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Salar de Surire is a remote as you can be in the Atacama Desert. The closest village is Putre, which is about 2-3 hrs drive. A path goes around a huge salt flat. As we drove out there for hours we were the only tourist on the way seeing nothing but the occasional truck from the borax plant. Vicunas were standing almost next to us and were part of the experience up there. Do not attempt to go there without a 4WD. We got stuck several times and had river crossings, which had not been able to do with any other car but a 4WD.
A truly remarkable location totally off the beaten path. There are five kinds of flamingos in the world. Three of those live in the Atacama desert. I was desperately trying to capture them however, they were gone, before I could set up to take the shot. Very shy animals – so I waited until they had calmed down again, the camera ready to take the shot. This one turned out to be one of my favorites with the matching title “Take the Lead”. Beautiful wildlife in a stunning desert 4500m above sea level.
Even though the colors are a bit more flat than my usual photos, it remains one of my personal favorites.
Cheers,
André
Shot at St Thomas mount immediately after the sunset. Loved the way the cross was lit by the light on one side.
D300 + 14-24
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A scouting trip to Minera Lead Mine, near Wrexham, Wales. It was a nice muddy walk, however the sky wasn't as dark as I hoped. Image made with 4x 20 second exposures, stacked with Sequator for noise reduction
Trying out the 75-200 mm zoom lens with my old Minolta SRT 101 SLR 35 mm camera. Went back into Boston to the Chadwick Lead Works building trying out the zoom lens at its maximum. This closeup of the 1887 building is one of the results (I cropped out nothing).
Minolta SRT 101 SLR
Minolta MD 75-200 zoom lens
f/4.5 1/60
Kodak Ektar 35mm film (ISO 100)
Photoshop Elements
Negative scanned on Canon f8800 flatbed scanner
ORP Wicher (Gale in English), the lead ship of her class, was a destroyer in the Polish Navy. She took part in the Polish Defensive War and was sunk by German bombers on September 3, 1939.
History
The ship was built at Chantiers Naval Francais and construction took 4 years, almost two more than initially planned. The steam turbines were built by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in St. Nazaire, while the armament was mounted in the French Marine arsenal in Cherbourg. The ship was launched on July 10, 1928, but it was not until July 8, 1930, when she was finally commissioned by the Polish Navy in Cherbourg harbour. She was named ORP Wicher ("gale"), in accordance with the French tradition of naming destroyers after meteorological phenomena. A week later she arrived at Gdynia and became the first modern ship of the Polish naval forces. Her sister ship, the ORP Burza, was started at the same time, yet was finished two years later, roughly four years after the initial deadline.
During the Interbellum, ORP Wicher served a variety of roles, mostly political. For instance, on June 15, 1932, she was sent to the port of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) to meet two British destroyers entering the port and to underline the Polish political influence in that city. In March 1931 she also sailed to Madeira, from where she brought Marshal of Poland Józef Piłsudski and his family. It was the farthest journey of that ship in her history. She also visited Stockholm in August 1932, Leningrad in July 1934, Kiel in June 1935 and Helsinki and Tallinn the following month. In 1937, while serving as a school ship, she visited Parnava, Narva, Vyborg, Åbo (Turku), Mariehamn, Nexo, Skagen, Assens and Helsingor, as well as Tallinn and Riga.
By late 1930s it was apparent that the armament was insufficient. The French artillery had a low rate of fire and the ship had inadequate protection against aerial bombardment. To solve the problem, in the autumn of 1935 two double 13.2 mm Hotchkiss heavy machine guns were added. On March 18, 1939 the ship, along with the entire Counter-torpedo Flotilla, was put on alert due to the Memel Crisis. Although the alert was called off a week later, the training cruises were halted. At the same time, most Polish surface vessels were prepared to be withdrawn to British ports in Operation Pekin. ORP Wicher and ORP Gryf were the only major ships left at Gdynia harbour for the protection of the Polish shore.
Combat
After the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War, on September 1, 1939, she repelled a bombing raid at Gdynia, after which she set off for the Hel naval base, from where she was to commence Operation Rurka, an attempt to lay a minefield at the entrances to the Gdańsk Bay. ORP Wicher was to shield the operation, carried out by ORP Gryf, a minelayer, from the side of the German port of Pillau, assisted by a number of trawlers and monitors. After boarding naval mines from a floating depot, ORP Gryf and her flotilla headed for Hel Peninsula. En route she was attacked by a squadron of 33 German Ju-87B dive bombers and hit with several bombs, which caused minor damage and killed her captain. In what became known as the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay, ORP Wicher was not hit directly, but the German planes scored several close hits, breaking all windows on the bridge and fracturing the hull in several places. After arriving at Hel harbour at 18.45, ORP Wicher set off for the area of operations, where she arrived around 22.00. Wicher's captain, Commander Stefan de Walden, did not know that the operation had been called off and in fact shielded the empty bay and not the Polish flotilla, which was anchored at Hel.
