"A photograph that has not been shared or at least printed is almost a nonexistent photograph, is almost an untaken picture."

I read this quote on Twitter two weeks ago and it just blew my mind !

What's the point of taking a new photo a day if I have tons of "untaken photographs" on my drives ??

So ... I haven't take a new photograph during the past two weeks. It's very confusing after 5 years, 8 months and about 10 days of daily shooting and I still don't know how I feel about it...

Unfortunately I have been unable to get out lately with my camera to take new pictures. So, I decided to spend some time, during the heat of the Texas summer, and edit some of the pictures from my Alaskan cruise vacation last summer. At the time, my knowledge of photography and editing was nonexistent. Many of the pictures taken from the ship were quite hazy and I didn't have a clue about how to deal with that at the time or in post. I just put the pictures on here straight from the camera to share with family and friends. While my editing skills still aren't all that great, I have learned enough to better bring out the beauty in the pictures (hopefully).

This day in Glacier Bay was cold and gloomy. There were low clouds and fog that added a dramatic element and a mysterious feel to the scene...which I loved! This is the Grand Pacific Glacier at the mouth of Tarr Inlet. The beauty of this place is breathtaking. I will be posting more from here as I get to them.

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Just a few seconds ago, Hank was slowly dying, until he heard something that knocked him out. Everything was black, hollow, like a cave. There the paneling looked metallic, yet, felt like cement. And then he heard something.

-/Hello Hank/- he heard the same voice from before.

“Who’s there?!?” he yelled out.

-/We are./- A hologram of what appeared to be a skull appeared before him.

“Wha-What the hell are you?” He asks, frozen in fear of what’s in front of him.

-/Consider us an ally for your cause. Although, we wish we could’ve met through…… different circumstances. However it is how you humans say “Better late than never.”/- the voice responded

“Who are you?” he asked nervously.

-/Someone who is a fan of your work. Someone who saved you from your previous condition./-

“C-Condition?”

-/Observe/- it said as multiple screens were appearing around him, showing the news reports him being missing, Lex being arrested, breaking out, and being defeated by Superman.

“H-How long have I been gone?”

-/Long enough to lose your goal to that kryptonian. He took away the one thing that kept you alive…. Vengeance. You humans normally have that desire to fuel you. But he took it away./- He doesn’t respond, just looking to the nonexistent ground beneath him. Tears running down his cheeks.

-/Thankfully, We can help you get that vengeance from that kryptonian./- It interjects. He looks up and stands before asking.

“I must ask, why do you refer to yourself as we?” Suddenly, he hears a humming before turning around to see a red glow coming from behind him. Then he sees two more, they get closer to reveal themselves as robots that had an uncanny valley of looking human, yet non-human.

-/How about it Hank?/- a light appears, shining on what seems to be the remains of his body, surrounded by a liquid metal of sorts.

“Wha-what is it?” He stuttered out.

-/What we could save, but now, we can help you acheive your goal, to kill superman./-

-/Will you claim your vengeance? Will you become our avatar and claim your second life?/- He stares at it before responding.

“Y-Yes, but never call me Hank again. Hank died years ago, now Cyborg Superman lives.” The liquid metal then forms the superman symbol on his chest.

This photo was taken right in the middle of Lake Ann facing south.

I was kind of kicking myself for arriving just a little too late (again). The alpenglow hitting the peaks of Mount Shuksan was screaming red when I got to the north side of the lake. I dropped my bag, ran for it and almost took a dive while heading to its western rim. Also, my filters were splattered with water droplets from kicking the snow. By the time I finished wiping the filters off, the alpenglow was pretty much nonexistent. Boo. So, I glissaded down to the middle of the lake to shoot what's left of the colors. It probably wasn't the brightest idea now that I think of it. Hah. I blame the lake's frozen turquoise waters for luring me in.

Kaluk, the Astronomer is a very paranoid Matoran, rarely leaving his hut or the observatory in fear of the various (and nonexistent) threats that are lurking in the outside world, but no matter what, he does his best to help his fellow Sah-toran.

Yeah I wasn't very happy with the first version of him, so I've gone back and changed him up a bit, I'm much happier with Kaluk now.

La synagogue «arrière», est un bâtiment de la fin du 16ème siècle qui a été un lieu de culte pendant environ 350 ans. Malgré la disparition de la communauté juive elle a été préservée. Elle a été restauré dans les années 1990, et transformée en une salle de concert et un musée. Sur la galerie des femmes à l'étage, il y a une exposition permanente sur la vie juive à Trebic et une grande maquette du quartier juif.

Cette maquette représente le quartier juif tel qu'il était au 19e ou au début du 20e siècle. Elle donne un excellent aperçu de l'ensemble du quartier, coincé entre la rivière et la pente de la colline derrière elle. Le plan au sol a la forme d'une échelle (tordue). Il y a les deux rues longitudinales parallèles à la rivière, et plusieurs petits passages entre elles. A chaque extrémité, se trouve une synagogue. Il y a aussi une tannerie qui est devenue par la suite une usine.

Au l'emplacement de l'actuel grand pont routier il y avait un petit pont de bois moins haut qui débouchait à côté de la maison aux trois colonnes. Sinon, rien n'a vraiment changé. Tout est étroit, tout l'espace a dû être utilisée. Sur ​​la rive de la rivière, il y a un peu de place pour des petits jardins. La protection contre les inondations est inexistante.

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Zadní synagoga, the 'rear' synagogue, is a building from the late 16th century that served for religious functions for about 350 years. After the end of the Jewish community it stood empty but unharmed until it was restored in the 1990s, and turned into a concert hall and museum. There are no services held in it any more. On the women's gallery upstairs there is a permanent exhibition about Jewish life in Trebic, including a large model of the Jewish quarter.

This model shows the Jewish quarter as it was in the 19th or early 20th century. It gives an excellent overview of the whole quarter, squeezed in between the river and the slope of the hill behind it. The ground plan has the shape of a (crooked) ladder. There are the two longitutinal streets parallel to the river, and several small passages in between. At each end there is a synagogue. At the far end there is the tannery which then became a factory.

