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Podge is 19 years old today. He is the most adorable cat and I can't begin to image life without him. We have always had a house full of pets but now Podge is an only one. I would really love to get another dog but Podge is a sensitive soul who doesn't like change.
I converted this to black and white which I think I prefer but Podge has such lovely colouring that I thought I'd post this one.
Our little town of Sylvester has two main streets which run north and south on which almost all our storefronts face. I had no idea what the "underbelly" looked like until I started meandering around when no one was there. This is a potpourri of shapes, lines, angles, colors and textures, a result of add-on after add-on. Thank you to my Flickr friend, www.flickr.com/photos/chuk-haze/, for turning me on to these photographic possibilities! (My battery went our on my Olympus so I had to keep shooting with my iphone.)
I've spoken before about how I enjoy the absolute mess of buildings and styles in London. It's fairly evident when you're standing by the Bank of London and looking across to the brand new towers in the City.
I really do love walking around the City at night; there's just so few people around. Whilst the road ahead of us was closed there wouldn't have been much, if any, traffic anyway. It feels like a more peaceful version of 28 Days Later.
14/30: April 2017: A month in 30 pictures
I felt it only right that there should be at least one photo of Podge in the April challenge...not just because I am desperate for inspiration but, at the grand old age of nineteen and a half, he is a very special boy. He still won't pose for the camera though so this is as good as it gets. He always looks grumpy too!
The Bruxner Highway (B60) runs across north eastern New South Wales from Tenterfield through Casino, Lismore and eventually the Pacific Highway at Ballina on the coast. The first section between Tenterfield and Casino is a shocker of a road to drive, winding through dense forest and ranges for what seems tormenting hours. I have done it a couple of times but never again. It does have a few redeeming features along the way.
We came across this collection of very mixed breeds of community letterboxes. The traditional PMG/AP speckled red box in the middle is a private inwards box with AC DC written on the front. Maybe they know something we don't. This is the Sandy Hill area, extremely rural with a couple of pretty creeks/rivers. See tomorrow's shots.
I'm always up for letterboxes of course but not much of great interest here, the best being out of frame and for another time.
Just come back from a weekend meetup in the lakes, the weather was pants but the company was excellent. I visit places I'd never been, all will get a return visit. This picture is from Hodge Close, a slate quarry. This time of year the Silver Birch has changed and you get the lovely golden leaves against the grey of the slate and sky.
No two locomotives are the same teaming up to power this eastbound manifest off of the Appleton Subdivision at Benson heading eastward towards Willmar. Although a basic shot, I was drawn to this location because of the unusual flanger sign in advance of the crossing. I have never seen a flanger like this.
21/52: For Project 52 - Black and white
I had a few options for this challenge but decided on this one of Podge, our elderly gentleman, he will be 19 in September. Converted to black and white in Lightroom.
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Hodge podge of ice, on Lake Winnipesaukee, near Ellacoya State Beach, Gilford, NH. You can see how quickly the ice froze here. Most likely, less than 48 hour old ice. I'm 1/4 mile off shore in this photo. The ice beneath me looks broken up, but it's actually fairly thick. The layer of ice beyond this point, however, was less than a day old. Next pic will be from that vantage point.
I made this from an old medicine cabinet. With a fresh coat of paint and some pretty fabric mod podged to the inside, it now houses all of my buttons!
Blogged about at: createstudio.blogspot.com/2009/10/let-countdown-begin.html.
Seen standing east of the Gosford/St-Claude Street, looking west, here is quite an architectural hodge podge starting by the modern design of the Chaussegros-de-Léry building right next to us, then the City Hall (here emerging in the sunrise), and then a whole series of buildings old and new all the way to the horizon. /////// À partir de la rue Notre-Dame, quand on se tient juste à l'est de l'axe Gosford/St-Claude, on a une vue de ce que j'appelle le 'hodge podge architectural' de la rue Notre-Dame, quand on regarde en direction ouest, avec à droite, à l'avant-plan, la facture moderne de l'édifice Chaussegros-de-Léry, qui jure avec l'Hôtel de Ville, puis toute une série d'édifices fort différents jusqu'à l'horizon.
