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Put and take was a game that first became known during the First World War (1914-18).
The full history of the game is unclear but It is thought to have been invented by a soldier in the trenches.
The original game was made from a brass bullet that the soldier shaped into a spinning top with six sides.
Each side had an instruction on that was either Put one, Put two, Put all, Take one ,Take Two, or Take all.
The top was spun by players, who each put an ante in the pot (said to be a cigarette), and depending on how the top fell
either took or put how many cigarettes indicated.
The game became so popular that during the 1920-30s it was introduced as a gambling Game and was predominantly played
in the North of England in Working mens clubs and pubs. Because the top would last virtually forever, being made of brass,
the production of the game did not last for long and during the next 40 years the playing of the game gradually died out.
Rules:
Any number of players can play. Each player puts a coin or chip in the pot.
The first player spins the top. If the top come down "Put" side uppermost the player puts into the pot the amount indicated (i.e. Put one two or All).
For "Put All" the player doubles the amount in the pot. If the spinner lands with "Take" side uppermost the player takes the amount indicated from the pot.
For Take All the player takes the whole pot.
The next player spins and the game goes on until somebody spins "Take All" and the game is re-started with a new Ante.
As is often the case, he has a better handle on situations than I do. The camera was put away and much fun followed. We slid down some hills. Had a warm breakfast. Walked around. Filled in the fire-pit. Explored a snow cave. Breathed the fresh mountain air. Packed up our camping gear. And were home by afternoon.
Our first outdoor trip of 2013. Hopefully there will be many more. If only I could get him to like hiking uphill as much as I do! (proof again that he has more common sense than me)
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Camera........: Canon 60D
Lens..............: Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 II USM @ f2.8/16mm
ISO Speed....: 100
Exposure.....: 5 exposures (-4,-2,0,+2,+4 ev) using Magic Lantern
Resolution....: 5184x3456 without frame.
Photoshop
° Straightened the horizon.
° Some desaturation on the blue snow.
° Extra gaussion blur in the sky.
° High pass sharpening (see below).
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Unfortunately I haven't been finding any time for photography lately, yesterday I managed to sneak out for a quickie after I put the chicken in the oven, but
I just arrive 5 minutes too late to be able to see the sun before it disappeared.
Finally a shot made with Magic Lantern, 5 exposures to begin with...
Got disturbed by a bunch of big dogs that seemed eager to join in the fun but they spoiled it a bit for me, they were quite friendly and good humored !-)
° My photoshop tutorial on Layers, Masks, Selections & Channels.
° Channel mixer tutorial to remove lens flare spots.
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All tips, tricks & criticism and honest opinions are highly appreciated.
I'm still working on some edits to put shots up on another site. this is an old photo from my archives that has been reworked and resized. There are several that have similar looks to them, owing to the fact that the storm that rolled through Daytona Beach Shores that day was so impressive that I took tons of shots. All were taken from the balcony of the condo I was staying at. Unfortunately, all were taken with a point & shoot camera, so the clarity is mediocre on most, and there was just so much I could do with editing, but still, the images do convey the incredible force of nature in a powerful way.
The sunset shots were taken after the storm had passed, and that's not the sun glowing THROUGH the clouds that you see, but the REFLECTION of the sun off the clouds, as the sun sets in the west here, and these views are facing east, northeast or southeast towards the Atlantic.
The shot called Stormy Day was right before the storm hit, and Stop! You're Going the Wrong Way! was also at the beginning of the storm. Oddly enough, there was little or no rain, and the lightning and thunder produced by the thunderhead stayed mostly inside of the cloud itself. I suppose I should have been inside while it went through, but I was so captivated by it that I couldn't stop taking photos! These are among my most colorful, but that is mostly from the editing. The colors after the storm were much more pastel, and the storm itself wasn't as dark looking. These images create the mood I experienced looking at the beauty of it all, so I hope you enjoy!
