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An eastbound Norfolk Southern stack train passes beneath the eastbound home signals for CP Leets on the Fort Wayne Line in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania.
Explore highest position at #166.
Thank you everyone.
At The Philadelphia International Flower Show.
Please check out my set for the show.
This shot (as all of my Flower Show shots) was indeed taken on Fat Tuesday. This is such a festive looking image that I decided to name it in honor of the holiday. I also celebrated by having some amazing gumbo at the Reading Terminal Market, YUM!
Highest position: 228 on Friday, February 15, 2013
"...twist your head around
It's all around you
All is full of love
All around you"
This is love, this is bokeh!
Happy St. Valentine's Day!
Miami Beach, Florida
Wilmerding still sports a full set of PRR PLs on the busy NS Pittsburgh mainline. I'm thrilled these still stand, and will be making one last trip to capture these one last time before NS makes them history. The stories that these could tell...
Obverse: Iris, in the running-kneeling position, three-quarters to left, wearing a long, transparent chiton; holding a kerykeion in her right hand and a wreath in her left; her head turned back to right with her hair bound up in a sakkos. Reverse: Pyramidal baetyl between an inverted ∆ and an Ι; all within a shallow incuse square with partially curved edges.
Kaunos (map) was an important Carian harbor city, which became increasingly Hellenized from the 6th century on (it was originally a Carian city), but it was only a truly fully Greek city in the Hellenistic period. The Iris coinage of the 5th century seems to have been issued on a considerable scale and, as this coin shows, included at least one superlative die cutter among its mint personnel.
In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. She is also known as one of the goddesses of the sea and the sky. Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other, and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.
Baetylus or sacred stones could be found in many places across the ancient world. They represented the essence of a deity. They were iconic symbols of the gods, indicating that the gods were present and accessible.
One of these sacred stones was found in Kaunos in the rubble of a 3rd century BC temple. The stone, an obelisk, had split in two and was in the center of a circle of columns. It was limestone, over 13 feet high and 5 feet wide. Originally, the stone was out in the open until a temple was built around it. The obelisk-shaped baetyl was the symbol of King Kaunos, who according to mythology, established the ancient city bearing his name.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
This young Eastern Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) provided us with quite a show. One of the protection behaviors of Hog-nosed Snakes is to fake death. This youngster had not yet fully developed the behavior. It would first try one "death position" and then, a few seconds later, another. It never held a single "death position" long enough to be convincing. Very entertaining little snake. My favorite "death positions" was when it would stick its tongue out. Idylwild Wildlife Management Area, Caroline County, Maryland.
script with touch menu
5 frame colours
shine on/off
10 different lens colours
4 transparency levels
4 glow levels
On nose or on head position switch with edited position auto save.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy gives opening remarks at the 25th meeting of the Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing National Advisory Board, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, Va. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Variable wing-position. The bottom-right image is the angle it was at in the original version, but I feel that the top image is best representative of the in-game ship
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located in the village of Upnor Kent. Its purpose was to defend ships moored "in ordinary" on the River Medway outside Chatham Dockyard.
The property is owned by English Heritage and managed by Medway Council.
Due to its sheltered position, close to London, the River Medway was used to build and repair warships, and to moor them in ordinary, that is with the rigging sails removed. To protect this fleet, Queen Elizabeth and her Privy council ordered in 1559, that a bulwark be built on the river at Upnor in the parish of Frindsbury for the protection of our navy. Six 'indifferent persons' selected a site opposite St Mary's Creek and 6 acres of land was purchased for £25 from Mr Thomas Devinisshe of Frindsbury. The bulwark was designed by Sir Richard Lee, but the building was supervised by Humphrey Locke and Richard Watts. Stage one was finished in 1564. In 1564 twenty three of the Queen largest ships were moored in Bridge Reach.
