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A well dressed modest girl is staring at camera...
A Fujifilm Promo Tour for Fujifilm X-T4 was held in October, 18th under the roof of 1901 photo studio, Russia, Omsk.
Leica M1 (KOOCT), serial number 956752, made in 1959
with
Cosina Voigtländer Color Skopar 21 mm f4, made in 2015
At a first glance, you might mistake this camera body for a M2. In fact the M1 is a de-scoped M2, with the rangefinder, self-timer and frame selector omitted. The now useless cut-out for the second rangefinder window has been covered with a plate engraved with the camera type.
They made almost 10,000 of these between 1959 and 1964. They made ten times as many M2s and 25 times as many M3s. They even made 40,000 model IIIg Barnacks.
I guess the intent was to offer a "low-cost" (by Leica standards) entry level model. I suppose the M1 could have been upgraded to an M2 (when the owner had saved up some more lolly?).
That doesn't make much sense to me. A Leica customer would buy a Leica precisely because of the precise rangefinder. A castrated camera would be relegated to use with slow wide angle lenses, where guessing the range would be good enough. But if that's all the owner wants to do, and if the price is a concern, would that kind of person buy a Leica in the first place? Hardly, I should think.
I put on the 21mm Color Skopar for now, but I think I will get a Summaron 35mm f/2.8 in due course and leave it on this body permanently. I won't even need the goggled version because the M1's viewfinder features 35 and 50 mm framelines. The Color Skopar is an excellent lens but it just doesn't have the required aesthetics, although it arguably is a perfect match for this camera, much more so than a faster lens with a longer focal length.
Why did I get this camera despite its rather obvious limited usefulness? Because it was offered in near-mint condition (far better than any M3 I ever saw) and because it has some rarity value. The early models have a rewind release button instead of the better known lever that you expect on thread mount, M2 and M3 bodies, and my relatively modest bid on Fleabay unexpectedly came out on top.
I don't think this baby was used much. I imagine that almost 60 years ago, some Leica-man must have purchased her for his wife, or perhaps his much younger female companion. If so, the gift apparently wasn't much appreciated. I hope she dumped him for being too cheap to buy her a real M.
All I can say is "Ta, Leica-Man, whoever you were." Because now that camera is mine and she's still in great shape. And I'm halfways through the first roll of PAN-F.
I have created a Flickr group for photos shot with and of this rare camera: --> Click
La pequeña y modesta flor "no me olvides" tiene cinco pétalos y su centro pareciera un pentagrama resplandeciente de colores blanco y amarillo; generalmente es azul claro o blanco y crece en grupos, sus semillas pequeñitas son llevadas por el viento muy facil.
En el significado de las flores, la flor No Me Olvides,simboliza a la amistad y al amante eterno.
La flor “no me olvides” o Symbelminë es la que, según JRR Tolkien, crece sobre las tumbas de los reyes Rohirrin. Su descripción se encuentra en el capítulo 7 de" El Señor de los Anillos", "La Comunidad del Anillo", donde el autor compara la belleza de una reina elfica con estas flores.
♥Cuando Dios creó el mundo, dio nombre y color a todas las flores, no obstante una pequeña florecilla le suplicaba: ¡No me olvides!, ¡No me olvides!, pero como su voz era tan fina, Dios no alcanzaba a oírla, una vez que el creador finalizó toda su obra, pudo percatarse de esa pequeña voz, mas ya todos los nombres estaban dados, así que Dios le dijo:
"No tengo nombre para ti, pero te llamaras "no me olvides".
Y por colores te daré el azul del cielo y el rojo de la sangre".
Además le dijo que serviría para acompañar a los muertos
y para consolar a los vivos.
Sea cual sea su leyenda,me parece una flor hermosa,porque ¿Cuantas veces hemos deseado que no nos olviden?
