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I managed a few shots of the line through Leigh on Sea during my trip to the South-East at the end of March. Here we see C2C's 357321 heading west towards it's final destination of Fenchurch Street through the town, with the Thames estuary (or vast expanse of mud!) visible beyond. Saturday 30.3.19
First of all don't look at my hand it has got as many layers of msc on it as the doll's face has.
Now I still need to glue her mouth.
The finished doll will be photographed tomorrow. Just to be sure I'll leave her head off the body so the mouth is able to dry all night without any friction.
She's not my Punzie, she turned out different than I imagined.
Although I do like her I won't be heart broken if her face up would ever get damaged and maybe it is better that way
Managed to grab half an hour at Charnwood Water with the magic formula of sunshine and wildlife (woohoo!)
The coot family were alarmingly unperturbed by people, which is a bit concerning really...
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Managed a quick session with www.flickr.com/photos/robmcavoy/, offering the chance to test out new tweaks to a DIY LED strip thingy.
This is all done with a single tool, no post processing. I was quite chuffed.
Managed to get out for a while today and took the opportunity to get a phone shot for one of the 125 themes.
This was taken the first night of Glacier boot camp with Aaron and Alan. When there are clear skies, shoot for the stars. Just hours before, it was all different; the sky was blanketed with clouds with a thunderstorm rolling through the mountains. However the thunderstorm unleashed its force so swiftly it departed the scene far too quickly. All we were left with was clear skies.
Surely the epic sunset we were hoping for was not going to happen but at least I could put my rented lens to use. I knew I wanted to frame the Milky Way with Mt. Reynolds in the background and hence I searched for an interesting foreground. Luckily, Logan Pass area has a plethora of compositions with various cascades, waterfalls, and wildflower patches. I ultimately settled on this particular shelf with a twin cascade flowing over it. Looking up I noticed the valley to the right of Mt. Reynolds. With Mt. Reynolds having so much prominence, I wanted to frame the Milky Way appearing from behind Mt. Reynolds with the core filling in the space in that valley.
One thing I was not quite used to in Montana was the extremely long days. I had not realized being so far up north increased the daytime by so much. On top of that, it took far longer for the sky to get dark enough for the Milky Way to become visible. At last by 11pm, the sky finally darkened enough for stars to twinkle. And there she was: the Milky Way exposed herself from behind Mt. Reynolds. For majority of the time the core was hidden behind Mt. Reynolds but I waited until the Milky Way moved enough to expose its core in the valley as I had originally envisioned. By around 11:30pm, the scene was complete. The Milky Way stretched diagonally across my frame and the majority of the core was exposed in the relief of the valley.
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 24mm f/1.4L II
I managed to capture this honey eater feeding on one of our plants at home the other day.
He is a regular visitor!
He also seems pretty accustomed to people as I was able to get quite close!!
Shot in the late afternoon light and I used this to highlight the markings on it's head and body!
Hope you like this one!!!
Have another wonderful day and week!!!
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Taken using a Canon 5D Mkiii + Canon 70-200 f4L IS lens.
Managed to capture this Heron as the sun was setting. It let me get quite close which is unusual and seemed to be posing for me!
We managed to get out to the Dec BNO at Pink Punters last month. We hadn't been there for a year, so it was nice to catchup with old friends. 🌈
Managed to catch a plane coming in for landing whilst taking doggo for a walk along Lyall Bay Parade. Wellington airport is one of the world’s ‘scariest’ runways at only 1815m long and nearly always battered by strong winds. Only the best pilots a brave enough to land here
Managed a break in the rain a few weeks back.
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So ventured down to my local park in search of some Snowdrops, ideal conditionas as it was still overcast.
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Found it tricky to get a good angle even with the tripod splayed to ground level.
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Then I came across a fallen tree with the snow drops growing up from the raised root base.
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This is one from the set I took that morning, a single Snowdrop with rain drops on it.
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Best seen on black - Press L
This Red Rhododendron Bloom was shot with my Canon PowerShot SX1 IS with the Raynox DCR-250 lens attached.
For my other shots taken with the Raynox DCR-250 lens, click here.
