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These two were looking a bit tired from the demands of two youngsters to be fed. Today I am looking back at Cobbledicks Ford in June last year. I am really missing our monthly 'working bees' at Cobbledicks. Hopefully we will be able to resume before the end of the year.
As with everyone, Covid has made people put there lives on hold. This is one of my son’s who has been locked down in London for months. To see him run down the beach and run into the sea was quite emotional. I have the feeling that the new normal has arrived. Childhood can be resumed under a new set of rules.
Take care out there.
All the best......
In 1957, Ford introduced the Ranchero, and established a new market segment in the U.S. of an automobile platform based coupé utility. In 1959, Chevrolet responded with the El Camino to compete with Ford's full-sized Ranchero. The original El Camino and Ranchero would compete directly only in the 1959 model year. The El Camino was introduced for the 1959 model year two years after the Ford Ranchero. According to Chevrolet stylist Chuck Jordan, GM's Harley Earl had suggested a coupé pickup in 1952.
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupé utility vehicle that was produced by Chevrolet in 1959 and 1960, and from 1964 to 1987. Unlike a standard pickup truck, the El Camino was adapted from the standard two-door Chevrolet station wagon platform and integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body.
Introduced in the 1959 model year in response to the success of the Ford Ranchero coupé utility, its first run, based on the Biscayne's B-body, lasted only two years. Production resumed for the 1964–1977 model years based on the Chevelle platform, and continued for the 1978–1987 model years based on the GM G-body platform.
The 1982 (through the final 1987) El Camino sported a new frontal appearance with a crosshatch grille flanked by quad rectangular headlights. New under the hood for 1982 was a 105 hp (78 kW) 5.7-liter (350-cubic-inch) Diesel V8, which was also offered in Chevrolet's full-size cars. Though mileage with the diesel was commendable, it was an expensive option and would eventually amass a dismal repair record. Gasoline-engine choices were unchanged, except Chevrolet's 229-cubic-inch (3.8-liter) V6 was now standard in California-bound cars, replacing Buick's 231-cubic-inch V6.
In 1983, the 4.4-liter V8 was gone, leaving the 5.0-liter version as the only optional gas V8. The standard engine was again Chevrolet's 3.8-liter V6 with 110 hp (82 kW), though California cars, once again, got a Buick V6 with similar specifications. Continuing on the options list was the 5.7-liter V8 Diesel with 105 hp (78 kW). The sister Malibu sedan and wagon were discontinued after the 1983 model year.
For 1985, GM shifted El Camino production to Mexico, and the new fuel-injected 4.3 L V6 became the base engine through 1987. El Camino production ended quietly in late 1987.
I don't know the exact year of the one in the photos, but it's part of the final series produced from 1982 - 1987. I think it happens to be the nicest looking versions of the entire series made.
as the lockdown isolation is beginning to ease the ferries will resume a reduced service as from tomorrow.
My series on Jacksonville, Illinois will resume next month. I've changed locations and will be posting photos of Austin and Texas Hill Country for the next 2-4 weeks.
I'm kicking off this addition to my Texas albums with a photo I took yesterday of The Academy, a fine derivative of the shingle style of architecture, Located in the Travis Heights neighborhood, this magnificent house, with its towering belvedere sticking above the treetops, was constructed in 1889 for Myron D. Mather, president of Austin Water, Light & Power Company. The structure is said to be partially constructed of granite left from the 1888 completion of the Texas State Capitol.
The house was briefly owned by Texas Supreme Court justice Leroy G. Denman in 1897. As the Austin Military School in the decade after 1920, the House was called "The Academy."
The Academy was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985, and is contributing to Austin's Travis Heights-Fairview Park Historic District listed in 2021 in the National Register of Historic Places.
As of 2021, Austin had an estimated population of 964,177, The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,421,115 as of July 1, 2022. Austin is home of the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest universities in the U.S. with over 50,000 students.
