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Standing close in to the conifer plantation up at Shap Wells mainly for some protection from the biting wind, you get this superb grandstand view back down towards Scout Green. Howgill Fell is the backdrop and what a sight they made when the light at 12.05 shined on them. Slogging her way up to the summit at Shap with the WCME - LMS Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 No 46233 Duchess of Sutherland makes a fine sight on a blustery winter day on Shap.
Saturday 30th January 2016 Copyright Simon Lathlane
Sunda Kelapa - a harbour in North Jakarta which was once the hub of colonial trade in the Dutch East Indies, now a planned site for lucrative building developments, malls and apartments.
On the outskirts of all this progress lives a local community of fishermen's families, perched on levees of driftwood to hold back the rising sea.
Kids here make their way to school past diggers and scaffolding as their homes crumble quietly into canals, waiting for the bulldozers to arrive.
A snapshot of progress in modern Jakarta.
River Severn tug "Severn Progress" at Gloucester on 8th April 2012.
The tug (originally named "Progress") was built in 1931 by Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol, the prefix Severn being added later to conform to the general naming policy adopted by her owners, the Severn & Canal Carrying Company. "Severn Progress" originally had a 100 bhp Kromhout semi-diesel engine which required heating with a blow-lamp to get it hot before starting. In later years this was replaced by a Lister air-cooled diesel that starts with the push of a button. Also in the early days, the steering position was an open well, and it was many years later before a proper wheel-house was fitted.
Severn Progress was mainly used for towing barges and canal boats on the River Severn between Gloucester and Worcester with some trips extending to Stourport. A typical trip was to leave Gloucester early one morning, towing whatever loaded barges and canal boats needed to go up river, stay overnight at Worcester and then return with empty boats the following day. When it was necessary to go all the way up to Stourport, it was still expected that the tug would return on the second day. The usual cargoes for the barges were grain, timber and petroleum, and the canal boats carried grain, metals, chocolate crumb and a wide range of general cargoes that had come on the steamers arriving at Bristol and Avonmouth.
Following nationalisation of the canals in 1948, Severn Progress became part of the British Waterways fleet and continued towing on the Severn until commercial traffic died out in the late 1960s. Later she moved to the Kennet & Avon Canal to help with restoration and maintenance work between Hanham Lock and Bath. After this role ended in 1991, Severn Progress came to the National Waterways Museum, where she is looked after by the Friends of the Museum who use her for tug handling courses and occasional towing jobs.
Information from Hugh Conway-Jones' excellent website:
Camera: Ricoh 500GX
Lens: Fixed 40mm f2.8 Rikenon
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
Il super condominio Puglie... er mejo ! Lavori in corso... Flat house Puglie, the best ! Work in progress...
The car on the left had a 2009 plate while the car on the right is brand new on a 23 plate.
How things have changed in that time gap.
played some on my sculpture today. As always... i take the photo of the work and then i play with the photo.... as mentioned before this helps me to see where the work is and where it wants to go.
Sculpture work in progress- photo play
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Diane Marie Kramer
I got the heater core box set back in and called it a night. I figure if I can do even 15 minutes a day I'll have the car back on the road eventually.
Have started experimenting with shots that are a little out of my comfort zone this week, and it was only because there was a load of paint tins and boxes around this beauty that I was able to elevate myself and get it at this angle......and as the saying goes....FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!!! ;o)
Woot, its alive! No, its not, but its assembled ^_^
I wish I could catch a better picture of the color..
played some on my sculpture today. As always... i take the photo of the work and then i play with the photo.... as mentioned before this helps me to see where the work is and where it wants to go.
Sculpture work in progress- photo play
by
Diane Marie Kramer
In 1986 a twin-car set consisting of trailer no 682 and motor car no 672 reverses in the centre road at North Pier. The conductor has just re-positioned the trolley pole.
This set is now part of Blackpool's heritage fleet and the cars have regained their original numbers - 272 and T2 - and original cream livery.
GBRf class 66/7 no. 66796 'The Green Progressor' in 'Cleaner by Rail' livery, passes Copmanthorpe on 29th August 2023 heading 6G44 , a Civil Engineers' long welded rail train from Tweedmouth to Doncaster Decoy.
I had an opportunity to explore the construction site for the future city centre and captured a few interesting perspectives.
The Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 was an event dedicated to progress, the celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal, and the rebirth of San Francisco following the disastrous 1906 earthquake. Funds came from six million dollars in donations, five million in state bonds and five million in San Francisco taxes.
