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Macro Monday Group This weeks theme: "The Colour Blue"
112 Pictures in 2012, # 26 Narrow Depth of Field
You would think this would have been an easy subject and looking at this image you might think I grabbed the first thing with blue, but wrong! I must have photographed dozens of blue things from around the house and they all looked totally naff, not that I'm saying this is any good, but it's the best of the bunch, and there comes a point where you just have say enough is enough and move on!
Have a happy Macro Monday :))))
Today, I got a bracket to mount the remote for my Sony action cam to my gimbal. This way, I can hold everything in one hand while the other is free. So far, it seems to be a good fit. I'll have to try it in "the field" to see how practical it is. My biggest concern is the small amount of gimbal grip free to hold onto. I can adjust the angle of the remote to give me more room behind it and I can raise it up a bit more too.
This is the bracket from B&H:
www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1281503-REG/nikon_25941_ha...
What must be the remotest of all major UK operators, Stagecoach Highlands operation spreads from Fort William in the South right up to John O Groats and beyond to the Orkneys, The Western Extreme is the Isle of Skye, where 27586 SN06BSU is captured in the town square of Portree, the main town, A basic Bus Station, which lacks any form of shelter for intending passengers. 27586 had been new to the Rapson Group before purchase by Stagecoach, one of the few AD300 with this style of bodywork.
Poem.
Comma-like sandy coves.
Wave-washed, rounded rocks.
Rock-pools, teeming with life.
Dreamy vistas to the Sgurr of Eigg
and the familiar, undulating silhouette of Rum.
Dagger-like headlands pierce into the sunlit
beauty of the Hebridean Sea.
The silence is very loud and the calm, evening sunset
soothes any fevered brow......instantly.
Remote, very remote, but all the better for that.
Kentra Bay, Ardtoe, Ardnamurchan.
No words do this place justice.
Be there, see it, feel it.
Words will not suffice, but......
you will know somewhere
very, very special!
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
our nieghbours are driving us crazy.
A real big boys toy - and I got a go.
Normally the crane is controlled by an operator in the cabin above - eventually this crane will be remotely controlled by an operator in a building about 1/2 kilometer away.
Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the coast of Africa. It is a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, which is 800 miles (1,287 km) to the south east. The Island is named after the day of its recorded discovery, Ascension Day.
Strange ice patterns on the ice pack under gloomy Baltic Sea skies on the ferry route through the remote outer reaches of the Turku archipelago, Finland, February 2012. Photograph © Rob Watkins 2012. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED without payment.
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Our black TV remote, with far too many buttons on it. I only use the on/off power button to turn the TV off after it's been left on. Either Marty or Michael take charge of the controls when we are watching, to skip ads as we only watch recorded stuff and never live TV ... the ads are too frustrating to sit through.
Day 67 of 365 Days in Colour - Day 6 of October, Black.
Taken with iPhone 4S.
Finally done.. Total creature of circumstance on this one. Paint supply, colors, caps, just tried to go with the flow with no real plan.
Painted on multiple HOT sunny days with random Florida mid-day storms and to top it off there was a bee colony inside the wall.
This wall tried me and it got personal. In the end I prevailed. What doesn't kill you...
Finding 'Ratsos', the remote and hardly accesible triple fall in Chalares canyon.
About this hiking daytrip read (in Greek) the OPS Ikarias blog article: «Ο Άγνωστος Τρίπατος Ράτσος στη Χάλαρη»
Taken up early in summer, before the river dried up.
GEO: 37.59084, 26.06184
Additional reading in the blogs of our supporting friends:
«Always back to Angels' pools in spring!»
See also photo taken in the same spot
inside Nana's blog article: «Spring Clean»
Photo also featuring in Eleni's blog article: «τα γυμνα των αλλων»
Linking Fischertechnic and Lego.
With FT I use the TXT controller, with Lego I use the Maindstorms inventor hub and the Techinc hub. To make them work together I use 2 Lego remote controllers. On each remote control there are 4 servos. This controls 4 buttons, the 3 remaining buttons can be operated manually. The servos are controlled by the TXT controller. The RoboPro program on the PC is used for this purpose. The servos themselves are controlled by my DE0 module but this can also be done with an I2C module on the TXT. All hubs use the Pybricks Python software: v3.2.0b4 Pybricks Beta v2.0.0-beta.9
There are 2 Pybricks programs running simultaneously, each controlling a different type of hub.
It is now easy to send commands from the TXT to both hubs. This can be done simultaneously or separately. The big problem with Lego hubs is that they have almost no inputs. Thus, we lack the nice 8 channel digital inputs that are present with the TXT. Through my DEO module, I even have 120 digital inputs. Via the servo controlled remote I can now at least send multiple commands to the Lego modules. The large PC screen where the program can be displayed is also indispensable.
