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We all have our origin story in this hobby... for me, I "cut my teeth" railfanning in my hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin the mid-2000s, watching the tri-weekly Wisconsin and Southern local working the various industries in town. Reedsburg was the end of the branch from Madison, which was former the C&NW Route of the 400s, fallen from grace a bit. The MALPM (for Madison Area Local PM Job) ran as a turn three days a week - typically Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon/evenings in this era.
There was many an evening where a horn for the South Dewey Avenue crossing a mile to the south of our home would be heard by my attentive ears, usually quickly followed by the words "Can we go watch the train?" And most of the time my very patient father would be kind enough to hop in the car with me and spend perhaps an hour watching the crews work Lakeside Canning, Hartje Lumber, and Pace Plastics, and very occasionally Midwest Hardwoods or the Reedsburg Co-op in Potash season. He'd usually bring the paper or a book to read or on some Sunday evenings we'd listen to the Sunday night "Game of the Week" baseball game on ESPN radio. Though as I recall every once and a while my dad would be the first one to yell through the house "the train's in town!" when that distant horn could be heard, so I suspect at least some of the time he must have enjoyed it himself... or perhaps he just enjoyed seeing me happy.
When we got our first (pretty cheap) digital cameras I started taking photos of course, but as a pre-teenager without much understanding of composition or much technical knowhow, most of the images from that era are best mostly for the memories. But this image is one I've always liked, of the WSOR 2052 on the MAPM 29 crossing Main Street (STH 33) on May 29, 2005. That's Downtown Reedsburg over the Baraboo River in the background left.
The standard power was a combination of either one or two GP38s or SD20s that the WSOR rostered at the time, and I was always glad to see the SD20s especially.
The crew may have been running up here to the end of the in-place track to service Lakeside Foods, a cannery that used to ship a lot of cars in canning season when I first started foaming. I think by this date their traffic was waning though, and so it's possible the crew was actually running up here so they could walk to the Kwik Trip a block away for lunch. That wasn't an uncommon occurrence... "to polish the rails" as the regular conductor once put it.
That continued until somewhere circa 2008 or 2009, when I can remember going home from school one day in the winter and finding a GP38 sitting derailed on one of the crossings just to the east of here... ice in the flange had gotten them as they made their lunch run! Shortly thereafter a red board went up by the depot to keep anything from going any further than needed to serve the active industries, and so I don't think anything has traveled over the pictured crossing in more than a decade now. When I was back to visit my folks a couple days before Christmas 2020, the crossing signals were being removed for this and several other crossings on the inactive track. While the east side of Reedsburg continues to be a busy traffic generator for the WSOR, it appears the days of trains running to the west side of Reedsburg are over, unfortunately. So I'm glad to have an image like this to remember it by at least.
Yeh yeh, I know. This is my 3rd sunrise image of Angkor Wat and second in last few months. Even though the first one was from 10 years back. This place is magical to say the least. And no matter how many time I visit it; it still feels wonderful. There are certain charisma about this place that I can't explain; but I do feel it.
Like my first visit; in my 2nd visit also I have been to the Angkor Wat every day when I was in Seam Reap. Yes that means 4 days of 4AM start. And every day; I was the first person to enter the temple.
Things changed and many restrictions got into place nowadays. In my first visit in 2014; I could just enter in the morning with no one around. But this time there was a large group of security guard and ticket checkers who would only open the entrance at 5AM. It tells that the place is becoming popular. Good for local business.
But the craziness inside remained the same. In my first visit; I was getting there and setting up at around 4:30 and for next 40 minutes I wouldn't see anything. By the time of sunrise; things are different. Literally every tourists in the region would be there. I just preyed that someone don't get too excited and push a bit. Then I would be in the water. :D
That craziness still remained. Hence that early start. There are only few places to set a tripod near the lake and if you miss that; you are doomed for that morning. So if you are a photographer who wants to make some serious image; go early or don't go at all. Or at least don't expect to have a good image. Because, no one would leave you a single inch of ground. Everyone wants the best shot. And today's day and age of mobile; you don't need to bring in heavy equipment to be a photographer. Don't matter how mushy that exaggerated noise reduction of mobile is; it still looks fantastic on the mobile screen. It is a different matter that on a large screen it would look really bad; but who is watching images in large screen nowadays. There are only few idiots like me who still appreciate quality of image above quantity and prefer to watch them in large screen life like or large print. I know I am among some of the old style almost extinct species; but I like to see the details and that gives me the satisfaction of having taken a good image.
Anyway; long story short; all those mobile photographers are also super passionate about their mobile photography and wouldn't give you an inch to enter. Even if you promise them that you will be close to the lake down to get the best reflection and they will all take images standing from in front of their eyes. And they wouldn't be disturbed by your presence. Doesn't matter. You go late and you stay out.
So; to avoid all that, I was the first one in the temple. Now no negotiation. The tripod goes almost in the lake and I am behind it. So my tripod didn't take anyone's place as no one would be standing in the lake. So no complain about the tripod. And it can get the job done by capturing the best reflection by staying low.