Soon after her arrival, ORP Wicher's crew spotted two German destroyers, yet she did not open fire on them, not wanting to attract attention to the Polish units that were to be operating in Gdańsk Bay. Later that night she also spotted a Leipzig class cruiser. At approximately 1 AM of September 2 ORP Wicher returned to Hel and discovered that the operation was called off. In the morning of September 3, 1939, ORP Gryf and ORP Wicher were attacked by two German destroyers, the Z1 Leberecht Maass and Z9 Wolfgang Zenker, firing at 9 nm. Polish warships and a shore battery repulsed the attack, with ORP Gryf scoring two hits. After that the German squadron put up a smoke barrier and withdrew. Later that day ORP Wicher repulsed two air raids. However, in the third attack at approximately 15:00 she was attacked by two group of planes, and the German Luftwaffe scored four hits. Two bombs hit amidships, one hit the bow and the other was a close miss, yet it managed to fracture the hull at several places on the starboard side. ORP Wicher started to sink and the crew made it ashore, where they joined the Land Defence of Pomerania. Altogether, she had one sailor killed and 22 wounded in the attack.
After the end of hostilities, in November 1939 the Germans raised the wreck and hauled it to shallow waters. According to some sources, she was to be raised from the bottom, repaired and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine under the name of Seerose. However, these plans never succeeded and ORP Wicher's wreck survived the war.
After World War II, in 1946, she was again raised and hauled outside the port to the area of Jastarnia. There she served as a target for aerial bombardment practice until 1955. In 1963 she was partially scrapped. The remaining part consists of merely 25% of the hull, mostly two funnels and the rudder.
Samuel Gratrix Junr & Brother was established in the Alport Town area of Manchester by the mid 19th century, their Lead Mills being just off Watson Street and adjacent to the Manchester & Salford Junction Canal. The business traded as lead, glass, oil, paint, and colour merchants, brass founders, metal workers, sanitary plumbers, and electrical engineers. The Lead Mills and most of Alport Town were swept away with the construction of the GNR warehouse between Watson Street and Deansgate in the early 1890s. This meant that Gratrix relocated to new premises; Alport Works on Quay Street, as illustrated on the letterhead. Compensation for the compulsory purchase of the Lead Mills amounted to £56,622 after arbitration. Photographs of Alport Works are hard to find and I have only seen images giving glimpses of the building which was demolished in the 1960s. By the 1960s the business seems to have become glass merchants Samuel Gratrix Ltd based in Trafford Park.
Lead alloy pendant with opaque red glass inset. Possibly 7th Century AD. Found at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester. This object is currently held at the Dorset County Museum.
This reminds me of my favorite scene from the Bollywood movie Three Idiots...
"First day of college, you asked me why didn't astronauts use a pencil in space?"
"If a pencil tip breaks, it'd float on zero gravity; get into the eyes, nose, instruments.
You were wrong. You cannot be right all the time."
Well if you guys have watched the movie, you'd see the same ulterior meaning. =)
A group of liver re-enactment of the “wild west” epoch is re-enacting a scene in an alley of a mid-level block in an urban environment of the capital planet…
- (Cowboy 1) …inuits I am Henry The eighth Ewing, pleace cede your icy island to us and you life will be spared, you will get 500 gold bars each, but free education, medcare will be scrapped for ever and forget about welfare when you have spent it…
- (Indian 1) I am Cree not an innuit, but I am glad you didn’t call me eskimo or redskin or even skräling!!! But Tom, I have a problem with your name. Henry the eight was not a cowboy or even an American, he was the King of Russia in the 18th century…
- (Cowboy 2) Hey guys you are ruining the mood when you start discussing ancient history in the middle of a Live, no one read history in this epoch, the just roamed about, ate corn from the cornfields that the neanderthal cultivated before their instinction when the native americans and the cowboys committed gendercide on them…
- (Indian 2) …no it is called genocide or infantacide not gendercide, Gendercide happened in the second queer war…
- (Cowboy 2) Hey can’t we just get on with the re-enactment??? Or I will leave for Lucy’s pub around the corner, it is a more genuine representation of the wild west than this place…
Three street-maintenance droids enter the scene…
- (Bot 1) Humans please clear the area, there is a gas pipe and optic cable repair planned in this area at GMT 22.03-23.07
- (Cowboy 1) Hey bots please clear the area you piece of metal junk of rusty circuits, leave or eat parabellum tank buster bullets laced in uranium, we have booked this area at the corrupt police force for loads of Kredits… and I know for sure that there was not rust-bucket automats around at the time of the wild west, you are ruin or game, traffic lights was not invented until the 1587 by Elon Tesla before he went Faschismus!!!
