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Mid 1950's Simplex Automatic
Simplex was founded by Paul Treen (father of United States Congressman and Louisiana Governor David Conner Treen) in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s with an initial investment of $25.00 Treen had been a dealer in Harley-Davidson motorcycles and had pitched them the idea of making a lightweight motorcycle for young riders. When Harley-Davidson rejected the idea, Treen decided to enter the market himself and designed his Servi-Cycle. The Simplex Servi-Cycle was introduced in 1935.
Although Simplex Manufacturing Corporation produced motorcycles for over 20 years, the last Simplex Automatics looked almost the same as the company's original 1935 Simplex Servi-Cycle motorcycle. Paul Treen would often visit the factory's tool shop and work with the engineers on new ideas himself, resulting in continuous improvements to Simplex products instead of annual new model introductions.
The two-stroke engine had a rotary valve and an "overhung" crankshaft with only one main bearing. A kick-starter was added by 1953.
Western Auto sold Simplex motorcycles under the Wizard brand in the mid-1950s.
Simplex's minimalist philosophy was maintained throughout the company's history, whose designs changed little after 1935. By the 1950s Simplex's designs were primitive, leading to the end of Servi-Cycle and Automatic production in 1960. Simplex continued to make minibikes and karts using proprietary small engines until 1975, when Simplex went out of business. Treen had sold the company three years earlier, in 1972
The day before the previous upload, 66735 about to enter Manton Tunnel with the 4L13 11.11 Hams Hall to Felixstowe liner.
Same bird, shoot again !
As I love this bird, I couldn't resist publishing another photo of him...
Black-headed gull with its winter plumage.
lat. Chroicocephalus ridibundus
fr. Mouette rieuse
Montalivet les Bains
33930 Vendays-Montalivet, département de la Gironde, région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Same pano in higher resolution an better interactive controls:
www.360cities.net/image/auf-der-halbinsel-chaste-sils-im-...
They say the best camera is the one you have on you... - I would have been happy to have my regular Panoramic Tripod with me..., but traveled light & captured this pano handheld without tripod
Same owner since 1993!
Epoqu'Auto 2024
Oldtimer / Youngtimer Parking
Eurexpo Lyon
Chassieu (69), France.
Video: youtu.be/01DTc9bndtU
MLW's RS-18 CN 3684 and FPA4 CN 6765 are both wearing the same paint scheme and are both powered by a 12-251 Alco engine as they rest in a hangar at Exporail.
Same location and pov from my previous upload.
This one is so much colder due to the heavy frost in the background on this day.
Polaroid Week Day 5 pic 1
SX-70 - a saved one that was lying around in a cellar for some ten years. Broken, rusty and all nasty looking. Until I had courage to repair it finally. After some tinkering, it's a nice looking camera now. The frame counter still does not work, the dark slide is not ejected automatically, and it overexposes quite a bit. But it's back to life now.
Unbelievably there were /are 9 engineers trains heading East through Teignmouth and Dawlish today. It was in connection with a major engineering project in the Plymouth area. In addition to the bonus services there was a total block situation along the sea wall, this meant that the trains crawled along this stretch of line at 5 mph, the trains could be in line of sight of each other with no signalling knowing they could come to a stop, even in the tunnels. At one point we had two trains on the same track on the sea wall at Dawlish within sight of each other.
66074 eeks its way along the wall with old track forming the 1031 from Hemerdon to Westbury, 70801 had not long disappeared around the corner at Langstone Cliff.
Plenty of walkers along the sea wall burning off the roast spuds. I think everyone of them asked myself and a few other fellow phottwers what was occurring.
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Gemeinsames Diptychon-Projekt von www.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/
und Manfred Geyer, Juli 2020
Berlin (Ute Kluge)
Wuppertal, Juli 2004 (Manfred Geyer)
Saturday, 24 January 2015, was a great day for seeing the tiny, popcan-sized Northern Pygmy-owl in Fish Creek Park. This species is rare to uncommon in Alberta. For once, I was up really early so that I could go on a birding walk, which was being held at the same location. Other than the usual Black-capped Chickadee. Nuthatches and Downy Woodpeckers, the two main species that we saw were the Pileated Woodpecker (a male and a female together) and a very distant Cooper's Hawk. When we were at the furthest spot, we got news that the Northern Pygmy-owl had appeared. When we got back to the start, we found a lot of photographers who were all lined up with their enormous camera lenses pointed upwards.