In 1585, at the instigation of William Bourne the Master Gunner, a chain was laid across the river, as this was more effective than gunfire in sinking enemy ships. The castle however was inadequately manned, and further modifications were planned. In October 1599, Sir John Leveson's estimate for new works was accepted. A timber palisade was placed in the river, the water bastion was raised to a greater height with a parapet of good height and an enclosing ditch 18 ft deep and 32 ft wide dug to protect the castle from the landward side. 612 tons of rag-stone and 223 tons of ashlar was removed from Rochester Castle. Altered in 1625, and again in 1653. In 1623, Upnor had 18 guns of various sizes.
During the Civil War The castle was surrendered to the Parliament in 1642. A Royalist rebellion in 1648 seized the castle. It was returned to the Parliament, and following a visit by General Fairfax (Parliament) further repairs were planned. It was used as a prison
The Dutch Republic during the Second Anglo-Dutch War had suffered a severe setback in the St James's Day Battle in August 1666. Believing the Dutch would therefore be more inclined to remain inactive, Charles II of England delayed the peace negotiations at Breda though he hadn't the money in 1667 to put out a fleet. To the surprise of the Admiralty, in June of that year, a Dutch fleet, under Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, came up the Thames to Gravesend. It turned towards Chatham and burnt down the fort at Sheerness. The chain was in place between Hoo Ness and Gillingham. On the 12 June 1667 either a Dutch ship broke the chain or a landing party cast it loose. The Dutch had been piloted up the channel by disaffected English sailors, and the Dutch Captain of the Marines, Colonel Dolman, was also English. There was limited resistance from Chatham or the dockyard as the workers had not been paid for two years.Mr Wilson reported to Pepys that there were many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking English to one another. HMS Royal Charles was taken to be carried to the Republic and many ships that were lying along the dockyard wall were destroyed, such as the HMS Royal Oak. The Dutch anchored when the tide turned and didn't resume the attack until the next day. The Duke of Albemarle arrived and put an eight gun battery (Middleton's Battery) alongside the castle. Pepys wrote I do not see that Upnor Castle hath received any hurt by them though they played long against it: and they themselves shot till they had hardly a gun left upon the carriages, so badly provided they were. So lack of munitions was Upnor's failing. On the 24 July 1667 a Royal Warrant ordered that Upnor be strengthened. On 14 August 1667 terms were ratified at the Peace of Breda; hostilities ended 26 August 1667.
Pepys, who knew all the principal players wrote a contemporary diary, reading it allows one to feel his frustration at the incompetencies of others and his own ability to ascertain the truth. The King was bankrupt. He was related to the French King. He had opened secret negotiations with France in 1666. He thus issued instructions to lay up his big ships. The Royal Charles was unmanned and the dockyard didn't even have boats to reach her. With that Upnor's career as a castle finished.
In 1668 the defences of Chatham were revised. New batteries were built at Cockham Wood 1-mile seaward of Upnor and at Gillingham. The chain was no longer used. In 1668 it was converted into a place of stores. Hundreds of barrels of gunpowder were shipped here from Tower of London Wharf, later there is mention of barrels of cornpowder being taken from Upnor to the fleet anchored at the Nore. In 1718 barracks were built. Life followed a regular uneventful pattern for the two officers and 64 soldiers. The Magazine closed in 1827 and by 1840 there was no gunpowder left. It became an Ordnance Laboratory. New magazines were built at Chattenden away from the river, and in 1872 a Military railway was laid connecting Chattenden and the river.
In 1891 the Castle was transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty. It continued in service until 1945 when it was declared a museu
Having arrived from Felixstowe 66953 and 66503 shunt to be able to access the fuelling point point at Ipswich.
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This lock links the Trent and Mersey canal into the Stone Canal Cruising Company's moorings. Some of their boats can be seen in the background. Just behind the camera position is the Star Inn, which sits right next to the preceding lock. The Star is an old coaching Inn which predates the canal.
Fuji 690 GWIII, Kodak TMax 400, hand held, f8 at 500 sec. Developed in Ilfosol 3 for 6 minutes.
Second exercise of the Strobist Lighting 102 series, 1.2: Position/Distance. This was interesting! It was puzzling me beforehand, and keeps on puzzling now that I did it. The goal was to vary the distance of the light source to the model, adjusting the power so that the model is always well exposed, keeping the rest constant. In principle, one could vary the background colour from white to black by controlling this distance.