A fragment of the original stone opus sectile floor. The 2 synagogues of Toledo, both of them gorgeous, are among the handful remaining in Spain and were a highlight of our trip. This one was built in 1357 by Samuel Ha-Levi Abulafia, treasurer to King Pedro I of Spain. This was while the Jews were rebuilding from the pograms of 1348 -- the Jews of Toledo were, as usual, blamed for the Black Death, and the attacks on them seem to have done double duty as a way for the king's bastard brother Enrique of Trastámara to whip up support and seize royal assets. Ha-Levi, having the ear of the king, was apparently exempted from the usual requirement that any synagogues be more modest than the city's churches; this may also have been a form of compensation from the king for the pograms. The result was a Mudejar gem, richly decorated with Moorish-style plasterwork and an artesonado wood ceiling.
The Bradbury Building, built in 1893 in downtown Los Angeles, is a stunning architectural masterpiece. While its exterior is modest, the interior features a grand five-story atrium filled with natural light, intricate ironwork, polished wood, and Italian marble. Designed by George Wyman, who was inspired by a futuristic novel, it blends Victorian and early modern styles. A National Historic Landmark since 1977, it has been featured in films like Blade Runner and remains an enduring symbol of LA’s architectural and cultural heritage.
"It's hard to remember we're alive for the first time.
It's hard to remember we're alive for the last time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time.
It's hard to remember what it takes such a short time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember."
Contax RX - Fuji - Zeiss 50mm f/1.4
unedited
© Erik Magnusson. All rights reserved. My images may not be used without my permission.
Rolleiflex SL66 with Waist Level Finder
Planar 80mm F2.8
Lens Hood
2x Color Filters
Extra Dark Slide
Quick release plate
This Rolleiflex SL66 came from the original owner Mr. Norris.
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Rolleiflex 2.8F with Waist Level Finder
Planar 80mm F2.8 "Bay III"
Lens Hood "Bay III"
Rolleinar 1 "Bay III"
Rolleinar 2 "Bay III"
Rolleiflex Pentaprism
Bay III to 49mm filter
This Rolleiflex 2.8F came from Norman Jean Roy.
Strobist Info...
2 x Elinchrom D -Lite 200W flash Heads.
Camera Left with a small softbox (Adjusted to get the correct exposure at F8, 1/125s and ISO100)
Camera Right large Soft Box. (Adjusted to get the correct exposure at F11, 1/125s and ISO100)
Trigger = Prolinca hotshoe IR.
California Community College Wrestling Tournament. The 2022 Modesto Invitational hosted by Modesto Junior College on October 8th. Photos by John Sachs for Tech-Fall.com
White SF62CZV wears very subtle branding for the South West Falcon route, which it is allocated to these days after finishing megabus work.
This is 54211 in the Stagecoach South West fleet and is a Volvo B11RT with Plaxton Elite-i bodywork.
Lovely motor this, as with all of the Falcons!
Zuffenhausen Zurprise - Part Zwei.
Hot on the heels of the RS2 Avant comes another benchmark of performance assembled at the very same factory, the Porsche 911 3.6 RS. The RS was a limited production variant of the 964 generation 911 focused on light weight performance. It paired a larger displacement flat six with a stripped down list of standard comfort features, including the removal of sound insulation, resulting in a lighter, quicker and more focused 911. It also happened to be one of the more affordable iterations at the time and sold in modest numbers to hardcore enthusiasts. Fast forward nearly thirty years and these unicorns regularly fetch over 100K!
I hope you enjoy!
The Man and Matter Series:
The Man and Matter series consist of 12 steel sculptures installed along the Kangaroo Point Cliffs Boardwalk. Originally, these sculptures were commissioned for the riverside promenade of Brisbane’s World Expo '88.
Referencing the World Expo '88 theme of ‘Leisure in the Age of Technology’, Cole considers the relationships between humans and technology through simple visual symbology and the redressing of traditional limitations of sculpture.
The iconic red figures are a lasting homage to World Expo '88, and a recognition of Brisbane’s advancement into the 21st century.
This artwork has recently been restored, as part of Council’s artwork restoration and relocations works for the 30th anniversary.
