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Lins and I love Old Bay seasoned boiled shrimp and it's usually a Friday night thing for us. A couple dozen boiled shrimp and some awesome 'fancy' sweet tea.....mostly sweet tea vodka and a wee amount of tea, but it's good!!! Come on FRIDAY!!!
Northbound UP MASCH freight is a few miles north of Villa Grove with four units on the head end. Thanks to Union Pacific's glorious "precision" railroading plan, the first and last units of this train are on the chopping block. In the near future, instead of four units on a train, it'll most likely be one!
Probably oil-filled gear case until taken apart for this exhibit.
National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario. A wide ranging collection, including an outdoor section. Needs a good half day.
[CSX] Q409 had GE ET44AH 3457 as the power on the front as it plodded along the Philadelphia Subdivision between Rossville and Rosedale.
Another GE was running mid-train as a DPU on this incredibly exciting move.
Mamiya 645 1000s : 150mm Mamiya-Sekor f/3.5 : Ilford HP5 Plus : Pyrocat HD
First frames from a new-to-me 150mm lens for the Mamiya 645's. In my experience these Mamiya-Sekor lenses are unfailingly excellent, and this one is no exception...
In this image, fire is not wild or chaotic. It is focused, refined — tamed. The blue flame rises with quiet intensity, a product of complete combustion, of chemistry done right. It speaks of fire not as destruction, but as a tool. A companion to human progress.
Fire, one of the oldest elements we’ve harnessed, lives at the intersection of nature and technology. From ancient campfires to the tip of a blowtorch, it remains essential. This single blue flame — nearly silent, nearly invisible in daylight — can melt metal, shape glass, or seal connections that hold our modern world together.
Yet, behind its calm form lies potential for chaos. The contrast between flame and darkness in this frame reminds us: fire’s gift is always conditional. Control it, and it builds. Lose control, and it consumes.
Here, the element of fire is captured in a moment of discipline.
Not a wildfire, not a candle — but a tool in hand. A spark of precision.
And still, it holds all the power of its untamed ancestors.
Fun facts about Fire:
🔥 Blue flame = hotter flame
A blue flame like this one is typically hotter than a yellow/orange one. It indicates complete combustion, meaning fuel is being burned efficiently.
🔥 Fire needs three things: The "fire triangle" consists of heat, fuel, and oxygen. Remove one, and the flame dies.
🔥 It’s plasma, not just gas:
Though it looks like a glowing gas, fire is actually a form of plasma — the fourth state of matter!
🔥 No gravity? No flame shape.
In zero gravity, fire burns in a blue spherical blob because there’s no convection to draw the flame upward.
🔥 Ancient symbol of life and destruction:
Across cultures, fire is a paradox — both a giver of life (warmth, cooking, light) and a force of destruction.
A hand pan or hang drum. The process starts with a flat disc of steel, manually hammered into a smooth shell, much like a large cooking wok. Then precise dimples are added, and – with even greater precision – the steel is minutely stretched and compressed and manipulated with the precise skill of a studied craftsman and the trained ear of an experienced musician. Eventually, after heat treatments and fine tuning, the top half is glued to a bottom half to create an instrument with such ethereal sonic beauty the angels show up to dance and laugh.
See below for some additional photos of Logan rough tuning the top half of this hand pan in process.
The early morning glow of golden hour lighting up a Variable Oystercatcher hunting for shellfish at low tide.
Quando si dice preciso come un'orologio svizzero si esalta una innata qualità del popolo d'oltralpe, che anche in campo ferroviario traspare, poi però basta respirare aria nostrana ed ecco che tutti i buoni propositi vanno a farsi friggere... infatti il Giruno svizzero che effettua il nuovo servizio Zurigo - Genova si trova a passare nella stazione di Villalvernia durante il viaggio di ritorno con una bell'oretta di ritardo. Ecco il RABe 501.006 di SBB mentre espleta l'EC 308 Genova P.P. - Zurigo transitando bello veloce nella stazione di Villalvernia e strombazzando all'infreddolito fotografo
I was totally amazed by the monumental constructions by the Incas. These walls were constructed with precisely cut stones stacking on each other. Not a single paste of mortar was used. Can you also spot an alpaca somewhere in there?
Great Egret snatches a fish @ Black Point Wildlife Drive.
I got the followup shot with the fish but he turned his head on the way up into the shade and out of focus. :-(
Cam from a Geneva (or Maltese Cross) intermittent movement from a Simplex E-7 35mm motion picture projector head. It's paired with a starwheel to form the heart of the mechanism.
Shot using a slaved Canon 430EXIII-RT flash with a cardboard box from a bar of soap serving as an improvised snoot.
The new Longbow Precision rifle, a single-shot bolt action chambered in Remington .223, is a professional-grade competition rifle. This is Tilltac's first foray into the sport side of firearms. The front and rear sights are fully-adjustable competitions sights, with the front having a large shade- both sights can be easily removed to accommodate a scope. This gun is painted in metallic orange and matte black two-tone with gold accents.
I used pictures of many guns to make this one, but it's based mainly on an Eliseo S1 frame and a CSS stock. This might be the first rifle of it's kind ever made in PMG, I'm not sure. I do know that this project took me over 8 hours to finish, using mainly shapes and exploded bits of random odds and ends.
ALSO- I figured out a simple trick to make it seem like screw holes on rounded surfaces, i used it several times in this build cuz I thought it was badass :P you can see it on the front sight and the cheekrest, to name two.
Example of similar guns: accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/you-tubeguns-vid...
Pastie: pastie.org/1178104
I encourage you to check out how i made the gun, I'm very proud of it, but beware- there are a LOT of layers and a LOT of white shapes. :) it should also put to rest any persistent rumors of me having to photoshop my guns to get them to look good.