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Accrington Station (Past and Present)
This group is for any rail pictures taken at Accrington.
This group is to get a good variety of pictures taken from the past and the present. Feel free to add pictures of freight, passenger, steam, railtours and any station architectural history. I would also like to see some pictures of any sidings or pictures taken from the lodge as the old bridge used to look like back in the good old days. and also the Woodnook line.
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Los Armaos de Almagro
Ruta de la Pasión Calatrava.
La Hermandad que más está en la calle durante la Semana Santa es la Compañía Romana. Alrededor de doscientos Armaos invaden las calles de Almagro desde hora temprana, además de estar presentes en las procesiones y actos litúrgicos, que se organizan en la localidad. Es una tradición que se transmite de padres a hijos y comienza a cumplirse desde cortas edades, por eso no es raro ver a niños y niñas de cortas edades debidamente ataviados, que ya acompañan a sus padres. Incluso en ocasiones hay familias enteras que siguen con la tradición como es el caso de los Chaves Romero que los cinco miembros se visten, con otra particularidad, el padre Antonio Chaves es el afortunado abanderado quién afirmaba “esto es lo más grande y la mayor ilusión para un Armao, llevaba 16 años echando bandera y estaba deseando que llegase este momento”.
La Compañía Romana ostenta los estatutos más estrictos, el Armao no puede salir a la calle sin estar bien uniformado, no puede quitarse el casco en público y sobre todo no puede abandonar una formación sin el debido consentimiento de su comandante. El no cumplimiento de estas y otras normas puede conllevar a la expulsión de esa persona de la compañía. Se rigen jerárquicamente como si fuera un ejército. La jefatura está compuesta por 24 jefes. Seis cada año son los encargados de organizar las guardias, las procesiones. Aunque los que mandan son los comandantes. La compañía almagreña tiene cuatro, por lo que cada uno de ellos es la máxima autoridad cada cuatro años pero también el resto de los que forman la jefatura: un capitán, un capitán ayudante, tres tenientes (elegidos por orden de antigüedad). El abanderado es la única figura que es elegida por sorteo, aunque con el requisito ineludible de haber cumplido y participado en todos los actos de la Semana Santa anterior.
Durante los tres días principales de la semana de pasión la jornada comienza temprano preparándose y vistiéndose, una tarea que no pueden desempeñar solos, sino que necesitan de la ayuda de otra persona. Es tradicional también que sea la mujer del romano, la que desempeñe esta función. Además, este año un grupo de doce mujeres de Armaos han participado activamente portando en andas la imagen de San Juanillo, en la procesión del Sermón de la Cruz. Pero no debemos olvidar, que cada año son más las feminas que participan de esta tradición de uniformarse con las chapas y cascos de romano. Por todo ello, no es atrevimiento el afirmar que en la casa dónde hay un armao los días de pasión de viven intensamente.
Sin duda alguna, el momento que mayor número de seguidores congrega es la vuelta el caracol, un ritual que se repite Jueves, Viernes y Sábado Santo en la Plaza Mayor. El caracol es una forma de desfilar en la que los ‘Armaos’ forman en fila de a uno y terminan enredándose en el centro, porque el primero, que es el ‘Cabo de Cuarta’, llega al centro de la plaza y cambia el sentido al pasar por debajo de las espadas de otros dos mandos. Todos lo siguen y terminan desenredando el caracol y poco a poco deshaciendo los círculos concéntricos que van describiendo. Un movimiento colectivo de todas las unidades que conforman la Compañía Romana y que generan una singular imagen que impresiona y admira a las miles de personas que cada año se dan cita en la Plaza Mayor almagreña. Pero los soldados romanos no sólo realizan el caracol. Durante los tres días centrales de la Semana Santa hacen los denominados frentes. Al llegar a la plaza Mayor los ‘Armaos’ forman filas de ocho, extendiéndose por todo el ancho del paseo, y avanzan siempre en paso ordinario pero, poco a poco, y a la voz del comandante, giran 180 grados, todos al mismo tiempo, y avanzan hacia el otro lado.
Autor: José-María Moreno García. Fotógrafo humanista y documentalista. Cronista Oficial de la Villa de Madridejos.