Instead of the present big road bridge there was a smaller and lower wooden bridge which ended next to the house with the three columns. Otherwise, not much has changed.

Everything is narrow, all space had to be used. Only on the river bank there is room for little gardens. Flood protection is nonexistent.

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The greatest LEGO Space theme that never was, Seatron was conceived right after Futuron and would have given us our first (and more creative and interesting) LEGO aliens most of a decade before the UFO theme released.

All we have is some intriguing preliminary shots of a fascinating theme with a white, black and trans red "surface" palate and an Aquanauts-like yellow, black and trans blue "underwater" palate.

Anyway, I think it would have been a great theme, and it's well worth a MOC or several. And it being FebRovery let's make a rover.

Probably the Seatron faction minifigures would have been more Futuron-like than CS-like, but my Futuron minifig supplies are practically nonexistent.

I've done some Seatron-like MOCs before, connected with the Ice Planet faction as explorers of a subsurface ocean within Planet Krysto (a subtheme I call "Ice Planet: Aquarius Project"), but this is my first actual Seatron MOC.

Yeah I’ve been nonexistent for the past week, deal with it

Here’s my Two-Face from Batman Forever (1995)! He’s not purist but I think he looks really good and I’m proud of how he suit came out. I have something else planned to come out later today so I might post my Batman Forever Riddler tomorrow

Anyways, hope it was okay. Toodles!

A very rare car in Athens, the estates are pretty much nonexistent, all the ones I've seen have been visitors from Albania where they're seemingly everywhere.

Well… I'm back!

Back to Saguaro country.

Motorhome trip, 2011 has come to a close. I just got back a few days ago to home base, in the Phoenix area to settle in for the winter. I left in mid May, so it's been a little over six months on the road.

This trip, I hit Palm Springs, San DIego, Los Angeles, Sequoia, Yosemite, San Francisco, Sonoma Coast, Redwoods, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Reno (the biggest little city in the world), Salt Lake City. Almost forgot… WINNEMUCCA! (The obvious highlight of my trip!) Moab, Durango, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Williams, Grand Canyon, Page, Bryce, Flagstaff, Sedona…….. That's it.

I'm done! It was kind of a mixed bag this summer. Funny… It's was the total opposite of last summer. Last year I went to boring places that I really didn't like, and got surprisingly nice shots. It was 105 degrees and miserable everywhere I went. Somehow, I was really happy with most of what I got last year. This time, I had the dream trip. This is the trip I have always wanted to take… The California coast… What could be better than that? California is such a beautiful state. So… This year, I went to some of the most beautiful places ever, and, week after week, came out with nothin!

So… Now I know, that the summertime weather in California just doesn't really lend itself well to photography. If this was a vacation, then the weather inland would have been fantastic. Unfortunately, as a photographer… The only thing worse than a solid blue sky, is, a solid gray sky! I knew that the California coast was pretty much dismal in May and June. But. Apparently the 'June Gloom', as they call it, extends into July gloom, and, August gloom. The thing I found amazing about California, was how it can be 90 degrees with a solid blue sky, a mile from the coast. Then you drive to the beach and just enter into a wall of gray gloom. So. I spent about 90 days in California. About 40 of them were crystal clear with a solid blue sky. And. About 47 of them were just solid gray and gloomy. So… If you do the math. I had about three really great days of shooting. The days that were great were REALLY great! A stormy day in Yosemite. A foggy day in the Redwoods. A day with an amazing swirly cloud sky at Lake Tahoe. A couple of great sunsets. Sunsets on the coast are nonexistent. The sun just drops behind the gray gloom and you're done. I just couldn't believe, while I was at a campsite along the coast, a little north of San Francisco, when the the news was reporting a record breaking heat wave all across the country. Phoenix was 118º. Palm Springs was 116º… Meanwhile, where I was, it was 45º outside, with 50 MPH wind and a gloomy, gray sky. Really? Am I really turning on my heat, and wearing my winter coat in July while the rest of the country is sweltering?

One repeating pattern I have seen over and over. It's always the day I'm planning to leave that I have the perfect conditions for photography. Usually it's after I actually have left. When I'm driving the motorhome and have no possible way to stop and shoot photos, I can always count on looking out at the most fantastic sky imaginable as I'm driving the motorhome. Yosemite was the perfect example of that. It's hard to imagine going someplace that beautiful and feeling uninspired, but… That's what happened. I would go to a scenic overlook, and look out on the valley, on a crystal clear day, with a solid blue sky, and think… Damn… I got nuthin! Finally, on my very last day there, we had a storm roll through. I was supposed to be checking out of my campsite that morning, but I thought I would take one last loop through the valley, so I headed in to spend one last hour in Yosemite. I came back about 14 hours later. It was INCREDIBLE!!! Of course, I came back to a nasty note stuck on my door saying that I was supposed to check out at 11:00, and I had to come to the office to pay for another night. Whatever.

So. After California, conditions got much better. The trip ended great! The past few weeks I have had some fantastic conditions at the Grand Canyon, Page and Bryce Canyon. COLD!!! But, nice for photography.

I visited Salt Lake City, which really is one of the nicest cities I have ever seen. I met some really creepy friendly people at the Mormon Square. Moab is one of the coolest places in the entire southwest. (I'm still trying to get the red mud off the bottom of my truck) Spent a few days in Durango, one of my favorite places on Earth. Hit the Albuquerque balloon festival, which SUCKED this year! Spent a week in WIlliams, which is a nice town, but doesn't photograph very well. Then Grand Canyon which was COLD! Then finally, Page, which I love!

