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Portmeirion, a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom. Photos were taken on Wednesday 20th April 2016.
Portmeirion. Pentref twristiaeth yng Ngogledd Cymru. Wedi’I gymryd ar ddydd Mercher 20 Ebrill 2016.
NOTE: I apologise if the Welsh language is misspelt as I’m using Google’s translation.
About the photograph.
Am y llum
The photograph was taken from the footpath between the Amis Reunis boat and the Observatory Tower on the southern part of the village, right next to the River Dwyryd, and looking toward north.
In the photograph, the tall building is known as the Bell Tower, and parts of the buildings to the right of the photo is known as The Watch House. In the background, you could see The Dome.
About Portmeirion.
Portmeirion is a tourist and historical coastal village located on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, about 2 miles south east of Porthmadog, in North Wales, and owned by a charitable trust.
Some of the buildings already existed around the middle of the 1800s, such as the hotel, along with Castell Deudraeth.
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the chief architect bought most of the buildings. Between 1925 and 1975, he designed, built, and improved the area into an exquisite village, in the style of a Mediterranean feel.
It had since become a most popular tourist location, and often used as on-location filming site for various television shows.
Nowadays, most of the buildings are used as hotels or self-catering cottages, while tourists have a day-out looking around.
About the television show called The Prisoner.
Ynglŷn â'r sioe deledu o'r enw The Prisoner.
The Prisoner is a 1967 British television series about an unnamed British agent who chose to resign from Intelligence services.
In the series, he was imprisoned in a mysterious retirement village at a secret location. Although the village was used for retired secret agents, he was placed there because his superiors and bosses wanted to know why he chose to resign.
In the show, his name was never used, and he was referred to as ”Number Six, as everyone else were given numerical codenames. The mysterious village was overseen by an administrator whom was often referred as Number Two.
Number Six was played by the actor Patrick McGoohan, whom also created the show, as well as writing and directing some of the episodes. He played the main character in 16 out of the 17 episodes. Only played his character in a minor role in one episode, because at that time, he took time off from The Prisoner, to attend a filming of a movie.
In each episodes, different actors played Number Two, and each tried their own attempts to get Number Six to reveal his reasons for resigning. This was often done by means of tricks, drugging, brainwashing, identity theft, and so on.
The usual plot of each episode would have Number Two attempting to use their own means, bring Number Six close to the breaking point, where Six could finally reveal his reasons, but often in the end, Number Six often saw through the attempts, and rebuffed the attempts.
Portmeirion was used as a stand-in filming location for the mysterious village due to its unique style.
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Bruno Löerzer's paint scheme on his Albatross D.III. He ended the war with forty-four victories.
I've had this done for a couple days, finally got around to posting it. After I scaled down my SE5, I made this. It could use 2x2 white wedge plates on the tail; but I don't really want to order right now.
*MG-08s are Elliot's design*
The underpass under the new railroad bridge is becoming more popular, as the traffic is increasing in town. The photographer from Bulletin Gazette was taking a picture this Sunday. Miss Daisy is horrified by the new noise level and had been protested by letters to the Town Hall. Will she prevail….
Forced perspective, tabletop photo, with a real background. The die-cast model cars are in scale 1:18 and are made by Signature models; 1936 Pontiac DeLuxe Coupe & Motor City Classic: 1939 Chevrolet Master DeLuxe.
These scales will be available at Planet29, opening on the 29th (★≧▽^))★☆
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This is the culmination of well over a year’s worth of work: I think I started this project a little after the UCS Republic Gunship was released. So it feels good to finally have this finished and show it off!
I strived to make an accurate, studless version of the ship which incorporated some of the discoloured panels like the UCS version. I used the reference material collected from Star Wars Episode 2, 3 and Battlefront II.
Over the course of this project, a few outstanding Gunships emerged in the LEGO Star Wars community, which was both inspiring and slightly disheartening as they set the bar for MOCs of this vehicle incredibly high! Bousker made an excellent Clone Wars version and you may see some similarities between mine and Jhae's. Though we came to the solution of using the grated cheese slopes independently, his design helped inform some of the internal structure and the bed of the troop compartment.