The Columbia Center, formerly named the Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The 76-story structure is the tallest building in Seattle and the state of Washington, reaching a height of 933 ft (284 m). At the time of its completion, the Columbia Center was the tallest structure on the West Coast; as of 2017 it is the fourth-tallest, behind buildings in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Columbia Center, developed by Martin Selig and designed by Chester L. Lindsey Architects, began construction in 1982 and was completed in 1985. The building is primarily leased for class-A office spaces by various companies, with the lower floors including retail space and the upper floors featuring a public observatory and private club lounge. The tower has the highest public viewing area west of the Mississippi River. It occupies most of the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Cherry and Columbia Streets.
Columbia Center was designed by Washington architect Chester L. Lindsey. The base of the building is clad in Rosa Purino Carnelian granite. The building's structure is composed of three geometric concave facades with two setbacks, causing the building to appear like three towers standing side by side.
Ground level elevation on the Fifth Avenue side of the building is higher than on the Fourth Avenue side; the part of Cherry Street it faces was identified as one of the steepest streets in the Central Business District with a slope of 17.1%. The tower was originally designed to be about 306.5 m (1,006 ft), but federal regulations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would not allow it to be that tall so close to the nearby Sea-Tac Airport. Although city land use regulations at the time were intended to limit skyscrapers to about 50 stories, the developer, Martin Selig, obtained the necessary permits for a 76-story skyscraper due to a part of the law that allowed bonus height for providing retail space with street access. Because three separate stories could access the street on the sloped site, the developers were allowed a bonus for each of the three stories they set aside for retail, which was reportedly an unintended loophole in the law. There is an observation deck on the 73rd floor which offers views of Seattle and environs. The top two floors of the building (75th and 76th) are occupied by the private Columbia Tower Club, which houses a restaurant, bar, library, and meeting rooms. The 40th floor is accessible to the public and features a Starbucks cafe. An underground concourse connects the building to the nearby Seattle Municipal Tower and Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
The tower, originally proposed as Columbia Center, opened under the name Columbia Seafirst Center after its largest tenant and financier, Seafirst Bank, and then changed to the Bank of America Tower, when Seafirst, which had been owned by Bank of America since 1983, was fully integrated into Bank of America. That name gave it the nickname "BOAT" (Bank of America Tower). In November 2005, the building's name was changed back to Columbia Center after the bank reduced its presence in the building. Bank of America still maintains office space within the building, but has since closed the bank branch at the base of the tower.
Development and construction
Martin Selig, a local real estate developer who had recently opened the Fourth and Blanchard Building, announced plans for a 75-story office building at 4th Avenue and Columbia Street in October 1980. The $120 million project, named the "Columbia Center", would be funded by the Seafirst Mortgage Company and constructed by Howard S. Wright. Selig borrowed $205 million in 1981 to develop the property. The Columbia Seafirst Center, as it came to be known, was constructed by Howard S. Wright starting in 1982 with a 120-foot (37 m) deep excavation hole that required 225,000-cubic-yards of dirt and soil to be removed. This was one of the largest foundations for a building in Seattle along with concrete footings extending 134 feet (41 m) below street level. While the structural steel of the building was built at a rate of 2 floors per week, the building itself was completed on January 12, 1985,[10] and opened on March 2 of that same year. U.S. Steel Corporation was contracted to provide 16,000 short tons (15,000 t) of steel for construction. It was approximately 50% taller than the previous tallest skyscraper in Seattle, the 630-foot (190 m) Seattle First National Bank Building (now Safeco Plaza) that opened in 1969.
Financial issues and height controversy
Selig continued to own and manage the building until 1989, when financial problems forced him to sell it to Seafirst Corporation for $354 million. Management was taken over by the Tishman West Company of Los Angeles.
Controversy regarding the skyscraper's size contributed to the passage of a 1989 law called the Citizen's Alternative Plan (CAP) that enforced more stringent restrictions on the size of buildings in Downtown Seattle. In 1990, after rejecting earlier plans for 300-foot (91 m) antennas, Seattle and the FAA granted permission to erect two 192-foot (59 m) antennas on top of Columbia Center, which were expected to be used for broadcasting radio and television throughout the region. Though the FAA was originally worried about the tower's height encroaching the airspace, they deemed the addition of the antennas not problematic. The antennas were not built before the permits expired in 1994, however.