Heel soms komt het voor dat het materieel zo door de war zit dat er bijzondere maatregelen nodig zijn om alles weer in het gareel te krijgen. Dat kan komen door een versperring op een eerder moment, waardoor bijvoorbeeld lange spitstreinen moesten keren naar rustige oorden en te korte treinen de andere kant op schoten. Maar ook veel defecten binnen één soort mterieel maakt dat er wel eens ander materieel moet worden ingezet om alle treinen te kunnen blijven rijden.
In dit seizoen van de vallende blaadjes ontstaan er gladde sporen. Die maken dat treinen gaan glijden, en dat de wielen op één klein plekje afslijten als hele assen blokkeren. Als dat is gebeurd dan hoor je vaak een kenmerkend gebonk onder draaistellen vandaan komen. Zulke assen moeten dan weer rond geslepen worden, en dat kost twee uur per as. Heel soms wil het wel eens voorkomen dat er 30 assen onder één trein beschadigd raken (vlakke plaatsen), Dat kan bijvoorbeeld bij een IC Direct , die tot wel 44 assen per trein heeft. Zulke treinen houden dan de slijpmachine 5 hele dagen non-stop bezet. En dat terwijl er in dit seisoen dagelijks treinen vlakke plaatsen oplopen.
Wat afgelopen week ook de reden was, NS voelde zich genoodzaakt om een ICM in te zetten in de sprinterdienst. Ik kreeg van een lokale spotter tijdig een seintje en ging naar het station om de in- en uitstappende reizigers vast te leggen. Zie hier het resultaat.
La cosa està realment fotuda, tots els sectors en crisis, tu. Però com deia el poeta, si els fills de puta volesin, taparien el sol.
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Things aren't going upwards at all when these kind of economic "sectors" feel the crisis.
SE VENDE means "For sale"
Another day where I just put on stuff until I was satisfied ! This sweater is from Fri.day and it's just adorable. My RL partner told me that this look is really more like "the real me at home" and that is true, except that my sweatpants are usually covering my legs ;). I never really look the way I look in my everyday life though, at work or outside. Maybe I should give it a try ? Or maybe that would be too normal ? Idk !
The Rain outfit has been created using :
Body/Head/Shape :
Body : Legacy (f 1.3)
Head + Piercings : Lelutka Evo Head Fleur 2.5
Custom homemade shape
Skin, Make-up, Hair, eyes & Nails :
Skin : PUMEC Marisha DEC
Highlight : Lelutka Highlight light
Beauty Marks : FT Black beauty marks left
Blush & contour : essences bluch & contour light peach
Lashes : Warpaint Coquette lashes
Eye ehancer : Warpaint eye ehancer
Eyes : LOTUS Ringlight 12
Stars in the eyes : 13ACT animated stars for eyes Ice
Lipstick : TOP1SALON - HD MIA LIPSTICK
Eye makeup : Jack Spoon . Uchu Eyeshadow Vol.3
Ears : Swallow GothLoli
Outfit & accessories :
Septum : TRIGGERED Inverse Septum
Aura : TRIGGERED Starlight Aura 2.0 Baby Blue
Hair : DOUX Rose Hairstyle
Sweater : friday Eva Sweatshirt (Meow)
Nose stud : Mellow Diamond Nose Stud
Lips rings : Mellow Lip Ring Erin
Earrings : Mellow Hoop earrings
Moon piercing : PUNCH Crescent moon
Sandals : Remezzo Legacy angela slides MID (white/silver)
Pants : SPIRIT Avgusta pants
Tattoo : Mister Razzor resilience tattoo
Collar : Mellow plastic heart collar
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I love this shot of my uncle and his grandson on the beach in Mexico. It was actually an overcast day and I had to kill the highlights and bring out the colors in Lightroom. Really digging the end result.
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During the Jazz Age:
Cilla is in the kitchen with her Mummy, Daisy Buchanan's maid, as she prepares to bring tea to Daisy and her friends.