After getting back to where the owl was and seeing it on several different branches that were not particularly easy to photograph, it suddenly flew down to the mass and tangle of bushes right where all the photographers were standing. A few people knelt or lay down in the cold, melting snow so that they could get a better view through the thin branches. There was no way I could do that, so my view was not good. However, as far as actually seeing the owl at such close quarters was concerned, it was a great chance. All my photos, except this one and maybe two or three others, were no good at all and need to be deleted : ( It was amazing to see this tiny bird of prey up close, and it was really good to see how at ease it seemed. Most definitely a case of the owl coming to where we were, and not a case of photographers trying to get as close as possible. I did remove a very thin branch that lay over the forehead, close to the eye on the left. Can't remember if the owl had just caught a Meadow Vole before I took these photos or whether it caught one and then flew up into a thin, forked branch where it posed beautifully along with its catch.
Eventually, it was time to go home, especially as I had originally come to the park for the 3-hour bird walk. Some people do this all the time and I don't know how they manage to do it. It requires so much patience, and an awful lot of "free" time.
"Northern Pygmy Owls are 'sit and wait' predators, that hunt mainly by vision, diving down onto prey on the ground and driving the talons into the prey's throat. They will also attack birds in shrubs, crashing into the hapless victims. Most prey is carried off in the feet to feeding sites. Birds are usually plucked before being consumed. They often eat only the brains of birds and the soft abdomen of insects. One of these little owls can carry prey weighing up to 3 times its own weight.
The Northern Pygmy Owl feeds on a wide range of small prey including small mammals, birds, and reptiles and amphibians. Voles make up the bulk of their diet, with birds comprising most of the rest (mainly songbirds, but as large as a California Quail). Other small mammals include shrews, mice, chipmunks, bats, moles, young rabbits, and weasels. Insects may be very important when they are most abundant. Other prey taken are toads, frogs and small lizards and snakes.
During winter, surplus prey is cached in a cavity, often in large quantities. Summer caches are usually much smaller.
Pellets are very small, averaging about 3cm long. They are formed only occasionally as these owls don't consume large amounts of fur, feathers, or bone. The pellets tend to fall apart shortly after ejection." From OwlPages.
Same day, same underexposed roll...
LOMO Lubitel 166 B and its T-22 lens, Kentmere 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 18min @ 21°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as "island of many hills" from the Lenape language.
New York County is one of seven counties in the United States to share the same name as the state in which they are located. The others are Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah counties.
The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use "New York, NY" rather than "Manhattan, NY"
The Eden Project in Cornwall, England....Not a secret bunker where aliens are or out of this world experiments take place..... LOL
Here is the website of the The Eden Project. The place is well worth a visit. The Biodome you see here houses all sorts of tropical plants and the temperature in there is very hot. My lense steamed up as soon as I got in there. The other biodome (which is not pictured here but looks exactly the same), has a more mediterranean feeling to it.
More of the same
The final blossom photo for now. No need for words.
P103-6588 Taken at: Viewlands Park, Perth, Scotland
Same location as my previous photo (Moraine Lake, in Banff National Park, Canada), but this was taken on a different day. Instead of brilliant sunshine there were moody clouds, with a small amount of sun breaking through. The light was changing minute by minute, as the clouds blew over and the sun rose in the sky. In all weather conditions though, Moraine Lake is always a beautiful place.
I have never seen a sunset like this. All the people there, looking to the sky. A real color-explosion
Same individual as this previous shot.
I was chasing Autumn Meadowhawk dragonflies in the fallen leaves near a pond at the Montreal Botanical Garden, when I unexpectedly came across this Spotted Spreadwing (Lestes congener) damselfly! It's one of my favorite species, and this individual was calm and fairly cooperative.
Usual suspects: Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash. Six-frame handheld focus stack with EXIF from the first frame. ~20MP free crop to roughly 16:10 apect ratio.
UPDATE: Explored for Nov 7th, at #54! One of my highest Explore rankings! (And sitting at #65 as I type this.)
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Female Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella) and her potential lunch (a.k.a. Syrphid Fly; Cheilosia albitarsis) - Penny Lane, Penny Lake Preserve, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
And speaking of "Lunch on the Fly",
dragonflies only capture prey while it is in flight.
And when I say only, I mean it, since I've seen flies sitting on flowers right in front of them, and they make no attempt to capture them until they fly away.