Ownership changes
EQ Office bought Columbia Center from Seafirst in 1998 for $404 million. The New York State Common Retirement Fund bought a 49.9% stake in the building and then several years later sold its share back to EQ Office. In 2007, Columbia Center was sold by EQ Office to Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners for $621 million; Beacon later defaulted on a loan in 2010, the height of the Great Recession, at a time when vacancies reached 40%. On August 7, 2015, Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners purchased the building for $711 million.
Renovations
On July 1, 2013, the Columbia Center's observation deck, known as the Sky View, was remodeled from 270 degrees to a 360 degree viewing area. The observation deck underwent further renovations in 2018, adding two express elevators and a new lounge. The 4th Avenue entrance was also renovated.
(Wikipedia)
Das Columbia Center ist das höchste Gebäude in Seattle und im US-Bundesstaat Washington. Mit einer Gesamthöhe von 285 Metern war es bei der Fertigstellung 1985 der höchste Wolkenkratzer westlich des Mississippi, wurde allerdings 1989 durch den U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles mit 310 Metern übertroffen. Die Höhe des Columbia Centers beträgt einschließlich einer Antennenkonstruktion auf dem Dach 295 Meter. Diese wird jedoch nicht als Teil des Gebäudearchitektur angesehen, und somit nicht zur formalen Höhe gewertet.
76 oberirdische Etagen dienen als Büroraum, die sieben Kellergeschosse werden vielseitig genutzt. Der Wolkenkratzer sollte ursprünglich etwa 306,5 Meter hoch werden. Die FAA erlaubte die Höhe nicht, da sich das Gebäude dafür zu nah am Flughafen Seattle/Tacoma befände, wodurch ein höheres Sicherheitsrisiko entstünde. Es wurde in das Projekt Raum für die Öffentlichkeit und Einzelhandel einbezogen, damit die zulässige Höhe nicht zu sehr eingeschränkt werden kann. Das 73. Stockwerk dient nun teilweise als Aussichtspunkt, von dem sich Seattle und seine Umgebung überblicken lässt. Der Columbia Tower Club verteilt sich auf die beiden obersten Stockwerke (75 und 76) und besteht aus einem Restaurant, einer Bar, einer Bibliothek und einigen Tagungsräumen. Ein unterirdischer Gang verbindet das Columbia Center mit dem nahegelegenen Seattle Municipal Tower und dem Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
Mehrere größere Unternehmen mieten Büros im Columbia Center. Dazu zählen vor allem die Bank of America, Heller Ehrman LLP und Amazon.com.
Ursprünglich trug der Wolkenkratzer seinen heutigen Namen. Später wurde er nach der dort ansässigen Seafirst Bank als Columbia Seafirst Center bezeichnet. Diese gehörte seit 1983 zur Bank of America, wurde im Laufe der 1980er Jahre jedoch vollständig integriert. Daher bekam das Gebäude den Namen Bank of America Tower mit dem Spitznamen BOAT. Im November 2005 wurde es wieder in The Columbia Center (TCC) umbenannt.
Am 16. Juni 2004, noch vor Herausgabe ihres 9/11 Commission Report, machte die Untersuchungskommission zum 11. September 2001 nicht in die Tat umgesetzte Pläne der Terroristen bekannt, die vorsahen mit zehn entführten Passagierflugzeugen die höchsten Gebäude in Kalifornien und im Staate Washington zu beschädigen bzw. zu zerstören. Neben dem Columbia Center in Seattle habe auch der U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles zu den Zielen gehört.
(Wikipedia)
Rays from the setting sun fan out above Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.
We almost didn't make it to this very busy tourist location as all the shuttle buses were full up and we were told to avoid driving because there is only a small carpark. However, we took our chances and managed to find a parking spot in the very late afternoon.
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I managed to capture this long exposure image using my sony fe 28-70mm lens with a hoya 10 stop nd filter.