**Let's pretend that the bread is scones or something suitable for tea and is the same species as hot cross buns
It was a public holiday here today, for Labour Day, when all the trade unions march down the streets in the city. They must be really struggling for membership now as the industrial laws and working conditions have changed so much over the last few decades.
Mrs Mail and I went for a walk to our favourite spot along the river. We have had 3 days of glorious sunny perfect weather, and after our lengthy walk, we plopped into a riverside bench to soak up the tranqility, while lots of joggers and pushbike riders went past on the wide walkway behind where we sat.
A Favourite Place Challenge
Polly put the kettle on
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We'll all have tea.
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
Sukey take it off again,
They've all gone away.
Not really much to that nursery rhyme is there? - lol
When I put together a mood board for a photoshoot with a model I tend to also amass a pile of physical objects that I have used as inspiration and imagery for the mood board. In this case after a model shoot I was able to arrange some of those objects together in the dressing room for a quick still life. I hung a row of costume dresses on a curtain rod as a backdrop.
We've put down our golden picnic blanket and placed our plates and lunch on it. Now it's time to get the knives and forks from our picnic basket and start preparing some tasty rolls.
My convenience store diorama is finally complete. I had it done over a year ago, but had to disassemble it when my home had to be packed up. Put it back together again and finally had enough light again to take some pictures.
To view the full photo set visit: flic.kr/s/aHsjE6F8vv
Used the following series (though not sure if I got them all):
7-MIMO Convenience Store
MIMO Fruit Dessert
Re-ment Room (2)
Megahouse Import Market
Megahouse Gift for You
Megahouse Panda Candy Shop
Megahouse Cheers Everyone
Megahouse Festival Days Amusements
Re-ment Drugstore
Re-ment Puchi Drugstore
Re-ment Dreamy American Life
Re-ment Asian Shop
Re-ment Natalie's French Shop
Re-ment Retro Appliances
Re-ment Storage Beauty
Re-ment Supermarket
Re-ment Yummy Meals
Re-ment Vegetable Market
Re-ment My Favorite Stationery
Re-ment At the Convenience Store
Re-ment Convenience Store Grand Opening
Re-ment Elementary School Kid
Re-ment Gift
Re-ment Delicious Farm Produce
Re-ment Mushroom Shop
Re-ment Japanese Zakka
Tricks of wartime.
War put an end to jaunts in motor cars and petrol galore. Would things ever be the same again ? Peugeot designed and produced this little city two-seater. With its four batteries the VLV was supposed to cover 70 km between the recharges at a maximum speed of 30 km/h.
377 ex.
Range : 80 km
Vmax : 30 km/h
A Century of Electric Motor Cars
Presented by L'Aventure Peugeot
Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
September 2017
These locomotives are both CF7's, a model that was created by Santa Fe when they converted many of their streamlined locomotives, which weren't well suited for freight use, to the more utilitarian form that you see here.
2535 was built in September, 1949 as an EMD F7A; 2507 was built in March, 1953. Both were sold in the late 80's and ended up serving one of the grain facilities in Saginaw until they retired; both were scrapped here two months after this photo was taken.
If you're interested in learning more about these locomotives, Cary Poole has an excellent book, "CF7 Locomotives: From Cleburne to Everywhere," which is worth picking up for two reasons: one, it's an excellent book; two, Cary's a terrifically nice guy.
A classic photograph on the North Coast 500 in the Scottish Highlands. This picture was taken on the A837 near Loch Assynt on the way to Lochinver.
I visited Peterhead Fishing Harbour Sunday 24th February 2019, a heavy Haar put my plans to capture the views a little difficult, hence I revisited today Tuesday 26th February 2019, posting a few of the captures I managed to take over both days.
Peterhead ; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Phàdraig, Scots: Peterheid is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's biggest settlement (the city of Aberdeen itself not being a part of the district), with a population of 18,537 at the 2011 Census.
Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in mainland Scotland. It is often referred to as The Blue Toun (locally spelt as "The Bloo Toon") and people who were born there as Blue Touners (locally spelt as "Bloo Tooners").
More correctly they are called blue mogginers (locally spelt as "Bloomogganners"), supposedly from the blue worsted moggins or stockings that the fishermen originally wore.
History
Peterhead was founded by fishermen and was developed as a planned settlement. In 1593 the construction of Peterhead's first harbour, Port Henry, encouraged the growth of Peterhead as a fishing port and established a base for trade.
Peterhead was a Jacobite supporting town in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. In particular, it was one of the Episcopalian north-eastern ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment, were periodically landed from France during the Forty-Five.
A lifeboat station was first established in 1865.
Since early times Peterhead has received a portion of its water supply from Morris Wells.
Peterhead convict prison was opened in 1888, gaining a reputation as one of Scotland's toughest prisons.
The present harbour has two massive breakwaters, enclosing an area of approximately 300 acres in Peterhead bay. The south breakwater, about 2700 ft long, was constructed in 1892–1912 using convict labour from the prison. The north breakwater, constructed 1912–56, is approximately 1500 ft long.
A new phase of growth was initiated in the 1970s with Peterhead becoming a major oil industry service centre, and the completion of the nearby St Fergus gas terminal. At this time, considerable land holdings were allocated for industrial development.
In recent times, the town has suffered from several high-profile company closures and is facing a number of pressures, including Common Fisheries Policy reforms. However, it retains a relatively diverse economy, including food processing, textiles, service industries and, still importantly, fishing. (Over 90,000 tonnes of fish, with a value of around £60m are now landed at Peterhead, which is still also base to over 550 fishermen.)
The Peterhead Port Authority plans to extend the northern breakwater as a stimulus to the town's economic development. In addition, to assist with business diversification and town centre environmental improvements, the 'Peterhead Project' initiative under the Aberdeenshire Towns Partnership brings together the Council, Scottish Enterprise Grampian, Communities Scotland, commerce and community representatives.
Until April 2005, the Royal Air Force station RAF Buchan was located near the town.
Local government : Peterhead is the largest settlement in Buchan, a committee area of Aberdeenshire.
The town was a burgh in the historic county of Aberdeenshire. In 1930 it became a small burgh under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929, but in 1975 small burghs were abolished and Peterhead became part of the district of Banff and Buchan within the new Grampian Region. When districts and regions were abolished in 1996, Peterhead became part of the new unitary authority of Aberdeenshire.
Since 1975 Peterhead has had a community council, with limited powers.
Education : Peterhead Academy
Peterhead Academy houses around 1,300 pupils and the school is split into six houses (Arbuthnot, Buchan, Craigewan, Grange, Marischal and Slains), with all the names associated with areas of the town. The school has pupils coming from surrounding villages such as Boddam, Cruden Bay, Hatton, Inverugie, Rora, St Fergus and Crimond. The academy's motto is "Domus Super Petram Aedificata" (A House Built on a Rock). The academy is Scotland's largest school at over 22,920 square metres (246,700 sq ft) of gross internal floor area.
The school has multiple subjects such as ICT, English, French/German, Technical, Engineering, Art, Home Economics, and many more.
Primary and specialist schools.
Peterhead has six primary schools (Clerkhill, Buchanhaven, Meethill, Dales Park, Central, Burnhaven).
There is one special school, Anna Ritchie, which caters for most specific learning difficulties, autism and other disabilities.
There is also Peterhead Alpha School which caters for children with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties, as well as learning difficulties, e.g. dyspraxia and dyslexia.
Transport :Peterhead has a number of in-town and out-of-town bus services.
Peterhead is further from a railway station (32 miles from Aberdeen) than any other town of its size in Great Britain.
