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While waiting in the car for my mother, who was responding to a constituent issue, I was pleasantly distracted with the beautiful dogwood tree in their front yard. The colors were soft and delicate, and I passed the time taking multiple shots.
Taken in University Place, Washington.
Added to EXPLORE for May 26th 2009. Highest position: #170
Choosing the grid position. Looks a bit more sophisticated these days - I seem to recall choosing a lollipop stick or a clothes peg with numbers on, back in the day.
Whenever I arrived at this spot I used to feel physically queasy at the thought of being in the middle of 30 or so 250 two strokes doing a push start (it is easy for someone to fail to start their bike, or stall in front, leaving me with nowhere to go) and then having to bring the front wheel down to peel round the first left hander. Fortunately, I always came away unscathed and it has now passed into legend as one of the most exciting things I've done ;-)
It was great to see this "proper" racing two stroke in action yesterday.
Quite ironic to see a No Smoking sign near the holding area for a race full of two strokes.
A westbound NS stack train passes beneath the signal bridge still displaying Pennsylvania Railroad position light signals at CP Leets in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
Lesson 39, part 1. Drawn from a reference. The bottom left one took about 1hr 12min. I didn't record how long the other ones took. These are old drawings I finally finished.
The B-1/B-2 Test Stand is a dual-position, vertical, static-firing structure built at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in the 1960s. First stages of the Apollo Saturn V rocket were tested on the stand from 1967 to 1970. Stennis now leases the B-1 test position to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne for testing of RS-68 engines. It is preparing the B-2 test position to test the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System in late 2016 and early 2017. The SLS stage, with four RS-25 rocket engines, will be installed on the stand for propellant fill and drain testing and two hot-fire tests.
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Spotless Crake ( Porzana tabuensis ) Morning light from my hide position does not favour shooting at this time so a change in strategy is called for.
Their dark plumage absorbs light like a sponge
Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Shot on Kodak Trix film, ISO 400, with a Canon A1, 50mm 1.4 lens. Developed with Kodak D76 and scanned with a Minolta Dimage Multi II.
Soyuz VS16 was transferred from the preparation building MIK to the Soyuz launch zone of the Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 24 January 2017.
The vehicle was rolled out horizontally on its erector from the MIK to the launch zone and then raised into the vertical position.
Soyuz VS16 will lift off in the early hours of 28 January (CET). The rocket will carry Hispasat 36W-1 satellite which will be the first satellite to use the SmallGEO platform.
SmallGEO is a multipurpose satellite platform capable of accommodating a wide range of commercial telecommunications payloads and missions, from TV broadcasting to multimedia applications, Internet access and mobile or fixed services in a wide range of frequency bands.
Its new, modular and flexible design boosts European industry’s ability to play a significant role in commercial satcoms by easing entry into the lower-mass telecom satellite market. It was developed by Germany's OHB System AG under ESA's ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme.
Hispasat's Hispasat 36W-1 will be the first satellite to use the SmallGEO platform, marking the first partnership between ESA and a Spanish operator.
H36W-1 will provide Europe, the Canary Islands and South America with faster multimedia services through its Redsat payload, which offers better signal quality and flexible land coverage. Redsat enables H36W-1 to provide advanced connectivity services based on the latest communication standards.
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Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017
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Strobist Sundays (11.29.09) - Music
While not technically music, these water drop sculptures still cause me to sing when I capture one.
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2 SB 800 speedlights, one set behind a frosted glass panel and to the left of the drop, and the second lighting the drop from the right side
Both flashes set to 1/128 power
Remote flashes triggered by on camera flash
Explore - Highest position: 81 on Saturday, May 9, 2009
Canon EOS 450D + Tamron SP AF 28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
HDR (One RAW) (-2/-1.5/-1/-0.5/0/+0.5/+1/+1.5/+2)
Sunday evening sunset ~ 16.35 p.m. - on Monday ~10 a.m. on Explore
Highest position: #291 on Monday, November 23, 2009
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
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Exposure: sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.7
Focal Length: 100 mm 20x zoom ~ 560mm analog
Scene Capture Type: Landscape
Categories: Scenery
Easy Mode: Sunset
ISO Speed: 80
fixed stand
define: sunset, Sonnenuntergang
Das scheinbare Abtauchen der Sonne unter den Horizont.