The Kangaroo Point Cliffs:
The Kangaroo Point Cliffs below Main Street, River Terrace, and Lower River Terrace, Kangaroo Point, are the remnant evidence of extensive non-indigenous quarrying over 150 years (1826 - 1976). They have played a significant role in the development of the city and port of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, since the 1820s. They are a distinctive landscape feature which, along with the Story Bridge and the Brisbane City Hall, has acquired iconoclastic status in the Brisbane townscape. The cliffs contain the best known outcrop of Brisbane Tuff, the distinctive pink and green building stone used in some of Brisbane's earliest (1820s and 1830s) public buildings; in base courses, retaining walls, side walls, and cellars of 19th century free settlement buildings; and in later municipal and government works such as roadmaking, kerbing, wharves, and marine walls.
The Kangaroo Point 'Cliffs' which Aborigines knew prior to European settlement, were steep rocky slopes with boulder outcrops and vegetation. The earliest identified historical reference to the Kangaroo Point Cliffs was made by New South Wales Surveyor-General John Oxley, during his exploration of the Brisbane River in early December 1823, when he noted in his field book a "high, rocky bank" below what is now River Terrace, Kangaroo Point. An 1844 survey plans prepared by surveyor James Warner, the high ground of Kangaroo Point was described as a "bold rocky ridge", much of which is still evident in late 19th century photographs of Kangaroo Point.
Following the removal of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement from Red Cliff Point to the Brisbane River (North Brisbane) around May 1825, the river flats at the northern end of Kangaroo Point were cleared and planted with wheat and maize to supply food for the new settlement, and 1826 Commandant Logan opened a quarry at the base of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, to supply stone for his building works at North Brisbane. According to Allan Cunningham's August 1829 survey of Brisbane Town, this early quarry was located opposite the Botanical Gardens, at the "highest point of a wooded ridge", in the vicinity of the later Naval Stores. The rock was punted across the river to Stone Wharf, about 150 metres upstream from the present Edward Street ferry landing.
The stone quarried from the Kangaroo Point Cliffs was known as 'porphyry (later Brisbane Tuff), a consolidated volcanic ash or rhyolitic ignimbrite deposited during the late Triassic age following a Nuee Ardent (glowing cloud) eruption. These eruptions are generally violent and voluminous and the erupted body moves with great speed for long distances, up to 100km if the relief is sufficient. The Kangaroo Point Cliffs are made up of such a flow or of two almost consecutive flows. These volcanic rocks are of the same age and chemical composition as the more coarsely crystallized Enoggera Granite and other granite bodies north-west of Brisbane. All may have originated from the same parent meltrock and magma in the final stages of consolidation of the eastern Australian mountain belt, 230 - 220 million years ago.
During the 1820s and 1830s stone from the Kangaroo Point quarry was used to construct a number of government buildings at the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, including the Commissariat Store (1828-1829) and its William Street retaining wall.
Following the closure of the penal colony and the opening of Moreton Bay to free settlement in February 1842, Brisbane's earliest suburb, Kangaroo Point, was surveyed into suburban allotments, auctioned in December 1843. The lower areas of the Point, which had been cleared during the convict era for cropping purposes, and which had easy access to the river, attracted various early industries, including a boiling down works, a soap and candle factory, ship building, foundries, and sawmills. By the 1850s, there were some 80 to 90 houses on the peninsula, including several fine residences along Main Street.
From 1842 the Kangaroo Point Quarry was rented to private builders, including John Petrie, until placed under the control of the newly established (September 1859) Brisbane Municipal Council in 1860. By this date, however, only two small quarry faces had been opened - one below Saint Mary's Church and the other below the later TAFE college (now demolished). The Municipal Council continued to sub-lease the quarry to private builders, under whom the quarry mainly supplied stone ballast to ships. This wasteful use of the stone and the manner in which it was quarried was of particular concern to the Rector of Saint Mary's Church located on the cliff above, resulting in the Colonial Government resuming control of the quarry in 1864. By the mid-1880s the quarry face extended a little over 100 metres, or about one-eighth the length of the present worked-out quarry face.
