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My BFF & I endlessly quoted this mascara commercial in the 1980s. Here's our version of it, featuring '80s Barbies & Ken.
So difficult to replicate the true colour of this gorgeous, soft, pale pink hyacinth. Hope this is as close as it is. I just couldn't manage to quite get the softness and the fragrance !
Edited in Topaz and lightly texture in PicMonkey. Hope you like it.
I can't keep up with you all ... but please know that you're all so appreciated and wherever you are, I wish you a wonderful week ahead.
Thank you for your support, everyone. I would prefer not to receive multiple invites, as I feel impolite if I don't take them up !
This is my attempt at replicating the Pagani Zonda Cinque in LEGO bricks. The Zonda is one of my top 5 favorite cars, so I had to include one in my LEGO collection. This is actually my third attempt at building the Zonda (see my previous versions here and here). With this version, I think I've improved the overall shape of the car by increasing the width at the rear of the car to 17 studs (the front of the car is 16 studs wide).
As you can see, this creation was inspired by Firas Abu-Jaber's own Zonda. I tried to replicate the Zonda's shape using different methods from Firas' Zonda, but in the end some areas, such as the front simply could not be made better (Firas' version is near perfect).
Also, if anyone has a set of Ferrari FXX rims and is willing to sell, please let me know (prices on Bricklink are so high for this piece)! Those rims would look a lot better on this car than these silver ones I have.
Made a wolf patch based off this: imageshack.us/photo/my-images/386/nnarukru0004bigfm8.jpg/
Well, didn't turn out too well, but my brush isn't too small either.
I'm probably going to make a bunch of these if I end up doing my MW themed diorama.
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I already know about this: www.flickr.com/photos/catsy/4809762297/ Before you decide to write negative comments, keep in mind, just like him, I am stating my opinion. I know it wouldn't work in real life nor do real Spetsnaz or VDV wear it. However, I don't see how it looks retarded. Part of the appeal for it is the fact that it looks fucking cool. Also, in game it actually is toned down a lot so they blend in better. But, a good chunk of those comments are calling people that replicate it (like myself) stupid, like Rogue Builder's: "hallelujah someone with brains."
In other news, I think Warhammer paints are overly expensive.
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An edit of Stagecoach London Enviro200MMC 36659 (SN17MLZ) into the Stagecoach London colours that were seen on Darts and Tridents between 2000 and 2005 before Macquarie Bank took over operations until 2011.
As soon as I saw this ship earlier this year during the first teases for The Mandalorian, I knew I had to build this ship.
I've made a few compromises in my design- the angles were pretty difiicult to replicate accurately while mainting a structurally sound model and I couldn't find quite the right canopy to represent the cockpit.
I'm really happy with the yellow smattering of paint around the door and the landing gear I managed to fit in (which was not an easy task!).
I think people will be unhappy about the scale- there's no space for Baby Yoda in the cockpit, but compared to my other models, and a minifig, I really like the scale. Recreating the exterior as accurately as could was a higher priority than the interior. This is the way.
(2012) 365 Day Project Day 24
Another revisit to the same area I took the last 2 days pics. Saw the chance to do this last night but the sun was too low so decided to return tonight. I feel like I am doing a ""Summer Sunset Series" at the moment but it is hard to resist with the days so clear and the evenings so warm. We have certainly been very lucky with the weather in Melbourne over the last week or so, a bit different to Brisbane where they are on flood alert.
Saw this idea on one of my contacts photostreams(www.flickr.com/photos/51334687@N06/6185766143/in/photostream) and loved it. When I saw the chance to replicate it last night I could not resist, it is such a great idea. Thanks Darren.
