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The Continental Mark II is an ultra-luxury coupé that was sold by the Continental Division of Ford for the 1956 and 1957 model years. The only product line ever marketed by Continental during its existence, the Mark II served as the worldwide flagship vehicle of Ford Motor Company. The vehicle derived its name from European manufacturing practice, with "Mark II" denoting a second generation (succeeding the 1939–1948 Lincoln Continental).
As the most expensive American-produced automobile of the time, the Mark II was marketed against the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Produced solely as a two-door hardtop coupe, the Mark II used standard Lincoln mechanical components, including its "Y-block" V8 and automatic transmission. The rest of the vehicle was largely hand-assembled, leading Ford to lose thousands of dollars for each example produced.
Following the 1957 model year, Ford discontinued its flagship Continental division, with the division phased into Lincoln from 1958. For 1969, Ford revived the chronology of the Mark series with the debut of the (second) Continental Mark III coupe, leading to five successive generations; the model line currently ends with the 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII coupe. In modified form, Lincoln still uses the four-point star emblem introduced by the Mark II; each version of the Mark series (and the 1982-1987 Lincoln Continental) was styled with a "Continental" spare-tire trunklid.
Intended as a successor to the Lincoln Continental, effectively making its predecessor a Mark I, the Continental Mark II made its world debut at the Paris Motor Show in October 1955.The Mark II debuted in the United States at Ford Motor Company headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. With a $9,966 base price (equivalent to $95,100 today), the Mark II was the most expensive domestic-produced automobile sold in the United States at the time. The only extra cost option offered for the Mark II was a $595 ($5,700 today) air conditioner. Despite its high price, Ford Motor Company estimated it lost nearly $1,000 ($9500 today) for every unit produced
To streamline production, powertrain components were adapted from the Lincoln model line and checked through the division's quality-control program during production. The 368 cubic-inch Lincoln Y-block V8 powered the Mark II, paired with the 3-speed Turbo-Drive automatic transmission. For 1956, the engines produced 285 hp, increased to 300 hp for 1957
Total productions for the two years produced was 3005 units including about one half dozen preproduction and prototypes.
Chipmunk used to jump in the coffee container with the lid off, to get the peanuts. Blue Jays figured out if they jumped up and down on the rim of the container it would fall over and they would get the peanuts.
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(#124 in Explore April 15, 2021)
Last one in the series, again shot with a modified Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 Lens with M42 to Canon EF adapter + 12 mm Kenko extension tube.
Out of the shots of the forsylia flower I posted previously, this one is my favour. Which one is yours? Here is the little secret behind.
I have this Helios 44-2 vintage lens for over four years now. I bought it for its famous swirly bokeh; but I feel it hard to find the sweet spot. Apparently you need a pretty good distance in the background so the little light spots and details can register into that swirl shape.
Recently I learnt online that the front and the rear elements of Helios 44-2 could be reversed. Unfortunately my version does not have enough threads to reverse the front, so I decided to give it a try to reverse the rear element.
Wow, surprisingly after only a few shots, the crazy bokeh is unmatched and it also has remarkable color retention.
Now I am convinced that the inexpensive Helios vintage lens is a very fun lens to have and you can do many mods with it. From now on I definitely will use mine more often.
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Beautiful piece of wood from the Codeso, a shrubby, yellow flowering plant growing above 1800 mtrs, endemic to the Canary Islands
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenocarpus_viscosus
Sony A7 modified for infared 720 nm
Laowa 10-18mm/4.5
I was craving pot roast but I’m the only one who likes it at my house. (Although one will eat a dish of vegetables/broth & the other will occasionally eat a bit of it all.) I seared a chuck steak (much thinner than chuck-roast) added organic vegetable broth, red wine, whole tomatoes, celery, carrots, zucchini, cabbage & potatoes. Cut the stovetop time & oven time to get a beef-stew-like dish.
On the parade laps at Sydney Motorsport Park Vintage & Veteran Festival.