Wegen des Sonnendurchmessers, der im Winkelmaß 0,52 bis 0,54° beträgt, dauert der Sonnenuntergang von der ersten Horizontberührung bis zum Versinken in Mitteleuropa 3-4 Minuten.
Am Äquator verkürzt sich der Vorgang wegen der steileren Sonnenbahn auf 2,1 Minuten.
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Je nach Wetterlage kann das Sinken der Sonne mit einem beeindruckenden Farbenspiel verbunden sein, das manchmal nicht nur im Abendrot erstrahlt, sondern auch gelbe, violette oder gar grüne Farbtöne aufweist.
Die Farbveränderung wird durch die Streuung des Lichts verursacht. Die Erdatmosphäre wirkt hierbei mit ihren schwebenden Partikeln (Aerosole in der Peplosphäre) als diffus streuendes Medium, wobei blaues Licht stets stärker gestreut wird, als rotes (Diese Tatsache ist auch für das Himmelsblau verantwortlich).
Der blaue Lichtanteil aus der sinkenden Sonnenscheibe wird also stärker gestreut, so dass mehr rotes Licht den Beobachter erreicht.
Zusätzlich kann bei bestimmten Temperatur-Schichtungen auch ein ganz geringer Prismen-Effekt durch die Atmosphäre auftreten, der sich bei extrem scharfen Horizont als sogenannter „Grüner Blitz“ zeigen kann: Der Rot-Anteil der Sonnenscheibe verschwindet zuerst unter dem Horizont, so dass am oberen Sonnenrand kurz ein grün-blauer Saum aufzublitzen scheint.
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The intense red and orange hues of the sky at sunrise and sunset are mainly caused by scattering of sunlight by dust particles, soot particles, other solid aerosols, and liquid aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere.
These enhanced red and orange colors at sunrise and sunset are mathematically explained by the Mie theory or the discrete dipole approximation. When there are no particulates in the troposphere, such as after a big rain storm, then the remaining less intense reds are explained by Rayleigh Scattering of sunlight by air molecules.
Sunset colors are typically more brilliant and more intense than sunrise colors, since there are generally more particles and aerosols in the evening air than in the morning air. Nighttime air is usually cooler and less windy, which allows dust and soot particles to settle out of the atmosphere, reducing the amount of Mie Scattering at sunrise
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This may not be over interesting but I like the geometric feel of it. It his the North-East corner of my bedroom.
Highest position on Explore: 345 on Thursday, January 15, 2009
He really fell asleep in this position. I came back several times to check it!
It was a rainy Sunday and there were less people than usual in the Zoo Vienna. And I guess they all gathered in front of the Panda enclosure. Fu Long was climbing in a height of ten meters or more! It was incredible!
I move down the stairwell another level. The second floor is a lot more heavily damaged than the previous; an entire section looking like it had collapsed into the street. I crouch down and try to stay out of sight as I go along the side of the wall. I stop just short from where the floor drops away, kneel down and keep a low profile behind the crumbling wall, and slowly mount my rifle on top of the blasted concrete for stability. The gunner and one of the other rangers are pulling a tarp over the open cab and another ranger stands in front of the truck; keeping watch I'm assuming.
Cristy is going for the gunner, so I decide to take aim at the other ranger with the tarp. Then the last can be taken out between the two of us. She's not gonna shoot until I do, so I straighten out, take aim, and...
This view looks south-west from a position adjacent to the Seri Rambai cannon at the point of the north-western bastion of Fort Cornwallis, in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. A photo I posted a couple of days ago looks directly at the ammunition store which is just visible on the left edge of the image above. The cannon positions are visible, along the western wall of the bastion and what appears to be the footings for a trainable gun in the very far corner.
Beyond, the partially-hidden roofed building in the distance is probably the fort's main magazine, surrounded by high protective walls. The small domed building to its right is also within the protective magazine walls, suggesting a similar role - perhaps one for powder and one for shot? It's interesting that they stand proud of the defensive works on the fort's walls. You'd have thought they woudl have been partially sunken into the ground - but perhaps there was a risk of damp/water in light of the fort's proximity to the sea?