So… I can't say that I really love the Phoenix area. But… Every year, it feels really nice to settle back in and stop running for a while, after six months on the road. It's nice to not have to wonder where I am going to be next week, and where I am going to find a place to camp once I get there. It's nice to be able to mail order something and actually have an address where I can have it sent. It's nice to know where the grocery store and Home Depot are without having to look it up on a map. It's nice to be able to go to my favorite grocery store and actually know where everything is in the store. It's nice to be back.

I shot this photo just yesterday, in the Superstition Mountains. I took a ride up there to see if I could find the spot where the plane crashed.

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

"....everyone here sees humanity for what it is and what it'll do. A monstrous hive-mind starving for senseless, meaningless carnage. For the most idiotic reasons as well! We're flying robots over villages to rain down hellfire on devolved pedophilic zealots for nothing more than oil wars. Profits! Money truly is the root of all evil. Or we lash out at eachother for the color's we're born with, the way we speak, the worthless political party we align ourselves with, or the moronic, nonexistent idols we follow. We've spilled oceans of blood for these worthless fabrications. I can't even begin to fathom why you've dulled your blade countless times against flesh. Unable to truly cope with loss? Mental instability? Or you just enjoy the screams. They all make you weak the same..."

A nonexistent object

Taipei 101 looms over the streets of Taipei. At the time, it was the tallest building in the world. Today it is a mere tenth on the list. For giggles, I took the elevator to the top. The view was spectacular.

The greater Taipei metropolitan area is home to over 7 million people and contains several neighborhoods that population-wise are among the densest in the world. Yet, it all seems to work. Unemployment is nonexistent, the city is clean, people are friendly, and the food is great.

If you find yourself in the area, check it out.

Taipei, Taiwan

Happy Friday! Thank you for taking the time to witness day 352 of my already completed but not yet posted 365-day self-portrait project.

So after I finished editing this photo, I sat here staring at it trying to figure out what it was lacking. I tried to flip it vertically to give it some interestingness. Worked well for the legs, but not really for my body. So then I said, "fuck it, I'll split it in 2 and flip the part that looks good flipped!"

And with that, I present to you a mutated version of day 352. I began to play with these 2 “puzzle pieces” shifting and rotating both of them around different ways. How you perceive it really depends on how it is presented to you.

I even began to see the legs “puzzle piece” as longer in length than the torso “puzzle piece” in certain versions. However they are both exactly the same length. Measure it.

Depending on how it was viewed, I also began to see certain colors darker or lighter. But in fact they are all the same throughout each version of the picture. Other differences were noticed too that were nonexistent in some versions of the same exact picture that had just been rotated or flipped.

And I began to thinking how I just stumbled upon a mixture of false impressions depending on your perspective. I achieved this just taking my own picture and simply splitting it into two and rotating it. Imagine the tactics that could be had on a grander scale. Mind fucktrick illusions to get us to believe or think a certain way.

Humans are so easily influenced. You gotta wonder in this day of the massive advertising/marketing culture we live in how often this tactic has been used. Or more importantly, how often it WILL be used on us poor unsuspecting assholes by Walmart and its desperate marketing cronies.

In conclusion, I’ll end this with a quote from a standup comedian Bill Hicks. He alone might be responsible for me never getting into this field. RIP Buddy!

“By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence.” ~Bill Hicks

The shot at hand? I stood in front of my car down at the abandoned navy base in my town. I had to run back and forth to get those headlights EXACTLY in between my arms and torso, essentially under my arm pits. I actually lucked out and got it on one of the first few tries. I tried it a second time and couldn’t’ repeat it.

Location: Abandoned Naval Air Station; Alameda, California

Taken: November 23rd, 2009

Posted: May 7th, 2010

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Kodak T-MAX 400

Zenit Horizon 202 light leak is now fixed, looking good! Old light seals were almost nonexistent and needed some TLC. Tested with roll end of T-MAX, compliments of PerttiPaasio.

eos 6d scan

I woke up to a spectacular sunrise this morning, which always hits me like a slap in the head asking why I wasn’t out there capturing it. It reminded me that I have a few in the queue and this one seemed appropriate given the spectacle I just missed. I’m always looking for new vantages of the city and noticed this one across Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater driving up Sheridan Boulevard (for those locals). I spent three mornings out here waiting for this color (breaking my 10% rule) and it is a delightful location to spend a morning, so peaceful and serene considering Sheridan BLVD. is 100’ behind almost as if that small barrier has created a buffer into another world. Joggers running by often wishing a good morning on their way by, Canada Geese swimming up to say hello and hang for a bit. The water provides a wonderful reflection playing tricks on the eyes and the view of downtown which isn’t the greatest I’ve seen because of the angle and distance to the buildings, is certainly worth checking out. The color reflecting off the building lights reflecting long off the water make it a fantastic location.

On this morning, there was a small bank of clouds behind the city which were the only clouds in sky until you turned west towards the mountains. Early on as the sun began to rise some fantastic reflections were available which I’ll post in a few days. Pre-sunrise color was nonexistent as things began to develop and I thought this would be another morning which had so much promise and failed to deliver. I almost left twice in a 15 minute period since I had a day job to go to but kept thinking to myself this can’t be done. Then seemingly after the sun was too high, a small strip of orange began south of the city and spread painstakingly slow to the north. It kept spreading through the clouds at a snail’s pace growing in intensity throughout. The thin strip of orange stayed across the tops of the trees for about 5 minutes seeming to be making up its mind what to do, and finally broke free to the rest of the clouds. Within seconds the entire bank was lit up brilliantly and I shot like a madman all the while thinking how close I came to leaving and missing this show. Because the distance from the city is pretty far and the cloud bank was pretty thin, I only shot with my 80 – 200mm lens, so after about 5 minutes I had captured all there was to get and took off in the middle of the color show. The color waned off as it does while I was driving to work but on route I found a couple new vantages to check out in the future weeks to come.

Shot taken in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.

I have been sharing a few pictures from my last trip to Lebanon. I am always rejoiced to see the reactions from people to seeing their first ever pictures of my country, since many assume (rightfully so) that it is an absolute wreck.