In 1880 the entire length of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs below River Terrace from Leopard Street to Saint Mary's Church was placed under control of the Brisbane Municipal Council as a Temporary Reserve for Public Purposes subject to the right of the Government to use it for works in progress and to resume any land it might require for wharfage, railway and quarrying purposes (QGG 26 June 1880). This heralded Government construction in the early 1880s of new coal wharves at the foot of the southern end of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, adjacent to the South Brisbane Dry Dock. The new wharves were serviced by a branch rail line and siding, which necessitated the cutting back of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs below Lower River Terrace.
Until the mid-1880s the export of coal from the West Moreton district was frustrated by a lack of direct access to deep water wharves for bunkering of coal onto ships for export from Brisbane. Coal came into Brisbane and was loaded onto drays for transport to the wharves. To facilitate the more efficient handling of coal for export, various extensions to the railway system were proposed and in 1880 an extension to the Ipswich-Brisbane lin,e branching off at South Brisbane Junction (later known as Corinda) between Sherwood and Oxley, and coming around to Woolloongabba and South Brisbane via Yeerongpilly, was approved. The project included a sidings branch to new coal wharves adjacent to the Dry Dock at South Brisbane. The contract for the wharves and sidings branch was awarded to Acheson Overend & Co. After a number of delays, the line was finally opened in 1884.
After construction of the wharf, it was found necessary to remove a bar of rock in the river which prevented the proper use of the two 4.5 tonne (10-ton) steam cranes installed on the wharf. Overend & Co. undertook the removal of the rock bar and constructed an additional 18mx12m (60ft x 40ft) jetty with a 6.8 tonne (15-ton) steam crane for coaling large ocean vessels. Coal traffic from the wharf at South Brisbane flourished and in 1900 additional siding accommodation was constructed and a travelling crane installed replacing crane number 4. This travelling crane dominated the South Brisbane vista along the river for many years. By the mid-20th century oil fuel was replacing coal and the bunkering of coal declined. In 1960 the rails were removed from the wharf and the wharf was demolished in 1974.
In 1886 - 1888, as part of Queensland's marine defence strategy, the Colonial Government constructed a depot for the Queensland Marine Defence Force at the foot of the northern end of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, on the floor of the earlier Kangaroo Point Quarry. Established to provide storage, repair, and training facilities for the colony's modest but growing fleet of marine defence vessels and newly established Naval Brigade, the Depot originally comprised two two-storeyed timber buildings roofed with galvanized corrugated iron and resting on stone foundation walls with concrete footings. These buildings contained lecture rooms; a gun battery for training; store rooms; carpenters' shops; workshops for ship repairs; and a torpedo storeroom/workshop. A wharf was erected in 1887 - 1888, and a flight of timber stairs was constructed 1890 to provide access up the cliff to Amesbury Street and Saint Mary's Church, which served as the Naval Chapel for many years. A concrete boatslip was constructed 1900.
The Depot remained the operational base of the Queensland Marine Defence Force until the formation of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) after Federation in 1901. The Kangaroo Point Depot remained the principal training facility for Queensland naval reservists until the construction of a depot at Alice Street in the 1920s. On the 31st of October 1959 the RAN handed over the Kangaroo Point Depot to the Australian Army, which used it to accommodate its 32nd Small Ships Squadron. In 1984 the Army removed its Small Ships Squadron to Bulimba, and the Kangaroo Point Depot was vacated. In 1986/87 the site was transferred to the Brisbane City Council.
Only one of the former Naval Depot buildings (No.2 Store) survives. The former Naval Brigade Depot was entered permanently in the Queensland Heritage Register in October 1992.