Light Road (Lebuh Light) can be seen just over the heads of the two ladies on the right. Assuming that "The Chartered Bank" (seen on the left horizon) is a precursor of today's Standard Chartered Bank, I can report that the bank has moved since this shot was taken in 1971.
The bastion fort was built by the British East India Company in the late 18th century and is the largest standing fort in Malaysia. The fort never engaged in combat during its operational history.
It was named after the then Lieutenant-General The 2nd Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805), the Governor-General of Bengal at the time of the fort's construction, who had also been involved in the American War of Independence, surrendering his army to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781.
In 1804, after the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, and during Colonel R T Farquhar's term as Governor of Prince of Wales Island (also known as Penang Island), Indian convict labourers rebuilt the fort using brick and stone. Fort Cornwallis was completed in 1810, at the cost of $80,000, during Norman Macalister’s term as Governor of Penang. A moat 9m wide by 2m deep once surrounded the fort but it was filled in the 1920s due to a malaria outbreak in the area.
Even though the fort was originally built for the British military, its function, historically, was more administrative than defensive. For example, the judge of the Supreme Court of Penang, Sir Edmond Stanley, an Anglo-Irish barrister, was first housed at Fort Cornwallis when the court opened on 31 May 1808. During the 1920s Sikh police of the Straits Settlements occupied the fort.
Royal Navy personnel under the direction of Revd Peter Brown conducted an archaeological survey in July/August 1970. The fort was gazetted on 8 September 1977, under the Antiquities Act 168/1976, as an Ancient Monument and Historic site. Today it is part of the George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The view above looks almost due south from a position close to the Seri Rambai cannon, with the Jubilee Clock Tower peaking over the trees to the left of the store. Scanned from a slide. Taken by a relative during a visit in 1971.
Pictured is the Javelin Anti-Tank Missile system in the various different positions and stances that it could be fired from and how it can be carried in the correct way...Here a member of the Army School of Infantry (Specialist Weapon School) uses his SA80 while he carries the Javelin System Stowed.
Javelin, the medium range anti-tank guided weapon replacement for Milan, is an enhanced version of the American weapon proven on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by US forces...The UK version has two significant enhancements - a more effective sight system and a tripod, for firing and observation. Javelin delivers longer range, greater lethality, significantly more powerful optics and a lighter load for the infantryman...Although designed primarily to destroy tanks and light armoured vehicles, Javelin will also provide a potent, all-weather, day or night capability against fixed defences, such as bunkers and buildings.
The integrated sight allows the operator to acquire the target, lock-on, fire and 'forget'. This means that as soon as the missile is launched, the firer can acquire another target or move position. Javelin has a maximum range of 2500m, and overfly and direct attack modes of operation...Javelin's surveillance and target acquisition performance is better than all other passive, ground mounted, battlegroup surveillance systems...Javelin is a crew-served weapon operated by a firer and a controller/observer. The controller/observer commands the weapon and assists with loading, identifying targets and battlefield damage assessment.
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'Queen of the Night' (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) reveals its jungle reproduction features — multi-lobed stigma protruding beyond to collect pollen, and anthers positioned to shed pollen as big hairy gypsy moths wriggle right in to collect nectar. Moths and other pollinators are attracted by the large (200mm) white blooms and delightful perfume (not wasted on humans either). Exquisite flower from all perspectives!
On a damp day around Crewe Gresty Bridge, I was instantly inspired by the intelligent positioning of DRS's new locomotive 68002 'Intrepid' along side Ffestiniog Railway's 'Prince'.
This is one of few of my photos that was not photo-bombed by the masses of people at the Open Day. I also fancied doing something different to the inevitable identical photos many of you will see of this event.
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60163 Tornado on a positioning move from Carnforth to Edinburgh for this year's GB Tour seen from Low Barrows Green. It was running about an hour late and so it was a case of continuing on my walk back to Oxenholme Station and hope that I would get to see it. A 37 was up front due to the current fire risk but as most of it was behind the tree a click or two got rid of the back end!