'Kinda like how people shoot ducks.
Like Most Men my age, I grew Up in an Era where Comic Books where the daily digest in my town. In those days a graphic novel was a mere 25cents and you could buy 12 books for $3.00 I think thats about the average price of one magazine these days. LOL Anyway.....I Thrived on reading Marvel & DC Comics by the time I was 13 I had well over 2,500 or more. and I kept mine in the protective plastic bags and boxed according to hero or the group that they were in*
I even learned how to draw from reading these things and wanting to emulate what I saw everyday. Boy Stan Lee really had a major Impact on my childhood! Dark Knight/Detective Comics & The X-Men were always my favorite comics. And like most "Wolverine & Batman" were my fav. characters. It wasnt until much, much later on in life that these Superheroes were made into major motion picture Idols.
With the rise of technology and special effects Hollywood has been able to produce what I read for so many years on the silver screen. I think if I had to choose being one of these Superheroes in "real life" it would Most Def. have to be
"THE DARK KNIGHT"..........:))
He's a Millionaire playboy and he gets to drive around in The Batmobile
plus he gets to use all of those fancy gadgets &
The Batcave is just THE KOOLEST Hideout EVER!!!!
Nestled in the quiet Frogner neighbourhood, the Vigeland Sculpture park is home to Gustav Vigeland’s unique creations and the world’s largest sculpture park by the same artist.
The sculptures symbolize every aspect of human life.
All 212 statues depict human beings of different ages, sexes and sizes, stuck in different and sometimes perplexing poses. Vigeland wanted his statues to capture all the aspects of a person’s life, both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense. And he made them all naked, so that they remain timeless.
Vigeland Park is, in itself, an open-air museum. But there’s also an actual museum, located just outside the park in the space where Gustav Vigeland used to live and work, which most people either neglect to visit or are not even aware it’s there in the first place. (But it is definitely, positively worth a visit !!)
Source: gofjords.com/inspiration/norway/8-lesser-known-facts-abou...
The Monolith stands at the highest point in Vigeland Park, and measures 17 meters above ground. The sculpture is carved out of one stone block, hence the name. The stone was originally shot out of the quarry in Iddefjord, Norway, and transported to the park during the late 1920s.
The sculpture depicts 121 human figures clinging and floating together. There's women and men of different ages, and the top of the Monolith is crowned with children. The sculpture has been interpreted as a kind of vision of resurrection, and our longing and striving for spirituality.
Source: vigeland.museum.no/en/vigelandpark/monolith#:~:text=Vigel....
Minimalist, yet over the top at the same time. Brilliant late 90's excess.... but stripped back to just the engineering.
At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.
Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work!
Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.
كلّنا يبحث عن السعادة ....
لا تحزن : لأن الحزن يزعجك من الماضي , ويخوّفك من المستقبل , ويذهب عليك يومك .
لا تحزن : لأن الحزن ينقبض له القلب , ويعبس له الوجه , وتنظفئ منه الروح , ويتلاشى معه الأمل .
لا تحزن : لأن الحزن يسرّ العدو , ويغيظ الصديق , ويشمّت بك الحاسد , ويغيّر عليك الحقائق .
لاتحزن : لأن الحزن لا يردّ مفقوداً ولا يعيد ذاهباً ولا يبعث ميّتاً ولا يردّ قدراً ولا يجلب نفعاً .
لاتحزن : فإن الله يدافع عنك , والملائكة تستغفر لك , والمؤمنون يشركونك في دعائهم في كل صلاة , والنبي يشفع , والقرآن يعدك وعداً حسناً وفوق كل هذا رحمة أرحم الراحمين
لاتحزن فالحسنة بعشر أمثالها إلى سبعمائة ضعف إلى أضعاف كثيرة , والسيئة بمثلها إلا أن يعفو ربّك ويتجاوز , فالله من كرمٍ ما سمع مثله , ومن جودٍ لا يقاربه جود !
لا تحزن : فأنت على خير في ضرائك وسرّائك , وغناك وفقرك , وشدّتك ورخائك , "عجباً لأمر المؤمن أمره كلّه خير , إن أصابته سرّاء فشكر كان خيراً له , وإن أصابته ضرّاء فصبر كان خيراً له ".
من كتاب (لاتحزن)
جمعة مليئة بالسعادة لكم جميعاً
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