Set-up: camera on a gorillapod tripod on a table, wireless remote release Phottix Cleon II C6, model-to-wall distane perhaps 2 meters. I was holding the flash (Canon 270 EX on PW FlexTT5) on my hand, and the remote flash was fired through PW MiniTT1 and AC3. The bare flash was on camera left, somewhat higher than the model. The flash was used in the wide-angle setting. ISO 100, 1/200 s, f/5.6.
I started with full power of the flash. My goal was to halve the distance every time, diminishing the flash power to one fourth (In the AC3, going from +3 to +1 to -1 to -3). For the darkest picture, I am not sure if the flash was at 1/32 or 1/64 power, I did not find it in the manual whether it would support 1/64.
What great result, and so easily! I am amazed by the black background. I have tried making it earlier, but that you could get it by putting the flash so close, that I had not realized.
This was so interesting that I might redo this later. Also finding a way to make the camera take sharp pictures - here I had focussed once in the beginning, and images are not sharp. But here the light was the point anyway.
Original assignment: strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-12-position-di...
So if the Crichtons were not in a position to have built Pennyburn (aka Bognie, aka Conzie), were the Morisons?
Alexander Morison, 1st of Bognie, obtained Bognie, probably from the Crichtons, in 1635. His son and heir George, married the previously referred to widow of James Crichton, 2nd Viscount of Frendraught. We know they lived at Bognie House, but is this the Bognie House they lived at or was it the farmhouse now called Mains of Bognie - a quarter of a mile east of here?
We know that George Morison and his (former) Viscountess must have lived in a fairly large house, because we have details of their household:
"The household of Bognie, besides the Laird and Viscountess, consisted of their son and two daughters - Barbara Morison, a sister of the laird's; Elizabeth Blair, his niece; and Christian Ramsay, a niece of the lady's. There was also a chaplain, a steward, the laird's page, a man cook, a footman, and a groom; likewise, a farm grieve, five male, and three female servants - in all twenty-three persons, which bespeaks the importance and affluence of the family at the close of the 17th century."
While not all of these folk would have necessarily been living under the main roof, the main roof would still have needed to have been bigger than that covering the farmhouse at Mains of Bognie these days, which might indicate that they were living at Pennyburn. But in fact they probably were living at Mains of Bognie and not at Pennyburn!
There is evidently much confusion between this Bognie House (aka Mains of Bognie) and the building now often referred to as Bognie Castle (in the photo above) - which is quite understandable, given that Mains of Bognie is not evidently a large house and that the 'castle' evidently was.
Mains of Bognie is a fairly plain but obviously old building, rubble built with crow-stepped gables and the remains of a great walled garden behind it - clues to its earlier importance. The building has undergone many changes and clearly was once much more extensive than it is now. A ruined dovecot standing forlornly in the field between it and the 'castle' (visible in the first photo) is another indication of its antiquity and former importance. The household of George Morison and Christian Urquhart evidently lived here.
If the Crichtons were not in a financial position to be building a new house here in the late 17th century, were the Morisons? A reference that suggests that they were reads as follows: "George Morison married the widowed Viscountess Frendraught, Christian Urquhart, becoming her third husband, and he redeemed the wadset of the estate." The key bit is the last bit.
A wadset was a private loan or mortgage, the security for which was nearly always land. The reference above tells us that George had enough money to be able to disencumber his property by paying off his (or his father's) loans. While the Crichtons were galloping around the country fighting the king's enemies, the Morisons were at home earning money off their land and paying off their debts!
Another small piece of evidence - although I don't know where it fits, is that in the old kirkyard at Forgue, there is an armorial panel with the initials of George Morison and the date 1674 - probably the date of his marriage. It may be that this stone, which is triangular and was therefore probably a dormer window pediment, came from the newly built house of Pennyburn, but a more likely explanation is that it was made for the part of Bognie House that has since been demolished. Another mystery, but in conclusion, it seems fairly evident to me that while the Crichtons were in no position to be building a new Cronzie Castle, George Morison clearly was in a position to be building a grander house to suit his improving position and his new Viscountess!