With the early light; focusing was difficult. But the modern cameras are good and R5 has a pretty decent auto focus. So after a bit of struggle the camera settled and focused correctly. Then the lens would end up in manual focus and a good 2 minutes long exposure would give me a lovely movement on the cloud and those fantastic color. There was almost no wind, so even with that 2 minutes exposure; I would get a fantastic reflection. What else could be more satisfactory start of the day than this? So early start and all the planning is well worth when it all fits together well.
Anyway, in the mean time as always I did document our elaborated experience in a movie. If you have come till here you might be interested to experiencing Cambodia in a bit more detail and if that is the case; have a look at the short film that we enjoyed making a lot.
Ancient temples of Cambodia: A journey through time
Oh, another important information is that; last time we actually photographed the temple from the pool that is on the left side and it has more uninterrupted view of the temple as there are no trees in front. That pool is under maintenance for some time now. So we had to move to pool on the right. That is a bit tricky as there is only one or two spots from where you will not have the temple covered by the tree. So the positioning is important. Thank god I had detailed knowhow from the last year, so it was a bliss for me this time. 😇
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This would be my first star trails photo. I have been shying away from doing it because I felt that it'll take lots of work. Plus you have to stay up all night capturing the stars. Well guess what? Its all true! Found it quite addictive to capture and process this kind of image. And what a setting it is for my first star trial photo. The grandeur of Bromo Tengger Semeru mountain range as the foreground for the stars.
Thanks to everyone who gave tips, howto, knowhow and pitfall to avoid before I actually took the shot. At least I came to the battle quite confident as what needs to be done.
This is a 120 frames stacked for the star trails and one base image for the foreground.
Please do share it if you like it
This photo was taken 2 years ago!
Then I did not know the answer to the main question -Where am I?
.... Many are fond of photography!
Now the network has many courses, videos, articles and other things about how to take pictures correctly. There are step-by-step courses. Information about the theory of photography, about composition, shooting technique and more!
But!
There is no answer to the main question: Where am I on the whole plane of the photographic WORLD?
If you think that an assessment of relatives and your inner circle will give an answer to this question, I hasten to disappoint you ...
Webinars do not give an answer too!
This can be compared to the ONLINE treatment.
It took me many years to find the secret that is hidden from us!
From my own experience I can say that sometimes an hour of practice with an interesting person often brings more than many months of study ...
So why am I writing this?
I DECIDED that these SKILLS are worthy of those who seek the answer to this question!
The first 9 seekers of an answer will receive it from me!
I will not evaluate the skills gained from THIS, but those who have also come this long way ...
After 3 days, you will look in a completely new way at this beautiful world through the lens of your Camera, regardless of whether it is a telephone, compact, mirror or format!
Three whales on which everything is built in the world of Light Painting will open for you and stay with you forever, regardless of the genres that you choose along the way!
If you still think: what's the catch?
IT IS NOT! No payment! Only your and my TIME!
No boring theory! ONLY practice in real circumstances! Many people think that we ourselves choose a place to shoot. I will tell you how to make the BEST places for your photos choose YOU!
Ready to embark on an exciting JOURNEY?
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What does not matter ?😜
1.What to photograph - Camera. 📷📱
2.Where to photograph - Place. 🌋
3.When to photograph -Time.🌅🌄
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What is important ?😎
1.Study and tune the camera. 👨🔧
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.🌞🌚
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What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says. 🙏
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave. 🌊
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
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What to photograph?
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
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All I ever seem to do with Squash is make soup.. occasionally roast some to include in a vegetable curry but think I would need to expand my culinary knowhow if we had this many to cope with. Strange fact... my daughter's cat goes nuts for any squash, when trimming out pumpkins etc she is fighting to get at them - weird cat!
explorer # 83
I am sorry for not commenting a lot today, I had very busy day with my lessons. Will do it tonight. Hope everybody is having a great time....
Ruim 50% van de 1.3 miljoen ton suiker dat geëxporteerd wordt vanuit Europa, gaat via de haven van Antwerpen. Het bedrijf ‘Tiense suiker’ rekent op de Antwerpse haven voor zo goed als zijn hele export. De haven verbindt ons landje met heel de wereld en heeft de best terminals voor de op- en overslag van suiker; aldus de CEO van ‘Tiense suiker’. Vele Belgen denken dat suiker een tropisch product is. Deels hebben die mensen gelijk, want verschillende Zuid-Amerikaanse en Caraïbische landen zijn al jaren lang grote producenten van Suiker. Maar toen de Britse zeemacht de invoer van suiker blokkeerde tijdens de Napoleontische oorlogen, moest Europa het ‘witte goud’ wel zelf zien te produceren. Al gauw werd er een manier voor het produceren van suiker ontdekt in Europa. Tot de dag van vandaag wordt er suiker in Europa geproduceerd. Flexibiliteit, verschillende transport mogelijkheden en de technische knowhow zijn de troeven van de Antwerpse haven bij het exporteren van Europese suiker.
