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Unlike last year’s submissions, when I challenged myself to triple alliterations and puns, this year I simply tried to make a quadrant kaleidoscopes out of each picture from last year. It worked for all but 2 of last year’s photos, so I found 2 new subjects.
A real attraction at Weybourne, North Norfolk Railway is the lower quadrant signal at the Holt end of the station.
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N473 rushes the morning passenger service from Albury to Melbourne past the lower quadrant signals at Broadford on 14-5-2018
Taken with my ZWO Asi183 camera and SkyWatcher 180mm Maksutov-Cassegrain reflector telescope with its 2700mm focal length, 0° 17' x 0° 11' field of view, and 0.18 arc-seconds/pixel resolution (330 metres on the Moon/pixel).
I start witn an original "Quadrant Kaleidoscope" and further manipulate the image with the GIMP software, using Filters --> Distorts --> Kaleidoscope. I vary the preset settings to achieve a different effect with 4 or more reflections.
Growing Mesocyclone SW Quadrant
I’m estimating this young developing Mesocyclone is 70 miles distant/ 50 miles wide. Relatively small for a Rotating mesocyclone. It was growing at the time. The sunset for that day is ongoing exactly behind me in about 15 minutes from this capture. There are just plain intense downpours under these storms sometimes. Depending on how fast they are moving makes you lucky or flooded locally lol. These only rain on a few percent of the ground area up here. Spotty! The ground under them becomes totally soaked if the storm doesn’t move.
We had a summer Mesocyclone years back that sat over us and dumped 4.5 inches of rain in 45 minutes. Water was sheet washing down the hill behind my home and skirting around the house. Almost nothing got in but that slope was angle deep in sheet wash. I have since re-landscapes using mounds to redirect any potential sheet wash off the long hill to our back. It’s only been a problem once in 20 years.
That was a rough storm. Tragically a local cowboy from a nearby ranch was killed in that storm. A truck full of locals went out to see what the 100 year water dump did, drove to one of their herds to check them, road was fine. Drove back the road had washed out. That cowboy was a passenger in that truck. County Emergency Management called me to close the road off from my side of the washout. The runoff went through a major country road that literal gully washer did. It was a major culvert to replace and a big job. We couldn’t get to the highway from that road for a while.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.
Title: Growing Mesocyclone SW Quadrant
John Wilcox used this quadrant on his voyages from Madison to New York and the Connecticut River in the early 1800's to about 1860. A quadrant was a forerunner of the sextant and measured the altitude of heavenly bodies for navigation.
Brass and ivory fitted ebony frame with the maker's name and compass degrees engraved on ivory set into the frame. Colored glass filters used in the sighting device. Quadrant fits into oak box with partial label of William Davenport, instrument dealer in Philadelphia. Cut side of box is painted yellow and has faint traces of a star and "JOHN WILCOX" painted on it. Made by Spencer, Browning & Rust, London England c. 1800.
15" X 13 3/4" X 3 1/2"
Found in collection.
ACC# 79.680.1-2
See more museum items at flic.kr/s/aHskgxX9We.
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
I did not ask what he was doing or what his function was, and I did not care. Besides, he did not look like he was in any mood to talk.
I started with an original "Quadrant Kaleidoscope" and further manipulated the image with the GIMP software, using Filters --> Distorts --> Kaleidoscope. I vary the preset settings to achieve a different effect with 4 or more reflections.
Unlike last year’s submissions, when I challenged myself to triple alliterations and puns, this year I simply tried to make a quadrant kaleidoscopes out of each picture from last year. It worked for all but 2 of last year’s photos, so I found 2 new subjects.
RD14046. The Star of the Show at the Bluebell Railway's 2016 'Giants of Steam' autumn steam gala was the LNER B12 class 4-6-0 8572 visiting from the North Norfolk Railway.
It is seen here at Sheffield Park ready to depart for Horsted Keynes and East Grinstead.
Sunday, 30th October, 2016. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Fraser River, New Westminster, BC Canada
Name:
1992: P.M. (The)
2011c: Quadrant Commander
Year Built: 1992
Place: North Vancouver
Area: BC
Country: Canada
Designer: A.G. McIllwaineMeasurement (imp): 36.0' x 18' x 8.5'
Builder: Pacific Western Shipbuilders Co. Ltd.