Νίκος Εγγονόπουλος - "Τα βάσανα της αγάπης" - απόσπασμα
"Καθώς ανέμισαν
τα μαλλάκια της
έτσι μπροστά στα μάτια μου
λες και σαν ξαφνικά να ξύπνησα
και για πρώτη φορά
την είδα
-και την επρόσεξα-
την ωραία
νεαρή κόρη
με συνεκίνησε
η αρμονία των κινήσεών της
η ραδινότης των μελών
του κορμιού της
η γοητεία του βλέμματός της
η απαλή στρογγυλάδα
των μαστών της
η όλη χάρη τέλος
που ανεδίδετο
απο το κομψό ολόδροσο
πλάσμα"
A view of the replicated Woodward's W seen from the George Viaduct.
Charles A. Woodward opened his first store in Vancouver on Main Street in 1891.
Woodward’s moved to new larger store on West Hastings Street in 1903. Woodward's department store became the place to shop and was at the centre of then Vancouver’s premier shopping district.
The store was renowned for its Christmas window displays, the huge basement food court and the popular $1.49 Tuesday sales with it's kitschy jingle.
The iconic Woodward's "W" was installed on top of a pint-size replica of the Eiffel Tower in 1944.
Woodward's went bankrupt in 1993 and building sat empty until a redevelopment plan surfaced in the early 2000’s.
The "W" neon sign was removed before most of the building was demolished in 2006. The “W" was replicated and re-installed January, 2010 on the remaining heritage protected old building.
The original W is displayed in the open area between the SFU campus and new Woodward's residential tower.
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After many months of dedication, I’ve finally completed my LEGO replica of a Portuguese Intercidades train!
It features a CP5600 locomotive and four Sorefame carriages — one first-class with a bar and three second-class coaches.
Built at 1:45 scale, the model is nearly 3 meters long and consists of around 8000 LEGO pieces.
It includes working motors, functional lights, and replicates the livery introduced in 2016.
A true passion project for both train and LEGO enthusiasts!
I think I was trying to replicate the picture below that I took a few years ago, but it just wasn't happening for me, and then these two came along.
But that is the great thing about these "Outdoorshow" events. You don't need to be a steam buff or a train spotter to enjoy them. If you are interested in photography there are rich pickings amongst the diverse type of people and families attending: Cute kids, people of all generations. And there are machines galore: huge smoking and steaming traction engines, vintage trucks, cars and motorbikes and even a vintage steam powered funfair. On the periphery are trade and junk stalls and all manner of other entertainments. Amongst the crowds there are the good looking, ugly, old and young, strange, dirty men and dirty women (from coal and oil.....but possibly a few without those too). And even the unusual and quirky are there too.
On a sunny day these events area great day out for all the family. For more pictures see www.flickr.com/photos/pentlandpirate/albums/7215765672975...
A brand new, never to be replicated snowflake. it snowed today. the beautiful fluffy snow that makes you feel like you're inside of a snow globe. it was wonderful!
converted to b&w, cropped and sharpened in LR3.
100mm 2.8 macro.
(And I have no explanation for the Jeopardy reference, just bored I guess.)
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Two years ago I made my first locomotive as a full Lego scale model, set to the relatively big scale of 1/16. It was an older type American Diesel-electric unit called SD40-2, made by EMD (Electro Motive Diesel). The warm response the model received encouraged me to build another one, and this time I aimed for a more modern type, also produced by EMD: The SD70ACe. This mighty machine is a six-axle, 4300- horsepower, AC-traction diesel-electric locomotive which was first introduced in 2004, and has been in production since 2005. The SD70 ACe is very representative for locomotives used by North American Railroads to transport heavy freights.
The locomotive that I replicated is owned by Union Pacific; a freight railroad that operates nearly 8,500 locomotives, from which about 700 are SD70 Ace’s, and is the largest in the United States.
This specific example is something special though. It is a so called Union Pacific "heritage unit". These are a total of six SD70Ace’s which are painted in unique commemorative schemes which are meant to designate former railroads which Union Pacific purchased or operated over former trackage. Locomotive ‘UP 1989’ is such a “Heritage Unit” and is exclusivly painted in the colors of “Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad”, which Union Pacific acquired in 1996.