Una de las mejores formas de conocer la historia de un pueblo es a través de sus imágenes; en ellas se conserva no sólo su realidad tangible, calles, plazas, monumentos, sino también sus costumbres, fiestas, tradiciones, lenguaje, indumentaria, gestos y miradas, que nos dicen sin palabras como se vivía, cuales eran sus esperanzas y temores, qué había en su pasado, qué esperaban del futuro. Uno de los objetivos más ambiciosos es recuperar y catalogar todo el material gráfico existente en nuestra familia desde 1.915, para después ponerlo a disposición de vosotros, que la historia volviera a sus protagonistas, y los que aún siguen con nosotros pudieran disfrutar con ello. VISITA La colección "CIEN AÑOS DE FOTOGRAFÍA FAMILIA MORENO (1915-2015)" en www.josemariamorenogarcia.es y www.madridejos.net
SI ALGUIEN NO DESEA APARECER EN EL ÁLBUM POR FAVOR COMUNÍCALO A josemariamorenogarcia@gmail.com
This is the Abandoned NovaCare showing what it used to look like when it was in operation, and what it looks like now. I think the Bottom image is from maybe 2010 or 2011. And the top image is what it currently looks like sitting abandoned and decaying.
Abandoned NovaCare
Erie, PA
It finally happened. I have my first MSD! :D Many of you know that I have been debating over which MSD I should get for quite some time now. I had narrowed it down to a Bambicrony Brava Bambi (Emily or Ellen) or a Fairyland Minifee (Rheia or Shushu). So... how did I end up with a Luts Kid Delf? Well, it's a crazy story, really. It's not that I had never considered getting a KDF before, because I have, but none of the female sculpts really "spoke" to me. However, there was always one sculpt that always caught my eye: Mill...but Mill is sold as a boy, and only a boy...and I wanted a girl...so I had pretty much decided that I wouldn't ever get a KDF unless they released new sculpts.
One night a couple of weeks ago I happened to be perusing DoA when I spotted a listing Meggilu had for a Kid Delf Mill (GIRL!!) head. As soon as I saw Meggilu's photos I just knew that she was *the one* I managed to find a body here in the US and finished putting this beauty together yesterday. I am completely smitten ♥ I feel as though she was made just for me--in my eyes she is absolutely perfect.
Now she just needs a name.....
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
Another 14-metre coach has joined the Quicksilver fleet but only as a seasonal hire to cope with demand over the Christmas period, and it is expected to return to the supplying dealer in the new year. Registered NE14 XTB, it is one of the Scania OmniExpress tri-axles built by Lahden in Finland, and like the Jonckheere SHV is a Roger Hey scratchbuild. The long-term plan for the model is for it to receive Motts Travel livery, but it can operate for Quicksilver until I get round to doing that.
Description: This is my image of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) based on a total exposure time of about 2 hours. The magnification inset shows the differences between the green forward portion of the coma, the white nucleus behind it, and the faint red/pink portion of the tail. The green color is not an artifact. It is thought to be due to the photodissociation by solar radiation of dicarbon molecules present in the coma . The photodissociation mechanism is well-described in www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113315118.
Date / Location: 3 February 2023 / Washington D.C.
Equipment:
Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII Flattener/Focal Reducer x0.8
OSC Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset
Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC
Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm mini
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Light Pollution Filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband
Processing Software: Pixinsight
Processing Steps:
Here, I used Pixinsight's Comet Alignment process as described in Warren A. Keller's "Inside Pixinsight" (Second Edition).
Star Alignment Step: First, I processed 68x120s subs (= 2.26 hours) in Pixinsight to get registered images using the following processes: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star > Star Alignment.
First Comet Alignment Step: Next, to the registered images from the preceding Star Alignment step, I applied the Comet Alignment process in Pixinsight to generate comet aligned files.
First Integration Step: I then integrated the comet aligned files from the preceding step to produce a Comet Master file.
Second Comet Alignment Step involving subtraction: To the registered images from the Star Alignment step, I applied the Comet Alignment process in Pixinsight, with the stipulation that the Subtract Operand Field contain the Comet Master file, to generate subtraction files.
Second Integration Step: I then integrated the subtraction files from the preceding step to produce a Star Master file.
Pixel Math Step: Next, I blended the Comet Master file and the Star Master file using the expression 2*Comet Master file + Star master file in order to get a Final Merged file.
To the Final Merged file, I applied the following processes:
Linear Postprocessing: Rotation > Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (both subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field corrections) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Noise Xterminator.
Nonlinear Postprocessing: Histogram Transformation > Local Histogram Equalization > Curves Transformation.
Sphinx presenting offerings
Cacite, New Kingdom
Found in Karnak at the Mut Temple in the west side of the first court.
The face of the sphinx appears to have the features of King Tutankhamun. The sphinx is clad in a nemes headdress and originally had human arms and held a vase.
Art Deco limestone bas relief entitled "Present" by Robert Garrison above the entrance to 1270 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
I love my present.
What I lived until now, it's mine. It's me.
I didn't love what I was, but now I do. And I think this is the beginning of something called freedom.
