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I still have a few images from my trip to Lake Tyrell in November 2021.
I did post one of this old grader that sits several kilometers out from the shore of Lake Tyrell. It has been stranded there for almost 30 years, slowly rustling away.
"Rust Never Sleeps" is of course the title from Neil Young's Classic album Some consider the term to be a metaphor for artistic vitality. E.g. by staying the same, one is vulnerable to the corrosive effects of aging and obsolescence.
That works for me.
One day you're cutting edge...the next you're spare parts to lowest bidder...
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Lots of useless structures. Whoever thought of putting a call box here, nowadays completely obsolete. The turnoff from the flyover already was obsolete when it was built. And the whole flyover is closed nowadays due to bridge damage and scheduled to be demolished.
In 1814, Samuel Marsden acquired land at Kerikeri from Hongi Hika for the use of the Church Missionary Society for a payment of forty-eight axes. In 1819, Marsden established the second Church Missionary Society mission in New Zealand at the Kerikeri Basin. The protector of the mission station was the chief Ruatara, a nephew of Hongi Hika. Hongi Hika traded with the missionaries, typically exchanging kūmara for arms and ammunition, which he used in raiding rival tribes. By 1827, Hongi and his followers had left Kerikeri, leaving the missionaries with a much smaller native population to proselytise and educate. The mission closed in 1848 due to a declining Māori population and increasing obsolescence of the settlement in favour of Russell.
The building on the right was originally known as the Mission House, and then for more than 100 years Kemp House, but now known as Kerikeri Mission House, it is the oldest extant building in New Zealand.
The two-storey Georgian structure was constructed from 1821 to 1822 by the Church Missionary Society. It was built to house the Reverend John Gare Butler. James Kemp and his family occupied the building in 1832 and the Kemp family continued to live in the house long after the closure of the Kerikeri mission in 1848. The Kemp family continued to live in the building until Ernest Kemp donated the property to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1974.
The building on the left is simply known as The Stone Store, a former storehouse, is the oldest stone building in New Zealand, construction having begun on 19 April 1832. The keystone above the door bearing the date 1833 is thought to have been carved by the stonemason William Parrott who cut the Sydney sandstone in situ, but construction of the building was not actually completed until mid-1836.
Fort Union National Monument, New Mexico
~ Title from Hammock's brilliant ambient piece. ~
This quietly fading historic fort on the famous Santa Fe Trail really is in the middle of nowhere, which is a shame because as a result few people ever visit. While I was there in that lonely landscape, only a single park ranger and one other couple were the only humans in sight. The place is so photogenic though, and if you let it effect you, it creates a haunting sense of the courage and determination of the settlers and adventurers who came this way so long ago.
Troops from this fort stopped the Confederate invasion of the West during the American Civil War in 1862 at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. It's a battle you have likely never heard of...except you have, if you have ever watched the great western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Events in the first half of the movie revolve around the Confederate invasion, and the two protagonists are taken prisoner after the battle.
One of the last stops prior to reaching the city of Santa Fe, Fort Union played an important part in the settlement of the West from 1851 to its obsolescence in 1891. The coming of the railroad brought an end to the Santa Fe Trail, which in turn brought an end to the fort. It could not survive in the middle of this nowhere.
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The diesel-electric vessel is ready for deployment after a 14-year hiatus. [...]. Navy submarines help contribute to national security and defence due to undertaking long covert patrols in Canadian maritime areas and distant waters. Canada [...] acquired HMCS Corner Brook [...] from the United Kingdom on April 6, 1998. [it was commissioned 29 June 2003 and its Motto is: We rule the sea].
Repairs were needed to bring the 2,455 tonne [Length70.26 m (230 ft 6 in)] submarine back to pristine condition following the strike on the seabed, with a price tag of $20 million. [...]. Upgrades to Corner Brook’s sonar and communications systems were also needed, costing roughly $690 million. “[...]. New systems and upgrades help address obsolescence, enhance the sub’s operational capabilities and improve communications from the vessel to shore.“ [...].