Morris, with lots of additions, metallic paintwork, the rallye alloys, front spoiler, sunroof.
Not sure of the model year.
Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
Modified Hall Class 4-6-0 6990 "Witherslack Hall" working the 0930 Bury Bolton Street - Rawtenstall Service.photographed at Ramsbottom on the East Lancashire Railway on 03/06/2018
This is a detailed, 121 megapixel panorama of the San Francisco holiday skyline, shot on December 28 2016. I've been working on making as sharp and as detailed as possible; you can make out exit sign lights above doors at the SFMOMA 2.4km (1.5 miles) and 555 California 3km (1.9 miles) away and individual lights on the Bay Bridge 5.5km (3.4 miles) away. Thanks very much to Florian Kainz for all of his advice to get this as good as it could be :]
You can check out the full resolution version here: www.flickr.com/photos/captin_nod/32066278265/sizes/o/
The hardware used was nothing particularly special - a Canon 7D with the cheap, standard canon 70-300mm zoom lens at 260mm. I shot individual pictures at f/11, ISO 400 with a 1 second exposure (which underexposed most things about a stop). The panorama itself is shot from 46 individual images; and each one of these images consisted of locking off the camera and taking 4 photographs. In photoshop, these are exactly aligned and median filtered to reduce noise, remove motion artifacts from moving lights and recover a little dynamic range. I'd periodically switch the camera into live view to check that the focus of the lens was sharp. The process of shooting the images - the setup, calibration, checking focus and of course actual exposures - took a little under an hour.
After stitching, the image is around 50,000 pixels across. As expected, I wasn't able to completely eliminate all the things that could contribute to softness - nailing the focus, intrinsic shaking of the tripod & camera due to things like wind, and distortion due to heat haze and atmosphere. In the original panorama, there are large parts of the image that can be downsampled, resized back up and placed back in without any significant loss in quality. This 'empty resolution' means that I could wholesale resample the image to half it's size; this also had the effect of improving the signal to noise ratio a little, reducing the noise in the final image.
For the interactive panorama on Facebook (www.facebook.com/bjoshi/posts/10154212269427423), I used a modified version of Eric Cheng's fantastic PSD templates (www.facebook.com/notes/eric-cheng/editing-360-photos-inje...) to create a 6000 pixel wide, 300-degree-wide cylindrical panorama version of the image. It requires a little manual messing around with the XMP metadata to get it exactly where I wanted it (my image is not very tall); ping me in the comments below if you want more details or help figuring it out.
For those of you that have grabbed the original image from Flickr with the intent of printing or using commercially - please don't, and buy the image or hire me instead. I shoot high quality imagery at very reasonable rates. I'm easy to find, drop me a line.
Just in case this alone doesn't deter you, in the online copies of the photograph I've hidden (in plain sight) in a range of highly offensive imagery that would be extremely embarrassing and difficult to explain to a client. Have fun trying to find it all because I guarantee you can't :]
I saw this fishing boat just making it's way out to sea at Porlock Weir as I was catching the sunrise which was quite handy.
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Echoes From The Past by Daniel Arrhakis (2017)
Casa dos Penedos, located in the Old Town of Sintra, designed by the architect Raul Lino, in the 20's of the last century. This house was completed in 1922 by order of the financier Carlos Machado Ribeiro to the architect.
Raul Lino (1879-1974) was a conservative and revolutionary man, daring and traditionalist and left his mark on Portuguese architecture. It was this architect who created the image of the Portuguese House, constituting its main concern in creating an architecture integrated in the landscape.
The colors were modified for this work.
Lego Technic Set 8418 from 2005 with widened frame and room for a driver.
The tough part was to keep the bucket frame as slim as it was, there is only a tenth of a millimeter between the lift frame and the cabin. Was able to add three studs in the floor of the cabin, so there is a seat and two control levers.
Toy Project Day 1778
EE Type 2 'Baby Deltic' D5907 at Kings Cross station, on a bright sunny day in April 1968.