I fight less and less against myself. Anyway, I never won ;)
Oh, if you understand a little my language (french) please have a look on this article about my work!! :)
iPad Artwork - www.adrianogaleno.com
Sometimes, I'm not sure what, and don't even know why, I'm doing this... but, there is something inside of me that yells "create and share... and don't worry because it will make sense in the end, just keep doing it"... and that is why I decided to name this voice "Present".
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4"7"10" in fondant gold is handpainted
top tier caramel mud, a gift box with stencilwork and gumpaste bow
middle tier is white choc mud, a present, fondant wrapped to look like gift paper
base tier is choc mud, a gift box with quilting and gold cachous/dregrees and gumpaste bow
baubles are fondant covered styro
4 of the 12 Drax Cooling towers dating from 1972 dwarf the brand new Biomass wagons and modern product
Not so satisfy with the result.This little guy was not very happy being in center of attention as it was naping time and all that he wanted is to be left alone :) (oh my, he was moving a lot :) who cares as long as he's a cuttie. we used the same ribbon as on mommy's belly
Class 31 number D5633 shunting at Fakenham on 6th September 1971 with the pick up freight. The train is seen at the south throat of Fakenham yard with two gran hoppers and a couple of mineral wagons. On the former mainline stand some vanfits. Image copyright GRM/Andy Wallis collection.
Today, a housing estate has completely obliterated the site of the station. To truly replicate the original photographer's camera angle today, would have required me to be inside the conifer hedge to the left, so I've used a small amount of artistic license. The route of the railway can be picked up at the south end, where the embankment begins and runs south. It is accessible for about 600m as a permissive footpath. The only surviving part of the railway is a large concrete post from the level crossing, which was transplanted into the hedge within the estate (to confuse the unwary in the future) and originally came from the north side of the level crossing. It once had a gate fitted, but the is has since rotted away and been removed.
D5633 became 31209 under TOPS and was scrapped in 2003.
Cái này là của nhóc Phỏm aka RedLikeLove làm tặng =)) pack tự chế nên bựa =)) lúc đầu tính là wall nhưng thằng bé bị k có hứng nên thành mớ này =)) tuy vại vẫn thích như thường XD thanks nhóe XD
Còn "bài diễn văn" cảm ơn những bạn khác thì đợi cuối ngày =)) up kèm hình cái bánh mới ép phê XD
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First presented in Oct. 1969, available as a berline and as a break. The R12-range was modified in 1975.
1289 cc L4.
Production R12 in France: 1969-1980, in certain other countries (sometimes under license, think of Dacia): till 2004.
Original French reg. number: Spring 1978 (Pyrénées-Orientales).
Number seen: 1.
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste (Pyrénées-Orientales, Fr.), Avenue du Haut Vallespir, D115, May 5, 2017.
© 2017 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
It was the photographing of this bus which nearly ended my relationship with the newly acquire girlfriend, who became Mrs 'R' before it had even got underway!
'Berresfordsmotors' and I, at a loose end, had gone out for a quick trip to Sheffield, on the promise of being back early enough to be present at said girlfriend's eighteenth birthday party and to photograph her cake.
Whilst walking around the city, we glanced over our shoulders to be greeted by the site of a Plaxton Elite coming towards us. Oh, another Leopard or Reliance we thought and continued perusing the service buses. When the Coach passed us, it became very clear from the sound effects that it was a Roadliner. Giving chase on foot we followed it back to this, I suppose, long gone derelict factory complex where the bus was garaged just outside the town centre. The owner of Ex Black & White Motorways RDG 309G was most accommodating and hospitable and we passed quite some time in his company taking several pictures.
Back now to my original comment, we were late back, and when I came to wind the camera on to take the pictures of the birthday cake... there was no more film : Oh, that face!
RDG 309G was a Daimler Roadliner SRP8, new in 1969, and in common with the rest of her type saw only limited service with the original owner. Because of their relative youthfulness, they were snapped up by many an independent as a low cost 'modern' coach. Later in it's life, it moved to Dragon Coachways of Stocksbridge After that, I've no idea what became of this tidy Daimler.
This is just "one" of many such creatively and beautifully wrapped gifts from an incredible friend . . . yes, someone I met on flickr years ago, but hasn't posted in a long time. However, I've been blessed to stay in touch in a very endearing, remarkable way!
Yesterday this book arrived at my doorstep, a birthday present from a dear friend. It is very inspirational, it reminded me of the White work of Ben Nicholson. And so last night while knitting on a different project I started re-watching the documentary called The art of Cornwall on YT; I had a lovely evening ... :-))