(NMBS HLR 7810 + suikertrein, Manufert, 28/10/2014
Many adventures were had while I tried to understand the mystery of the underwater merpeople morgue. One of these involved a chance encounter with a wandering hobbit who was socially distancing in our village pub. After many, many beers, and much talking of the toot, my diminutive, hairy-footed friend let slip that he knew of some rogue Ents that had departed Fangorn Forest in search of a new home. Apparently, they had met up with the wizard Merlin and joined him in his secret woods somewhere in middle England. Plying the little halfling with many pints of our village cider (a heady brew that is know to have killed fully growth mammoths with half a pint and strip a Morris Minor of all its paint in 37 seconds) I eventually discovered the location of this mystical place. The journey was arduous and many good people lost their lives in crossing the magical boundaries that surrounded Merlin’s lair. I, myself, was one of only three survivors. Alas, we could not stay long as our presence was felt via rumblings in the Force and the Ents had started to waken. I only manage to a get a few snaps on my trusty Nikon before we departed. Mysteriously, my SD card managed to format itself on the homeward voyage. Luckily, Pete, our chimney sweep, put me in touch with Brokkr and Eitri, the Norse dwarf blacksmith brothers, who had diversified in recent times from making golden treasures for the Aesir and set up an online IT Helpdesk service. With their canny computer knowhow and knowledge of the dark arts, they managed to retrieve this solitary image from my camera.
The remains of misfortunate adventurers are clearly visible within the pixels. But how many can you tally?
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It’s good to try new things, to get out of your comfort zone once and a while. Well, I did that last night (Sat night/Sunday morn). I met up with Ian, Willy, and Sean and tried my hand at start trails. Well, I failed, but that’s okay. I figured I’d post the mess so at least you could see that I gave it a shot!
I went into this shoot not knowing exactly where we were going (Ian put it together), not knowing a lick about star trail photography, and not knowing how to edit it once I was finished. I set up what I felt was going to be the best comp I could see, ignored the light pollution, the nearly full moon, the passing clouds, and my lack of knowhow, and I just shot.
I had seen some of Ivan’s shots before, and some of James Neeley’s work and remembered seeing f2.8, iso 200, 30 sec, …so guess what I did? Yup. That. What I ended up with was a mess of shots, each a mess in it’s own right, and then a day (today) spent trying to figure out what the hell to do with them all. Result: mess. It’s kind of fun to look at for a second. I mean it grabs attention, but then you realize that there are planes all over the place, the trails are interrupted, you can’t see the windmill blades and my lens kept fogging up (which ruined shots 185-244)… I could go on, but I won’t.
Anyway, this shot gave me something to think about, gave me a jumping off point for this type of photography, and gave me one hell of a fun night with some wonderful people. We even did some light painting at the end. All in all, I’d give it a rating of Hot Mess with a clarifying fun as heck.
Cheers, and happy shooting. –jared r.
Canon 5DMKII
Canon 16-35mm @ 16mm
Iso 200
f/2.8
184 shots @ 30 sec each
Situated along the southern-most easterly boundary of the Spanish Basque country, less than one kilometre from the region of Castille-et-León, and in a local area where regional boundaries jazz and scribe like a river's reflection of a jigsaw puzzle. The great 900km east-west river Ebro 'highway' is just 12 straight kilometres south, with this Pinedo site's lower valley holding the modest 'Arroyo de Pinedo' - a very local valley whiling to link to the Rio Omecillo prior to a definitive Ebro confluence. This is a site that is both connected and hidden. From today's watershed lake towards the source of the 'Arroyo de Pinedo' there is a 23 straight kilometre walk to a main westerly river to the great Bilboa Atlantic estuary - then just 20km away. The total straight distance from the above site to the Atlantic coast thus being around 47 straight km, but perhaps over terrain that might have required local confidences when contrasted with the wider and direct Campoo to Santander valley links discussed elsewhere. For somebody walking the mythical Ebro to see the Atlantic people and place, this would be a coherent fast path that maximises the time spent on or by fluid rivers. Someone mesmerized by the idea of genesis and source may prefer to witness the vivid origin area of the Ebro and then turn north to the Atlantic from there. Both possibilities have advantages and both possibilities have an array of vivid man made caves.
Estuaries are places where coastal peoples can stop - dock their boats away from head-strong waves, and exchange between future fair-weather movements. An estuary is vivid and indubitable and will draw people, information and product: from between the worlds of fresh water, and the worlds of salt water.
A second vivid carved spiritual site - similar in many ways to this site - is hidden behind a low hill less than 2 straight kilometres away, aside the village of Corro - and once again in the Basque region's southern outer zone. A third site of certainly more medieval origin, but with perhaps a continuous theme, is less than five straight kilometres south east. This third site is once again in the Basque region, but after crossing a cheeky tongue of 'Castille et Leon'. An individual or group whose lifestyle involves crossing territories may stop at one of these sites, be they pious crofts, spiritual sites, sites of warrior-'police', gathering sites for multicultural exchanges of skills, information and goods: perhaps places to induct the necessary confidences and passers before securely entering a new mosaics of land.
To help put the site into scale, I have added a drawing of a figure. I have added hints of colour without prescribing line, form or iconography. As always, the viewer needs to both dress and ornament the individual according to his or her wisdom and opinion: tassels, checks, icons, beads and so on...
As with the equally hidden sister site aside the village of Corro, it is thought that the site was in use as late as the 14th century, with the lines of the monolithic sarcophagi looking to be closer to these dates than to the sites potential dates of origin.
Squeezing the small room/alcove spaces and organic open-plans into the recognised forms of known Christian buildings is a task that is far too difficult for me, and the site seems to mix being an open invitation for 'known' visitors, with being a point of surveillance. Obviously adapted for spiritual function, but with none of the elements obviously associated with Christian or Muslim traditions.