Nothing is ever black or white and there is certainly a lot of beauty in Beirut that waits to be discovered and explored.

It was said that Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times. In 2020, another carnage hit Beirut through the famous port explosion. The streets seen in these shots were mostly ruined 5 yars ago. They were rebuilt, not through the efforts of the nonexistent government, but rather the individual efforts of the Beirutis as well as aids provided by some NGOs.

Actually, these were a bit larger than pebbles and quite a challenge to scramble over. The thought of spending the rest of the week with a sprained ankle crossed my mind more than once. :)

This is the beach at Spanish Bay along the 17 Mile Drive. I would have loved to have been able to stick around and shoot along this drive at sunset but our itinerary dictated a quick daytime trip through and then on to San Francisco. There are so many beautiful spots along this drive that my head was swimming with the possibilities. This was the the first day we had been at the coast where the clouds were departing inland and the fog was nonexistent. "Be careful what you wish for" was a saying that came to mind as the fog would have added a mood to daytime shooting. :)

Please take a moment and click on the image to see it large on a black background. And thank you in advance for looking at my work and for any comments, critiques and favorites. :)

And please don't use my images without my consent.

.- Is nonexistent ... the sex of angels .....

- Inexistente es..., el sexo de los ángeles...

in manhattan, green is nonexistent aside from the parks.Now the High line has an artistic green space, surrealistically thin.

its probably for the shape & color, and not more.

My first visit to MRL in 2015 I remembered seeing a flame cut whistle post on the mainline somewhere east of Garrison. We (Welch and I) had places to be seeing as we were racing towards Helena to get the local with an SD45 leader and I didn't remember seeing another one. I didn't prioritize it but I didn't forget it. So, since my experience on MRL's branch lines was nonexistent until this spring I had assumed that was a one-off. Imagine my surprise as I arrived at Sappington and saw this beauty!

I know that I've been giving short-shrift to damselflies and longer shrift to dragons, but there are good reasons. Damsels are delicate jewels, usually about 1.74 to 2 inches long, more difficult to spot, more flighty though slower, and have no "bulk". I'd say their abdomens are 1/16th of an inch around. This particular shot was with little zoom to give you an idea of what we contend with at say 50 feet. Another reason for short shrift is that I'm worse at identifying them: blue with black bars versus black with blue bars and you could have five species plus the females which could have green eyes ... or black or orange and still be a "Bluet damselfly."

So here's an Aztec Dancer in the middle of a stream filled with algae* and perched on a favorite four inch remnant of a reed that weathered five or six summers in the same place. It's a favorite perch for damsels, but I don't think the height or strength is to the liking of say a Flame Skimmer.

*Until yesterday, the two large ponds have been overgrown with algae. Fish have been few. Birds especially ducks, buffleheads, and even Canada Geese! and Double-crested Cormorants which usually come in flocks, nonexistent. Yesterday, the huge machine that skims the ponds finally started a three-day cleaning (after a number of calls from ME, but not necessarily because of me). The machine is appropriately called a Pond Skimmer, but I can't imaging any agency with the imagination to name it after a family of dragonflies.

Maybe the algae is the shrift I've heard so much about, and just so you have something to do, get out a dictionary and give it the shrift it deserves. Don't use Google. Give the grey cells in Canada and the gray cells down here some exercise.

Briefly, damsels are much smaller; they hold their wings upright especially the Jewelwings (species); they fly slowly and a bit like butterflies. If they have a territory it is small, and I've never seen a male guarding a female which she lays her eggs. And some of the most brilliantly colored are damsels rather than dragons. Watch for uploads from Arizona or Texas or other southwestern states. And wait till you find out the derivation of shrift. These are religious insects, but brief in their fessing up over the week's transgressions. But what the hell, they live such short lives...

Unfortunately I have been unable to get out lately with my camera to take new pictures. So, I decided to spend some time, during the heat of the Texas summer, and re-edit some of the pictures from my Alaskan cruise vacation last summer. At the time, my knowledge of photography and editing was nonexistent. Many of the pictures taken from the ship were quite hazy and I didn't have a clue about how to deal with that at the time or in post. While my editing skills still aren't all that great, I have learned enough to better bring out the beauty in the pictures (hopefully).

This day in Glacier Bay was cold and gloomy. There were low clouds and fog that added a dramatic element and a mysterious feel to the scene...which I loved! The beauty of this place is breathtaking. I will be posting more from here as I get to them.

A possible historical source for Ophelia was Katherine Hamnet, a woman who fell into the Avon River and died in December 1579. Though it was eventually concluded that she had overbalanced while carrying some heavy pails, rumours that she was suffering from a broken heart were considered plausible enough for an inquest to be conducted into whether her death was a suicide. It is possible that Shakespeare - 16 at the time of the death - recalled the romantic tragedy in his creation of the character of Ophelia.[1] The name "Ophelia" itself was either uncommon or nonexistent; the only known prior text to use the name (as Ofelia) is Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia, presumably etymologically deriving from Ancient Greek ὄφελος "help, good, benefit, advantage". The early modern stage in England had an established set of emblematic conventions for the representation of female madness: disheveled hair worn down, dressed in white, bedecked with wild flowers, Ophelia's state of mind would have been immediately 'readable' to her first audiences.[12] "Colour was a major source of stage symbolism" Pre-Raphaelite painters siezed on this legend and made great noise of it. (Look up Lizzie Siddal, the original super UeberModel of 1880. View FULL SIZE. Remote Strobe illumination..always have my SB900 in the water on the JOBY gorillaPOD!

Deserts are part of a wider classification of regions that, on an average annual basis, have a moisture deficit (i.e. they can potentially lose more than is received). Deserts are located where vegetation cover is sparse to almost nonexistent.

Normally when I post a photo I take time to describe it, or something that struck me worthy of mention when I took it. This time, I've decided to try something a bit different . Since getting into night photography, especially mountain scenes I’m often asked about what it’s like to hike up in the dark and cold. A recent trip to Mayflower Gulch and the Boston Mine was a perfect opportunity to try share this experience.