I also looked to atlasr's version for inspiration, which while digital and at a slightly larger scale than I was aiming for, is perhaps the most accurate LEGO version I’ve ever seen.
Massive thanks to all the dudes for their inspiration, encouragement, feedback, and numerous ideas which I stole, you know who you are!
Another day with a forecast of low cloud and >95% chance of rain. In these conditions there isn't much else other than fast flowing rivers that are worthwhile capturing.
Today, we travelled to Buttermere via Cockermouth and Crummock Water to reach the foot of Scale Force, a huge waterfall that sits in a gorge on red pike and feeds Crummock Water via Scale Beck. It's actually the tallest waterfall in the Lake District at 170ft tall.
I've been to Buttermere a number of times and never seen Scale Force flowing as quickly as it was today. We could even hear it from over 1/2 a kilometre away.
It's difficult to portray the scale, but the little white dots around the waterfall and cliff edge are Sulphur-crested Cockatoos
The 9/24 Theme for Macro Mondays is Measurements
When my wife Sammy's family started their poultry farm in Massachusetts in 1941, they had no experience raising chickens and needed a means of determining whether an egg was small, medium, large or jumbo. So, they bought this egg weighing scale, which is shown full size in the first comment below. Sammy, who was the chief egg picker and grader from a very early age, said that eventually she could determine the size by feel, and as the farm grew, more efficient methods were deployed (at its peak, they had 10,000 chickens).
The Chuck Wagon has been a West Colfax icon since 1959, when it arrived from New Jersey. Technically, Ken and I are playing loose with time and space again. We have set this piece in 1958, the only year Colorado plates featured a skier. We claim, "Artistic License".
Here, on a hill overlooking Colfax Avenue, the iconic metal diner form has been augmented by a giant cowboy cook. He has been directing folks to the place for almost 60 years now and he hasn't aged a bit. There is another location for Davies Chuck Wagon, in a more traditional style of restaurant architecture, a few miles from here. It also has a large cowboy out front but none of the neon lettering this fellow enjoys.
Naturally, we had lunch there before they closed for the day and left the place perfect for a shoot. I had a really nice rueben sandwich on marbled rye bread. Ken had the patty melt. It was Ken's first visit and only my third. The place was there when my family moved to Denver in 1965 but it took me 48 years before I sat down at the counter.
As the Motels that still line West Colfax have turned into flop houses and the neon signs have been torn down or left broken, the Chuck Wagon is still serving, still thriving.
This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars in front of a real background.
Franklin Mint 1951 Hudson Hornet
Franklin Mint 1954 Chevrolet Belair
Danbury Mint 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser
Danbury Mint 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline - AeroSedan
Cope's Vine Snake (Oxybelis brevirostris) - Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador
An oxybelis stares me down. It was one of the most common species I encountered in Ecuador and despite being diurnal I encountered many more at night when I would see them sleeping on vegetation. It is found in Central America through to Northern South America. Its forward facing eyes and a bit of a perpetual frown give it a somewhat comical appearance but the placement of its eyes gives it binocular vision which helps it see better and gauge distances which makes them more efficient predators of the frogs and lizards which it hunts.
As Winter starts to turn towards Spring, the wind here on the Front Range of the Rockies can get fierce. We had a day of 50 MPH winds last week and well, that wind made a lot of work for the fellow that sweeps our streets and for the staff of Ethyl’s beauty parlor.
It seems fair to mention that, if the folks in this town weren’t driving around with the top down this early in the year, their hair and toupees might stay put.
1/24 scale cars in front of a real background.
Featuring:
Franklin Mint 1954 Chevrolet Belair
Danbury Mint 1949 Ford Custom
Franklin Mint 1951 Hudson Hornet Coupe
I bought some loose tea. carefully weighed and packed in a reusable bag.
Today was the turn of Russian Caravan tea, which is a long time fave.
Thor's Helmet (I recon it looks like Asterix's Helmet) is in Canis Major and this is a true colour palette produced with narrow band filters
Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress SXVR-H694, SX USB CFW, SX OAG unit + Atlas Focuser
Ha OIII SII RGB = 330 340 220 45 45 45min = 17hrs total exposure (bin 1X1)
Using Astronomik 6nm Narrowband filters and RGB Deep Sky filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames were used.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar
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Taken over 4 nights - 16, 20, 21 and 29 Jan 2017, some moon, average seeing.