Podge is not a very good model, like most cats, he doesn't keep very still unless he is sleeping! He does think he's the cat's whiskers and I am inclined to agree!
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Tampa and North Carolina--compositie
The Chinese restaurant is in Tampa. The building on the right is in Asheville, NC. The guy with the skateboard was standing at a crosswalk in downtown Tampa. The girl with the hoola hoop was at a Tampa farmers market and as was the pink T-bird and bicycle and dog. I don't remember where the window is from. The mountain was on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC.
Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, and beside the Blaak Subway Station. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
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Enjoy it better large and on black.
Made it #439 on Explore (see history).
I love how she painted this!! this was a 2 day project started at the neighbors.
cardboard, modge-podge, paint= fun!
Some background
Today's Israel Aerospace Industries was founded in 1953 as Bedek Aviation Company under the initiative of Shimon Peres, then Director general of the Ministry of Defense, in order to maintain Israel Defense Forces (IDF) aircraft'. The company originally had 70 employees and recruited American born aviation expert Al Schwimmer as the company's founder and first president.
The Israeli Air Force (Kheil HaAvir) was formed on May 28, 1948, shortly after Israel declared statehood and found itself under attack. It consisted of a hodge-podge of commandeered or donated civilian aircraft converted to military use. A variety of obsolete and surplus ex-World War II combat aircraft were quickly sourced by various means to supplement this fleet.
Israel's new fighter arm first went into action on May 29, 1948, assisting the efforts to halt the Egyptian advance from Gaza northwards. The first dogfight against enemy fighters took place a few days later, on June 8, when Gideon Lichtaman shot down an Egyptian Spitfire. As the war progressed, more and more aircraft were procured, including Boeing B-17s, Bristol Beaufighters, de Havilland Mosquitoes and P-51D Mustangs, leading to a shift in the balance of power.
Anyway, experience revealed that a powerful, fast and cannon-armed fighter bomber was still required. This led to the adaptation of the Hawker Tempest, which had become available after WWII from RAF surplus stocks. 24 Mk. II airframes without engines or other military equipment were transferred by ship from RAF squadrons in Germany to Israel, where the young Bedek Aviation Company re-equipped them and modified them to local needs.
Most obvious change was the new engine, a P&W R-2800-32(E) 18 cylinder radial engine with a two-stage supercharger and a maximum output of 2,760 hp (2,060 kW) emergency power, which replaced the former Centaurus. Anyway, due to the high local ambient temperatures and the desert theatre of operations, the engines had to be equipped with extra oil coolers (a second cooler was added to the port side wing’s leading edge) and dust filters. With all these modifications, the engine’ effective power was 2,500 hp (1,865 kW).
Further modifications included optional launch rails for up to British RPGs and a pair of bomb hardpoints under the outer wings for bombs of up to 1.000lb caliber each, or a pair of drop tanks. Furthermore, the cockpit received additional armor plating against small caliber weapons.
The modified type was christened סערה (S'erh = tempest) and introduced to IDF service in 1954, mostly replacing the obsolete Avia S.199 (essentially Czechoslovak-built Messerschmitt Bf 109s with Junkers Jumo 211F engines) and Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IXEs (also purchased from Czechoslovakia). They were all allocated to IDF/AF's newly founded 104 tajeset, a dedicated fighter bomber unit with its home base near Tel Aviv.
It was not long before the S'erh became involved in a serious conflict: the Suez Crisis. The Israeli Air Force played an important part in Operation Kadesh, Israel's part in the 1956 Suez Crisis. At the launch of the operation, on October 29, Israeli P-51D Mustangs and S'erh fighter bombers severed telephone lines in the Sinai, some even using their propeller blades, while 16 IAF DC-3s escorted by fighters dropped Israeli paratroopers behind Egyptian lines at the Mitla Pass and Et-Tur.
