from out of the dryer to wear. It's running out of Swedish Fish when you want them the most. It's finally realizing that Kate is and always was right. It's having the most important thing you own stolen. It's finally seeing that there actually are people who love you - and more than you thought. It's not knowing when your mother will die and hating that she's so far away. It's watching the Gilmore Girls with your family every Tuesday. It's wanting so desperately for the people most important to you to be happy in whatever it is they'll do, even if it means excluding you. It's holding your best friend until her tears are gone. It's getting woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night from someone that just wants to say that they love you. It's writing down perfect and hilarious quotes from a long conversation. It's getting two speeding tickets in two weeks in two states. It's having your oldest brother tell you he loves you for the first time. It's using "geek" and "adventure" as verbs and gerunds. It's blasting Bruce Hornsby through the neighborhood with the windows down on the last warm day of the year. It's staying up all night, feeding off of popcorn and Coke. It's losing a best friend. It's falling asleep on the countertop after a long night. It's inside jokes. It's second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chances. It's having a Star Wars marathon with your brother. It's getting a call from your best friend saying, "Hey, what size is your ass? I'm buying you thongs at Priscilla's." It's knowing that everyone has their own realizations about what life is or isn't.
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I was hoping to get and action shot of Josh for the first shot of the year as we got new snow last night, but when I saw this one I decided that it shows his sweet personality.
Josh will be 10 sometime this month. We added him to our household 2 years ago this coming March. We have known Josh since he was a puppy and when his owner our friend, Helen could no longer live alone due to dementia we took him in. Helen passed away 2 months later. She died knowing that Josh was being well cared for and he is a joy to have in our lives.
Josh is not a little lab. He is 31 inches high at the shoulder and at last weigh in he was 114 pounds. Long, lanky and lean is our boy Joshua.
Josh says welcome to all the newbie dogs in our group as well as our old favorites!
Well, I missed it.
After yesterday's memory card mishap, the sunsets have officially outrun me and my mini. I floored it to get to the valley in time, but the sun dropped too far down the sky to light up all of the clouds with that fire red hue. The night is slowly taking over and after this sunday, I'm going to have to start shooting during my work hours or everyone is just going to get night shots from here on out.
There is a fine line between the shot you get and the shot you want. That fine line is luck.
I did get a few shots on my way here and the sky was absolutely on fire. I'll post those tomorrow. But it got me thinking about how much luck actually comes into play with any photo. So many factors have to go into your shot. So each shot you take is unique to that exact moment in time. You can never recreate any shot. You can come close, but there will never be a moment like in your shot.
Savor every moment you have a chance to experience because it can never be repeated.
Senior trip part two was last Thursday, we went to Six Flags! I'm a chicken and don't do roller coasters, except I did go on Skull Mountain & Dark Knight, twice each! (and let me just say, those pictures they got on the Dark Knight ride both times were so priceless we actually bought them. I've never ever bought those crappy pictures, but they were so terrible, that they were amazing. We all laughed so hard that we cried when we saw our faces.)
My day consisted of dippin' dots, chugging water like no tomorrow, seeing monkeys have a little too much fun on an animal safari, sweating to death and getting a lovely sunburn, "speed dating" on the m&m lift while going to opposite ends of the park, getting (and having someone smudge and slightly ruin) a henna tattoo, searching for a water ride that didn't have a two hour wait, ferris wheels and all the rides other than coasters!
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I finally found all of the Barbie cars I wanted to get, and for really good prices. They'll all end up getting makeovers. The hot pink one from the DAV has already been painted white. The '57 Chevy isn't in the best shape, but I think with some touch ups, it will be nice. They're always so expensive, so I was happy to find one that at least had most of its parts for a decent price. These are mostly listing photos from the sellers because I still can't find my camera battery charger! Arggghhhhh!