Now to send commands from the Lego hubs to the TXT are a number of possibilities. I use a lot of hall sensors. Small magnets connected to Lego parts can send commands this way quickly and easily. I can also listen in on multiple serial lines from the hubs. That data can be used by the TXT. Thus, positions of the motors can be displayed, as well as other data from the hub. The TXT can display this data on the PC screen.
Pybricks does not have a hub to hub at this time. Now, however, commands can be sent from one hub to the TXT which then forwards them to the 2nd hub.
A sunrise view of a remote and rugged, volcanic landscape - Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona
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Bill Porter recording the Buddy Greco Orchestra at the Sands Hotel. The console was his remote rig. Universal 610 modules for 12 inputs. (Photo by Bob Raasch)
First introduced at the 2000 MINExpo in Las Vegas as the LeTourneau L-2350 it is the world's largest wheel loader. Joy Global took over LeTourneau and the machine became the P&H L-2350. In the meantime Komatsu Mining is the new owner, thus the new designation WE2350 to distinguish the LeTourneau derived products from the Komatsu wheel loaders that bear the WA designation.
At 270 tonnes, the wheel loader carries a 41 cubic meter bucket and features a Diesel electric drivetrain with a 2300 horsepower engine and four electric wheel hub motors. It is designed to center load ultra-class haulers of up to 400 ton (363 tonne) payload.
My model at a scale of 1/28.5 is fully remote controlled via bluetooth and the Brick Controller 2 app using two SBricks. The following functions are powered:
- All-wheel drive: one Power Functions XL motor per axle
- Steering: one Power Functions M motor and two large linear actuators
- Loader boom assembly: one Power Functions XL motor and two XL linear actuators (from CaDa because they come in black)
- Bucket: one Power Functions L motor and two large linear actuators
- Work and tail lights, using three pairs of Power Functions LEDs
Power comes from a Power Functions battery box hidden in the radiator compartment.
Furthermore, the model sports the following features:
- Oscillating rear axle
- Deployable acces stairs
- Openable cab doors
- Extendable work platform on the inverter cabinet
- Deployable ladder on the right service platform
The challenge with this model was that it features huge wheels, being the largest tires on any machine in the real world. To overcome this hurdle, I used brick-built wheels with a diameter of around 18 studs and a width of eight studs. The 22-sided brick cylinder is reinforced by a layer of rubber connectors, at the same time ensuring a smoother ride. The original design to these wheels comes from Milan of Eurobricks.
And thus I bring you my favourite family car of all time, bar none, all things considered, king of the hill, lord of the manor, master of all it surveys, the Range Rover P38! :D
Why do I love this car so much when the original was a classic that changed the world of motoring? Because it combined an updated version of that original winning design with some of the perks and premiums of the 1990's. The Classic Range Rover is indeed a fantastic machine, and one of those rare instances where sense and logic perforated into the ranks of British Leyland. But by the time I was born in the early 90's the car was very much looking its age, a tired 60's design mixed with what was starting to become a comparatively under-equipped interior. The only way the Range Rover was going to survive the 90's was to shape up, and thus in 1990, Rover Group (the descendant of British Leyland) put together a plan to design a new car under the chassis codenumber P38A (or just P38 for short). Four years of development and £300 million later, the car was launched to a whirlwind of critical acclaim.
Launched in 1994, the Range Rover P38 was the last Land Rover machine to be designed by Rover, and included the very best in cutting-edge technology to mix the go-anywhere do-anything raunchiness of the Classic, with the luxury and majesty of an upmarket saloon car. The first major difference between the old and new was the option of engines. For those who didn't intend to take these cars to the mountains and go driving off cliffs, then there was the humble BMW 2.5L V8, but for those who wished to conquer Everest and still have enough time in the day to lacerate the rest of the Himalayas, there was the original 4.5 & 4.6L Rover V8 from the original. Another later addition to this fray of power units was what was later dubbed the 'Overfinch', which was powered by a 5.7L General Motors V8, for if you wanted that extra edge. Jeremy Clarkson once demonstrated the power of the Overfinch by having a drag race with a Ford Focus, whilst pulling a trailer upon which was another Ford Focus, to which the Range Rover won by an absolute mile!