This post will be the first of three consecutive installments describing a recent nighttime hike to the Boston Mine. My goal is describe for you what one of these adventures is like, but since the write up got a bit long I broke it up into three parts.

Part one:

I had the pleasure of joining Brad McGinley, Mike Berenson, Darren White and Cooper the Wonder Dog last weekend on a trek up Mayflower Gulch to the Boston Mine tram. The tram sits approximately 12,400’ above sea level about 1400’ about tree line and most importantly at the time about 2000’ above the parking area. A well planned trip by Mike had us leaving the parking area at 10:30 PM Friday night and arriving at the top around 30 minutes into the next day. I’d done this hike twice before in the winter and the hiking conditions can range from easy to brutal. Fortunately, the photography gods were (mostly) with us this evening as we were met with hard packed snow. Weather-wise conditions were about as you would expect for being above tree line at 1:00 AM in April. Cold, gusty winds and clouds whipping by overhead at blazing speed.

If you’ve never been to this location it’s basically a long meadow surrounded by 13,000 foot mountains on 3 sides, which do a pretty good job of blocking most of the wind from the valley floor. From the parking area you hike the first 2 miles under tree cover on a jeep road which always seems to be an easy hike as far as snow pack goes. Everyone is forced to use this portion of the trail, so it’s always packed snow and sheltered from the wind by the pine trees. This ends at tree line and dumps you out at several miner cabin ruins which are photogenic in and of themselves, but our quest was further on this night. The hike to the top from this point is a well-defined trail in summer and nonexistent in winter. In the past we’ve been: faced with cutting our own trail through deep powder which proved to be too much, and 1” of ice crust over soft snow which nearly proved too much (about 3 – 10 steps and then post hole – even with snow shoes). But on this night the snow was nice and packed. Snowshoes were helpful, but not necessary.

Another phenomenon once leaving the protection of the trees was the wind was free to have its way with us. We had layers and hiking up is always the warmest part of the trip. We’d have to cross the standing around up there when the time came, but at this point no issue with us, but I got nervous for Cooper. I had discussed with Brad (who has far more dog hiking experience than I) beforehand and had asked him if he had a dog jacket from his hiking days with his dog Annie. That didn’t pan out, but we took an extra jacket and put it on Cooper, zipping it over his body and tying the arms in front of his legs. This worked pretty well and he seemed grateful for the protection. I’ll point out that Cooper is a Labra-Doodle and normally has long fur (hair?) which was cut about a month ago so he was less protected than normal.

Our pace to the top was casual, but we had plenty of time. Our main goal for the night was to catch the Milky Way above the mountains, which would begin about 2 AM. It’s only a mile to the tram from the cabins, but man it’s a long mile. Many breath catching breaks were taken along the way. I think both Cooper and Brad wished for less stopping and more walking, but they were outnumbered.

The lighting on this night was somewhat peculiar, and was the cause of strange sensations. There was no moon on this night, but there was a glow to the area which allowed enough light to see. In fact, Brad kept his light off once we were out of tree line. I’m sure this was due to the fact that everything was covered in white except the steepest of the surrounding mountains and what little light there was bouncing off all sides. Plus, there was a decent amount of light pollution reflecting off the cloud when they were overhead. All of this contributed to this weird phenomenon that made it seem like we were approaching our target, though unable to reach it. For example, there’s a distinct edge or seam where the (relatively) flat meadow turns to steep mountainside which we could see this plain as day. It looked to be only a couple hundred feet away, but no matter how far we walked it remained unreachable. I’m not sure why that was, but we all felt it and discussed it several times…..

Stay tuned for part two coming shortly:

Most of my shots are of this end of the ship. That's because I started to get motion sickness right away, even though the water was calm and the wind nonexistent. I get motion sickness easily, so I snapped as many images as I could before I had to put the camera away.

Flames of DOOM is the name for the melodic death metal band well known in every corner of the Lego world. They are famous for their brutal music, technical breakdowns and and extremely low growling. And just like any other famous band they play gigs all over the country. What can be more metal than traveling by bus when in tour? Yepp, traveling in a bus like this! It has everything your band mates might need. Place for guitars, speakers, lots of small stuff for every day and, of course, a wall that can be transformed into a stage! Wait, there's more! There is a giant antennae to broadcast your performance worldwide!

As for the model, there is a ton of features and I really tried to show them all on these images. Most of the roof can be opened and the drum kit is already installed on that transforming stage (although it takes a lot of the inner space in the bus). Only three or four parts not counting the minifigs are used with nonexistent colors. There are some additional cookies like folding table, banner on the side, fire distinguisher, guitar holders and even a sword! The bus also features steering and some sort of suspension (let's just say it is an uneasy way of attaching those wheels).

I'm trying to recover my Lego Ideas account and I'd really appreciate hearing some feedback from you before posting it there!

www.maxtutanoronha.com

Taste it here ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctfTfnFAJg

and here for a longer version of the documentary...

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pZ0LXngdmuE...

I'd like to talk about the concert last night, but I'm afraid that to describe it I'd need to ask someone for some mind altering substances.

In two words then I'd say that it was just insanely beautiful, and comfortably numbing.

A bunch of old folks, with less hair and bigger than nonexistent (25 years ago), little watermelons in our mid-sections, oh well...

All and all, we got all mellow and nicer.

Roger Waters, a symbol of socialism liricism mixed with opera, theather and experimental was there, with his back against the world, standing in black, preaching to a child plastered in the wall.

Our minds right there and then were the walls, and our spirits were wishing to have wings.

The sounds,OMG, the marching, the forward movements evoqued by the beating of the drums, the bass drum there is, and the emotions, razor sharp as flash backs of a non distant past.

In unison our arms moved forward, and my left fist, pounded the black thick smoky air, 25 years peeled off my age, right there and then I was around 25 again, and I was taking it all in.