Measurement (metric): 10.49m x 5.49m x 0.49m
Hull: Steel
Gross Tonnage: 9.47
Type 1: Tug
Registered Tonnage: 6.44
Engine: 2-440bhp diesel engines (1992)
Engine Manufacture: Detroit Diesel Corporation
Propulsion: Twin Screw
In 1992-1993 she was owned by Sabre Marine (1990) Ltd., Prince Rupert BC. In 1999 she was owned by 440191 B.C. Ltd., Prince Rupert BC. In 2001 she was owned by Sabre Marine (1990) Ltd., Prince Rupert BC. In 2011-2019 she was owned by Quadrant Investments Ltd., Coquitlam BC.
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Thank-you for your visit, and any comments or faves are always very much appreciated! ~Sonja
This quadrant calculated the elevation of a Sherman tank's main gun, assisting with aiming the gun. This was manufactured by General Floorcraft.
Seen at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.
I am using a pale pink kona cotton for the background. I started this quilt last fall by first making my templates using freezer paper. I then made one quadrant to test it out. All is fine, but I got a little discouraged with the intense preparation (hence my joining this group!).
I'm only using about 10 different fabrics and I hope that will provide enough variety. In the end, this will hopefully be a baby-sized quilt. I am thinking of adding some embroidered girls from Aneela Hoey's shop www.etsy.com/shop/comfortstitching in the center of each circle-- any thoughts?
Of course I have never embroidered before, so perhaps I'm getting just a little ahead of myself :)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I went to Bear Butte, South Dakota, to try to capture the Quadrantid Meteor Shower. But it was cloudy most of the night. I did see a few between 2 and 3 AM when the sky cleared briefly. I later learned the meteor shower peaked earlier than expected, which favored observers in Europe.
Finally I had enough images in each of four color sets to make up a quilt of color. The images are taken from sets for blue, yellow, green and red. Fun to see it come together.
The Q class Type 15 Frigate HMAS Quadrant was billed as Australia's first nuclear age warship . Converted from a very tired WW2 destroyer her appearance was novel - the main armament was largely (valve) electronic .
Her career as such was only brief , from 1953 to 1957 .
Here in Farm Cove , she is probably not long out of conversion .
Behind her bow is HMAS Quality whose poor condition , along with budget cuts , saw her conversion cancelled .
Imagery Scanned from Navy Historic Archive
The the right of the street (The Quadrant) is a row of grade II listed historic buildings constructed c. 1860 with subsequent alterations. To the left are the Buxton Thermal Baths, a grade II listed historic structure built originally 1852-1853 with subsequent rebuilding and alterations. Outside of the baths is The Colonnade, a grade II listed historic structure with a similar building history to the baths.
"Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It has the highest elevation – about 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level – of any market town in England. Close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park". A municipal borough until 1974, Buxton was then merged with other localities lying primarily to the north, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak within the county of Derbyshire. Despite being in the East Midlands, economically Buxton is within the sphere of influence of Greater Manchester. The population of the town was 22,115 at the 2011 Census.
Buxton landmarks include Poole's Cavern, an extensive limestone cavern open to the public, and St Ann's Well, fed by the geothermal spring bottled and sold internationally by Buxton Mineral Water Company. Also in the town is the Buxton Opera House, which hosts several music and theatre festivals each year. The Devonshire Campus of the University of Derby is housed in one of the town's historic buildings." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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PKP SM31 class locomotives Nos. SM31-158 and SM31-151 passing the former station at Grabianowo with a freight for Srem on the freight only branch from Czempin, south of Poznan, Poland, 27th April 2007.
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Vancouver, BC Canada
c. 1966Signal IV
c. 2001 Sea Imp XV
c. 2012 Quadrant Recruit
Year Built: 1966
Place: New Westminster, BC
Measurement:29.3' x 12.9' x 6.3'
Builder: John Manly Ltd.
Hull:Steel
Gross Tonnage:12.48
Type 1: Tug
Registered Tonnage: 8.49
Engine: 220bhp diesel engine (1966)
Propulsion: Screw
In 1966-1973 she was owned by Signal Towing Ltd., New Westminster BC.
In 1974-1990 she was owned by Empire Tug Boats Ltd., New Westminster BC.
In 1991-1993 she was owned by Roman Wengryniuk, North Vancouver BC.
In 1994 she was owned by Sandra L. Leblanc, Sechelt BC.
In 1995-1999 she was owned by Susan A. Reynolds, Black Creek BC.
In 2001-2012 she was owned by Catherwood Towing Ltd., Mission BC.
In 2013-2019 she was owned by Quadrant Investments Ltd., Coquitlam BC.
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Thank-you for your visit, and any faves or comments are always greatly appreciated.
Sonja