The town once had two stations Peterhead railway station and Peterhead Docks railway station. Passenger trains on the Formartine and Buchan Railway stopped in 1965 under the Beeching Axe, and freight in 1970. The start of reconstruction of the Borders Railway to Galashiels (early 2013) has begun a local political debate into the possibility of reopening the line from Aberdeen to Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
The nearest airport with scheduled services is Aberdeen Airport. A heliport has been set up at the Eastern end of the former RAF Buchan air base. Recreational aviation also takes place from a part of a former runway.
Tourism
The harbours, maritime and built heritage are the town's principal tourism assets. Recent initiatives include investments in the Peterhead Bay area, which have included the berthing of cruise ships in the harbour.
A number of projects are planned under the auspices of the Peterhead Project initiative, including tourism strategy development, enhancement of existing attractions, measures to improve the town's physical attractiveness, and improved marketing and promotion.
Sport
Peterhead F.C. are a Scottish Football League club who play in the League One. They won the League Two championship in 2013–14.
Peterhead also has a successful amateur boxing club, and in 2008 was the most successful boxing club in Northern Scotland. And currently has two reigning Scottish champions. The boxing gym is open to all and located in Ellis Street.
Peterhead RFC are a Scottish Rugby Union team who play at the Lord Catto playing fields.
Maritime Economy
Peterhead has a thriving port, serving the fishing, oil and gas and other commercial industries. It also receives many visiting seafarers arriving on ships that ply these trades. Seafarers' welfare organisation Apostleship of the Sea has a port chaplain at Peterhead to provide pastoral and practical support to them.
Twin town : Ålesund, Norway
I put a drinking glass into a small water-filled aquarium. Then, with a syringe, I let some drops of light blue ink fall into the water, right above the drinking glass. It diffused slowly, creating all these delicate shapes.
It gave me a hard time to take some photos in the right time and angles, because, as usual, I had not prepared the tripod and everything thoroughly...
and I didn't have enough light, so there's too much noise in the picture.
I'd be glad to see what someone else could achieve with this recipe!
If there were words that I could put together to describe the day, it would be just simply - beautiful. I went for hike to enjoy the beauty, soulful quietness and to be rejuvenated once again. I absolutely love snow and get all giddy like a little kid that's anxious for it's arrival.
Ohio
Dec 7 2013
21f
5 to 6 inches of snow
put one of my paintings through one of those deep dream thinger. Eufoe said it gets trippier if you do it over and over so this is after passing it through several times.
"put a sheep up the chimney"
I'm going to fit this in my daughter's chimney later today.
A chimney excluder made from wool.
I was about to buy one of the inflatable balloons for her chimney - So much draught and noise coming through the chimney and she just has an electric fire there so it is safe to seal it up. But when I was researching the options on-line, I came across this "Chimney Sheep" - great marketing, the name just forced me to click and then I ended up buying it.
The Yellow Melodies - Más Fuerte Que El Viento
I’m going to put it out there – the LM is the most beautiful of Ferrari’s celestial 250 family of cars. In adding a sleek and aerodynamically efficient roof to the comparatively frumpy 250 P open prototype, Pininfarina created one of the most well-resolved automotive designs of the 20th Century.
Sure, the 250 GTO is the car every man and his dog covet the most, no doubt catalysed by its value. But where that car, a voluminous Gran Turismo, is as suited to continental cruising as it is the racetrack, the LM, with its highly-strung V12 mounted amidship, screams poise and purpose.
It’s a diminutive car, the LM. The ultra-short nose droops low and is perfectly countered by the voluptuous rear haunches, which swoop dramatically up and over the rear wheels before rising again into that delicate flick atop the Kamm tail. When Ferrari presented the LM (denoting Le Mans, its intended destination) at the Paris Motor Show in 1963, it had a shorter roof that stopped abruptly aft of the cabin, lending the car a rather unusual profile. The aerofoil that was subsequently added – and looks near identical to that found on the 250 GTO ’64, we might add – is both infinitely prettier and much more aerodynamic.