Yes I know I’m spoiled, living in West Cornwall. There’s no arguing with that, nor denying the abundance of natural beauty on the doorstep. Every so often I have a dig around on the laptop, generally when I’m looking for something else, find a shot I took at some point, stumbled across and worked on a couple of years later, and then promptly forgot all about for another eighteen months. I don’t remember taking this one at all. So the exif tells me, it was in September 2022, exactly a week after returning from Iceland, with the lens that didn’t make it onto the plane. I was obviously feeling sorry for the 70-200 and had used it that day out of a sense of guilt - having empathy for inanimate objects really is a step too far from reality at times. I spent a couple of months wandering around in a stupor after that Iceland trip, going to the usual haunts with the camera without much thought for what I was doing. Everything in Iceland was so overwhelmingly magnificent that it’s almost as if the first few outings after my return to Cornwall didn’t even happen. Going through the motions, barely noticing where I was or what I was taking pictures of, and dreaming of Dyrholaey and Vestrahorn while pointing my camera at places I knew so well that the pictures just took themselves with little involvement from me. Those two weeks in Iceland were the trip of a lifetime, and all else paled into insignificance around that time. I still have so many plans for Iceland, but that’s another story for another time. Let’s return to Godrevy.
Jumping forward to today, I've barely been to Godrevy at all in recent months. Hardly set foot outside the house until quite recently in fact. Usually the winter season here is a great time for landscape photography. You can shoot throughout the day and the golden hour glow is often spectacular, but this time around, especially since the turn of the year, to say it's been slim pickings would be an understatement. Barely a day passed without rain in some form or another, and the sky seemed to be almost permanently hidden by an unmoving blanket of grey cloud that hung heavily over the county like a damp duvet. At the end of January the weather forecaster told us it was the wettest month on record in Cornwall. As February gave way to March, the announcement came that it was the rainiest winter ever down here. The garden was bogged down in thick mud, while our spirits clung to the wet grass for fear of sinking down below its surface.
Sometimes I'd try to embrace the conditions and don my waterproofs, but by the middle of March it was all getting to be too much. During those two months I went out with the camera just five times at home, three of them within the first eight days of the new year. Sometimes I managed to dodge the rain, but only just. As for Godrevy, during the winter months it’s not unusual for me to come here every week. Just twice since January this year though. Things have finally begun to improve at last as Easter waits in the wings, but we still have the odd horror show when it pours down from morning to evening without a pause. It doesn’t help that the van has been out of action all winter either. It’s always been particularly satisfying to pull up in the car park and put the kettle on. Hopefully next winter normal service might be resumed.
I had a few images in mind for this latest post, none of which were this one. Until I noticed it in a downloads folder on my laptop. And when I look back through recent stories, the last homegrown one was posted in the middle of January with an image taken a month earlier. So I think it’s about time I remembered my roots and shared something from here in Cornwall. Even if it’s an image I don’t remember taking because I was still dining out on an adventure I wouldn’t forget if I lived to be two hundred and fifty. In fact, the handful of outings in recent months have produced a small number of images worth sharing, so I’ll be sure to do so eventually. But not yet because the next big jaunt is just around the corner.
The dead tree stands in the shallows of a large pond, its bare branches overhanging the water. A perfect place for warblers to practice their tightrope walking skills. Actually, I think curiosity brought this little guy over to see what I was doing. Soft light, overcast morning, I spent an hour along the shoreline - plenty of time for the birds to get used to me and resume their normal activities. I liked the splash of colour here on grey; got off four frames and away he flew.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The M6 is a short metropolitan route in Cape Town, South Africa. It connects the Cape Town CBD with Glencairn on the False Bay coast via Sea Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. It is an alternative route to the M4 for travel between Cape Town CBD and Glencairn, with the M6 passing west of Table Mountain and through Chapman's Peak.
The M6 begins at a junction with the M62 (Buitengracht Street) in the Cape Town CBD, at the location of the Foreshore Freeway Bridge. It begins by heading west-north-west as Helen Suzman Boulevard into Green Point, bypassing the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and the Cape Town Stadium. Immediately after Green Point, the M6 reaches the West Coast (Atlantic) and turns southwards as Beach Road to follow the coast, passing through Sea Point and bypassing Table Mountain and its National Park to the west.