A nationwide architectural commission conceived of the Exposition as an architectural unit, and Berkeley architect Bernard Maybeck was assigned the task of designing the Palace of Fine Arts.
The Palace was the last of the major buildings of the Exposition to be started; construction began December 8, 1913. The original columns and Rotunda were framed in wood, and covered with "staff", a mixture of plaster and burlap-type fiber. It was the largest building ever to be made of that material. For purposes of an exposition, in which buildings were supposed to last a year and then collapse readily, staff was ideal; but durability was one quality it lacked.
William Merchant, who was from Maybeck's office, designed many of the Palace's decorative elements. He also spent the last ten years of his life until 1962 planning the Palace's restoration.
A move to preserve the Palace was begun in October, 1915 with a Fine Arts Preservation Day. 33,000 supportive signatures were gathered, and $350,000 was raised towards the duplication of the Palace in lasting materials.
When the ashes of the Exposition were cleared, all that was left was the Palace of Fine Arts. It was maintained first by the San Francisco Art Association who attempted to raise additional funds for the preservation. After the First World War, the Palace became part of the city park system. Federal funds were used to repair and replace some of the Palace's decorations, and in 1934, the Recreation and Park Department installed eighteen lighted tennis courts that operated until 1942. During the Second World War, the Palace was used by the Army as a motor pool. In 1947, the Army returned the building to the city.
The Palace slowly crumbled from the ravages of the weather and ill-use. Finally, the structure had to be fenced off as it was a public hazard.
Then, in the late 1950's, a group of dedicated citizens, led by philanthropist Walter S. Johnson, initiated a drive to rescue the Palace from planned demolition and restore it to its former glory. On July 20, 1964, a contract was awarded and the reconstruction began. Workers carefully removed original design elements from which molds were made. The rotunda, colonnade and all except the steel framework of the gallery were torn down and replaced with concrete castings. In September, 1967, work was completed of a stripped-down version of Maybeck's original. The addition of the remaining original colonnades was completed in January, 1975 - a gift from Walter S. Johnson to the city and the people of San Francisco.
The gallery area now houses the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre and the Exploratorium. The theatre, which seats 1,000 in a continental-style configuration, was added in 1970. The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre is operated by the Palace of Fine Arts League, Inc., a non-profit corporation. Past events at the theatre include:
Status of the Uncharted costumes - not complete. I'm in the middle of trying to move house at the moment, so there won't be nearly so much dollying time for a little while, sadly. However, Elena now has some trousers, as I felt bad about her sitting around half naked. She stole her boots from Hunger Games Peeta, and until she gets her proper game accurate shirt, she's still wearing the Barbie fashion pack top.
Nate is still as he was, though he's somehow lost most of his shirt buttons. Oh well; that's what you get for adventuring.
John Gast
1872
"This depiction of American Progress captured a common belief in the 'manifest destiny' of Anglo Americans to rule and civlize the New World. Commissioned in 1872 from a New York artist, it appeared in a popular magazine that celebrated the railroads. The central figure wears the 'Star of Empire' and carries a book symbolizing education and enlightenment. From her other hand, telegraph wires 'flash intelligence [information] through the land.' Peace reigns, the years of civi war are over. The partially completed Brooklyn Bridge represents the powerful cities in the East as white Americans and railroads bring progress to the West. The conquest of the American Indians seems assured, though the wars still raged."
From "Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion" at the Oregon Historical Society.
It's important to note that to get to the west coast, Ms. Manifest Destiny is going to have to trot across an enormous* amount of land that was part of Mexico until 1848, when the United States took it in a base act of territorial expansion through war. And before that, the land had belonged to Native Americans.
*The United States contains 900,000 square miles of land that used to be Mexico, about equal in size to Western Europe, according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, it's the shrink ray from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". Ironically, I don't think I'll be able to quite shrink it down to minifigure scale.
I'm also kind of hoping that the forthcoming Louis Tully minifig has dual printing on the head and there's a normal Rick Moranis face on the other side.
I made some good progress the last week. the upper part of the ship also needs to have LEDs installed.
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." -- Ecclesiastes 1:14
"Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long..." -- Pilgrim's Progress
Somewhere in the center of the display my siblings and I brought to BrickWorld Chicago this year based on John Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress! It was awesome to see how many people enjoyed and appreciated the message of the collaboration as well - we hugely enjoyed it as well and the whole con! Be sure to head round and to check all the other builds from the rest of the fam!