Equipment setup:
Here's an old image of the lower section of Scale force re-edited. My intention in post processing was to make the foreground interest (tree branch) contrast more with the surrounding rocks. - I feel that this has worked because now, depth is depicted more clearly, presenting a more obvious foreground and background. Next time I shoot in this location, I plan to experiment with this composition more in the hope of depicting the depth in the scene even better. I also intend to climb to the upper section of the falls to capture the 'classic' shot everyone seems to talk about!
What do you think of the image?
Feedback welcomed!!
Rust attacking the centimeter scale on great grandfather's caliper. Taken for #MacroMondays #Rust theme.
3:1 reproduction ratio. Horizontal dimension is (obviously), 12mm.
OMG...that's so sad to feel the Shaken' at 9.0 richter scale , then the TSUNAMI roll in like a horror tragedy in a movie...!!
Part of a set photographs of the Prince Regent's Royal Pavilion (also known as Brighton Pavilion).
Built in the Indo-Saracenic style, borrowing ideas from Indian architecture in the days when that region was still part of the British Empire.
Unlike the originals, the building's frame is Cast Iron - cutting edge technology at the time when the building was redeveloped by the architect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect) are actually very small scale - much too small for an adult to fit inside. Like the shrunken higher up windows and tapering outline of the Senate House of London University, the reduction in size of the minarets adds to the illusion of scale.
The viewpoint (often used in picture postcards) is also deceptive. By perching the camera on the edge of a small (four paces by ten paces) ornamental pond, the false impression is created that the pavilion is adjacent to a huge lake.
There is an official Royal Pavilion website.
During Work War II, Adolf Hitler is famously claimed to have spared the Pavilion from bombing because he wanted to use it has his English headquarters. This is reputed to be based on statements by William Joyce, an American born German radio propaganda broadcaster (named Lord Haw-Haw by British listeners), statements presumably made to demoralise listeners into the belief that this outcome was inevitable. Brighton was bombed, however, so maybe the Luftwaffe just missed.
The image is made up from High Dynamic Range (HDR) files. A large number of (identically framed) bracketed exposures were merged into a single HDR file. This 32 bits per channel file (over 4 billion shades of red, green or blue) was converted to a more mundane 8 bits per channel jpeg file. (It is not currently technically feasible to fully display 4 billlion shades per colour on a computer monitor, or on a print.) In the conversion process Local Adaptation was used, a trick that enables the detail in both very bright (floodlit) areas and very dark (moonlit) areas to be viewed in the same image. The human visual system is particularly sensitive to detecting edges, and "overlooks" intervening smooth gradients. This makes Local Adaptation a viable technique / optical illusion.
The image has also been modified using transformations to remove any barrel distortion, and also adapted to ensure a classical perspective with parallel verticals.
A Canon 300D DSLR was used. The number of exposures ranged from 1/250 sec. to 30 secs. in 2 EV/stop increments. Two large, nervous, ornamental carp live in the pool. I think that they moved about between exposures, causing the feint, strange, multiple streaks in the surface of the pond.
The Longsheng Rice Terraces, also called the Longji Rice Terraces are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, between 600 m to 800 m above sea level. A coiling terrace line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers of rice in fall, and layers of frost in winter. The terraced fields were mostly built about 650 years ago.
Longji (Dragon's Backbone) Terraced Rice Fields received their name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon.
The first station on the MRT line in Manila is the only station where one can get a seat, and it's a mad rush to get through the door and grab one.
At last, yesterday saw the arrival of my new multi story car park for most of my small fleet of cars. These two display units turned into a little bit of a saga and took forever to arrive. You sometimes have to take your chances with e-bay purchases. They are the second replacements for the first ones which apparently got damaged by floods in the factory. The second lot were lost by the courier company, so these two cabinets are a case of third time lucky! Not quite the quality I expected, as the thin shelves are sagging a little already (update - problem has since been solved) despite being specifically designed just for heavy 1/18th scale die-cast cars, but they do the intended job by displaying the cars nicely, and the slide down clear acrylic covers keep them clean and dust free. Much better than the open shelving I was using. This is not quite the whole fleet, and it seems to grow every few weeks (when I get permission to spend the piggy bank funds)!