The Israeli Air Force also conducted attacks on Egyptian ground units and assisted the Israeli Navy in capturing an Egyptian warship that bombarded the Israeli city of Haifa – an airstrike damaged the Egyptian ship's engines, enabling Israeli ships to reach it and capture it.
After this conflict, though, the S'erh was quickly taken away from front line duties. Seven machines were lost during the Suez operations, and the remaining airframes started showing severe signs of fatigue. Furthermore, spare parts for the R-2800 engines became more and more costly - the age of the jet engine had begun. Dassault Mystere IV and Dassault Mirage IIICJ eventually replaced the piston-engine aircraft in the Israeli Air Force.
Consequentially, Bedek began in 1959 manufacturing its first aircraft, a V-tailed twinjet trainer of French design, the Fouga Magister, locally called Tzukit (Monticola). The first aircraft to be fully designed and built by IAI, the IAI Arava STOL (short take-off and landing) transport aircraft, first flew in 1969 after three years of development.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 34 ft 11 in (10.66 m)
Wingspan: 41 ft 0 in (12.49 m)
Height: 16 ft 1 in (4.90 m) (w. tail down)
Wing area: 302 ft² (28 m²)
Empty weight: 9,250 lb (4,195 kg)
Loaded weight: 11,400 lb (5,176 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 13,640 lb (6,190 kg)
Powerplant:
1× P&W R-2800-32(E) 18 cylinder radial engine with a two-stage supercharger
and a maximum output of 2,500 hp (1,865 kW), driving a four-bladed Rotol propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 435 mph at 19,000 ft (700 km/h at 5,791 m)
Range: 740 mi (1,190 km) with internal fuel only,
1,530 mi (2,462 km) with 90 gal (409 l) drop tanks
Service ceiling: 36,500 ft (11,125 m)
Rate of climb: 4,700 ft/min (23.9 m/s)
Wing loading: 37.75 lb/ft² (184.86 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.21 hp/lb (0.31 kW/kg)
Armament:
4× 20 mm (.79 in) Mark V Hispano cannons, 200 rpg.
2× underwing hardpoints for 500 lb (227 kg) or 1,000 lb (454 kg) bombs
or 2× 45 gal (205 l) or 2× 90 gal (409 l) drop tanks
Alternatively up to 8× unguided 3 in (76.2 mm) RP-3 rockets
The kit and its assembly:
This converted Hawker Tempest was original inspired by a CG artwork from a flight simulation game, where someone had copied the skin from a D-Day P-47, in US olive drab/neutral grey livery with invasion stripes and some colorful cowling trim, onto a Tempest Mk. II. This looked very good and natural, but I found the overall concept to be fishy. The Tempest belongs to a later war period, and I could hardly imagine that the US forces, with potent fighters like the P-47 or the P-51 at hand, would operate the Tempest, too?
But the idea kept haunting me, and resulted in the idea of an engine switch to an R-2800 radial. Another unlikely move, at least during WWII, and so I kept searching for a post-war niche for this conversion. After ruling out some option (India, Myanmar) I eventually settled for the young state of Israel during the nascent period of its air force in the early Fifties – and about the time when Tempest airframes would become available. Still not a 100% bulletproof story, but I liked the idea.
Technically, this is just the (actually very good) Matchbox kit of the Hawker Tempest, which comes with an optional Sabre and a Centaurus nose section, with an engine transplant from an Italeri F4U-5 and some minor cosmetic changes.
The engine switch was easier than expected, both the Centaurus and the R-2800 have almost the same diameter – even though the Corsair cowling is a bit wider and more massive. But the stunt works pretty well, without major PSR work.
Another feature that changes IMHO the Tempest’s look considerably is the new, spinner-less propeller. It suits the “new” aircraft well, and makes the Tempest look much more American, and somewhat menacing?