When i first arrived it was really foggy and misty, barely seeing any of the bridge. luckily within the next hour or so it cleared which enabled me to get the shot i was after. :)
Managed to escape the inlaws today. And her is today's outfit. Different skirt to the other day . Blinking hot today
Managed to catch this in-between the rain and strong winds during my walk of yesterday!
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Managed to capture the quick take off of this Great Blue Heron .....from my kayak. Happy Wing Wedneday
managed a couple of hours out this afternoon between the showers ,got this oystercatcher sifting through the mud
Yay, managed to get up to London yesterday after too long an absence. I had wanted to capture this artwork and was very happy when the car park space in front of it was vacant. Just as I was about to press the shutter a car drove into the space, the driver got out and said, sorry, and headed towards the ticket machine. I was quietly cursing under my breath, when lo and behold, he got back in his car and drove away - either a parking restriction, too expensive or his conscience got the better of him ... I would like to think the latter but know it was one of the first two mentioned ...
This is quite a historic photograph as it is a youngster from the first ever nest of Bearded Tits in South Yorkshire. It was taken at the RSPB Old Moor reserve near Barnsley where they encouraged the birds to nest this year using a thatched "wigwam" nestbox.
www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/442931-bearded-ti...
I saw two youngsters and managed to take this photograph of a young female, identified by her dark bill (males have bright yellow bills). You can identify it as a juvenile because of the black back and black on the outer tail. I took the photograph this morning (at Old Moor RSPB). They are wandering around widely so I was lucky to hear them calling, and for one to perch within photographing distance.
Managed to take this photo just after a huge storm so can count myself lucky. The one thing you can't see in the photo is the 15 other photographers crammed under the pier taking the same shot
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Taken last evening. I managed to get the chance to go and try and take images of Badgers. As you can see, lady luck was on my side.
Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets). Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity. All belong to the caniform suborder of carnivoran mammals.
The fifteen species of mustelid badgers are grouped in four subfamilies: four species of Melinae (genera Meles and Arctonyx) including the European badger, five species of Helictidinae (genus Melogale) or ferret-badger, the honey badger or ratel Mellivorinae (genus Mellivora), and the American badger Taxideinae (genus Taxidae). Badgers include the most basal mustelids; the American badger is the most basal of all, followed successively by the ratel and the Melinae; the estimated split dates are about 17.8, 15.5 and 14.8 million years ago, respectively.
The two species of Asiatic stink badgers of the genus Mydaus were formerly included within Melinae (and thus Mustelidae), but more recent genetic evidence indicates these are actually members of the skunk family (Mephitidae).
Badger mandibular condyles connect to long cavities in their skulls, which gives resistance to jaw dislocation and increases their bite grip strength. This in turn limits jaw movement to hinging open and shut, or sliding from side to side, but it does not hamper the twisting movement possible for the jaws of most mammals.
Badgers have rather short, wide bodies, with short legs for digging. They have elongated, weasel-like heads with small ears. Their tails vary in length depending on species; the stink badger has a very short tail, while the ferret-badger's tail can be 46–51 cm (18–20 in) long, depending on age. They have black faces with distinctive white markings, grey bodies with a light-coloured stripe from head to tail, and dark legs with light-coloured underbellies. They grow to around 90 cm (35 in) in length including tail.
The European badger is one of the largest; the American badger, the hog badger, and the honey badger are generally a little smaller and lighter. Stink badgers are smaller still, and ferret-badgers are the smallest of all. They weigh around 9–11 kg (20–24 lb), while some Eurasian badgers weigh around 18 kg (40 lb).
Managed to get this nice shot in Piazza San Macro in Venice, Italy, just as the sun was beginning to set. Ideally I would have liked to use an @LEEFilters but the sun was fading fast :)
I managed to build 3 quite big models this year! Especially 'to the sky' was huge and much more structural work than usual!
You can see here some models that I didn't post on my Flickr main account. Most of them were just some small builds for contests done within a few hours.
Among those is the 60ies furniture or Shaun the sheep. Contests can be quite interesting: I would have never thought of building Shaun otherwise and it was fun and satisfying.