However, what people were interested the most was on the inside. The interior of the Range Rover P38 was very much similar to that of the original, with 5 seats, good space in the boot, and various other trim options depending on your preference. However, the new Range Rover came with a more personal touch, this being dubbed the 'Autobiography' service. For a little extra, Land Rover would happily fill out your preference for any optional extras or personalising of your machine. Leather on the seats, wood veneer, paintwork, these were just some of the features that you could select, not to mention the number of gadgets you could insist on as well, including reclining seats, on-board engine management systems, SATNAV, remote control locking that also resets the seats to their original position, etc. The car is also incredibly safe too, a 6-foot, 3 ton block of steel hurtling through the countryside, and the high driving position meant that you could feel a sense of security and comfort as you looked down on lesser mortals in their normal cars.
So, to summarize, the Range Rover P38 is the best car in the world bar none because it is big, safe, comfortable, very well equipped, extremely reliable, powerful, beautifully designed and all around the best thing anyone could possibly drive...
...if they could afford it!
The problem with the P38 is that it is a very, very, very expensive car to both buy and run. At £40,000 it wasn't an easy car to get your hands on when new in 1994, especially after a massive recession, and if you went for the Long-Wheelbase 'Vogue' or SE (Special Equipment) versions, you'd be forking out more towards £50,000, and if you went for an 'Autobiography' job or an Overfinch if you were really edgy, you'd have to be an eccentric millionaire!
Next was actually running it. These days when you come across Range Rover P38's you'll find that most people have the 2.5L BMW engine because of the fact that it was less expensive in terms of fuel consumption. The Rover V8 and Overfinch versions on the other hand, you'd be very lucky to get yourself 9 Miles to the Gallon out of them! You'd be spending more time at Petrol Stations than anywhere else!
And then there's the image when owning a Range Rover. Today modern Range Rovers are very mundane cars in comparison to what they were back in 1994. If you owned a brand new P38 back in 1994, everyone would notice, and everyone would hate you! They'd hate you on a cellular level, on an atomic level even! If you were a person on the street, you'd think 'Egotist', if you were an environmentally minded person, you'd think 'Planet homicidal murderer', if you were any other motorist, you'd think 'Wideboy'. The fact that you had the audacity to go out and buy a gas guzzling luxury SUV which chewed up petrol at 9MPG, had an interior lined with 4 cows and half the New Forest, and was generally a bigger car than theirs in more ways than one, they would absolutely loathe you!
However, the seeds with the P38 were sown and the Range Rover found itself into the hands of a newer, wider ranging audience, this audience being the celebrities and superstars of the 1990's TV and Music scene. No person with a regular salary could possibly risk the Range Rover, but the new money lapped them up like warm milk. With this new demographic in mind, Land Rover very much changed their attitude on the Range Rover, moving it from being a practical ground-covering all terrain vehicle to an item of 'bling-bling'. In 2002 the P38 was replaced by the newer L322, and it was clear from the start that this new Range Rover was built not to climb mountains, but to climb over legions of fans as they huddled around the celebrities of Hollywood and Dubai. Chances are a modern L322 Range Rover and the later L405 have never seen a muddy puddle, and chances are they never will, but their comfortable lives in the spotlights of celebrities can all be owed to the endearing design of the original P38 that dominated the 1990's, and brought that original British Leyland dream of an international conquering car to reality...
...24 years late mind you but ho hum...
Not sure what I'd call this; not really a farmhouse, shepherd's hut maybe. Whatever we call it, it's remote; on the B6277 a few miles south of Alston, although it's just about in County Durham rather than Cumbria.
In the right conditions lots of possibility here; surprised nothing else on flickr.
The Dixie Highway was planned out in December 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South, from Chicago to Miami.
By the mid-1920s, the project was largely completed with a network of roads interconnected across 10 states with more than 5,000 miles of paved, bricked road. But, by 1927, Dixie Highway became part of the US Route System, and was therefore, mostly abandoned. But, a portion of it still remains in remote Florida, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2005.
“It’s one of the oldest roads in America,” according to the historian.
Upon on my arrival, I started from south toward north, before I entered, there is a warning: “Travel at your own risk.” And another prohibiting the removal of the bricks in the road. Doing so, it says, warrants prosecution “to the fullest extent of the law.”
The historic stretch of Old Dixie Highway is 10 miles long, and would recommend to drive slowly as there are some thick soft-sand on the road that could cause slide off from the road if driving too fast.
Interesting fact: The brick was manufactured by the Graves Shale Brick Company in Birmingham, Alabama, belonging to a slave-owning man who fought for the Confederacy. It took 237,600 such bricks to build just 1 mile of road, 9 feet wide. Others are with the words "SOUTHERN CLAY MFG CO” for the Southern Clay Manufacturing Company in Tennessee.
Actually, I finally got around to getting a wireless remote for the camera. Apparently, it works. And in the process created some cashmere bokeh.