Lots of my favourites in this display - I can't really single one out, but if pressed, it is probably a tie between the E-type Jag (in British Racing Green) and the gold Chevy Corvette. Ooh, but then there's the two Cobras, and all the Ferraris, and the Aston Martins too......
Sometimes, it's good to stand back and get a little bit of perspective on things. It's especially useful when showing your photo audience the size and scale of a scene, such as this one I captured of a couple taking in the immensity of the red-rock formations seen along the Navajo Loop Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Most photographers balk at including people - either because they don't want anything human in their landscapes or because they can't get model releases from them if they decide they want to try and sell the image.
For my editorial purposes, I like including people and man-made objects in my images (sometimes) for the purpose of scale as well as to give my viewers a perspective of the scene and some kind of reference for their mind to recognize.
Copyright Rebecca L. Latson, all rights reserved.
5.5x scale RPG-7 w/removable warhead, M1911, and Commando Vest were 3D printed in ABS on my Ultimaker 2 and Taz 5 3D printers. They were then acetone vapor smoothed for that gloss.
BiG Mad Cop is the LEGO minifig clock
Tiny Mad Cop is the LEGO collectible minifig.
I hadn't noticed until now, that the collectible minifig's mouth is printed closed, while the clock-scale minifig's mouth has bared teeth. Details, LEGO, DETAILS! ;)
A sculpture that's outside of 7 WTC (not shown).It's a 9ft,multi-lobed,stainless steel artwork called "Balloon Flower (Red)"by Jeff Koons.The sculpture mimics-on a colossal scale-twisted balloon creations,a staple at children's parties.7 WTC as you may remember was the last WTC building to collapse on 9/11.The new 7 WTC was the first of the WTC complex towers to be constructed.The artist had hoped that the sculpture would convey a message of cheer in a time of somberness.When I saw the sculpture a few years ago my reaction to it certainly was not that of cheerfulness,but more like,"What is it?"
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The white structure behind it is a transportation hub called the Oculus.I had taken some photos of its interior and shared them with you before.The structure is supposed to resemble a dove with clipped wings.See links
www.cbsnews.com/pictures/oculus-the-new-world-trade-cente...
El Rancho has been a landmark on US 40 since 1947. When I-70 was built, the highway department named the exit after the place. The town of Evergreen has since swallowed the land around what was once, a somewhat remote mountain getaway.
It has one of the best views of the Continental Divide in America, according to some. Over the years, a succession of families ran the restaurant. Now, it's the Vincent family who are keeping the tradition alive. Ken and Larry met a couple of the family members when we shot this scene. They even volunteered to move their vehicles from the front of the building to make our job easier. The Vincent family added brewing equipment to the place, which we hid with the tractor trailer rig. [The brewing silo wasn't period]
As luck would have it, by the time you read this, El Rancho will have reopened with a new menu and a remodel. If you hurry, you might be able to reserve a table, outside in the Beer Garden or inside in the newly refurbished dinning room.
Why "El Rancho in the Clouds"? On that day, the one24thscale team was working inside a cloud bank that hung along the front range.
We were not in fog as our Michigan car friends would know it. We had both driven up Mt Vernon Canyon into the bottom of a cloud that was clinging to that first ridge. The world closed in as the walls of the canyon disappeared. All the landmarks on a stretch of highway everyone in Colorado knows by heart, were gone. The famous, "Sleeper" House, somewhere in the cloud on the left. Chief Hosa Campground, just a sign that loomed out of the mist and was gone. The exits for both, Buffalo Bill's Grave and the Genesee Bison Herd were spectral images that dissolved in and out of view as traffic went by. The fabulous, award winning view of the Continental Divide seen under the Genesee Bridge? The bridge was invisible, though the view beyond was still there, in my mind's eye.
This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars and truck in front of a real background.