The grass on the right-hand side of the image can be seen to stop, and this is the limit before a sizable drop.
Mortice joints cut into the exterior rim may have taken a variety of joists and beams offering an outside finish of a large two storey hut. Just such additions may also have allowed the site's outline to disappear and 'camouflage' during periods of invasion.
The site is in an area normally recognised as one degree or another of buffer zone; less impact of Romans, Moors, Visigoth... and perhaps aside the great themes of history. These would be ideal conditions for late 'archaic' expression, where the word archaic is not playing into Hegelian parlour games of 'primitive to contemporary' momentum.
The top mineral surface of the site has basins in a style that is coherent with chalcolithic sites. Unique to my experience is one of the basins which perforates the ceiling so that drops of water can be seen to pass into the shadows and perhaps a necessary ceremonial pot. An alternative explanation that the hole was the offset chimney for the original wicker-and-daub site needs also to be considered. There is also a possibility of a perforated 'bullaun' appearing as a 'sky-light ocular' adapted for tracing stars.
Water caught in these top surface 'bullaun' basins must have been of spiritual importance, and the basins do not show the asymmetries of grind or gnarls of nature. Germinating collected seeds from different categories of plant in pools of either pure water or solutions and colloids, being a way of adding spirituality to the analysis of seed and growth. African examples of large ritual pots of water and floating seed with germination cycles of appropriate periods; complex rites meeting with agricultural knowhow, are documented within the film works of Jean Rouche. The date range for 'Bullaun' stones is Neolithic to around 800AD. Permanent nodes of fire may also have fitted into the ensemble: flame and presented ember glowing aside shafts of light traced and directed from side ocular holes.
The female figure drawn into the site is looking at a back wall of rock art. A zoom into the shot reveals rudimentary schematic animals in red ochre, rays in black pigment and a horse in an natural earth ochre.
AJM 13.12.20
I am learning how to do still life in the tradition of the old masters. Anyone who has the knowhow, please give me a bit of a guiding hand. Thank you.
Sorry for the reupload, I had to fix some things.
Some places are shorter now, this thing looks still looks really disproportioned, but that's Liandri's fault :]
Credit goes to Awesome Night for the letters.
Here is an example of a landscape built around the tree. Landscaping is beyond the scope of this tutorial though :)
Some thoughts on this technique:
I have built quite a number of these trees since I developed the technique about a year ago, and though I do think it's aesthetically pleasing, I find that the instability of it limits its usage quite a bit. It's fine for just having and photographing, but bringing it to exhibitions is quite risky.
I also think there are a lot of improvements that can be done to it, in particular when it comes to the supporting structure and foliage. With all the awesome technic builds I see floating around, I'm sure there are plenty of people who have the knowhow to significantly improve the stability of the design.
I'd definitely be interested to hear thoughts and ideas on how to improve both the technique and the tutorial itself, as this is my first time writing one. And I'd love to see any trees you all build :)
Happy building!
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Read on Eurobricks here.
Start of tutorial here.
A franchise needs to have profits or else what is a franchise for? Industrialization was set up from almost the getgo in the New World with the manufacture of glassware in the Jamestown Settlement so that it could be profitable for the Virginia Company of London.
Besides having invented and implemented the moving assembly line for mass production, skyscrapers, the elevator, the telephone, and Wonder bread, American industrialization knowhow nowadays makes super strength gorilla glass, quantum computers, artificial intelligence, intra- and interstellar spacecraft, self-driving cars, propulsion drives, cancer-curing biotech products, financial derivatives, stickies, and hamburgers (including pure vegetable ones that taste just like a beef burger).
The Roger Blough, John G. Munson, and Cason J. Callaway are seen here, anchored down at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, presumably under inspection and receiving repairs All three of the bulk carriers are part of CN's Great Lakes Fleet. The Roger Blough received major damage during a fire earlier in the year, and as far as I'm aware, its current fate is unknown. Here's an article on that: www.professionalmariner.com/great-lakes-bulk-carrier-seri.... I'm not super confident on my laker knowhow, so if anyone has any corrections or information to lend, I'd greatly appreciate it! Taken on 8/11/21.
We bought a pack of 12 Sweetcorn plug plants back in the May & they grew really well in the polytunnel, so much so we've had a glut of "Corn on the cob" recently. I found this recipe for Sweetcorn Relish www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/sweetcorn_relish_14809 but I tweaked it a bit because I only had white malt vinegar & Balsamic vinegar, light brown sugar & I didn't fancy using tomato in the recipe. Other than that the Sweetcorn (4 cobs), Onion, Garlic, Pepper & Chili are all home grown. After all the effort of chopping everything this made just 1 large jar can you believe it? Ah well it tastes amazing.
Laptop update for anyone who can be bothered to read this, I don't blame you for glazing over. Now I do know there are people destitute in this world & there are far worse things to be worrying about than a laptop but ......
When I finally received it back this afternoon (it went for repair on 19th August) the KnowHow (Know Nothing) Team from PC World hadn't replaced/repaired the battery which wasn't holding it's charge. This was the reason it went in for repair - a week before the 12 month purchase warranty was up. The repair sheet says the battery isn't covered but it's not my fault it took 2 weeks to reach the repair depot AAARRRGH. They've done other things to it & maybe, just maybe it will be OK. Watch this space.