The Lego model consist of about 27.000 bricks, and was built in 4 months. It is about 143 cm in length (56,2 inch). The model was made from pictures and drawings found on the internet. It is fully detailed both, in, -and outside with modeled engine, electrical cabinets and cabin.
All decals were self-made as vector files, and printed and pre-cut at a professional company. Some retrofitted chromebricks are used.
This is also the first time I have used lighting in a model. Rob from www.brickstuff.com made it possible for me to make a realistic lighting setup without sacrificing any space for detail due to the very thin wiring, and even the ditch effect is onboard. For the same detail space reason I used the small battery boxes inlcuding switches from Brickstuff, and there are now two main switches to operate the external and cabin lights. It really adds to the realism of a build, and it will definitly not be my last work with lights mounted!
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This is a replica of a Beatles album, can you tell which one?
This week in 2013, the High-Energy Replicated Optics for Exploring the Sun mission launched aboard the Columbia Scientific Balloon from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The mission was a collaborative effort between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. HEROES was designed to investigate the scale of high-energy processes in a pulsar wind nebula by mapping the angular vortex of hard X-ray emission; the acceleration and transport of energetic electrons in solar flares using hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy; the hard X-ray properties of astrophysical targets such as X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei; and electron acceleration in the non-flaring solar corona by searching for the hard X-ray signature of energetic electrons. Here, the HEROES payload awaits launch as the helium balloon inflates in the background. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
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Until the Delmonico brothers opened their eponymous eatery in 1837,New York City didn't have a proper restaurant,just cafes and inns where diners had little control over what they were served.Delmonico's,New York's first a la carte restaurant on 2 South William Street,favored French cuisine,cloth-covered tables and a printed menu designed by the first "star chef," Charles Ranhofer.
The locations and owners changed hands many times over the years,and the current iteration of Delmonico's has no connection to the original beyond the name and the luxurious location,which faithfully replicates the subdued grandeur of a bygone era.The current owners,Ocinomled Ltd.,expanded with another location in Hell's Kitchen in 2012,but the old William Street spot (which the restaurant lists as 56 Beaver Street,but it's the same place) still serves some of the iconic dishes that made their world debut at the storied institution nearly 180 years ago.
Current Executive Chef Billy Oliva,who's been with Delmonico's for the past eight years,says the classics are still the restaurant's most popular dishes. "Delmonico's Steak,it's our signature ribeye," Oliva says of the restaurant's most popular dish. "Steak never goes out of style.It's a food that people are very familiar and comfortable with."
"People don’t eat the way they use to.People are much more health conscious and much more educated about where their food comes from.Is it farm-to-table?Is the restaurant supporting local purveyors?" Oliva observes. "Delmonico's was the first restaurant to offer farm-to-table dining [and] the Delmonico brothers started the first farm-to-table concept.Not satisfied by the quality of produce they could get in the markets of NYC,they bought a 220 acre farm in Williamsburg,Brooklyn and sourced their own.Today,we continue the Delmonico's brothers' standards and source from local purveyors.We know our farmers, our fishermen, etc."
Below,a few facts about the restaurant's history,as well as a glimpse at the current iteration of Delmonico's and its signature dishes.
The first Delmonico property was a French pastry cafe at 23 William Street that Swiss-born brothers John and Peter Delmonico opened with $20,000 in gold coins 1827. It was destroyed by a fire in 1835,which is when they began construction on the site of the modern-day Delmonico's.
The Delmonico brothers built the South William Street/Beaver Street restaurant to their exact specifications,with three floors dedicated to dining and the storage of wine.In 1890,the restaurant was completely rebuilt into an eight story structure.The pillars that flanked the entrance,allegedly imported from Pompeii,were moved to the new building.
Though its official name was Delmonico's Restaurant,the public actually referred to the restaurant as "The Citadel."
