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ERF 'LV' model 66GX six-wheeler flatbed lorry NBB609L seen in Slinfold, Sussex at a Boxing Day vehicle gathering.
Dragon dance (simplified Chinese: 舞龙; traditional Chinese: 舞龍; pinyin: wǔ lóng) is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture. Like the lion dance, it is most often seen during festive celebrations. The dance is performed by a team of experienced dancers who manipulate a long flexible giant puppet of a dragon using poles positioned at regular intervals along the length of the dragon. The dance team simulates the imagined movements of this river spirit in a sinuous, undulating manner.
The dragon dance is often performed during Chinese New Year. Chinese dragons are a symbol of China's culture, and they are believed to bring good luck to people, therefore the longer the dragon is in the dance, the more luck it will bring to the community. The dragons are believed to possess qualities that include great power, dignity, fertility, wisdom and auspiciousness. The appearance of a dragon is both fearsome and bold but it has a benevolent disposition, and it was an emblem to represent imperial authority. The movements in a performance traditionally symbolize the power and dignity of the dragon.
Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In Chinese, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival (traditional Chinese: 春節; simplified Chinese: 春节; pinyin: Chūnjié) as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. S20N_1334
The Battery Point lighthouse is seen in the distance (it's really there if you view large ;-) from an overlook near Crescent City, California.
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The first lead workings in the Sheldon area of the Derbyshire Peak District date back to the mid C18th but following violence between the miners of the two adjacent mines in 1833 in which three men from Maypitt were brutally murdered, Magpie Mine remained closed until 1839 when the famous Cornish mine engineer John Taylor was called in to modernise and reopen the pit. He sank a new shaft to a depth of 650' and installed a Cornish pumping engine to counteract the constant flood water which threatened the workings. Even that proved incapable of dealing with the many streams and eventually in 1873 an underground sough was driven 1½ miles to the River Wye and today it still discharges between 4-6m imperial gallons a day!
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explored November 26, 2010 - #398
#1 of 5 new uploads for Friday....no visit to the Tetons is complete without making the short trek to the top of Signal Mountain lookout, especially during the golden hours. I'm glad we made time to stop up here before heading home on this particular day, as it was a glorious way to start the day and left us with lasting impressions as we began our 1300 mile trek back home to the midwest.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (or Thursday)....and wishing everyone a fabulous weekend. Thanks for all your wonderful comments & visits!!!!!
The theme for Macro Mondays is The Periodic Table, and lead is Pb in the periodic table. As far as I know, bird shot is pure lead, and this pellet, which measures about 2mm across, is from a bucket of No.7 bird shot that I have left over from my skeet and trap shooting days, when I hand loaded my shotgun shells because store bought shells were too expensive to shoot in the quantities that I was shooting.
As for the penny the pellet is resting on, I doubt there is enough copper in it for it to qualify for this topic, but if it is, then I got me a twofer...
What's prettier- the forest, wildflowers, or the river? It's a real toss up. All the elements combine to make a stunning scene in Bristol. The forest lead in to the river and woods beyond was a sight I could stare at for hours.
9003, 9004 and 9002 lead HV370 loaded coal from the Hunter Valley coal loader, located on the Newdell-Liddell coal loop to PWCS Kooragang in the Port of Newcastle, seen at Branxton at 1200 on Saturday the 1st of July 2023.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regarding whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.
Happy New Photographic Year! =)
This was taken a few minutes after the last shot at Teignmouth, Devon, UK. I like how the church tower stands out.
An old wall lamp with an images of Jesus in the leaded glass installed on the wall by the Chichester Cathedral.
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CN L55931 26 back down the glass lead spur in Brampton after switching out hoppers from O-I Canada Corp. They will put their cut of hoppers in a siding before grabbing a boxcar (that they left behind earlier) bound for Zochem Inc. Power is a trio of zebra GP38-2s, CN 4710, CN 4716, CN 4713.
For all the Game of Thrones fans, this is the tower Bran, Hodor, Osha and Co hid in to evade the wildlings. The area is called the Lead Mines and it's just outside Newtownards.
Check it out .....Episode 7, Season 3 Game of Thrones.....about half way through :)
Eli, being Alpha, will do everything to be in the lead.
Many have been asking why I was selling my 5D3. Truth be told, as good as it was, I've totally switched over to Fuji. Fuji's are lighter, have style, and are practically as good. The one area they lack, is in auto-focus tracking, hence all these actions shots of the boys this week with the Canon. This is the last of the 5D3 for the 366, as later on in the day, it found a very good home.
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A long blue lead pipe sticking out of a drain, beside a multi-storey carpark. I've got Cluedo on my mind, which is why I am assuming that the pipe is made of lead.
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." Langston Hughes.
I never realized the lead plant blooms. The color on both foliage and flowers was quite nice but I suspect that won't last. In between gusts of wind I got this shot which includes a bit of the foliage.
And its another plant with the nickname "indigo" - downy indigo bush. plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_amca6.pdf
If you lead, I will follow but I am also free to check where we are headed and change course. Do not keep your head down and follow the course blindly, look around and verify things for yourself. Throughout my life I have typically ignored politics but recently have become more interested in the people who want to be in office. What drives them? Is it for the real desire to serve or is it for other less honorable means? How do we get good people to step up and run for office? It seems that the wealthiest among us are raised and trained to be leaders but what does that mean for the rest of society? So many questions...it must be because the elections are coming that I am so focused on this.
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Here you can see how early car manufacturers used lead (instead of Bondo) to fill in roof joints. Notice how sanding (file) marks are still present in the lead. More importantly, just how thick the early paint jobs had to be to cover these scratches up.
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Konica T4
40mm f1.8
Fuji 4791 duplicating film.
POTA developer, 12 Minutes.