This photo is for topic #106 Sticky for 117 Pictures in 2017. Martin is working away so I was going to be all healthy & cook a vegetarian dish of stuffed Marrow rings (I'm not vegetarian but am trying to eat less meat & he's not so fussed on veggie dishes) but I've gone all weak & feeble. Alcohol is called for & while I'm out buying a bottle of wine a burger from the chipper might jump into the passenger seat.
In the years before I got my driver's license and dove into the world of DSLRs, RAW processing and heads up reports via smart phone, my involvement in this hobby was a much simpler affair. Typically it centered around setting up at an easily accessible location for several hours with scanner in tow waiting to see what would show up. Most of my photos from this time are rather forgettable, having been taken with a variety of point and shoot digital and film cameras. However, there were a few times when, though good timing, nice light, or pure dumb luck, I came away with photos that I can still really cherish. I'd still like to go back and duplicate this with my current equipment, but for now here is 23M pulling from a stop at CP-BETHLEHEM (this was before NORAC and the CP-designations were chopped on NS) in April 2008, brought to life a little more with the Photoshop knowhow I have 6 years later. Bethlehem Steel's idled shell sits in the background, having since been largely converted into a casino and entertainment center.
Decided to have some fun with -ThatLegoGuy-'s contest prompt. Here is my take on apocalyptic Avengers
Soon after the Cotati conquest of earth began the recently formed Earth’s mightiest heroes were defeated with the death of one Dr. Robert Bruce Banner shattering the very core of the team.
And without its greatest defenders to rally the dispersed cells of heroes under one banner (pun not intended) earth fell to the Cotati Empyre. However, while defeated Earth does not stand alone as in its time of need the united forces of the Alliance, a merger of the Kree and Skrull empires, swoops in to help humanity escape this doomed planet. But are these saviors from outer space really what they seem?
Team Line up:
Left - Secret Avengers
Steve Rogers a.k.a. The Captain: After the split of the original team Captain Steve Rogers went underground to amass as many allies as he could find for the battle to come. Renouncing his patriotic moniker after realizing people would need more than a nation to guide them through this planetary scale war. Now he leads a strike force alongside his two most trusted associates, using guerilla tactics in order to secure resources for the human resistance.
Natalia Romanoff a.k.a. The Black Widow: Once Madame Hydra, after the fall of earth and defeat of the heroes the defense of earth fell into the hands of its would be conquerors. While Hydra forces managed to secure some strong points during the early stages of the war, as the heroes before them the tyrannical institutions they opposed fell too. After an encounter with Captain Rogers, the Black Widow defected from Hydra and rounded up her loyalists to join the human resistance.
Clint Barton aka. Hawkeye: A member of the organization Mercs for Money, Barton and his crew worked on smuggling missions to retrieve valuables and high interest assets from areas devastated by the war. Wanting to do more and after a contract to extract Rogers and Romanoff from a danger zone, Hawkeye joined them as a permanent member of their strike force.
Right – Guardians of the Galaxy
King T’Challa a.k.a. The Black Panther: Once hidden from the rest of the world and more in tune with nature than any other advanced civilization on the world, the country of Wakanda was hit especially hard when the plant-based army of the Cotati struck earth. Being one of the few survivors of his nation and hearing a legend about artifacts powerful enough to end the war, T’Challa ventured to outer space to collect the powerful infinity gems and put an end to this conflict.
Thor Odinson: In the Battle that killed Dr. Banner, Thor lost not only his magic uru hammer but also part of himself. He went star bound after the loss feeling unworthy and unfit as a protector of Midgard. The once mighty god of thunder drowned his sorrows on space bars until one day, he heard of a man from Midgard looking to put an end to the war that ravaged the world he once protected. Aiding T’Challa in his quest to find the infinity gems, Thor looks for redemption as the protector of a world he once abandoned.
Rocket: A space pirate famous for evading capture on more systems than he could remember. Once a ranger on Halfworld turned ravager Rocket, or as Thor insists on Calling him Rocket the Rabbit, is now the finest space pirate you could ever find at least according to himself. He guides the King of the Dead and Prince of Thunder across the galaxy using his space knowhow and contacts to get them ever closer to collecting all infinity gems.
Center - New Avengers
Carol Danvers the Accuser: Living as a Kree soldier for as far as she can remember, Carol Danvers rose through the ranks of the Kree empire as one of the most formidable soldiers the empire had ever seen. After the death of the previous accuser and with the rise of the Alliance the role of accuser was granted to Danvers, compelled by the power of the universal weapon that came with this new rank and her programming as a soldier she led the Alliance’s charge against the Cotati Empyre. However, after discovering Alliance scientists revive the inhuman program buried within the human DNA millennia ago by experimenting on earth refugees, the Accuser defected the Alliance, breaking out as many test subjects as she could along the way. Now she stands alongside her fellow escapees as avengers of planet earth, but is this new found resolve enough to permanently override the will of her weapon and the years of programming?