Even its spartan cockpit is worlds away from the quilted-leather-clad interior of the GTO. Seemingly wherever you look, there’s exposed aluminium, while the comically offset pedal box – itself a thing of beauty – ensures ingress and egress are nothing short of theatrical. The near-obsessive weight-saving measures are also clear to see – take the now-classic gearbox gate, for example, whose surround has been drilled to save a few extra grams. The details are glorious.
In spite of being a notoriously stubborn man, Enzo Ferrari, who’d once joked that ‘the horse pulls the cart’, simply could not sit by the wayside anymore. And so, in 1960, he unleashed the mid-engined 156 ‘Sharknose’ monoposto and the following year, dominated the Formula 1 championship with it. Encouraged by both the success and the concept, a sports car – the 250 P – followed in 1963 and proceeded to win the fabled 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first mid-engined car to do so.
The Le Mans Berlinetta was conceived as a ‘production’ car in a bid to generate sales. Ferrari’s plan was to homologate the car in the Grand Touring category, just as he had miraculously managed to do with the GTO – the FIA stipulated that a minimum of 100 cars were required to be built to satisfy the regulations, but everyone knew the actual GTO production numbers didn’t come close to half of that.
He wasn’t going to pull the wool over the officials’ eyes a second time, though. They vetoed his request and the LM was thus classed as a prototype. In retaliation (and probably fearing defeat), a livid Ferrari refused to campaign the car, which left privateers such as Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team and Colonel Ronnie Hoare’s Maranello Concessionaires to pick up the mantle and put the LM on the map.
Incidentally, that brings us onto this particular 250 LM, chassis #5907. Colonel Ronnie Hoare took delivery of the car in July of 1964 and promptly put it to work in the prestigious 12 Hours of Reims, resplendent in his trademark red and Cambridge Blue colours. Driven by the stellar line up of Graham Hill and Jo Bonnier, #5907 took the overall victory. It won its next race, the Scott Brown Memorial at Snetterton, too, in the hands of Roy Salvadori. Later in the year, David Piper completed the car’s hat-trick of wins in 1964, dominating the Rang 9 Hours at Kyalami.
This 250 LM’s period success is indicative of the model’s competence as a long-distance racing car. Despite often competing against much quicker prototypes, the LM racked up some 33 victories, including at Spa, Zolder, Silverstone, and, most famously, Le Mans. We imagine Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory’s 1965 Le Mans win felt like manna from heaven for the disgruntled Enzo Ferrari. It was his marque’s sixth straight victory in the greatest endurance race and his ninth overall. Sadly, no other Ferrari has won it since.
Given the Ferrari 250 LM’s heady cocktail of competition success, rarity (just 32 were built, making it rarer than the 250 GTO), and sheer beauty, it’s hardly surprising that values have skyrocketed in recent years. In Monterey in 2015, RM Sotheby’s sold the famous ex-Ron Fry car for 17.6m US dollars and several experts we consulted reckoned a good and straight example is worth well over 20m dollars today. What we find amazing is that a 250 GTO allegedly recently traded for over three times that, at 70m dollars.
Sure, the GTO has become something of an enigma, spoken about in hushed whispers and shrouded in mystery. And yes, it was dominant in the period and clinched Ferrari the GT titles in 1962, ’63, and ’64. But circumstances meant the LM was never allowed to compete as a GT car, which only prolonged the GTO's lifespan. We also accept that it’s a genuinely useable road car – something that can’t really be said of the LM. But, as we keep hearing, today’s market does its homework with ruthless dedication and characteristics such as provenance, rarity, competition history, and condition, are defining factors when it comes to the values of the ‘best of the best’. On paper, the LM is surely equal (or at least as near as makes no difference) to the GTO – regardless, the LM is a hell of a lot cheaper than a GTO. We’ll take two, please!