Delmonico's was the first restaurant to be reviewed by the Times in 1859. "No nobleman of England—no Marqui of ancienne noblesse—was ever better served or waited on in greater style than you will be in a private room at Delmonico's.The lights will be brilliant,the waiters will be curled and perfumed and gloved,the dishes will be strictly en regle and the wines will come with the precision of clock-work that has been duly wound up."
The Delmonico brothers purchased land in Williamsburg to grow their own vegetables,making the restaurant a (very) early adopter of the farm-to-table movement.It's said they grew produce like artichokes and other vegetables that weren't readily available to American diners.
The restaurant's very first menu reportedly offered things like Liver and Bacon,Beef or Mutton Stew,Ham and Eggs and Corn Beef and Cabbage.A "Regular Dinner" cost 12 cents.
Delmonico's claims to be the inventor of several notable dishes,including Eggs Benedict,Baked Alaska and Chicken A la Keene.Lobster Newburg appeared on the menu in 1876 after chef Charles Ranhofer "reined" the Lobster a la Wenberg dish originally created by a sea captain and Delmonico's regular named Ben Wenberg.
One story even claims that Ranhofer "introduced New York to the 'alligator pear' or avocado,"newly imported from South America.
Mark Twain celebrated his 70th birthday at Delmonico's,dining with Mrs.Woodrow Wilson,Dorothy Canfield,and his nephew Samuel E. Moffett.
Women were permitted to dine at Delmonico's in the early days but,like many restaurants of the time,only if they were accompanied by men.Special women's-only dining areas were the only places women could dine together without a male "chaperone."
The Delmonico's name was so synonymous with quality and fine dining that copycat Delmonico's restaurants popped up around the USA.
The Delmonico's owned several other Manhattan restaurants bearing the family name,as the brothers' nephew Lorenzo Delmonico followed the push of new establishments opening further uptown.The last Delmonico's closed in 1923.
Prohibition—along with constantly changing ownership among the Delmonico family heirs—contributed to Delmonico's demise.With no wine available for cooking,let alone drinking,and patrons shifting to at-home dining to booze without fear of raids,the restaurant couldn't survive.The final meal on May 21st,1923,was said to be served with mineral water.
The 2 South William Street space has operated as three different Delmonico's entities—all unaffiliated with the Delmonico family—from 1929 until today.The current owner,Ocinomled Ltd.,filed to trademark the name to make a Delmonico's steak sauce in 2004-The Gothamist
Replicated the four windows purposely utilizing the used white bricks and plates to give the interior wall a weathered look. Included as well are the columns that go between them.
Just have to build seven more for the whole Pisamban Maragul layout...
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It took approximately 40 minutes of sheer patience before I could take this shot due to the number of visitors who were at the forefront of the scene. I almost gave up but thankfully my patience paid off.
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Among my favorite films is "American Beauty" (1999), written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes. The original movie poster illustrates the American fascination with youth and perfection, symbolized by the young woman's torso and the single red rose, both of which will lose their allure over time.
I wanted to loosely replicate the poster in this shot, adding the black nail polish as a nod to the film's underlying message... there is always a dark side to surface beauty.
I replicated Thrawns battle gear based on his outfit in Star Wars Rebels: S3 Ep22.
I used the torso of the Lego AT-DP driver and added details like his rank plaque, code cylinders and epaulettes using cut Lego stickers.
The goggles are from Minifig.cat, and I gave him a Brickarms blaster.
In May 1974, photographer Rob Leachman shot Milwaukee Road train #63 at this same locale, heading towards Council Bluffs. Wanting to replicate the same photo modern-day, I quickly set to work trying to locate the same area with Google Maps. I was able to find it, about a half mile North of the nearest crossing, and a third of a mile from the nearest road. I drove up a few days before shooting to survey the location and make sure it’s still doable, and was pleased by how open it still was. Finally, on February 20th, everything lined up. The local was pushed back a day, running Southbound from Manning on a Tuesday instead of a Monday, making it earlier than usual. Only having two class periods and out of school by 10:40, I immediately filled my tank and proceeded North, parking my car on a rural dirt road and beginning the ten minute walk through the fields and up the hills to get back here. After a fourty minute wait, I could hear the faint roar of the locomotives thundering through the hills. They do nothing more than ten miles per hour here, crawling their way out of Defiance uphill towards Earling. Hearing these motors give everything they got is a sound I will never forget, and man is the shot worth the wait. I hope to return in the summer when everything’s green.