If that is so, why did they reportedly never move in? The answer to that is simple, the family inherited or obtained Frendraught and moved there instead. It is not immediately obvious to me why Frendraught passed to the Morisons. The link was obviously Christian Urquhart, who was the mother of both the 3rd Chrichton Viscount and 3rd Morison laird of Bognie, but this in itself is insufficient reason for the Morisons to have inherited, as she was not a blood relative of the Crichtons. It may be that there was also money involved somewhere - ie debts owed by the Crichtons to the Morisons.
The Morisons still own Frendraught and Bognie, as well Mountblairie near Turriff and much else besides! The current laird is Alexander Gordon Morison, 14th of Bognie and 13th of Frendraught. There is a nice story about how Gordon's grandfather, a younger son of the 10th laird of Bognie, emigrated to Canada at the time of the Great Depression, where the family lived in comparative poverty. They must have lost track of the senior line of the family until Gordon's father was contacted one day and told that he had inherited a wee bit of land in Scotland - which turned out to be much of Banffshire!
There is not much to say about the 'castle' building itself. It was built more in the style of a 'palace' than a castle and obviously had few if any defensive features. The shape of the surviving gable wall suggests that there may have been turrets on the angles to either side of it.
So changing gears a little bit here, I decided to rectify one of my biggest personal disdains for Lego, the stances. Due to the limited articulation Lego minifigures provide, I wanted to make strides towards more realistic grips for minifigures to hold all of the cool 3rd party products, such as Brick Arms, Brick Warriors, and Minifig Cat. Right here you can see (from left to right) a T88 LMG/PKM (I might recolor them to look like a PKM), an AK-74M, an M4A1, and an MP5A2. I have several other M4's, several BA AK's, and an M249 that I did not photograph. I am also working on the BA M82, BW AS VAL, and many more weapons from Brick Arms, Brick Warriors, and Minifig Cat, so stay tuned!
Inert MIM-14 Nike Hercules missile raised to its launch position, after being brought up from its magazine by a hydraulic elevator system.
Nike Hercules Site SF-88L, the only restored Nike Hercules launch site in the United States. It is located within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco.
Nike Missile Site SF-88L (National Park Service):
www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
(National Park Service)
MIM-14 Nike Hercules (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-14_Nike_Hercules
"The Last Missile Site: An Operational and Physical History of Nike Site SF-88, Fort Barry, California"
by Stephen A. Haller and John A. Martini: www.holeintheheadpress.com/last_missile_site.html
"Winged Victory: The History of the Nike Missile Training Program At Fort Bliss" by William A. Dodge, Ph.D. and Timothy L. Sawyer, Ph.D.
Highest position: #129 on Monday, May 7, 2007
a unos 120 klm de santiago.....portillo...en plena cordillera de los andes....precioso...esta la saque como a las 12 y tanto cerquita de la una....creo que quedo bien buena
The position light signal was designed around 1920 by Alexander Holley Rudd, chief engineer of signals for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rudd's design conveyed a signal indication without the use of color, in a way that achieved clarity in suboptimal weather conditions (like fog) with a minimum consumption of power.
Rudd's PRR was most well-known adherent to the position light, but his brainchild spread worldwide. Dwarf signals based on the Pennsylvania model are seen in the United Kingdom and various British Commonwealth countries, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, and others.
Here we see dwarf signal 30 at Como San Giovanni station. As trains in Italy run left-handed, this signal governs the track to its rear. In Italian, this would be described as senso pari (even direction) on the binario illegale, which is to say "counter to the normal traffic flow." A North American would describe this as a signal governing northbound moves on a normally southbound track.
Remember the old Absolut ads - the ones with supermodels, orginal artwork, humor citiscapes, and so on?
One of the many series of models featured female models in bold outfits, usually with ABSOLUT written on the fabric somewhere, and striking the most unusual poses.
I took the subset of this series where the poses where basically centered, and tried and tweaked this blend, to pull out the shape of the models and the futuristic look of the outfits.
Compare this piece to Absolut Fashion, which is a composition of many more models - some of them also in this blend. Which do you prefer? Why?