1960 Mack B-61 tractor is by Eastwood Automobilia
1956 Packard Caribbean hardtop is by Danbury Mint
1958 Edsel Bermuda 6 Passenger Station Wagon is by Danbury Mint
1960 Chevrolet Impala is by Franklin Mint
1955 Chrysler C300 is by Motormax
Le Mont-Saint-Michel is an island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island is located about one kilometer off the country's northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches and is 7 hectares in area. The mainland part of the commune is 393 hectares in area so that the total surface of the commune is 400 hectares with a population of 50. The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times and since the 8th century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. The structural composition of the town exemplifies the feudal society that constructed it: on top, God, the abbey and monastery; below, the great halls; then stores and housing; and at the bottom, outside the walls, houses for fishermen and farmers. The commune's position—on an island just a few hundred metres from land—made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, but defensible as an incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be assailants. The island remained unconquered during the Hundred Years' War; a small garrison fended off a full attack by the English in 1433. Louis XI recognised the reverse benefits of its natural defence and turned it into a prison. The abbey was used regularly as a prison during the Ancien Régime.
The original site was founded by an Irish hermit, who gathered a following from the local community. Mont-Saint-Michel was used in the sixth and seventh centuries as an Armorican stronghold of Gallo-Roman culture and power until it was ransacked by the Franks, thus ending the trans-channel culture that had stood since the departure of the Romans in 460. From roughly the fifth to the eighth century, Mont Saint-Michel belonged to the territory of Neustria and, in the early ninth century, was an important place in the marches of Neustria. Before the construction of the first monastic establishment in the 8th century, the island was called Mont Tombe(Latin: tumba). According to a legend, the archangel Michael appeared in 708 to Aubert of Avranches, the bishop of Avranches, and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet. Unable to defend his kingdom against the assaults of the Vikings, the king of the Franks agreed to grant the Cotentin peninsula and the Avranchin, including Mont Saint-Michel traditionally linked to the city of Avranches, to the Bretons in the Treaty of Compiègne (867). This marked the beginning of a brief period of Breton possession of the Mont. In fact, these lands and Mont Saint-Michel were never really included in the duchy of Brittany and remained independent bishoprics from the newly created Breton archbishopric of Dol. When Rollo confirmed Franco as archbishop of Rouen, these traditional dependences of the Rouen archbishopric were retained in it. The mount gained strategic significance again in 933 when William I Longsword annexed the Cotentin Peninsula from the weakened Duchy of Brittany. This made the mount definitively part of Normandy, and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the 1066 Norman conquest of England. Harold Godwinson is pictured on the tapestry rescuing two Norman knights from the quicksand in the tidal flats during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany. Norman ducal patronage financed the spectacular Norman architecture of the abbey in subsequent centuries. In 1067 the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel gave its support to William the Conqueror in his claim to the throne of England. This he rewarded with properties and grounds on the English side of the Channel, including a small island off the southwestern coast of Cornwall which was modelled after the Mount and became a Norman priory named St Michael's Mount of Penzance. During the Hundred Years' War, the Kingdom of England made repeated assaults on the island but were unable to seize it due to the abbey's improved fortifications. The English initially besieged the Mont in 1423–24, and then again in 1433–34 with English forces under the command of Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales. Two wrought-iron bombards that Scales abandoned when he gave up his siege are still on site. They are known as les Michelettes. Mont Saint-Michel's resolute resistance inspired the French, especially Joan of Arc. When Louis XI of France founded the Order of Saint Michael in 1469, he intended that the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel become the chapel for the Order, but because of its great distance from Paris, his intention could never be realised. The wealth and influence of the abbey extended to many daughter foundations, including St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall. However, its popularity and prestige as a centre of pilgrimage waned with the Reformation, and by the time of the French Revolution there were scarcely any monks in residence. The abbey was closed and converted into a prison, initially to hold clerical opponents of the republican regime. High-profile political prisoners followed, but by 1836, influential figures—including Victor Hugo—had launched a campaign to restore what was seen as a national architectural treasure. The prison was finally closed in 1863, and the mount was declared a historic monument in 1874. Mont Saint-Michel and its bay were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979, and it was listed with criteria such as cultural, historical, and architectural significance, as well as human-created and natural beauty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel
These golden cascades are the best place for whimsical fantasy castles to blossom.