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"I spy, something... white."
I've always thought that this ship was really neat, even though it only appeared in for about one minute in the Ninjago series pilot, and it definitely was a lot of fun working on replicating it in the brick! The only purposeful deviation I've made from the original ship itself (found at the very beginning of Pilot Episode 3, King of Shadows, by the bye) is that the bottom is reddish brown here instead of dark brown, since that was, well, essentially impossible given my bricks! This is also a warm-up to the theme for the Ninjago collab Kai and I plan to do shortly.
Credit goes to Grant Davis and Eli Willsea for the water technique!
Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome!
A “Monet” garden is one that replicates the great artist/gardener’s use of special visual effects, color harmonies and garden accents.
The Monet Garden at the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens was dedicated in 2003. Roughly one acre in size, it features hundreds of varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, wildflowers and bulbs.
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Tiers of colorful flowers cascade from arbors and trellises and over rock walls and paths, delighting visitors in a non-stop show from March through October. Numerous benches located throughout the garden, also in the Monet style, allow visitors to sit and enjoy spectacular views in every direction. A graceful bridge spans upper and lower water gardens, providing an excellent vantage point for viewing the extent of the garden.
The Monet Garden is a cooperative effort of the Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and the Johnson County Extension Master Gardeners
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Happiest birthday to Yx 141 who turns the grand old age of 132 years old today. On this day in 1892, she entered service with the South Australian Railways on the Northern Division of the SAR.
132 years later she is still in working order on the Pichi Richi Railway.
This pic was taken in September 2019 during the hugely successful Rail Fan Weekend event, with Yx 141 almost replicating the famous Polar Express with its headlamp glowing like that.
Headed out to the south pier again tonight. Was fairly foggy when I got there but it cleared along the shore so I was able to capture this mirror image of Big Red in the water. A very calm still night.
Oral CBD Prevented COVID-19 Infection in Real-World Patients, Study Suggests.
While not a substitute for vaccines, "CBD has the potential to prevent infections, such as breakthrough infections," the study's lead author said. Cannabidiol—the non-psychoactive cannabis compound better known as CBD—is a potent blocker of SARS-CoV-2 replication in human cells, new research shows. Not only that, but a survey of real-world patients taking prescribed CBD found a “significant” negative relationship between CBD consumption and COVID-19 infection.
As detailed in a paper published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances by a team of 33 researchers at the University of Chicago and University of Louisville, a survey of 1,212 U.S. patients taking prescribed CBD found that people taking 100 milligrams-per-milliliter oral doses of CBD returned positive COVID-19 tests at much lower rates than control groups with similar medical backgrounds who did not take CBD.
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According to the study, all of the patients were people who had seizure-related conditions, which CBD is often prescribed to treat. Of this group, 6.2 percent returned positive COVID-19 tests or a diagnosis, compared to 8.9 percent in the control group. Among a smaller subset of patients who were likely taking CBD on the dates of their first COVID-19 test, the effect was even more pronounced: Only 4.9 percent of people taking CBD became infected with COVID-19, compared to 9 percent in the control group.
"Our results suggest that CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD can block SARS-CoV-2 infection at early and even later stages of infection,” the study states.
Besides looking at real-world data, the scientists conducted lab tests. Lead author Dr. Marsha Rosner, a professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago, and her team treated human lung cells for two hours with CBD before infecting them with SARS-CoV-2, and left them for 48 hours while monitoring them for the presence of the COVID spike protein. They found that CBD inhibits the replication of genes required for the growth and spread of the virus throughout the body. They performed the same tests on three COVID-19 variants and found the same result.
