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The Curious Hobby of Collecting Things (02)
The Times Weekly Issue 1920 - 21
A vast number of years ago I used to buy and sell second-hand books, mainly because I collected and it reduced the cost of collecting. However, since those far off days every once in a while I come across things I cannot resist buying. This next item entitled ‘The Times Weekly Edition with Illustrated covers starts on 12th November 1920 and finishes 28th January 1921. This only represents 11 issues but it is filled with a whole variety of subjects including News, Sports, Fashions and General Advertising. Each issue contains approx. 24 pages.
This is the first of many postings ……
Beach Illustrated 2022- Pose 7 by NANTRA (The Liaison Collaborative-August)
Dolly Top & Skirt by MERCH
Gleen H Hat by ZOOM
Diamante Frames by The Horror
Mylie Feather Boa by ISON
Kyr Tattoo by nuuna
Well... no; no Sunbird to illustrate how Chasmanthian pollination works. But I'll try to explain. At the top you can see a developing Chasmanthe bicolor flower. Lower left is the flower at its full length. At the left the lower perianthe; a Sunbird will insert its marvellously curved beak into it to access the rich pouches of nectar contained within. Meanwhile our Bird's head will have brushed the stamens (see right side of the photo, with a close-up inset right) and it will carry the gathered pollen onwards to brush it against the style (see its three 'prongs' in the right inset) of another Nectar-rich flower. Ah! the wonders of Nature!
Our Plant hails from South Africa, hence its vernacular name Suurkanolpypie. Today it can be found throughout the Tropics and Temperate Zones.
This reconstruction illustrates how the Small Bath at the Archaeological Park of Stobi, North Macedonia, may have appeared during the 5th or early 6th century AD. Based on the surviving curved walls, brick vaults, stone masonry, and archaeological research, the bathhouse has been recreated as a compact yet elegant Roman bathing complex. Located beside the Synagogue Basilica, it probably served a smaller group of visitors than the city's large public baths, while offering the same essential facilities of Roman bathing culture. The reconstruction follows the original layout of the excavated remains, including the distinctive circular bathing area, the brick-vaulted rooms, and the thick stone walls that are still visible today. Marble wall panels, colourful floor mosaics, wooden roof beams, and everyday objects have been added using archaeological evidence and comparisons with similar Late Roman bathhouses throughout the Roman Empire. The bath was heated by an advanced hypocaust system, allowing warm air to circulate beneath the floors and inside the walls. Although no reconstruction can ever be completely certain, this visualization offers a glimpse of how visitors may have experienced the Small Bath more than 1,500 years ago, when Stobi was one of the most prosperous cities in the Balkans.
An artistic reconstruction of the Small Bath at ancient Stobi, bringing one of the city's best-preserved Roman bathhouses back to life as it may have appeared during the Late Roman period.
Deze reconstructie laat zien hoe het Kleine Badhuis in het Archeologisch Park Stobi, Noord-Macedonië, er mogelijk heeft uitgezien tijdens de 5e of vroege 6e eeuw na Christus. Op basis van de bewaard gebleven gebogen muren, bakstenen gewelven, natuurstenen metselwerk en archeologisch onderzoek is het badhuis gereconstrueerd als een compact, maar elegant Romeins badcomplex. Het lag direct naast de Synagoge-Basiliek en diende waarschijnlijk een kleinere groep bezoekers dan de grote openbare thermen van de stad, terwijl het dezelfde belangrijke voorzieningen van de Romeinse badcultuur bood. De reconstructie volgt zoveel mogelijk de oorspronkelijke plattegrond van de opgraving. De karakteristieke ronde badruimte, de bakstenen gewelven en de massieve natuurstenen muren zijn gebaseerd op de archeologische resten die vandaag de dag nog zichtbaar zijn. Marmeren wandbekleding, kleurrijke vloeren, houten dakconstructies en gebruiksvoorwerpen zijn toegevoegd op basis van archeologische vondsten en vergelijkingen met soortgelijke laat-Romeinse badhuizen elders in het Romeinse Rijk. Het badhuis werd verwarmd door een ingenieus hypocaustsysteem, waarbij hete lucht onder de vloeren en door holle muren circuleerde om de verschillende badruimtes aangenaam te verwarmen. Hoewel geen enkele reconstructie volledig historisch bewezen kan worden, geeft deze visualisatie een indruk van hoe bezoekers ruim 1.500 jaar geleden dit badhuis kunnen hebben ervaren, in een tijd waarin Stobi een van de welvarendste steden van de Balkan was.