Miles Morales: As a kid Miles grew up in a world protected by heroes, hearing stories of their fights against the forces of evil, but when the war broke out, he was forced to evacuate earth amongst the many refugees taken in by the Alliance. Being one of many test subjects of the inhuman program Miles gained superhuman abilities such as sticking to surfaces, invisibility, and bio electricity. Being broken out by the Accuser, he joined her taking the identity of fallen hero Spider-Man to join the fight against the Cotati and Alliance.
Antonio Stark a.k.a. Iron Man: After a failure of his armor caused him to prematurely exit the battle that killed Dr. Banner, Tony Stark was amongst the first refugees taken in by the Alliance. But after realizing that the helping hand humanity was granted from beyond the stars was more sinister than originally thought, Tony was one of the first humans to rebel against the Alliance. Being promptly defeated and subdued, his knowledge about human anatomy and how to enhance it were used as the template to revive the Kree inhuman program. Being broken out during the defection of the Accuser, he rounds out the New Avengers, using his Iron Tech Armor to fight against the invading forces.
Filed by VBC Correspondent Alfred Lennard
VBC Security Contributor William Parker and I were recently granted access to visit and embed with units from the 5 (Armoured Infantry) Brigade deployed as part of the Multinational Assistance Force. We traveled with Victorian troops in the third month of their deployment in the region including the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
We have arrived at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Spade in Southwest Asia, where we were embedded with soldiers from India Company, Royal Victorian Infantry.
Before we could go out on operation with the troops, we needed to stay at the forward operating base for a few days as the medical personnel at the FOB told us that we would need to acclimatize to the heat. While we are at the FOB, the soldiers gave us a tour of the base and we had the opportunity to speak with them.
“Are you happy to be here?” asked Parker.
“[Laughs] Apart from a few situations where I’m kid of regretting it a wee bit,” said Private Seth. “Overall I’m glad I’ve done it. I mean, you’ll never do anything like this in your life.”
“What do you think about the enemy? Do you think they are good; they are bad?” asked Parker.
“Gotta respect them, definitely,” said Sergeant Vincent. “They really know what they’re doing. And they are not scared. And they are smart too, they tend to target the Coalition forces since they are the weaker target. But they are definitely not afraid to take us on. From time to time, they will fire an RPG at our convoy and get into a firefight with us.”
“How about the Coalition forces, are they effective at all?” asked Parker.
“They are definitely brave fighters,” said Captain Landon, the platoon commander. “But they lack the sophisticate equipment and logistic knowhow. So, we help them out with that. Their numbers are also getting thin due to attrition. So those who are still fighting are experience fighters. When the bullet starts flying, they are fierce warriors.”
Captain Landon also took us around the perimeter of the FOB and to one of the observation towers overlooking the Great Desert, previously one of the major weapons smuggling routes. FOB Spade was previously combat outpost (COP) Spade, where a major battle was thought against insurgents two years ago.
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Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
my fav corridor shot ever. the tricks to photography are being in the right place at the right time, having some technical knowhow, and having a nikon and nikkor lens, haha.
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Leitz Wetzlar Colorplan projector lens 90mm f2.5 with homemade adapter to m39. ( 20mm extension tube )
Thanks to Gnarlydog for the inspiration and knowhow
"The Chimacum, also spelled Chemakum and Chimakum are a near extinct Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians), who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay" Wiki
A photo of the Hicks family near Chimicum Creek circa 1914 can be seen here along with details of other first nation communities on the peninsula: www.nps.gov/olym/learn/historyculture/tribes-of-the-olymp....
Opposite the south end of Vancouver Island and directly west of Seattle, the Chimacum people occupied a land of very real mist and rain, as the Olympic peninsula is well known for its good air and dominant rain, with up to 355cm a year. Tall trees of the north west coast were used for Totem poles - often placed in coves behind the worst laps of the sea - and they start to appear along the coastal mainland, opposite and around Vancouver Island just to the north of Discovery Bay. The carved poles then continue up the laced coast into Alaska - a close enough cultural vision to be a symbol for today's Seattle (aside the Chimacum). (www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-did-totem-poles-become-symbo...). 'Looking' at but not living with. Were there arborglyphs or decorations assigned for their real tree giants, with the permanent carving starting in the near yonder?
Some of the tallest trees in the world come from the reserves along this coast. The World's tallest Spruce, Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir are all old growths living through and past the Chimacum rains on the Olympic Peninsula. The biggest tree today reads 75m tall by 6m circumference and 5.7m diameter. Chimacum rains in the spaces between these trees.
In this clip the tall totems and mythical trees are in modern cement, and they draw in 'worshipers' of modernity. Norman Foster's bridge is very successful, and during our visit we met a Brazilian who was motorbiking to see the best bridges of Europe (Lisbon, Porto (!!) and on up to Millau...). The Millau bridge tilts to respect the line of the hills either side of the valley, and it curves slightly to undulate with the mist and river. In the days prior to the bridge, the drive up to the Larzac plateau was a chain of old lorries puffing like steam-trains at walking pace, with summer cars overheating to a general breakdown, and a steep tilted jam that seemed to crumple and slide back down into the city of Millau; so the bridge does adapt well to today's lifestyle of car and long distance haulage. Despite that, it is a totemic forest of cement and hardened sand that has turned a landscape with a deep past into another visible link from a modern web.