“As a bottom line, what this says is that CBD has the potential to prevent infections, such as breakthrough infections, which might be one of the most useful applications,” Rosner told Motherboard.
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The researchers strove to identify the mechanism through which CBD inhibited infection; while they found a negligible effect at the point at which viruses enter cells, they found CBD to be “very effective” at preventing protein expression in cells two and six hours after infection, and “partially effective” at doing so 15 hours after infection. They also found that CBD’s metabolite, 7-OH-CBD—the compound created in the body when CBD is processed in the liver and intestines—has similar antiviral effect and was non-toxic to cells.
The study offers strong evidence that CBD can treat and slow the transmission of COVID-19. It comes just one week after an initial revelation out of Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Sciences University that cannabis precursors (the acids that, when combusted, turn into CBD and THC) can halt the infection of cells by SARS-CoV-2 in lab tests.
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The authors of that study were careful to note that cannabis-derived products, while a potentially important public health intervention, are no substitute for vaccination campaigns. However, in the all-out fight to end the pandemic, they could end up becoming a much-needed supplement.
“Despite recent vaccine availability, SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading rapidly, highlighting the need for alternative treatments, especially for populations with limited inclination or access to vaccines,” the University of Chicago researchers write in their study.
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“What we don't want… is people just running out and thinking, ‘I can take CBD, and then I don't have to get vaccinated or I don't have to be masked,’” Rosner said. “This is what we really don't want to see.”
It seems like there’s a flood of scientific news about the promise of cannabis in preventing or treating COVID-19. Last week, a different group of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, identified CBD as a primer to a process called apoptosis, or natural cell death—in the case of COVID-19, their research suggests that CBD spurs on the death of infected cells, stopping viral spread in its tracks and slowing the transmission to others.
The studies, in tandem, contribute to a growing body of research identifying cannabis as a tool in the global COVID-19 response arsenal. Rosner and her team first laid the ground for this work in March of 2021, when they identified cannabidiol as a potential treatment for COVID-19 for its ability to hamper viral replication in lung cells in a lab. As detailed in a pre-print, the team found that in quantities similar to those that are prescribed as treatment for epilepsy, CBD inhibits the replication of genes that are required for viruses to spread throughout the body.
Rosner and her team caution against conflating their findings with the suggestion to use recreational cannabis as a treatment for COVID-19: THC may inhibit CBD’s antiviral effects, the authors note, and smoking is bad for your lungs. Without clinical trials, they also can’t recommend that people go out and buy CBD at a dispensary.
“We strongly caution against the temptation to take CBD in presently available formulations including edibles, inhalants or topicals as a preventative or treatment therapy at this time,” the authors write. “Especially without the knowledge of a rigorous randomized clinical trial with this natural product.”
Rosner notes that it’s impossible to know what CBD dosage and formula will be most effective at treating COVID-19 infection until her research moves into clinical trials on humans. After all, Rosner said, “we can only do so much in mice; we really need to do this in people.”
“We think it has a potential, both to be a preventative—so for instance, you can imagine that I'm going traveling and CBD is something that, if we can make the right product accessible, it should be widely available, it should be something people could anticipate needing,” she said. “Or you go and get tested and immediately start taking it. The hope is that it would prevent more serious disease, but we don't know yet. And we would need a clinical trial.” Source: www.vice.com/en/article/bvn743/oral-cbd-prevented-covid-1...
I have been trying, on & off for yonks, to replicate in photoshop elements the processing I did on this photo with picnic in about 2 minutes flat - not least because the quick picnic edit wasn't a proper square, which is just so irritating when I've printed it. This is the best I've managed.... All rather irritating, tho' I suppose a useful learning step (as I continue to stumble around in PSE).
The original photo was taken over Hogmanay 2008-09 in the Yorkshire Dales. The river Skirfare in Littondale, near Arncliffe.
(We are off to Arncliffe again this Hogmanay, hence my revisiting this and the previous picture of Arncliffe church from last time.)