With 16,000 tons in 120 cars on the drawbar these three EMD's are screamin' their guts out in notch 8 with a cloud of sand dust following their progress as they assault the hill up to the diamond at Plymouth, OH. 8/10/2025
Es hat (erwartungsgemäss) nicht lange gedauert, bis Pedro des Sekretärs "neue" Kamera für sich entdeckte. Nun hat er sich noch einen Bildband und Reiseführer der Bretagne geangelt und schmiedet in seinem (und des Sekretärs) Lieblingssessel Reisepläne...
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As expected, it didn't take long for Pedro to discover Secretary's "new" camera. Now he has also picked up an illustrated book and travel guide to Brittany and is making travel plans in his (and Secretary's) favorite armchair...
The Curious Hobby of Collecting Things (02)
The Times Weekly Issue 1920 – 21
100 years of the Times
A vast number of years ago I used to buy and sell second-hand books, mainly because I collected and it reduced the cost of collecting. However, since those far off days every once in a while I come across things I cannot resist buying. These next items entitled ‘The Times Weekly Edition with Illustrated covers, starts on 12th November 1920 and finishes 28th January 1921. This only represents 11 issues but it is filled with a whole variety of subjects including Politics, News, Sports, Fashions and General Advertising. Each issue contains approx. 24 pages and it’s amazing.
This is the second of many postings ……
I asked if I could take a photo while he read and he readily agreed. I didn't stare at the specific tattoos until I put it into my computer. Wow! Each body section tells a different story. Look at large view. On weekdays he blends with all the other commuters from San Francisco to a Palo Alto tech job.
Illustrating some of my favourite movies with a few photographs of my composition.
"Empire of the sun" by Steven Spielberg" (1987)
After a week when temperatures across the UK have hovered above a sweltering 30C/85F, I found myself longing for the chill and fog of early spring, and revisited a shot which I captured at the centre of Richmond Park in early April. On many mornings I'd hoped for calm conditions that would bring heavier fog, and before this particular sunrise the low wind speed and near-freezing temperature near the Pen Ponds created fog so dense that, for a couple of hours, visibility dropped to about 20 metres. As the sun finally crept above the woodland and created various shades of orange and pink on the horizon, I came across the bare branches of an oak tree, and next to it the remains of a broken tree trunk, part of which now lay on the ground. Something about this scene captivated me, so I stopped to capture it.
The image is a blend of seven bracketed exposures, and proved to be a fun editing project because of the contrast between intense foggy light around the sun and deep shadows covering the trees and foreground. I began by blending my exposures using luminosity masks, bringing up visibility of the tree trunks while toning down brightness around the sun. I then refined my own masks in order to select and intensify the fog in the background. This was achieved by duplicating the blue channel in the Channels Panel and using a Levels adjustment to increase the channel's contrast between Darks and Midtones, effectively removing the trees and grass from the selection. After extracting the highlights around the sun using a selection from my Brights luminosity masks, I was left with a selection of just the foggy background, where I blended in my brightest exposures using a combination of linear and reflective gradient masks.
Colour-grading the image was very straightforward, as the mixture of early-morning blues across the landscape and intense warm tones in the sky only needed a little emphasis. Using Colour Balance adjustments with Apply Image as a layer mask, I gave the midtones and shadows a colder finish, and targeted the brighter area around the sun to increase the reds and magentas in the highlights. Setting two low-opacity Colour Lookup adjustments to Soft Light, I then used the Foggy Night preset for the foreground and the Soft Warming preset for the sky.
Using Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I brought out a little of the tree trunks' texture using the Detail Extractor filter, and at the same time softened the detail in the sky using the Sunlight filter, which helped to bring out the hazy glow across the scene when I'd captured it. While I thought that viewers' eyes would gravitate to the sun emerging between the tree's branches, the tree and the trunks among the fog were what drew me to the scene, and I felt it was important to try to emphasise their weathered texture and, ultimately, their "character". There was something hopeful about the colour spreading across the horizon as the sun rose, but at the same time something poignant about a scene that seemed to tell a story of nature's brutality and illustrate how certain things, once broken, can't easily be healed or repaired.