And I thought of Roger Waters, and his paradoxal socialistic approach to music, and a real love for money, that will be just pouring in with this fascinating tour.

I think that this is an oxymoron.

And he deserves all of it.

Back then, romming the streets in Brasil,we were all leftist, or we had left wing views, wanting to change the world, to break all of our imaginary walls,to rid poverty, to be free, and to have peace in the world, and it was a peaceful way of thinking, it was all about non violence, and with awe, all we wanted was to coexist.

And now, we've become a little wiser, a little mellower and a little grayer.

And yes, I still wish that David would still be there, and I wondered then , who is laughing now ......

For more info:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Momentary_Lapse_of_Reason_Tour

And I was there .....

Max Tuta

The greatest LEGO Space theme that never was, Seatron was conceived right after Futuron and would have given us our first (and more creative and interesting) LEGO aliens most of a decade before the UFO theme released.

All we have is some intriguing preliminary shots of a fascinating theme with a white, black and trans red "surface" palate and an Aquanauts-like yellow, black and trans blue "underwater" palate.

Anyway, I think it would have been a great theme, and it's well worth a MOC or several. And it being FebRovery let's make a rover.

Probably the Seatron faction minifigures would have been more Futuron-like than CS-like, but my Futuron minifig supplies are practically nonexistent.

I've done some Seatron-like MOCs before, connected with the Ice Planet faction as explorers of a subsurface ocean within Planet Krysto (a subtheme I call "Ice Planet: Aquarius Project"), but this is my first actual Seatron MOC.

Yay!

I want to introduce you to my Unicorns. Glitter Fart is the first one and the oldest (I got her and then her eye fell out hahahah so my mum/brother bought me another for my birthday how sweet :3) and the one to the right is Metallic Buttocks! I have another, who is a stuffie, whose name is Sparkly Poo, but we won't get into that. c:

I suppose you're wondering why I photograph what I photograph - lots of cake, and erasers. But this just makes me smile, ok? XD Cake and animals (non-existent ones, of course) make me smile! Oh, and sunshine and daisies, too. :3

This is probably the fastest (school day) photo i've taken for this project in a long time BUT GUESS WHAT? I don't mind it! Omg I could go so far as to say I like it but I wouldn't want to give you all a heart attack. :p This took ages to upload as the file is so huge hahaha. AND YES SHANNON, MORE FLOWERS. Kill me.

How is everybody today?! My day was okay I suppose! Just happy for the sunshine. Ooh and 3 days left. I am excited. Can you tell? :]

Probably should've cropped thissss and i don't like the daisy in the foreground but HERE YOU ARE ♥

Flames of DOOM is the name for the melodic death metal band well known in every corner of the Lego world. They are famous for their brutal music, technical breakdowns and and extremely low growling. And just like any other famous band they play gigs all over the country. What can be more metal than traveling by bus when in tour? Yepp, traveling in a bus like this! It has everything your band mates might need. Place for guitars, speakers, lots of small stuff for every day and, of course, a wall that can be transformed into a stage! Wait, there's more! There is a giant antennae to broadcast your performance worldwide!

As for the model, there is a ton of features and I really tried to show them all on these images. Most of the roof can be opened and the drum kit is already installed on that transforming stage (although it takes a lot of the inner space in the bus). Only three or four parts not counting the minifigs are used with nonexistent colors. There are some additional cookies like folding table, banner on the side, fire distinguisher, guitar holders and even a sword! The bus also features steering and some sort of suspension (let's just say it is an uneasy way of attaching those wheels).

I'm trying to recover my Lego Ideas account and I'd really appreciate hearing some feedback from you before posting it there!

Hey kids! Ever get any of those cool Trolls hairpieces but never found a way to use them? Are the connections inside of them nonexistent? Well, you're in luck! With this handy dandy Troll to Technic Adapter™, you can troll LEGO back by giving this humongous hairpiece a pin hole!

Pretty much everything running into Sheffield from Chesterfield is now operated by an E400EV, the odd Yutong appearance excluded. The only deckers at any of the Sheffield depots which approach these in youthfulness are a handful of cascaded First Streetdecks of 2022 vintage, something which reflects how new bus orders without external funding are nonexistent in the city. YX25NZO (80150) is seen passing the impressive Trinity Methodist Church in Highfield with the 13:24 43 from the city centre back to Chesterfield.

I decided I'm going to Bricklink my Skeletal Dragon, if only to see how stable the build using flex tubes really is, but it's impossible to do it in white due to nonexistent part-colour combos. So I'm making my real life version black. The colours have been changed so that it only uses parts in existing part-colour combos. Only the tail end is a non-existent PCC, but that is because it is only found as a marbled part.

Render made in Bluerender.

Glad to see them at Saigon Zoo, Ho Chi Minh City. There are 3 of them in the zoo, sadly the captive area is unnatural and small.

Hairy-nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana)

The hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) is a semiaquatic mammal native to Southeast Asia. It is one of the rarest otter species. Until 1998, it was thought to have been extinct, but small populations have been discovered since then.

Measurements

Weight: 11 to 13 lb (5.0 to 5.9 kg)

Head-body length: 20 to 32 in (51 to 81 cm)

Tail length: 14 to 20 in (36 to 51 cm)

Identification

The hairy-nosed otter is the least known of the Asian otters, and is also the most difficult to identify in the field. It gets its name from the hairs on the end of its rhinarium (moist part of its nose); in most other respects, it is similar to European otter, Lutra lutra. Hairy-nosed otters are entirely brown, except for lips, chin, and upper throat, which are whitish. Their fur is rather rough but short. Their tails are flattened and oval in cross section, and their feet are fully webbed between the digits, with prominent claws. The penis of the adult male is not visible externally. The contact call between otters is a single-syllabic chirp; adult females call to pups with a staccato chatter. Large otters are very similar and can be positively distinguished only by close inspection of the nose and fur, or the skull. In this species, the skull is flatter than that of smooth otter, Lutrogale perspicillataI and has smaller teeth.