The loco had entered service in 1959, and - after the class suffered from embarrassing failures - was rebuilt as seen here in 1965. The rebuilds did not last much longer, and the last of the class was withdrawn from service in 1971, and all were subsequently scrapped, after one was retained for departmental/research purposes for a few more years.
Today (2021) this scene has changed completely, with many of the buildings seen here - and the small loco depot - gone, and the track layout simplified, and electrified.
There is an active project to recreate a 'new' example, using the modified body shell and chassis from a scrapped EE Type 3 (Class 37), and an original preserved 'Deltic' power unit and generator from D5901, with bogies from an EE Type 1 (Class 20).
Restored from an under-exposed grainy blue-colour-shifted (Agfa) original..
Original slide - Property of Robert Gadsdon
1300D Modified
Sigma 150-600 @ 300mm
32x5min (2h40) - 1600iso - F6
Skywatcher EQM-35 Pro
DOF
Autoguiding PHD2
Siril + Photoshop
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This treehopper was filmed in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador and measures only 6 mm in length. Treehoppers are insects related to cicadas and leafhoppers.
Most treehoppers have a highly modified pronotum on the back, in this case forming several hollow spheres and spines, which makes it unpalatable for potential predators. Moreover it resembles an ant which most predators rather avoid.
Treehoppers feed on plant sap which is rich in sugar. In the video the sucking mouthparts of the treehopper have penetrated the vein of a leaf.
from Ecuador: www.flickr.com/andreaskay/albums
HOLY GADUNKA! Once a common rahi, now mutated and enhanced by the Mask of Life, can the Toa Mahri defeat this powered up bottom-dweller?!
-PRISONERS OF THE PIT-
Modified Hall Class 4-6-0 6990 "Witherslack Hall" photographed at Bury Bolton Street ready to work the 0930 Bury Bolton Street - Rawtenstall Service on 29/07/218
This shot was a leap of faith. I had planned it for ages, knowing the Winter Milky Way would arc perfectly over this small, graceful arch with Mt. Whitney framed beyond. But the forecast wasn’t on my side - high clouds were expected to drift in from the north after dark.
Should I gamble on a four-hour drive from L.A., risking a total bust, or head somewhere closer with clearer skies? In the end, I went for it. I had waited too long for this alignment to skip it.
At sunset, a few cirrus strands hung around, but by nightfall, the sky looked clear. Then I checked my first exposure - and every bright star was swollen and hazy. Lens issue? Desert dew? A quick test with my second camera confirmed it wasn’t the gear. Thin cirrus had crept in, their ice crystals, even though invisible to the naked eye, blurring the stars like an overpowered starglow filter.
There was nothing to do but keep shooting and roll with it. The final image isn’t as technically flawless as I had hoped, but I’ve grown to love it. The soft, imperfect stars capture the atmosphere of that night in a way perfection never could.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter with Canon EF-EOS R drop-in adapter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sunwayfoto T2840CK tripod
Low Level Lighting
Foreground:
Panorama of 10 panels, each a focus stack of 8x 2.5s @ ISO800 during twilight
Sky:
Panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 7x 45s @ ISO1600, clear filter & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, IDAS NBZ
It appears to have a mix of features that make it somewhat difficult to absolutely pinpoint what year model it is. (See my notes that I’ve placed within the photo above for the various features.) I suppose that a quick look at its VIN would yield a solid answer, at least from the legal standpoint.
The back of the same Corvette exhibits features that are curious if not a bit confused. The Year of Manufacture (YOM) plate indicates 1963 as the model year presumably in agreement with the car’s VIN. Yet the most obvious identifying features of a 1963 Corvette - the split backlite and two decorative vent grilles on the hood - do not appear on this car. Furthermore, the 1963-1964 Corvettes feature two horizontal indentations located aft of the wheel opening in the front fender, not the three vertical openings on this car. The hood that features the wide bulge was a feature that became available from 1965-on only for the models with the Big Block V-8 engines such as the 396 and 427.