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Mercedes-Benz 0.814D Plaxton Cheetah 56003 YN53VBV, ADL Dart SLF Caetano Nimbus 42358 EY05FYP & Dennis Trident SFD136BR2 Plaxton President 33175 LR02LYU in the bays at Wade bridge.
Toned cyanotype. Original taken with holga. This was an old fasioned merry go round at the Texas rennaissance festival.
I know exactly what you're thinking: "I'm so dead."
A battalion of Calderan marines just showed up. A hailstorm of railgun rounds is flying at you. You watch helplessly as soldier grunts around you fall dead. And you wait for the moment when you'll die, too.
But you don't. You're sitting behind sixteen inches of carbon alloy armor, inside your Raptor.
You line the sights up and pull the trigger, and while the rotary autocannons roar thunder and spit metal in 14 millimeters, you think sentimentally about how the massacre of those hostile marines happening in front of you reminds you of the kiloton farm harvesters back home.
Then your sensors detect a tank, out for your blood. It's got a big cannon, ready to put a cruiser-sized hole through you. You consider reliving fond memories of your childhood.
Then you remember you've got a pair of anti-armor missiles mounted on your Raptor. The onboard AI casually mentions it already has a target lock, and asks if you'd like coffee. As that tank you fretted about rounds the corner, you watch its turret get hurled into the next street by a geyser of flame while you sip a relaxing cup of coffee.
You're interrupted by Command, which tells you that there's a squadron of bombers ready to hit the whole city district. You think about the tears of your family when they're notified of the loss of their child.
Until you remember the high-grade comms built into your Raptor. You flick the switch and have a quick chat with some nearby Anti-Air batteries. A minute later, the bombers fly into their doom. You add a few particle blasts of your own to the destruction.
As you sit back and sip the rest of your coffee, you finally realize: You're in a Raptor. You're invincible. You never have to fear death again.
That's the Raptor Medium Mech, folks, courtesy of Imperial Ordnance. Death not included.
Some of my Medium Deco Tapes - Alice in Wonderland, Hearts, Rainbow Ballerinas, Hello Kitty, Eiffel Tower, Tootsie Roll, Pastel Bears, Charms Blow Pops, Fairy Tales, etc
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species native to the East Palearctic. It is sexually dimorphic - the males are elaborately coloured, while the females have more subdued colors. It is a medium-sized duck, at 41–49 cm (16–19 in) long with a 65–75 cm (26–30 in) wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus Aix. 'Aix' is an Ancient Greek word which was used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and 'galericulata' is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet. Outside of its native range, the mandarin duck has a large introduced population in the British Isles and Western Europe, with additional smaller introductions in North America.
Taxonomy
The mandarin duck was described and illustrated in 1727 by the German explorer Engelbert Kaempfer in his The History of Japan. He wrote: "Of Ducks also there are several differing kinds, and as tame as the Geese. One kind particularly I cannot forbear mentioning, because of the surprizing beauty of its male, call'd Kinmodsui, which is so great, that being shew'd its picture in colours, I could hardly believe my own Eyes, till I saw the Bird it self, it being a very common one." In 1747 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the species in the second volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. He used the English name "The Chinese teal". He based his hand-coloured etching on a live specimen kept by the merchant Matthew Decker on his estate at Richmond in Surrey. Decker was a director of the East India Company. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he placed the mandarin duck with the ducks and geese in the genus Anas. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Anas galericulata and cited the earlier publications. The mandarin duck is now placed together with the wood duck in the genus Aix that was introduced in 1828 by the German ornithologist Friedrich Boie. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. The genus name is the Ancient Greek word for an unknown diving bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific epithet is from Latin galericulatum meaning a "peruke" or "wig".
Description
The mandarin duck is among the more diminutive types of waterfowl, with a shorter height and smaller overall body size than the dabbling ducks, and is slightly smaller than its American wood duck relatives. The adult male has a petite, red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The male's breast is purple with two vertical white bars, the flanks ruddy, and he has two orange feathers at the back (large feathers that stick up similar to boat sails). The female is similar to the female wood duck, with a grayish-lavender tone to her plumage, and a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye. The female is paler on the underside, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill.
Both the males and females have crests, but the purple crest is more pronounced on the male.
Drake in eclipse plumage
Like many other species of ducks, the male undergoes a moult after the mating season into eclipse plumage. When in eclipse plumage, the male looks similar to the female but can be distinguished by its bright yellow-orange or red beak, lack of any crest, and a less-pronounced eye-stripe.
Mandarin ducklings are almost identical in appearance to wood ducklings, and very similar to mallard ducklings. The ducklings can be distinguished from mallard ducklings because the eye-stripe of mandarin ducklings (and wood ducklings) stops at the eye, while in mallard ducklings it reaches all the way to the bill.[citation needed]
Maker: C.T. Collier
Born: USA
Active: USA
Medium: albumen print
Size:4 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in
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Object No. 2022.656
Shelf: C-21
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Rank: 88
Notes: TBAL
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Scratches included.
Shot with a Diana f+. I don't remember what type of film I used for this shot. Since it has a lot of scratches I suppose it could be a lomography bw film 'cause it's fucking fragile and it sucks a lot.
Thanks also to the guy who developed this film for making his own work with the right composure, patience and dead calm -_-