Ecology and habitat

The hairy-nosed otter can be found in coastal areas and on larger inland rivers, solitary or in groups of up to four. Its diet includes fish and crustaceans. Pairing of a male and a female may be limited to the breeding period.

Distribution and status

This otter is found in Southeast Asia (Myanmar, South Thailand, Cambodia, South Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia, including Sumatra and Borneo). Extremely few individuals survive in Vietnam, southern Thailand, Sumatra and Cambodia, being menaced by poaching.

Sightings

At present, it is believed to live mainly in two nature reserves in Vietnam,[5] in the Toa Daeng peat swamp forest in southern Thailand, and in Sumatra, the place for which it was named. It was rediscovered in 2005. It was also rediscovered in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Even from these places, they are known from a tiny number of sightings and some roadkill, and from skins.

In June 2008, the Wildlife Alliance-led Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team received a donated hairy-nosed otter originating near the Tonle Sap in Cambodia. Working with Conservation International, they established a safe home for the rescued otter at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre, but the otter, which had been frequently sick throughout its life in captivity, died of unknown causes in February 2010. Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre rescued another hairy-nosed otter in July 2010, and hope it will become part of a future captive breeding program. This is currently the only known hairy-nosed otter in captivity.

Another record of the species was on September 2008 in U Minh Ha National Park in southern Vietnam, when researchers from the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program said they have found two hairy-nosed otters.

After being assumed to be “nonexistent” in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, for the last 100 years, the otter was rediscovered using a series of camera traps in 2010. The same study also confirmed the presence of several other endangered species. Director of Sabah Forestry Department Datuk Sam Mannan said, “These findings show that long-term sustainable forest management is of great importance for the protection of some of this country’s most threatened species and of the unique biodiversity of the forests of Borneo.”

Conservation

The hairy-nosed otter is the rarest otter in Asia, most likely verging on extinction in the northern parts of its range and of uncertain status elsewhere. Only a few viable populations remain, widely scattered in region. The species is threatened by loss of lowland wetland habitats, hunting for fur and meat, and accidental killing during fishing.Although the population of the hairy nosed otter is unsure it is estimated to be around 86.

[Credit: en.wikipedia.org]

Fertilizers, pesticides and animal feed are practically nonexistent in Batanes. Cattle typically roam free in the undulating hills and mountains, living off only on the natural pasturelands and watering holes. There are even WILD cattle interior of Batan in an area dubbed as Marlboro country. Probably the only regular "export" from Batanes is organic beef that is coveted gourmet fare in mainland Manila.

It is illegal to bring in meat and meat products into Batanes to prevent contamination and disease introduction. Only male cattle can be butcherered legally. Females are given a free pass for population propagation.

at the hills of Chadpidan, town of Basco, Batanes islands, the Philippines

let’s go organic in Batanes in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/

FL63DXF is seen on the 724 in Harlow with the now nonexistent Greenline route branding.

Vehicle Details

Operator: Arriva Herts and Essex

Fleet Number: 3797

Registration: FL63DXF

Vehicle: VDL SB200 Wright Eclipse 2

I'm going to take a chance here. With over 550 species of swallowtail butterflies, whose to say that this isn't a Tiger Swallowtail? Okay, it is, and the reason I know is because of the colors which are only exhibited between the tail. Well, there are two other reasons: of the 550 species, only three appear here (for six months out of the year); the stripes on the forewings are a dead giveaway; and it's the largest of the butterflies in this part of the country. (Swallowtails are the largest - in size - of all species of butterflies. They're the first to show up in March or April and give up a four harbinger of spring.) I have seen only three species of swallowtails: the Tiger, the Oregon Swallowtail (and I don't care what they call it - state butterfly and all - I captured mine in Idaho), and the Zebra or Black and White Swallowtail. What's unique about the Tiger is not that they gather in breeding herds in Squoia NP at 8,000 feet, but that I made it to 8044 feet to get images of them. Whether they die off after breeding, I don't know. If I had to fly 8,000 feet, I know there'd be a little marker placed there for me: a little point-and-shoot on a popsicle stick with various parts lying on the ground and giving a new meaning to "last gasp."

I have not posted a Black and White because after mating, they are ragged with pieces of wing torn off, not unlike human species which gave up on exercise at age 18 or never took it up to start with.

By the way, swallowtails also come in orange, brown blue (called Kaiser blue), white with brown eye spots, and brown barred. I haven't seen the other 545, but then I've only got 162 birds on my nonexistent but very real life list. My fake life list of birds is 557, but there may be some duplicates.

Anyway, the swallowtails have unique characteristics life females mimicking males, yet not true mimickring, but still used for protection. One of its predators is the Red-winged blackbirds which may account for the breeding and nesting of this bird in the oak woodlands and ponds in the woodlands at just about the same time as the swallowtail.

THIS particular swallowtail, may well be the best shot I ever got of this beauty. I theorize (factually) that he's no more than a week old and has escaped any predation...or it's a female and all the four birds that do have a taste for the species haven't figured out which ones are males and females. Monarchs have the colors that tell birds that they are not particularly edible, but swallowtails have other means of spreading the word about the fact that they are not on the menu here.

A sculpture of a swan that I made from LEGO bricks. This is actually a combination of two different species of swans. I grabbed various characteristics from the two of them, making a probably nonexistent species. It took maybe 40 hours to design and build.

The head and feet are recycled parts from my old bird old bird, made a 1.5 years before this one. The old one fell off of a shelf, and I didn't want to repair it, so I made a better version.

The wings of this sculpture ended up being too heavy to sustain their own weight (although they are pretty durable), but the cross support holds them firmly in place.

“Artist concept of a tilt-wing strategic aircraft in high-speed configuration.”

At:

nara.getarchive.net/media/artist-concept-of-a-tilt-wing-s...