...Roadrunner species generally range in size from 18 inches (46 cm) to 24 inches (61 cm) from tail to beak. The roadrunner is a large, slender, black-brown and white streaked ground bird with a distinctive head crest. It has long legs, strong feet, and an oversized dark bill. The tail is broad with white tips on the three outer tail feathers. The bird has a blank patch of skin behind each eye; this patch is shaded blue proximally to red distally. The lesser roadrunner is slightly smaller, not as streaky, and has a smaller bill. The bird is terrestrial; although capable of flight, it spends most of its time on the ground. During flight, the wings are short and rounded and reveal a white crescent in the primary feathers. Roadrunners and other members of the cuckoo family have zygodactyl feet (two toes in front and two toes in back). Roadrunners can run at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h)[1] and generally prefer sprinting to flying. Roadrunners will fly to escape predators.
~ Wikipedia
...on our way back from our nephew's wedding, we headed down the coast towards San Diego (OK...it was the loooong way home...lololol), and stopped at Crystal Cove State Park to see the tide pools at low tide...on our way back up the cliffs, this roadrunner crossed in front of us, darting about for insects, so these were the best pics I could get...and no, I didn't see any coyotes lurking around the cliffs with rocket skates or a boulder catapult or explosives...hahahahahah.
...to bring back fond memories, here's the intro to the Roadrunner cartoon ~~~ Roadrunner Intro ~~~
...I've not been around much lately...end of the school quarter, getting ready for Parent-Teacher Conferences, and just overall life happening...I hope all of you are well, my friends. :~}
Burlington Northern Railroad SD9 6183 and 6178 at Galesburg, Illinois on September 17, 1993, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. A rather unfortunate photographic situation, but sometimes you take what you can get, and this is the only photo I have of 6183. Built in October 1957 as CB&Q SD9 436 ( c/n 23615 ) on EMD Order 5547, it became BN 6183 and later BNSF 6183, retired in May 1999.
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Ah, it feels good to be back in the game. New mission, new company, that's as good as it gets.
And for once a decent planet that ain't dead.
The drop was actually a bit relaxing, gave me some time to just clear my mind, forget war and find some personal peace.
It was just getting good when I hit the ground.
"So much for that," I grumbled.
Havoc: You know the drill: Sabre, you take the lead with Tango into the trench, Fuse and Hatchet, cover them, I'll meet you on the other side.
Watcha waiting for ya bunch of shiners, get some dirt on that armor!
All: Yes Sir! (chuckles)
I then made my way half a click the opposite direction and jumped into the dugout. My boots sunk into the fresh mud as I made my way through. So far no Seps have appeared, but that'll change any moment now.
Then, as if they'd read my mind, two clankers pop out, oblivious to my presence. I quickly headshot one while, like clockwork, Sabre with Tango close behind decimated a Super. The other droid bolted to the dual heavy cannons, but I struck him down before he had a chance.
[CS-1742]|Sabre|: Now that's how you start a mission, with a bang, ain't that right Sir?
|Havoc|: You know it.
[CT-2471]|Tango|: I say I should get promotion for taking out the B2, eh?
[CS-1742]|Sabre|: You mean me, of course. No Droid can withstand the fury of this baby (points to his weapon).
[CT-2471]|Tango|: You and me keeping score now, ya hear?
[CS-1742]|Sabre|: I'll take you up on that.
[CT-1274]|Fuse|: I would have taken him down faster, given the chance.
[CT- 7215]|Hatchet|: Ain't so.
[CL-4712]|Havoc|: Listen y'all keep it tight. The Separatist Army would be gone if y'all fought like you talk. Now let's get a move on, this war ain't gonna fight itself.
All: Yes Sir!
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Long time since I've posted some clonez, ain't that right?
Well, enjoy and y'all have a great rest of the week!
C&C appreciated.
God bless,
Jesse
After missing possibly the rarest thing to happen in recent Knoxville railroading, 95Z coming off the C Line, by about 5 minutes, I set out to Safety City to try again. Luckily the crew took its sweet time getting onto the main and was practically crawling by the time it passed me. Sometimes you gotta take what you can get, and I’m still glad with how this came out.
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After waiting at the light for about 20 minutes at the yard lead with a crew that was about to die on hours the BNSF 1077 finally gets and takes the light as it approaches the NS 8100 at East Dilworth.