Inside HMCS Corner Brook
Aside from technical upgrades and maintenance, Corner Brook can get real cozy. Up to 59 sailors can fit into the confined space, surrounded by equipment, pipes and gauges showing pressure and temperature. This Victoria class sub is designed to stay submerged for weeks at a time. A few rooms and hallways are dedicated to bed-bunk style beds for sailors to sleep in, with sleeping bags, pillows and uniforms. Other rooms are filled with control switches, monitors and engines. The commanding officer’s room is a bit more spacious than the rest [...]. The most spacious rest area of the submarine, the "Junior Ranks Mess," is for general purposes – [...].
But the biggest space of the vessel is the weapons storage compartment, where torpedoes are stored when the ship is on an operational mission. [Armament 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes and 18 × Mark 48 Mod 7 AT torpedoes]. When torpedoes are not there, the area is used to sleep trainees and also as a gym space.
Nearby is the kitchen, where three cooks make breakfast, lunch and dinner daily for the dozens of sailors on board. On Corner Brook, sailors eat breakfast at 3 a.m., lunch at 11 a.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. “We get top notch food because we all know food really affects morale,” said Lt.-Cmdr Britany Bourgeois. [...]. Petty Officer First Class Stephen Mahabir has been on Corner Brook before and after the grounding incident, and says it’s good to see the vessel finally returning to sea. [...].
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January can be a tough month but these things help me get through it...
~warmth & light
~a good knit
~photography
~and a warm mug of something to soothe the soul.
thank you for these beautiful photos...
1. Untitled, 2. Ritual, 3. {364:365}, 4. 8, 5. Knitting ~ 5:366, 6. Just started, 7. 6/365 Baby it's kinda cold outside, 8. ♡, 9. Planned obsolescence, 10. a year in photos and in life, 11. In the middle of it all., 12. sometimes the best things are held together by paperclips, 13. cardamon, 14. Untitled, 15. Untitled, 16. 332/365, baby it's cold outside...
Fort Point has been called "the pride of the Pacific," "the Gibraltar of the West Coast," and "one of the most perfect models of masonry in America." When construction began during the height of the California Gold Rush 1853, Fort Point was planned as the most formidable deterrence America could offer to a naval attack on California. Although its guns never fired a shot in anger, the "Fort at Fort Point" as it was originally named has witnessed Civil War, obsolescence, earthquake, bridge construction, reuse for World War II, and preservation as a National Historic Site.
I think that Mi 9 had better cameras than Mi 11. However, when the Mi 9 reached the end of its lifespan, it stopped receiving updates and some apps stopped working, which greatly affected its use.
I confess that I particularly liked the camera with the longest focal length, even though it had "few" megapixels, as it produced very sharp images with very little noise. It's not that the Mi 11 is bad, but it lacks optical zoom functionality. It also reached the end of its lifespan (as defined by the manufacturer) this year, but as long as it works and the apps I need work, I'll keep it; we have to combat planned obsolescence, we have to save the environment and our wallets!
Pilot Paul Bonhomme at the controls of one of the fastest piston-engined planes ever to go into service. The Fury, and its naval version, Sea Fury, arrived too late to see action in WW2 and was already being eclipsed by the new-fangled jet aircraft starting to appear in the mid-1940s. In fact, the Royal Air Force cancelled all their orders, and only the Sea Fury saw any service with the British military, with the Royal Navy. In 1952, during the Korean War, a Sea Fury of the Royal Navy is credited with shooting down a North Korean MiG 15 jet, a rare example of a jet being downed by a propeller driven aircraft.
Obsolescence not withstanding, more than 860 of the type were eventually constructed, serving with ten air arms around the world, and later many found their way (somewhat modified) to compete in the Reno Air Races in Nevada.
100 11th Avenue in West Chelsea, New York City, an exquisite apartment building designed by Jean Nouvel, instantly recognizable by its window-laced exterior.
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We become older
and are put out to pasture..................
we lose our beauty,
creases, folds, wrinkles cover the young innocence and smoothness
of our younger hedonistic days.
our mind slow downs
we think of the naivety of our youth
and how directionless they seem
the painful existential angst: to ponder our obsolescence, the passage of time brings on...................
that there isnt enough time to accomplish what we believe we should have or still can.
fear anxiety paralyzes many of us.
mistakes are not acceptable
the clock our worst enemy.
the hell that demonizes us.
Near Bantry.........
IRELAND
Photography’s new conscience
Some people leave a void when they decide to leave your life, even if this story had planned obsolescence , it hurts.