Also:

nara.getarchive.net/media/artist-concept-of-a-tilt-wing-s...

Both above credit: U.S. National Archives & DVIDS website

Tilt-wing, REALLY…tilt-wing???

It's actually perversely comforting to see that inept & incorrect photo descriptions/captions were pervasive across multiple government agencies.

The apparent nonexistent requirement of even cursory knowledgeability and/or written articulation, were consistently adhered to.

Thanks to the wonderful SECRET PROJECTS website, specifically, user “flateric”, at:

www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rockwell-advanced-bomber...

Per the following source document(s):

“Manned strategic system concepts 1990-2000”

WILER, C. D. (Rockwell International Corp., North American Aircraft Group, Los Angeles, Calif.) RAYMER, D. P. (Rockwell International Corp., North American Aircraft Group, Los Angeles, Calif.)

AIAA-1979-1793

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Systems and Technology Meeting, New York, N.Y., Aug. 20-22, 1979, 15 p.F33615-77-C-0115

The image is apparently featured as “Figure 22. Minimum-Penetration-Time Vehicle”

And, there’s an identical perspective line diagram of the aircraft, labeled “Figure 21. Supersonic Penetration Baseline”, with the following bulletized comments:

- High aspect ratio fully skewable wing

- Flies on body lift at high speeds

- Multiple cycle engines

The image also includes a legend of the aircraft’s specs.

FULLY skewable?! So it does that scissors thing too!

That’s amazing and a little different than "tilt-wing”.

It wasn't built, so whatever I guess. Just another meaningless visual relic handled as such.

Unfortunately I have been unable to get out lately with my camera to take new pictures. So, I decided to spend some time, during the heat of the Texas summer, and re-edit some of the pictures from my Alaskan cruise vacation last summer. At the time, my knowledge of photography and editing was nonexistent. Many of the pictures taken from the ship were quite hazy and I didn't have a clue about how to deal with that at the time or in post. While my editing skills still aren't all that great, I have learned enough to better bring out the beauty in the pictures (hopefully).

A cruise ship sails past the majestic mountains of Alaska as it makes it's way towards Juneau.

Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere that serves as the symbolic structure of Epcot, at the Walt Disney World Resort. One of the most recognizable structures of any theme park, it is also the name of the dark ride attraction that is housed within the sphere that takes guests on a time machine-themed experience using the Omnimover system.

The structure is similar in texture to the United States pavilion from Expo 67 in Montreal, but unlike that structure, Spaceship Earth is a complete sphere, supported by three pairs of legs. The architectural design was conceived by Wallace Floyd Design Group. The structural designs of both Expo 67 and Spaceship Earth were completed by Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts.

Geometrically, Spaceship Earth is derived from the Class 2 geodesic polyhedron with frequency of division equal to 8. Each face of the polyhedron is divided into three isosceles triangles to form each point. In theory, there are 11,520 total isosceles triangles forming 3840 points. In reality, some of those triangles are partially or fully nonexistent due to supports and doors; there are actually only 11,324 silvered facets, with 954 partial or full flat triangular panels.

The appearance of being a monolithic sphere is an architectural goal that was achieved through a structural trick. Spaceship Earth is in fact two structural domes. Six legs are supported on pile groups that are driven up to 160 feet into Central Florida's soft earth. Those legs support a steel box-shaped ring at the sphere's perimeter, at about 30 degrees south latitude in earth-terms. The upper structural dome sits on this ring. A grid of trusses inside the ring supports two helical structures of the ride and show system. Below the ring, a second dome is hung from the bottom, completing the spherical shape. The ring and trusses form a table-like structure which separates the upper dome from the lower. Supported by and about three feet off the structural domes is a cladding sphere to which the shiny Alucobond panels and drainage system are mounted.

The cladding was designed so that when it rains, no water pours off the sides onto the ground. All water is collected through one-inch gaps in the facets into a gutter system, and finally channeled into the World Showcase Lagoon.

Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):

Camera - Nikon D5200 (handheld)

Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom

ISO – 1000

Aperture – f/5.6

Exposure – 1/3 second

Focal Length – 175mm

The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11

Hood doors flappin' on a hot Kansas evening lookin' for a nonexistent breeze, a Frisco U30B has just crossed the Rock Island and will soon complete its journey to the Air Capital, Wichita. This is the train from Neodesha making its near sundown arrival. Today's consist one U30B and two GP15-1's.

I apologize for the derail sign.

I am alive!

This is the MOC I took down to the Christchurch Brick Show in July. Yeah, July. The internet side of my lego life has been virtually (haha, pun not intended :P) nonexistent for ages now.

Some of you might remember the Lego graphic novel I was writing and video blogging about earlier this year, until about April. It and I disappeared from the face of the internet without notice. Sorry about that. My beautiful 1-year-old niece passed away very suddenly at the beginning of May, and the project was not a priority.

Anyhow, hopefully I'll get back to it at some point. It would be really good to actually get something out of it, because it did have a plot and concepts that I really liked. Right now I'm working on my exhibit for the Auckland Brick Show 2014, a part of a pirate/castleish collaboration. It should be pretty cool :)

Thanks for checking this out! :D

“Sticking the electronic brain of an automatic paper towel dispenser in the body of a Deathtron Warbot? What could go wrong? It’s like getting a free robot."

(Rendered for the new episode of TEJFAF, This Is Going To Be So Much Fun: tejfaf.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/this-is-going-to-be-so-mu...).

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Gotta be honest, I'm not proud of this. I threw it together incredibly quickly (with the exception of the seventeen-armed pink guy, who was a royal pain, even with nonexistent pink snakes to work with), and it's rife with mistakes and general sloppiness. I will readily admit there are a couple continuity errors here with the episode this is inspired by, but honestly I really did just cobble this together.

This is one of of my many recent (if unrendered) builds that I essentially made to showcase some minifigs, without much thought to quality. I did actually crack down and build an interior I'm proud of, though, so expect that after a couple more minifig-fests.