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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.

One of the last lower quadrant signals in use in South Australia at the time was at Tailem Bend, but probably only lasted another 6 months after this was taken.

On 7-6-91, 6AM2 hauled by C509,701,S310 passes the lower quadrant at Tailem Bend with steel loading for Melbourne.

On my dad's birthday we visited the nwely renovated arts museum in Aalborg, Kunsten. Family time, play time.

The protecting signal for Greenford East junction. a real blast from the past. signal is off towards Greenford south junction. seen from 0Z63

Wedding cake of a tenement. Whilst incorporating features characteristic of Alexander Thomson the building by Robert Turnbull dates from shortly after Thomson's death.

The fountain was cast by Finlayson Bros. & Sons, Devenport, from the original fountain at St. Peters Pass, Oatlands.

Looking down from the BTS skybridge, finally caught a motorcyclist at just the right moment

A quadrant fader, of the type used on BBC mixing desks in the 1960s and 70s, opened up. The small white plastic insulator on the end of the inner arm shows where the sliding contact connects to the attenuation resistors. There are microswitches at each end of the fader's travel, to operate cue lights.

 

Pioneer Run

Tattenham Corner, Epsom

19th March 2017

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.

The colors of twilight. Clouds and reflections forming a colorful quadrant dividing the blue and the golden hour. Shot @ Agana Bay, Guam.

'Gold quadrants on aqua & blue': close up of proofing swatch on basic combed cotton printed by Spoonflower. Original: Paint roller & oil on paper. © Su Schaefer 2012

 

Color check: the threads in the picture are Gutermann cottons pale green Col. 8727 & pale gray-blue Col. 6617.

 

Fabric available: www.spoonflower.com/fabric/674937

 

Also as wallpaper: www.spoonflower.com/wallpaper/674937

 

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RD21323. An upper quadrant semaphore signal at Alresford Station, the western terminus of the Mid-Hants Railway. The signal lamp is of London & South Western Railway origin.

 

Friday, 18th October, 2019. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2019.

Edited with VSCO Film 05 Kodak Ektar 100 Contrast

Rainy day with no flying

As busy as ever when I called yesterday morning!!

Syrien / Syria

Elfenbein / Ivory

Astronomisches Instrument, signiert von Abū Tāhir / Astronomical instrument signed by Abū Tāhir

Athen / Athens, Benaki Museum

Ausstellung „Maschinenraum der Götter. Wie unsere Zukunft erfunden wurde“ / Exhibition "Machine Room of the Gods. How Our Future was Invented"

Liebighaus, Frankfurt

DLE30254 pulls away from Hendon Quadrant on a cold but crisp day. For me it was a 240 to Mill Hill Broadway and train home. 17.11.25.

Pioneer Run

Tattenham Corner, Epsom, Surrey

20th March 2016

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).

15 July 2009, 03:03 BST (02:03 UT)

Vixen SP-102 refractor

Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate

Canon EOS 40D DSLR

Exposure time 1/200 sec, ISO 400

62 photos, stacked and processed in AviStack v1.74, RegiStax V5 and Photoshop CS2

 

The seeing conditions were better than the previous month's favourable libration, so I was able to crank up the magnification. Rotated and rectified versions to follow.

 

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The three-faced clock which used to stand in the middle of the Quadrant shopping centre. If I remember correctly, in its final years it functioned better as a work of art than as a timepiece.

 

This view show Times Furnishing, a name long-gone from retailing. I think this is where New Look is now located.

 

The slide (taken by my father) I scanned this from is dated January 1969, and judging from the coloured light-bulbs and Salvation Army band was probably taken in December 1968.

Seen approaching Mottingham is 73105 'Quadrant', working 7Z24 0959 Hither Green PAD to Dartford sidings on Monday 24th October 1988. If my memory serves me right this train was taking equipment in connection with the extension of the sidings. 114-19.

A character from the upcoming sci-fi epic Quadrant 42.

First Bus's DXE30352 making its way to the Blenheim Centre at Hounslow on the H37.

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