Lynda Perhac's LP 'Parallelograms' was released on Kapp records in the same years as Joni Mitchell's 'Ladies of the Canyon', and between the two Karen Dalton LPs. For the recording, she used the studio knowhow and orchestration skill of Leonard Rosenman, who is perhaps best known for the music and work he did with the film star James Dean ('Giant', 'Rebel without a cause'). After a long break, Lynda returned to release on Sufjan Steven's 'Asthmatic Kitty' label, with other releases currently through Sundazed and Omnivore.
Her style is often described as 'Psychedelic folk', which seems a miss-up. There can a psychological expressionism to her folk music - not unlike Kate Bush, but with the intimate spaces of early Sufjan or Joni. And she really doesn't need a category as she has a name.
Was this shot taken of Lynda by the Olympic peninsula?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzsY7AXEBQ
Here Lynda talks about the visual method behind her song writing. Being inspired by the sea, or Larks rising; a New York crossroads, or Dr Caligari are all examples of the visual senses mapping into music. Lynda went a step further and abstracted her own visual for the musical subject before then transcribing. Creative ways to inspire the mind's eye are more common in musical composition than is apparent in the generic and 'manufactured' and should not be mixed up with issues of drugs or disorders even if both have appeared in the history of music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEW5CRnnnws
An original demo of Chimacum rains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJsViR_PV0
AJM 09.11.22
Photographed March 2016 : Q3D-2 rangefinder & JUPITER-3,50mm/1.5 lens. FOMAPAN 100 rated EI=50 developed in a pyrogallol/4-aminophenol developer (16-3-PYRO) .Pontcanna Fields,Cardiff.
The North America Nebula from the Cygnus region, imaged from the town of Tabo (3500m) in the trans-Himalayan cold desert of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh. 21x60s ISO 2000 f2.8, imaged with Olympus OMD EM5II and M Zuiko 40-150 2.8. Tracked with AstroTrac TT320X. PP with Nebulosity 4.0 and Lightroom 6.0
For knowhow on photographing deep sky subjects such as this, please see ficustours.blogspot.com/2019/09/astrophotography-part-2-i...
Take a final look at the interior of the first European Service Module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Technicians at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany installed the final radiators and sealed off the module that will provide power and propulsion to Orion.
No more checking under the hood. With integration complete, the module is ready for its final extensive testing. Engineers will put the module through its paces with functional tests that include checking the newly installed radiators and the propulsion system with its intricate pipelines that deliver fuel and oxidiser to the spacecraft’s 33 engines.
The European Service Module (ESM) is ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion that will take astronauts to the Moon and even farther out into space. European expertise and knowhow comes together in this module: it provides power and propulsion, oxygen and water, and temperature control from launch through mission duration to just before reentry.
The module will soon be shipped to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, where it will be mated with NASA’s Crew Module Adaptor and Crew Module, the first time the complete spacecraft will be on display. And then even more tests begin.
The spacecraft will be subjected to intense acoustic vibrations in the world’s largest vacuum chamber at NASA’s Plum Brook facility to ensure it withstands the rigor of launch on the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch Systems.
The first of Orion’s exploratory missions is an unmanned lunar orbit to validate its capabilities in space.
But there is no resting on laurels for the service module’s technicians. They are already hard at work on the second European Service Module that will be the workhorse carting a crew around the Moon for the second exploratory mission.
In addition to returning humans to the moon, Orion will be instrumental to building the Gateway, a staging post to be located in lunar orbit that will allow humans to go deeper into space.
ESA has already commissioned studies to develop modules for the Gateway. One will look into habitation and research modules while another will create a design concept for an infrastructure element that will accommodate refuelling, telecommunications and an airlock.
Looking beyond, ESA is already working on the technologies needed to accomplish the first round-trip mission to Mars and bring precious samples back to laboratories on Earth, one of the most ambitious exploration challenges so far planned.
Europe is also committed to supporting the International Space Station, our outpost in low Earth orbit, expanding its research potential and benefits for Earth by opening it up for business. With commercial services such as ICE Cubes and the soon-to-launch Bartolomeo external platform, ESA is offering quicker and more affordable access to microgravity research.
Read more about Europe’s vision for space exploration here.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
Komplettes Beschichtungswerk für Haftmaterial.
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Brief profile of HERMA
Located in Filderstadt near Stuttgart (Germany), HERMA GmbH is a leading European specialist in self-adhesive technology.
In the 2010 fiscal year, the HERMA group generated sales of €229 million with 800 employees in three divisions – Self-Adhesive Materials, Labels and Machines. The export ratio was around 54%.
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Paper Goods
Self-adhesive Materials & Labelling Systems
Industrial labels
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Offene Stellen bei HERMA in Filderstadt-Bonlanden
Knowhow moderner Selbstklebetechnik
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Spezialist für Selbstklebetechnik mit den Geschäftsbereichen Haftmaterial mit Labor, Etiketten und Etikettiermaschinen.
Davon losgelöst ist das Technikum, in dem HERMA spezielle Kundenanforderungen testen oder neuartige Branchenlösungen entwickeln kann.