In order to blend the engine into the fuselage lines I added a shallow air scoop under the cowling, and an additional oil cooler was, scratched with styrene sheet and putty, added to the port wing, for a more or less symmetrical arrangement.
In the cockpit, I just added a dashboard and the canopy was cut into two pieces for display. The landing gear was taken OOB.
In order to tell the fighter bomber story I added ordnance under the wings in the form of two US style 500 lb bombs (from a Smer F4U) plus a pair of scratched pylons, plus two pairs of resin RP-3 rockets and launch rails (Pavla) on the outermost positions.
Painting and markings:
This was a bit tricky. The classic brown/blue IDF livery of the Suez crisis would have been a natural choice, but I wanted something different – and eventually found a P-51 of that era (“19”) which became the inspiration for the S'erh.
The Mustang carried a relatively simple scheme in sand and green, with light blue undersides – but interpretations of the tones vary greatly. Furthermore I was only able to dig up side views of the machine, and apparently it had a symmetrical pattern on the fuselage, with large blotches instead of color bands.
I used Tamiya XF-57 “Buff” and “Olive Green” (XF-58) as basic tones for the upper surfaces and Humbrol 247 (RLM 76) for the undersides - kind of a "sand & spinach" livery. Later, the model received a black ink wash and post shading with lighter tones (Humbrol 167 "Hemp" as well as RAL 6003 and RLM 76 from Modelmaster). Cockpit and landing gear wells became Tamiya XF-67 (Field Grey), an slightly darker alternative to the classic RAF Interior Green.
The decals were puzzled together - the national markings and the Suez ID stripes came from a Heller Ouragan, the tactical code "57" came from an Italeri La-5FN (and is actually a "75"...) and the unit badge was lent from an Italeri A-4M, depicting a VMA-331 "Bumble Bees" machine.
Finally, the model received some soot stains around the exhausts and the gun ports, and it was sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri).
I was a little scpetical whether the fictional Israeli origin of this what-if was sound or not, but when I look at the finished model I think it's a good story - and the Tempest with the massive R-2800 engine does actually not look that bad or unbalanced, despite the wider cowling and the lack of a propeller spinner. Esp. the latter detail males the aircraft look really different. The sleek Tempest is still there, but you immediately wonder "Well, there's something wrong with it...?".
Lighting used for next image of a French Bulldog.
Canon 580ex in softbox at left, 430ex with Lumiquest softbox on right. Sunpak 383 for hair light in the back, with Stofen Omnibounce taped to it (was model for Canon 580ex). 383 was triggered with an optical slave.
Initially I thought this place was a dud, but after entering the site we found it to be an old & abandoned Pet Food Mill. It suddenly got a bit more exciting. It was a hodge podge of different types of equipment and it was fun to photograph
[NEW] OOAK Autumn Colours @charlescreaturecabinet [CCC HEDGEHOG Faerie] ♀️💛 PODGE (chocolat fondant) | PUMPKIN (potiron orange) | CHESTNUT (chataigne marron) 💛 ~Coming Soon!
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CCC PODGE | 6.5 cm Tiny BJD | hedgehog faerie | Ball-Jointed Doll ~Chocolat Fondant and Glow-in-the-Dark orange
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CCC PUMPKIN | 6.5 cm Tiny BJD | hedgehog faerie | Ball-Jointed Doll ~Potiron Orange and Glow-in-the-Dark yellow
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CCC FUZZYHOG | 6.5 cm Tiny BJD | hedgehog faerie | Ball-Jointed Doll ~Beige Tan and Glow-in-the-Dark green
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CCC CHESTNUT | 6.5 cm Tiny BJD | hedgehog faerie | Ball-Jointed Doll ~Chataigne Marron and Glow-in-the-Dark orange
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Handmade crochet orange Françoise Eäréwen Lejout
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