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This guy could hardly keep still from laughing! At last he did for about three seconds! Just time to take this shot!
Same alley as before from the other side of Center Street. Again it was the sun that caught my eye here and resulted in the click of the shutter.
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Miscellaneous Disney/Pixar Brave merchandise that I've bought recently. I received the books today (June 12, 2012) ; the dinnerware I received several days ago. Detailed description of the items:
Brave Mealtime Magic Collection - including plate, bowl, flatware, placemat and tumbler.
Brave Big Golden Book by Random House - retells the story of Brave with many full color illustrations. 22 pages. $9.99
''One Perfect Day'' Brave Book by Steve Purcell, one of the writers of Brave. Illustrated by Matt Nolte, character art director of Brave. Tells an original story of one day in the life of Princess Merida. $15.99.
The Art of Brave, by Jenny Lerew. The official guide to the making of Disney/Pixar Brave, with interviews of the makers of Brave, and richly illustrated with the concept art from the movie. $40.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_life_in_me...:
Life in Mei Foo-Now and Then by Ng Yuen Wa
The sixteen panels will be divided into two main parts according to their themes, one part is about the past of Mei Foo and the other illustrates the life of the Mei Foo residents at the present moment. These two main parts can be subdivided into four groups, each group consisting of four panels:
The first group, On the Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival , depicts how the Mei Foo residents used to share their love and joy at the podium under the full moon at the Mid-Autumn Festival.;
The second group, centred on the theme of Memory of the Seashore, brings the viewers back to a time when there was a wonderful seashore at the Mei Foo Sun Chuen. With a touch of nostalgia, this group of works highlights the sublime seascape and the serene atmosphere of the Mei Foo Sun Chuen.
The Mei Foo residents depicted in the third group, Apartment in the Starry Metropolitan, enjoy the glittering night scene of this prosperous metropolitan – Hong Kong – through gazing out of their apartment windows, while they are resting in their apartments after a day of work.
In Mei Foo, a piece of land has been reclaimed from the sea and a park with different kinds of recreational facilities is built on the reclamation area. The fourth group of work, entitled A Delightful Weekend, focuses on the recreational activities of the Mei Foo residents taking place in the park.
The house is in a bit of disarray since the husband moved out, but because of this I've come across a few long-forgotten treasures. Okay, it looks like I first picked this book up in 2004 so I don't know that it counts as long forgotten, but I haven't seen it in a while. And I was glad to be reunited with it. It is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Retitled for an assigned song title theme in Civray Photo club.
Assigned Song:
'HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW?'
Original title: RAIN STOPS PLAY
My dog, Foxy, perched on top of an armchair in the lounge, photographed from outside, framed by one of the small window panels, wishing away the rain.
Best viewed full page to see detail.
Taken 21 August 2017
ƒ/5.6; 1/350; ISO 100
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12.8.2020.
Freightliner liveried Class 66 No 66618 'Railways Illustrated' climbs away from Retford with the early running 11.35 West Burton PS - Tunstead Sidings empty limestone working.
The train had worked in to West Burton earlier in the morning with a full load of limestone.
Luis Lanz in his C6 Corvette drift car on track at Englishtown.
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This shot illustrates why the bird is called a Crossbill... the upper and lower mandible do indeed cross. This evolutionary adaption is such that this species can pries out the many embedded nuts in the conifer cones with little effort. The species is regular up here but not predictable... they often travel is large flocks. Their presence is, however, closely related to the success of the conifer cone crop in the local forest.
IMG_1196; Red Crossbill
Inspired by Sports Illustrated's famous Swimsuit Edition, with the gorgeous Tattookiss (who I don't get to shoot enough photos of :P)
Illustrated Dream series. Continued experiments with a focus on dream-like, somewhat surreal images. Custom background and effects.
Illustrated on a Chilean hillside known as Cerro Unitas and surrounded by thousands of smaller geoglyphs, the Atacama Giant, a massive image of a deity used to calculate the movements of the moon, stands as one of the largest geoglyphs ever discovered.
Illustrating what's happening to the financial markets worldwide. When will they hit the bottom?
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Strobist info: ST-E2 on the 5D driving a snooted 580EX from the left, and a 430EX on the back with a softbox, silver reflector on the right. Both at 1/64.