In the southern part of Sea Point, at a roundabout, the M6 turns east to become Queens Road. It meets the M61 at a roundabout before returning to facing southwards as Victoria Road to resume following the coast. It heads south, through Clifton, to enter Camps Bay, where it meets the M62 again.
From Camps Bay, the M6 heads southwards for 10 kilometres to reach Hout Bay, where it turns east as Victoria Road and then south as Main Road, where it meets the M63. It resumes southwards, becoming Chapmans Peak Drive, to pass through the Chapman's Peak Hiking & Marine Trail, where a tollgate is situated.
From the tollgate, the M6 heads southwards to Noordhoek, where it turns to the south-south-east as Noordhoek Main Road. It reaches Sun Valley, where it meets the south-western terminus of the M64 (Ou Kaapse Weg). It then meets the M65 (Kommetjie Road) and turns to the south-east as Glencairn Expressway. It enters Glencairn, where it ends at a junction with the M4 (Main Road).
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Back to civilian life! Last week was very eventful! Not because of the military training. It was because I have received 4 testimonials written by 4 flickrs friends. Wow!
I have not resume photographing yet hence, this was again pulled out from the archives. I am sorry that I don't have any more appropriate new photos that I can dedicate to them individually for the time being. Anyway, dear Flickrs' friends, please kindly visit the wonderful sites of these 4 wonderful friends who have continuously inspire me since I joined Flickr mid this year.
And not forgetting my dear friend from France who wrote the first testimonial for me.
Note: Thanks to Clare and Ebamo advice. We didn't know they will get hurt. We will take note of this from now on. Sorry to make you upset about this. Guess I choose the wrong picture this time!
66CLT emerges from Drasvosvurg Tunnel with coke loads for ET. The “waterfall” to the right is built for drainage.
Inspiré de deux scènes cinématographique dans The Fountain et Lovely Bones... (Films hautement recommandables).
Variation sur l'image précédente... Initialement traitée avec Darktable. Je l'aie reprise avec Gimp pour travailler un effet miroir et appliquer un filtre onduler pour simuler de l'eau, sur la partie inférieur... Pour terminer j'ai utilisé un modèle d'arbre récupéré sur DeviantArt, dupliqué et retourné le calque pour le reflet dans l'eau. Les oiseaux, sauf celui sous l'arbre proviennent également de DeviantArt et hop voilà le travail... ;-)
Inspired two cinematographic scenes in The Fountain and The Lovely Bones ... (highly recommended Film).
Variation on the previous picture ... Initially treated with darktable. I have resumed work with Gimp for a mirror effect and apply a wave filter to simulate water on the lower part ... To finish I used a tree model retrieved on DeviantArt, duplicated and returned layer for the reflection in the water. Birds, except under the tree are also from DeviantArt hop and that's the work ... ;-)
The Corn Moon rising over the Pineda Causeway in Melbourne, Florida.
(Alternate title: "Resume normal safe operation")
Stagecoach Oxfordshire / 50443 YX70 LVJ / Oxford Tube Oxford - London Victoria / Hillingdon Western Avenue
With school resuming this week, I decided to start making instructions for my models in Studio.
In addition to archiving my models online, making instructions allows for the use of newer pieces I didn't even know existed.
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Easter is now well behind us and I've been back in NYC for a couple weeks at this point...
I've managed to unpack my suitcases and get more-or-less caught up with the stuff that accumulated in my absence ... but it was only about a week ago that I was able to get back outside with my camera, to resume the "streets of New York" and "peeps in the 'hood" street-photography projects that I carried out during much of 2013 and 2014.
Because I have a strong desire to let the photos sit untouched for a month before I start editing them (which involves far less discipline than the late Gary Winogrand, who apparently waited a full year before he got any of his film processed!), I won't be able to inspect any of these street-photography shots until early May.