I’m still faintly surprised when I come across abandoned vehicles on farmland. It seems the farmers drive them into the ground but can’t bring themselves to part with them.
Standing proud and erect on it’s crumbling limestone foundation, staunch and defiant like the old time school marms who once ruled here with the aid of a hickory switch, this old one room schoolhouse continues as a reminder that we are not really that far removed from a simpler time when an eighth grade education was considered entirely sufficient to get on with life here in Midwestern America. My mother went to one. So did most of the WW-2 generation. In an increasingly technological society like we have today fueled by rapid obsolescence, education is now never ending and it is becoming increasingly hard just to keep up. Perhaps it is time to stop a moment and ask if this is all really that necessary. What are we losing in the process? My numerous Amish friends are raising large families and seem to be getting along just fine with an eighth grade education from a one room school house not entirely different from the one pictured here. More and more it seems to me that Aldous Huxley was prophetic when he wrote Brave New World. Where are we going as a society? Do we even want to ask? Are we really any better off than the children who went to school here? I suppose I had better leave the heavy thinking to the heavy thinkers.
After a devastating data loss with the death of my Mac (after only 6 years) I'm back. I had forgotten to delete this from my camera - hence it survived.
9031, 9025, 9027 lead T483G empty coal from PWCS Kooragang (Newcastle) to PN’s Greta Train Support Facility where it will be provisioned and then sent out to a coal mine for loading. Seen at Thornton at 1743 on Saturday 14th January 2023.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regrading whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.
Europe, Belgium, Flanders, Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Antwerpen Centraal station (Middenstatie), Thalys HST's (slightly cut from L & R)
Shot into the lowest level of the Anterwerpen Centraal station, mainly used by the HST trains to France and Holland with two Thalyses in the tiltable TFT screen of the GX9. The trains are Alsthom built TGVs, (Train à Grand Vitesse - the train type, introduced in 1981, that revolutionalized European long range rail travel and saved it from obsolescence.
This is number 104 of the Train travel fascination album and 905 of Minimalism/explicit Graphism.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Mound of Cars by Badanna Zack: Badanna Zack’s roadside sculpture, Mound of Cars, intertwines the raw materials of nature with the vestiges of technology. Six discarded vehicles found on the property in a derelict state were towed, stacked in a pyramid fashion, crushed, and covered with earth. Integrated into the surrounding terrain, the mound is continuous with the ground level behind while its contours rephrase the rock formations which front the site. Bisecting the mound, the artist’s incision reveals the inner stratification of detritus buried in this wall of earth. Overturned cars, damaged interiors, corroded carburetors, twisted fenders, smashed headlights and punctured wheels trail through the elevation, forming an aggregate of wreckage. Resembling an archeological dig at a landfill site, the driven culture, and the consequent speed of obsolescence which heralds the rapid demise of each new advance-monument to our pervasive, and insidious, contamination of the environment.
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Tolerating harsh extremes across a variety of climates, the P-40 was a low-cost aircraft that kept in production beyond its normal obsolescence, and was flown by numerous allied nations during WWII.
9031, 9032 and 9027 lead loaded coal train ND126 from Newdell to PWCS Port Waratah seen at Belford at 1053 on Saturday the 1st of July 2023.
Generally, 90 class locomotives are paired with rakes of wagons without ECP Braking capabilities. However, on this occasion they are hauling loaded 120t ECP braking wagons. Can't remember the classifications.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regrading whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.
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Merge of 5 different HDRs, each made with the same 5 RAW files. Blended in photoshop.
Mélange de 5 HDRs, chacun fait à partir de 5 RAWs.
Common member of the Thomasid family discovered hanging from a tree on the path to my front door. It was a happy find because ten minutes earlier I took delivery of a new Nisi Close-Up Lens designed to make any 70 to 200mm lens function as a macro. My old Nikon 70-200mm lens had drifted into obsolescence, so I tried the new combination out. This is one of the results, a bit blown out in the abdomen, but showing the sharpness and depth of field at f/9.0 without much practice at all. My early call is that the Nisi lens which just screws on the front of the 70-200 compares well with my Nikon 105mm micro/macro. The combination lens is a bit clunky for photographing small objects but it's no substantive disadvantage. More to come I expect.