In 1898 the Marine Department opened a new quarry south of the Naval Depot, about halfway along River Terrace, to supply rock for river walls at Hamilton. This was the start of the scheme of dredging and training walls devised by EA Cullen, appointed Engineer of Harbours and Rivers in 1902, to complete the development of the river port of Brisbane. The Department of Harbours and Rivers (later the Department of Harbours and Marine) used the Kangaroo Point Cliffs quarry for marine work until 1976. In the period 1898 to 1919, this work included: the training walls or revetments which contain the dredgings of the reclamation of the tidal flats for industry at Hamilton (1898 - 1900), Doughboy (1900), Coxen Point, and Lytton; the training walls which regulate tidal flow and link Parker, Bulwer, Gibson, and other estuarine islands with the mainland; and the stone pitching of the river banks at the City Botanic Gardens. By 1919, more than half a million tones of stone for these walls had been removed from the Kangaroo Point Quarry. In 1928, stone from the Kangaroo Point Quarry was used to double the height of the Lytton training wall and to shape and maintain other early 20th century training walls. Other Harbours and Marine projects utilising stone from Kangaroo Point included the Manly Boat Harbour and the new port at Fisherman Islands in the 1970s.
The rock for these projects was loaded onto punts at the quarry and towed to the work sites. Extensive quarrying by the Marine Department opened the rock face of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs between the Naval Stores at the northern end of the site and the coal wharves at the southern end, creating the dramatic length of perpendicular drop that distinguishes the Kangaroo Point Cliffs today. By 1976, when control of the Brisbane River passed to the Port of Brisbane Authority, most of the available Kangaroo Point rock had been exploited and the quarry was closed.
Brisbane Tuff is now exposed along the cliff face, providing an important source of geological information. The quarry floors and ridge of the cliffs are now important public park reserves and enjoyed as places of informal recreation. The cliffs are popular for abseiling and rock climbing, and are valued as a riverside walkway, picnic area, and vantage point - especially for Brisbane River and Southbank festivities.
Scout Place, the lookout on the top of the cliffs adjacent to River Terrace, between Llewellyn and Bell Streets, was erected in 1982 to designs prepared by the Brisbane City Council's Landscape Architecture Section, to commemorate seventy-five years of scouting in Queensland.
Source: Brisbane City Council World Expo '88 Public Art Trail & Queensland Heritage Register.
Virtue In World
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Maitreya-Slink Physique and Hourglass- Belleza Venus-Freya and Isis.
Can be worn seperate
My own 1987 305 Break carrying some magazines.
The roomy estate version was derived from the 305 Berline, which was designed by Pininfarina and introduced in Nov. 1977.
The 305 Break Phase 1: presentation March 1980.
The Phase 2 Berline followed late 1982 and was built till 1988. This estate Phase 2 till 1989.
Note the relatively modest internal wheel arches. This is the result of horizontally placed coil springs. This provides a huge interior space.
1580 cc.
990 kg.
Production Peugeot 305: 1977-1989.
Production 305 Break Phase 2: Autumn 1982-1989.
Original Dutch reg. number: June 12, 1987.
I bought it at Febr. 18, 2009.
Amstelveen, Langs de Werf, Industr. Terrein Legmeer, March 14, 2017.
© 2017 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Ricostruzione storica dello straordinario salvataggio di Modesto Varischetti detto Charlie di Gorno (BG), intrappolato a circa 300 metri di profondità in una miniera in Australia, che, con un po’ di fortuna e grazie ai soccorsi dell’eroe palombaro Frank Hughes, riuscì a sopravvivere per 206 ore sottoterra. Va sottolineato il coraggio dei palombari australiani coinvolti nel salvataggio, Thomas Hearn e Frank Hughes, di affrontare un’impresa mai sostenuta fino ad allora, consapevoli dei pericoli, anche mortali, per salvare un unico uomo, per di più immigrato. Ai tempi tra gli anglosassoni e gli immigrati italiani in Australia non correva buon sangue eppure, su insistenza dell’ispettore minerario Josiah Crabb, i palombari accettarono l’impresa, furono coinvolti 160 minatori e messi a disposizione mezzi di trasporto speciali tra cui il treno denominato “rescue special”.
Accadde nel marzo del 1907...
Olympus OM-D EM5 mkII - Olympus 14-42 f/3.5-5.6
ISO 1600 - 1/8s - f/4
P.s. Lode alla stabilizzazione delle Olympus....fenomenale...
I don't know how long it has been since the art work at the southern corner of the High Line covered up and I didn't look under the kilt. But since Pan is a symbol of spring and fertility, it's time to get naked again.