(For another perspective on waiting a long time before uploading photos, see Eric Kim's March 23, 2015 blog titled, "What I Learned Processing 164 Rolls of Film After Waiting a Year," which you can find on the Internet at erickimphotography.com/blog/2015/03/23/what-i-learned-pro... )
And that means I'll have to spread out my remaining Florida sunrise shots, and probably upload only one or two new ones each day ... unless some other photo project comes along in the next couple of weeks...
Meanwhile, I will continue uploading the old photos from my early childhood in separate batches. I'll be finishing off a batch from the late 1940s tomorrow, and will then have another large bunch from various places I lived as an infant in the mid-1940s... before uploading some photos taken by my grandparents in the 1920s and 1930s, out in the American West.
If you have any alternative suggestions, please let me know.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Apr 15, 2015.
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I spent the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL in order to escape what turned out to be a really brutal winter in the Center of the Universe, as well as most of New England. I'm now back in NYC, but I still have a backlog of Florida shots to edit and upload.
On most of the mornings I was there, I manage to get up about an hour before sunrise every morning, and be out on the beach for a morning walk just as the sun peeked up above the horizon.
On the very first morning, and every morning thereafter, I noticed that I was not the only person on the beach. There werejoggers and walkers out getting their exercise, and *lots* of fishermen casting their lines out into the surf. But down by the 5th Avenue boardwalk -- where you can park your car and get a cup of coffee/latte/whatever from the local Starbucks -- there were lots and lots of people who clearly came down here just to watch the sunrise. This was particularly true after the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, for we then "sprang forward" and celebrated the arrival of dawn about 7:30 AM, instead of 6:30-ish.
These are some of the morning scenes that I saw -- the birds, the people, the long empty beaches, and the glorious sunrise...
After recrewing a quad of fresh Candian Pacific et44acs lead 181 through Nahant yard. Local railfan Jeff Toff gets some video of the train as they pass the south end of the yard.
Karina Bradley already has an extensive diva resume. After all she is a seasoned supermodel, business mogul who owns three successful companies, and a music video queen with two hot songs and a debut album on the horizon. But now you can add celebrity ring girl to her long list of credentials. Because the Puerto Rican Barbie was featured on Celebrity Boxing during their September11th Event as their TOP MODEL! These hot photos were taken during the promo shoot for the event; and featured the likes of Top Amateur Boxer Paul “The Machine” Koon, and former Michael Jackson Bodyguard Scott Cummings. The pop star diva is currently getting ready to return to the ring for Celebrity Boxing in January!
Karina Bradley has a lot of other upcoming things to look forward to. She is currently getting ready to perform at Philadelphia’s Club Recess in early January. The Music Video for her song “Dance Floor Diva” which was directed by Caesar Augustus of Augustus Films, is also set to be released soon. The Singer has also spent a lot of time in the studio recording some hot new tracks!
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (1775–1784) in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States (1789–1797). Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss,[3] is both the world's tallest predominantly stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches tall according to the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances.[A] Overtaking the Cologne Cathedral, it was the tallest structure in the world between 1884 and 1889, after which it was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Construction of the monument began in 1848 and was halted for a period of 23 years, from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the American Civil War. Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and installation of memorial stones were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet or 27% up, shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. The original design was by Robert Mills (1781–1855) of South Carolina, but he did not include his proposed colonnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was laid atop the unfinished stump on August 7, 1880; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884; the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885; and officially opened October 9, 1888.
Something a bit different today. I’m not normally one for editing too much but the lighting of the original version was awful, however I really liked the wing position and felt it would make a nice vertical crop with a high key style edit. I’m actually pleased with the result. Taken at Abberton Reservoir. Normal service will resume…
"Hello my friends. Today we returned to the Palm Spring loop , one of our favorite desert walks. It was beautiful in the mid 60's and breezy at times. This is me exploring the Palm Spring area. There's critters in these bushes and I'm gonna find em. We had lunch by that stone marker to the back of me, our usual lunch spot, Enjoy our pictures , I must resume hunting."