Ebenfalls neu ist ein Showroom auf 230 Quadratmetern, in dem HERMA ständig ein breites Spektrum an innovativen und effizienten Etikettierlösungen präsentiert.
www.herma.com/de/karriere.html
Es ist weltweit wohl die modernste Fertigung für Etikettierer und Etikettiermaschinen, die HERMA jetzt am Hauptsitz in Filderstadt-Bonlanden betreibt.
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2018 hat die HERMA Gruppe einen Umsatz von 361,3 Mio € erzielt. Wichtige Voraussetzung dafür war nicht nur das große Engagement der insgesamt 1.051 Mitarbeiter, sondern auch die starke Präsenz in international wichtigen Märkten sowie eine innovationsgetriebene Entwicklung und Fertigung von Haftmaterial, Etiketten und Etikettiermaschinen.
I pictured my image on a white background but it left a nasty shadow with the light in the room so I thought I'd try to use a flash to control this. Clearly out of practise with flash, my first shot looked like a neon snake rather than a bendy drinking straw! So naturally I got sidetracked with this and forgot about my nice clean image on white and ended up here. One day I'll have enough knowhow to picture an image and be able to get it. Until then, happy accidents all the way. HMM
Oh, and its was acquired recently so fits for 7DOS 'Whats new' too!
the theme for this weeks "me again monday" was to push ourselves to do something out of our comfort zones.
i often use my face as my canvas, but i do it digitally, and i have always admired and wanted to try to do some of the awesome makeup emulation challenges in this group-" my face is my canvas" but never had the time or the knowhow to pull it off.. i thought this was the perfect push i needed to finally give it a go. my interpretation was modernish geisha-esque
unfortunately i missed the deadine to enter the challenge contest... but i will add it to the pool anyway
man was it hard..and it took me a few disasterous tries but i finally ended up with something i could live with.. i am so impressed with the people who do these challenges on a weekly basis, and there are some incredibly talented people in this group.
i learned alot, and i may even try it again sometime..
HMAM!
if you want to see the challenge click HERE
Portrait of a young guy in the streets of Nablus
April 2011
Nablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately 63 kilometers north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.
After the loss of the city to British forces during World War I, Nablus was incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922, and later designated to form part of the Arab state of Palestine under the 1947 UN partition plan. The end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War saw the city instead fall to Jordan, to which it was unilaterally annexed, until its occupation by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.
Today, the population is predominantly Muslim, with small Christian and Samaritan minorities. Since 1995, the city has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority. Jewish immigration did not significantly impact the demographic composition of Nablus, and it was slated for inclusion in the Arab state envisioned by the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 partition plan for Palestine. After Israel declared its independence, Transjordan occupied Nablus. Thousands of Palestinians fleeing towns captured by Israel settled in refugee camps around Nablus and in Nablus itself. Three such camps still located within the city limits today are Ein Beit al-Ma', Balata and Askar.
The Six-Day War ended in a swift Israeli victory and the occupation of Nablus. Many Israeli settlements were built around Nablus during the 1980s and early 1990s. Jurisdiction over the city was handed over to the Palestinian National Authority on December 12, 1995, as a result of the Oslo Accords Interim Agreement on the West Bank.
Nablus was a central flashpoint of violence between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian militant groups. The level of violence dramatically increased from 2000 at the start of the Second Intifada. The city and the refugee camps of Balata and Askar constituted the center of "knowhow" for the production and operation of the rockets in the West Bank.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 522 residents of Nablus and surrounding refugee camps, including civilians, were killed and 3,104 injured during IDF military operations against militants during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005. Israeli soldiers and settlers have also been killed by Palestinian militants from Nablus. In April 2002, following the Passover massacre — an attack by Palestinian militants that killed 30 Israeli civilians attending a seder dinner at the Park Hotel in Netanya — Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, a major military operation in which Nablus was one of the main targets. At least 80 Palestinians were killed in Nablus during the operation and several houses were destroyed or severely damaged. The IDF also imposed a curfew on Nablus lasting between April 4 and April 22. IDF forces reentered Nablus during Operation Determined Path in June 2002, remaining inside the city until the end of September. Over those three months, there had been more than 70 days of full 24-hour curfews.
According to Gush Shalom, IDF bulldozers caused damage to al-Khadra Mosque, the Great Mosque, al-Satoon Mosque and Greek Orthodox Church in 2002. Some 60 houses were destroyed, and parts of the stone-paving in the old city were damaged. The al-Shifa hammam was hit by three rockets from Apache helicopters. The eastern entrance of the Khan al-Wikala (old market) and three soap factories were destroyed in F-16 bombings. The cost of the damage was estimated at $80 million US.
Capture made March 2016 Canon VI-L rangefinder + Canon LTM 50mm/2.8 lens.FOMAPAN 100 rated EI=50 and developed in an experimental 4-aminophenol/pyrogallol developer.Title taken from Brian Eno's song "Needle in The Camel's Eye".
Working 5Q41 08:56 West Ealing EMU Sidings to Greenford, which is seen after the reversal at Hanwell Bridge Loop.
This was a former London Transport 'D-Stock' unit, from the District line, and converted to run on modern diesel engines by Vivarail. After the company ceased trading, GWR acquired some of the units and 'knowhow', and have pushed on with the battery-conversion of this unit.
Published on the cover of Platform 5's "Diesel Multiple Units 2025' pocket book.