"Super Nova Expulsion"
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In July of 2011, while photographing and freezing fireworks no longer felt like a challenge, and I began to realize that a lot of the pictures had seemed to look way too similar to each other. To solve this problem, I wanted to get a little experimental and spice things up a bit with some creativity. I developed a few deeply thought out techniques to be executed within the camera at the time of the photo being taken, to that make the fireworks look like anything except for what we are used to perceiving as an actual "firework".
This experimentation and creative technique, had proven fireworks to be my favorite things to photograph, as well as leading me to win 3rd place in the Popular Photography Magazine's "Your Best Shot Contest", with this photo:
"Abstract Explosion"
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(Which can be found in the April Issue of Popular Photography Magazine)
When the celebrations began in 2012 for the anniversary of America's independence, I set out with a mission to photograph as many firework displays as I possibly had the time and energy for. My goal was to refine and improve my techniques and experiment further, to get and idea of what other immense and colorful designs I would be able to create - with no expectations.
***Instead of uploading a whole batch all at once, I will be revealing a new abstract firework photograph DAILY, for the next 30 days - to keep things more interesting***
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I know i've done pics like this before but these are going up purely coz they were so hard to get and they nearly killed me. Left my remote at home so had to get up there in ten seconds, and that pier is about ten feet up at the lowest point i could get up from.
Back from a week in Orlando and a day at Disney. I can't say enough about how amazing Disney is, and I am no Disney fanatic. They just get about as close to perfect as you can get - and totally justifies the ticket prices. It is a magical place and we had a magical time - capped off with the Wishes Fireworks show at the end of the day.
Back to North Wales at the beginning of June, here are two shots of the Cyfyng Falls on the Afon Llugwy at Capel Curig. At this point, the river runs immediately alongside the main A5 road and these shots were taken just over the wall and down a tad from the pavement. Not the easiest shots to get (and I did slip a couple of times with £3,500 worth of camera / lens round my neck!) but I'm glad I made the effort. These falls are pretty spectacular after heavy rain and a lot easier to photograph in autumn / winter, when there is less foliage on the trees.
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
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There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
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We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
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You know what? I love this combo every day a bit more for my products shots. The Tokina is a superb lens: as sharp as it gets and very easy to operate. The OrbisFlash on top of the SB800 supplies such a nice light that I now skip most of the other lights. The only thing I have used here together with the OrbisFlash is a white panel on camera right.
This is the parking lot of well a park nearby that I love. The photo is a bit of a mess granted that was on purpose. Just looking at it reminds me of my brain fog I get and welp that's the title.
Thankk you Liz. I do believe that these are mammatus clouds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud
Taken after sunset, looking east. 5 min. after the prior photo and one below in the first comment. How the light changed in a few moments- and how the clouds moved. (Processing and camera settings made some difference also but it did start out more golden and end up more rose and purple.) These amazing clouds appeared, full of light. I was totally amazed and filled with joy and awe. I've never seen clouds like these before. Does anyone know if these clouds havve a name?
A few vacation days in the mountains of Western North Carolina-- a bit scarce on Flickr.
I am really working at the utter limits of my point and shoot here. These came out all noise, and thank goodness for Topaz Denoise to clean up the ugly noise. But now I'm looking at the Nikon D5100 (because it has a swivel screen) and the Sony Nex 5 (because it's so lightweight-- this may clench the deal for me) and has a CMOS sensor, and a movable screen. I welcome all camera advice also. Heavy just won't work for me, as I like to hike and walk my dogs and take my camera with me. But I want the best sensor I can get, and a camera that does better in low light.
I welcome all critiques. That's how I learn. I'm not thin-skinned.
Taken 6/7/11, Uploaded 6/8/11,2011 06 07_zR72 lightercolor38LevelsTD5sunsetCloudsWow_9880 copy
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An inbetween to the Maverick we used to get and the two generations of Kuga we have had, the Escape is essentially in the same class, with the US spec Maverick being badged Escape. Curiously we never received this 07-12 second generation version over here, which is much more American focused in design but I think looks pretty good.
This one I would imagine is a USAF car with its Peterborough registration, it's only been here since last October so hasn't had an MOT yet.