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This is the bottom of the rubber band chamber. The cardboard (from a Saltine box) acts as a hinge so the bottom flap can open.
North Elmham has a ruined medieval chapel, but almost next door, the "newer" church of St Mary the Virgin, dates from the C14th. There are an impressive collection of carved C15th pew end and poppyheads, with a wide variety of animals, birds, mythical beasts, and heads.
Variations on the theme of dragons are always popular as they are associated with evil, as well as St George.
All the pylons were lit by colour-changing lights. I've always liked pylons anyway, and thought of them as artworks, but when you see them illunimated by bright coloured lights they are quite spectacular.
Quarterly, first and fourth Gules three lions passant gardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), second quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), third quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland).
This ATC was for the Legendary Series in the Illustrating and Printmaking group on Swap-bot. I got some new toys for Christmas and decided to test them out. The phoenix is created with alcohol inks, including some metallics, over metallic gold cardstock, using blending medium. I'm not sure how I got some of the interesting bubbles if you can see them in this scan. However, it was multiple work ups with blending medium, felt pad, and inks. I cut the phoenix with a fine pair of scissors and an X-acto. The background is a coated cardstock technique and Glimmermist. Scrunch plastic wrap over a thick layer of 2+ Glimmermists and let dry. Also, my classic penwork and felt markering touches.
Dangerous place for a camera - there was mist being pumped up out of holes in the ground, and then jets of water further on. Made for atmospheric pictures, but there was the constant danger of one's lens getting rather wet.
The griffin signifies courage and strength coupled with guardianship, vigilance, swiftness, and keen vision.
Yet again I have use a pencil drawing from my friend Marsha Jordan. The basic part of the drake was her drawing, I had to add a piece of the lower body. I added the moutains and volcanoe to add the feel that this was a Fire Drake. This was not an easy piece for me to do, hand cramps from the scales. This is power carving using a Dremel tool and pyrography (woodburning). This piece has been signed by both Marsha and myself. This piece now has a new home. I gave it to my friend Dee.
It was a nightmare trying to get the right exposure as those flares would go off seemingly at random, and just as you'd got your shot set up they'd go, WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM! one after the other, making the picture brighter and brighter (and the the viewer hotter and hotter). Quite spectacular of course, and sometimes I just need to forget about taking photos and enjoy the moment.
This photo is of a printout from woodgears.ca, which has an excellent configurable gear generator, thus saving a lot of laborious drafting.
The wings were to have independent power sources, and the intermeshing of the gears was to insure that the wings would flap at the same rate as each other.
The printout made layout of everything around the gears much simpler.