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Hi to everyone! I have been busy lately, so i haven't had time for photography. I will come back slowly and visit your streams and beautiful creations. I hope you are all doing fine. :)
This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Heavyweight/Lightweight. Some treasures were revealed on a walk around town this afternoon...
HMMM!
The Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is a small, critically endangered African scavenger known for its ability to blush pink/red when excited and its high adaptability to urban environments.
As a crucial, yet often overlooked, "sanitation worker," it relies on a keen sense of smell to find food, frequently scavenging scraps in cities, dumps, and coastal areas.
Despite their adaptability, the Hooded Vulture is currently listed as Critically Endangered. Populations have declined drastically (over 80% in some regions) due to poisoning, both accidental (from eating livestock treated with chemicals) and intentional (by poachers to prevent vultures from signalling their location to rangers).
There's also the Illegal Trade: Use of body parts in traditional medicine and rituals.
Also...modernisation, eg Upgraded, sanitary slaughterhouses in cities have inadvertently reduced their primary food sources.
Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) landing Senegal-9252.jpg
Right at the Northern limits of rail operations within Myanmar is the terminus station of Myitkyina in Kachin State. Whilst awaiting my Express Train to Mandalay this lightweight railcar set arrived with a local service. Myanma Railways have built several of these varying railcars from truck components at their railway workshops at Insein on the outskirts of Yangon.
Photo By Steve Bromley.
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The BR Table 74 14:15 Chester to Shrewsbury all stations DMU service was recorded heading away from Gobowen in February 1986. The Chester based Class 108 2-car set comprised DMBS 51913 leading DTCL 54497.
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The Morgan Plus 4 Super Sports model was introduced late in 1961, offering arguably the best price-for-performance value available at that time. Its lightweight aluminum body provided crisp handling in a design reminiscent of the great fully fendered sports cars of the 1930s.
Between 1961 and 1968 only 104 Triumph TR4A-engined aluminum-bodied Super Sports were produced. Of the 95 two-seat cars built for sports car competition in the United States and abroad, 50 carried the low-bodied roadster coachwork of this example.
The example shown here-“Baby Doll V”-is famous in Morgan circles. It was ordered from the factory in the spring of 1962 by Lew Spencer, a well-known southern California SCCA member and local Morgan dealer. This car was to be his ultimate Morgan race car; a sleek low-body successor to Baby Doll IV, the car with which he won the 1962 SCCA C-production National Championship.
Fortunately for his racing competitors, by the time Baby Doll V arrived, Spencer had sold the Morgan dealership to go to work for Carroll Shelby. After that Spencer could only campaign Baby Doll V on occasional outings in nearby SCCA National events. He was successful in the few events he was able to attend.
The amazing Morgan Baby Dolls are accomplished “giant killers” in historic circles, where they have regularly beaten small-block Corvettes, Porsches, Abarths, and Jaguar E-types, despite their smaller displacement engines.
(taken from a 'sportscar market' article from 2002) and photographed at the Laguna Seca 'Monterey Historics' races by yours truly.
The BR Table 90 SX 15:46 Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield DMU service passes New Mills South Junction in early September 1990. The Chester based Class 108 set CH627 comprised DMBS 51945 and DMCL 52060.
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59203 descends towards Crofton near Wolfhall with a very short 7A09 07:12 Merehead - Acton
Single 59s on this working are now rare. In this case it looks like the train is formed of one portion, with only box wagons and no hoppers, so no need for the additional 66.
Due to strike action there were no passenger workings over the B&H all day, but 7A09 still managed to run an hour late (after leaving Merehead over 2 hours down)
Taken with the aid of a pole
Shot from One Altitude (level 63, Raffles Place.
New rules at One Altitude for photographers:
Cameras not allowed to extend over the glass parapet. There must have been an incident recently for them to implement this.
I shot this without tripod as the glass parapet is a bit high. Just using my lightweight G12 for convenience.
pp: Topazlab Adjust with blending on CS3ew rules at One Altitude for photoshoot:
Cameras not allowed to extend over the barricade. There must have been an incident recently for them to implement this.
I shot this without tripod as the fencing is a bit high. Just using my lightweight G12 for convenience.
pp: Topazlab Adjust with blending on CS3
file: Keppel IMG_3344_Panorama1.jpg
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