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
(H.G. Wells)
After a few days of acclimating rain, the clouds parted serendipitously at sunset one evening as we wandered through beautiful Killarney National Park and many other gorgeous areas in southwestern Ireland a couple of years ago. It was my first time in Ireland, and the landscape, culture and people were amazing, though one of the more memorable aspects of the trip for me turned out to be simply driving around on the tiny, sharply winding country roads that were ostensibly for two-way traffic, but which were barely wide enough for one car and tightly lined everywhere with ancient stone walls covered with rain-forest dense greenery.
I can still remember the sounds of the ferns that covered many of those stone walls slapping relentlessly against the sides of the car as we gained confidence and drove some of those pinched tracks obeying the quite liberal speed limit signs (rare though those signs were) perhaps more than common sense given our inexperience.
When night fell or the rains resumed with extra vigor, there seemed always an inn nearby, often with a log on the fire, a hot meal, and pint of Guinness at the ready to revive the weary traveler. Such a wonderful place.
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Many people ask me advice about their portfolio and CV and I always tell them to be creative to stand out of the crowd. This doesn't apply to all kind of jobs, but when you're talking about creative jobs, there are simply no rules on how to present yourself.
Don't mention the name of your kindergarden school, don't mention you've been working at McDonalds during summer break. Believe me, nobody cares. And if your future employer does care, then he'll select you on the wrong criteria. You don't want to work for such a company.
So get creative and make something awesome from your portfolio. Take the above portfolio as an example. Michael doesn't show any of its works and still he succeeds in showing off his talent. Not only he can create great graphics, he also proves to be able to turn 'boring' facts and figures into something exciting. Well done Michael!
Check out Michael's blog:
theportfolio.ofmichaelanderson.com/portfolio/resume-infog...
Oh yeah, and also check out my portfolio:
Carta (Sibiu County): Cistercian monastery
The city and monastery of Carta are located 43 km from Sibiu on the road to Brasov. Here are preserved the ruins of the Cistercian monastery, one of the oldest and most important monuments of the primitive Gothic church in Transylvania. The Cistercians are a monastic order originating in France and widespread in several countries.
The Carta Cistercian Abbey played a major role in the political, economic and cultural history of medieval Transylvania, as well as in the introduction but also in the dissemination of Gothic art in the inter-Carpathian space.
The monastery was founded in the years 1205-1206 by King Andrew II of Hungary.
The beginnings of the monastery are confirmed with the erection of its first buildings, used, as the Cistercians used it, from perishable materials, that is to say wood. These can be dated with relative certainty between the years 1205-1206.
The stone parts of the monastery will be erected between the years 1220 and the end of 1230. The construction of the monastery was carried out in two main phases of execution, chronologically interrupted by the great Tatar invasion of 1241.
In the first phase of construction, which has stylistic characteristics dependent on the late Romanesque, the general plan of the monastery was drawn, the walls delimiting its inner courtyard being raised to a height of 3-4m above the ground.
In 1260, after the assassination caused by the Mongol invasion in the spring of 1241, construction work will resume under the direction of a new architect, trained in the environment of mature Gothic, and with the contribution of a workshop of stone with an eclectic structure.
By 1300, the church and the eastern wing of the Charter Monastery were completed, with the completion and construction of the southern wing of the abbey continuing for approximately two decades.
The fierce struggles with the Ottomans from 1421 to 1432 and the decline of the order made the church and its monastery a ruin. This also led to its closure by King Mathias Corvin in 1474.
However, the west facade is still standing and above the Gothic portal is a large rose window. The tower attached to the facade was built later, in the middle of the 15th century, and its transformation into a bell tower took place later.
Currently, the monastery no longer has all the original buildings and annexes, many of which collapse. The vaults of the huge church have collapsed and there are only a few exterior walls and two interior beams (south and north). To the south, there is still a single Roman column, and the side ships, according to the Cistercian plan, end in a small square choir. The main ship no longer has a ceiling - in its place is a cemetery in memory of the German soldiers killed in the First World War.
The Reformed Church today occupies only the choir and the apse of the old basilica. The Gothic portal has probably been moved from a side entrance and its profile betrays Gothic influences.
Numerous examples of the tombs of the founders of Cistercian churches allow the existence of a royal necropolis under Carta.