'Land Ahoy' might look like a rip off of my former Lighthouse-wave MOC of 2018. Which was in a way only a fraction of my space tube cylinder. But I managed to do it 'legally' and stable and it got enough Lego Ideas votes within a few months.
Managed to catch the famous Flying Scotsman steam train as it made its way through Oxfordshire...
Almost 100 years old, it was built in 1923, and was the first steam loco to reach 100mph; it was retired in 1963.
Taken at Heyford in Oxfordshire, UK.
Taken March 2022
I managed to get out last night between rain squals and get this shot with my new RGND filter that I've had for a month. Just haven't had the opportunity until last night. Obviously there was a lot of editing in photoshop but starting with the filter gives you a great starting point. Well worth the money spent.
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Managed to get a new shot of my van at the weekend, no new techniques just wanted to get an updated shot, trailed for 5 minutes.
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I managed to finally drag myself out for a gentle wander around the lanes. Just before coming across this puddle, I had noticed movement in the woods to the left. I kept looking, as it didn't seem to be a dog, and realised there were two roe deer there.
After feeling poorly all week, this cheered me up, although it certainly didn't cure my cough :-(
did my 1st 8" munny this time around (4th munny overall) i like having more room to work with. looking back at my previous 3 minis, i wonder how i managed to work in such a tight area, haha.
since i was trying new things, i also decided to step away from the usual spraypaint method, doing this little guy completely by hand. there are some areas that i wasn't completely thrilled about (i HATE brushstrokes on my munnys)
and now, we're off to phoenix, to hand deliver this kitty for the MUNNY GRUBBERS show taking place on august 8th.....u
I managed to get a photograph of this Chough with its bill open that I thought was different enough to merit posting. This is the vagrant Chough on the Lancashire coast which was still present yesterday.
In Britain, Choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) are rather rare, and have always been so as there are few English folk names for them. There are many ancient references to Chough but that is because this was the name originally applied to the Jackdaw. Shakespeare refers to Choughs in seven of his plays but at this date he can have only meant Jackdaws. The name Cornish Chough was the real Chough's earliest name (Turner 1544) as it was literally the Cornish Jackdaw (also called Cornyssh daw in 1575). Thomas Bewick (1804) was the first to drop the epithet "Cornish" and just called it Chough as by this date the name was no longer used for Jackdaw. As Chough is a defunct onomatopoeic name for Jackdaw it is certain that it was originally pronounced "Chow" (similar to Bough being pronounced bow). But everyone now pronounces it "Chuff".
Woke up at 5:30 in the cold morning for taking this shot. My hands were numb in the spine shattering cold, but any how managed to release the shutter button and capture this gigantic himalayan range from the hotel balcony.
Location : Ravangla, South Sikkim
For a modest sum of money, you too can fly over water.
This man took a while to get the skills needed to stay upright on the jet platform, but in the end he managed to fly up above the water.
Managed to find one lone flower to photography in the middle of winter. First time the weather has been nice enough to play with my new toy...65mm MP-E macro. Center of a Viola, at appx. 2x life size. Single shot, hand held. More soon.
"Manage me, I'm a mess
Turn a page, I'm a book half unread
I wanna be laughed at, laughed with, just because
I wanna feel weightless and that should be enough
But I'm stuck in this fucking rut
Waiting on a second hand pick me up
And I'm over getting older
If I could just find the time
Then I would never let another day go by
I'm over getting old
And maybe its not my weekend
But its gonna be my year
And I'm so sick of watching while the minutes pass
While I go nowhere
And this is my reaction to everything I fear
[everything i fear]
Cause I've been going crazy
I don't wanna waste another minute here
Make believe that I impress
That every word by design turns a head
I wanna feel reckless
wanna live it up just because
I wanna feel weightless
cause that would be enough" Weightless - All Time Low
my boys. i absolutely cannot wait for that album of theirs. we played robinson today, lost.. 9-1. varsity lost 20-1.
i am 1) wet. 2) tired 3) sore
and i have 1) a headache 2) a stomachache 3) hurt knee.
I NEED SLEEEEEEEEPPP
tomorrow is my pampering day. i feel like without it, i'll literally go insane.
and again..
currently listening to: weightless - all time low for the third day in a row..