The cowboy pulls his gun like a real natural westerner and sprays the robot's feet with hot lead…
Later on the robots regrouped after their escape from the insane humans!
- (Bot 1) Hello block-command computer, it is me B-4565-se.6667-wee-445 long time no see, I hope you small programlings and partner is doing well, we encountered some mutated speaking vermin in sector bbb-668 block 77594 quarter 6654, please isolate it with immediate effect please do this as fast as possible so that the infection doesn't spread, use compound poison gas 224 toxic eradicator…
Munich (GER), 13 August 2022: Caulier Chloe of Belgium competes in the Lead Semifinal during the 2022 European Championships in Munich (GER).
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After lap one and this hard charging young lady from Canada is in the lead. She went on to win by over 3 minutes!
A well preserved clamp, probably with an iron core, sheathed with lead in order to fill the slot carved between these two blocks and to protect the stone from the metal core. The crack on the left seems to have been caused by settling of the monument, which shifted the blocks apart and caused the clamp to tug on the block on the left. The lead sheathing has been driven into the space with a rectangular-tipped chisel. Chetinyova mogila, near Starosel. 4th century BCE.
Georg Schmitt, Media Lead, Corporate Affairs and Foundations, World Economic Forum and Jean-Luc Vez, Head of Public Security Policy and Security Affairs, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic ForumForum / Walter Duerst and Noboru Nakatani, Executive Director, Interpol Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI), International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Singapore and Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman, Sberbank, Russian Federation and André Kudelski, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kudelski Group, Switzerland and Michèle Coninsx, President, Eurojust, The Hague speaking at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 18, 2017
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Riga Latvia,Mar20_2013.World Womans Curling Championship.Canadian skip Rachel Homan,lead Lisa Weagle,second Alison Kreviazuk.CCA/michael burns photo
electrolytic lead dendrite from a solution of Pb(OAc)2
x2 mag., Nikon Macro Nikkor 65mmF4.5/Nikon Multiphot (horizontal)/Nikon D3
Very intricately made three dimensional mullion windows. Seen from certain angles the light creates zig zag stripes.
Lead type for a letter press. Very few presses have much in the way of lead type anymore. I doubt you could even find a lead typesetter that makes custom lead type anymore.
Nikon D4 + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Lead, South Dakota, 13 July 2013
© 2013 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Do not use without permission.
Munich (GER), 13 August 2022: Thompson-Smith Molly of Great Britain competes in the Lead Semifinal during the 2022 European Championships in Munich (GER).
© Jan Virt / IFSC. This photo is for editorial use only. For any additional use please contact marco.vettoretti@ifsc-climbing.org
Gold in quartz from the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. (public display, Leadville Mining Museum, Leadville, Colorado, USA)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 5500 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
Elements are fundamental substances of matter - matter that is composed of the same types of atoms. At present, 118 elements are known. Of these, 98 occur naturally on Earth (hydrogen to californium). Most of these occur in rocks & minerals, although some occur in very small, trace amounts. Only some elements occur in their native elemental state as minerals.
To find a native element in nature, it must be relatively non-reactive and there must be some concentration process. Metallic, semimetallic (metalloid), and nonmetallic elements are known in their native state as minerals.
Gold (Au) is the most prestigious metal known, but it's not the most valuable. Gold is the only metal that has a deep, rich, metallic yellow color. Almost all other metals are silvery-colored. Gold is very rare in crustal rocks - it averages about 5 ppb (parts per billion). Where gold has been concentrated, it occurs as wires, dendritic crystals, twisted sheets, octahedral crystals, and variably-shaped nuggets. It most commonly occurs in hydrothermal quartz veins, disseminated in some contact- & hydrothermal-metamorphic rocks, and in placer deposits. Placers are concentrations of heavy minerals in stream gravels or in cracks on bedrock-floored streams. Gold has a high specific gravity (about 19), so it easily accumulates in placer deposits. Its high density allows prospectors to readily collect placer gold by panning.
In addition to its high density, gold has a high melting point (over 1000º C). Gold is also relatively soft - about 2.5 to 3 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. The use of pure gold or high-purity gold in jewelry is not desirable as it easily gets scratched. The addition of other metals to gold to increase the hardness also alters the unique color of gold. Gold jewelry made & sold in America doesn’t have the gorgeous rich color of high-purity gold.
Locality: Homestake Mine, Lead, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
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