Portret-/groepsfotosessie | Portrait- and group pix session
Enkele beelden van een portretsessie t.b.v. een (nieuw) opgericht creatief collectief. | Some of the shots taken during portrait session for (newly) established creative collective.
Fuji X-T2 | Fujinon 10-24mm F4.0
Godox V860II | Speedlite Speedbox | Godox XPro remote trigger
For best view: Press L
Copyright Leon Harting - credit MUST be given at all times
Female psychic or fortune teller holding a crystal skull trying to communicate with the dead. Learn more about Remote Viewing here: www.psychicbase.com/remote-viewing/
Fontoura is a parish in the municipality of Valença, Portugal.
History
The parish builds its roots in remote times, probably pre-Roman. In Grove appeared archaeological remains (pottery, ashes and coals), believing that, by its location and the rounded shape of the hill, there may have been fortified occupation.
Also the middle of the ascent of Mount St. Gabriel, the site called Telhões, early signs of this life were found, since a brick pit was found there, filled with wedges of yellow metal, which the people attributed to the Moors.
You can also identify an occupation immediately prior to citizenship: the toponym Boriz, Germanic root (results of the evolution of anthroponym Baudiricus) is a good example of the existence of this occupation in 9th and 10th century.
According to tradition, the name Fontoura originated from a source close to the existing Casa Alta whose waters, according to legend, would bring some gold particles. It name was the Fonte d'Ouro.
The place of Reguengo is connected to another legend. Queen Isabel stayed here on her return from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
A famous son of this parish is marshal José Joaquim Champalimaud Nussane Lyra e Castra, son of a lieutenant colonel Paulo José Champalimaud de Nussane (engineer of Praça de Valença) and Clara Maria de Sousa Lyra e Castra, originated from the parish Ferreira, the municipality of Paredes de Coura. Born in 1771, José Joaquim enlisted, still a child, in the 21st Infantry Regiment, who manned Valença. At nineteen years he became a cadet in Porto. In 1791 he was already an officer, and the following year he was promoted to second lieutenant and assigned to the Companhia de Brulotes da Marinha. He fought Moroccan Buccaneers in the Strait of Gibraltar, when he belonged to the crew of the frigate "Dom João - Príncipe do Brasil". Promoted to captain (1797), was placed again in the 21st Infantry Regiment. He directed the works of fortification in Minha and made the campaign of 1801, resigning in 1807, when Junot entered the country, not wanting to serve in foreign armed forces. When the revolution against the French broke out, he had the rank of major. He took an active part in the fight, and was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, in 1808. In 1812, after a brilliant record of service in the military, is appointed governor of the presidio of Valença, and later of Elvas. In 1815 he was promoted to marshal. His magnificent mansion is located in Bárrio, that justifies a visit, as well as the Capela de S. José.
Besides these, there are other monuments and sites that deserve mention: the Chapel of St. Gabriel, the Chapel of St. Francisco de Carcavelhe (1647), in ruins, and whose representation is in the church in Fontoura, the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Guia, also in ruins, the St. Gabriel Square, splendid panoramic; the estate of Santo António or the Chapel of Pópulo (sixteenth century), Casa do Paço.
Even more about the history of this parish, in the book Inventário Colectivo dos registros Paroquiais Vol. 2 - Norte Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo, is written:
"In 1258, the list of churches in the territory of Entre Lima e Minho, prepared for the inquiries of Afonso III of Portugal, San Miguel de Fontoura is cited as one of the churches belonging to the diocese of Tui. In 1320, the catalog of the same churches, warrant prepared by King Denis of Portugal, for tax payment, San Miguel de Fontoura was rated at 100 pounds.
In 1444, John I of Portugal got the pope to dismember the territory of the diocese of Tui, going to belong to Ceuta, where he remained until 1512. In that year, the Archbishop of Braga, Diogo de Sousa, gave Henrique, Bishop of Ceuta, the ecclesiastical district of Olivença, receiving in exchange Valença do Minho. In 1513, Pope Leo X approved the exchange.
Between 1514 and 1532, the archbishop Diogo de Sousa held an assessment of the benefits of the church in the diocese of Braga. Fontoura yielded 230 réis.
In 1546, the record of the assessment of these churches, within the time of the Archbishop Manuel de Sousa, San Miguel de Fontoura yielded 60,000 réis.
In the 1580 copy of the census of Frei Baltasar Limpo, San Miguel de Fontoura the proceeds were of laymen. According to Américo Costa, the right of proceeds belonged to the heirs of Gabriel Pereira de Castro.
In the Parish Statistics of 1862 the proceeds were for Vieiras Teles of Lisbon, and Barbosa Aboim of Barcelos.
In administrative terms, it belonged, in 1839, to the district of Monção and, in 1852, to Valença."