This is my entry to Brickscalibur's "Medieval Micro" category.
The Peterbuilt doesn't look so big when compared it to the Galaxy C-5's engines. The Galaxy C-5 is the world's largest military airplane. This one and the ones in the background are in storage at the Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group, Tuscon, Arizona. At the time I took this picture (2012) there were over four thousand US military aircraft being stored here, and they are all wrapped for protection from the elements. I did some research and this particular airplane (0466) seems to still be there.
For this week’s Smile on Saturday group “Money Box” theme.
I never gave it much thought before, but I suppose I’m not much of an “exact change” person. I tend to accumulate a lot of coins in my handbag, almost always breaking dollar bills when paying with cash — unless just a penny or two can be retrieved quickly and help to get a full dollar back instead of excessive coins. (Paper money sure disappears fast this way ;-)
Through the years, I eventually filled a shoebox and large tin full of coins, and when I took them to the bank many years ago, I had enough to purchase my macro lens with the newly cashed-in wealth!
I’m not sure where or when I got the larger piggy, which is now nearly full, and incredibly heavy, It weighs in at 20 lbs. on the bathroom scale! (LOL, more than my two cats combined! ;-) The little ‘flower power’ elephant, which gets fed only pennies and is currently just lightly filled, is a treasured favorite from my childhood. I received it in a ‘Secret Santa’ exchange (which we used to call a ‘Pollyanna’) with my class in grade/ elementary school in the late 1960s. (It’s marked Holiday Fair - Japan - 1968). Fortunately they both have plugs on the bottom for easy access to the money, no need for ever breaking the bank…
Happy SoS!
West and East Mitten Buttes, Merrick Butte and Elephant Butte to the far right (I think). This was taken not long after the sun dipped beneath the horizon. The afterglow was a perfect magenta-turquoise gradient. There's a small bobcat, presumably for grading the road, near the bottom right, which gives you an idea of the scale of these rocks. Although the entry fee is US$20, this is a "must see" and I highly recommend driving the loop, even if it is a rough ride in parts.
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Sometimes the most difficult part of a story is the beginning.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
McDonald's Japan
The Many Lives of Snoopy
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The scale of Nature's beauty is astounding to me. From the smallest detail to magnificence of the Heavens, the Glory of God can be seen. Gratitude and great enjoyment come as we deeply look and truly see the Hand of God.
It's all a matter of perspective - Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA - USA (Sony a7 Mark II - Sigma 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary)
There's another 11 days to enter amazing castle MOCs in this year's Summer Joust. I'm honoured to be part of the jury this year and am also providing some prizes.
This creation goes to whoever wins the 12x12 Vignette category – I'm looking forward who's display case it will end up in. Maybe yours?
Did I mention there's even a treasure hidden underneath the castle?
I hope you like this little creation. I had great fun building some microscale again – it's always a chance to use pieces in different ways. I was very happy to finally use party hats as castle spires ;)
Finally had some time to take a shot of this. Tried various effects for all the lights but it was too much and never quite looked right so I stuck to the headlights only.
After uploading this... its just dawned on me this is effectively the poster for Stephen Kings Christine.
Peabody Energy's Bear Run Coal Mine is located in Sullivan County, Indiana and opened in May 2010. Supplying coal to a pair of power plants, they ship by rail using the Indiana Rail Road. It is the largest surface mine east of the Mississippi River, and employs over 300 people.
INRD moves coal out of here for Hallador Power's Merom Generating Station, formerly Hoosier Energy, located near Sullivan, IN., and the Duke Energy Gibson Power Plant near Owensville, IN just across the river from Mt. Carmel, IL.
It was incredible to witness this symphony of machines and operators at they went about pulling the coal out of the ground and the various reclamation functions simultaneously taking place. You don't grasp the enormity of these beasts until you either get to see them close up, or see a comparatively sized machine next to them for scale. It was fascinating to watch.
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h and i actually did get round to building the guardian's scale model of the building armed only with rusty scissors and a bottle of desert wine. i then broke it in transit and also dropped my camera on to the tarmac. hurrah!
Hihi, you can grab this hand painted scale tattoo at Planet29, open now♥
It's primarily BoM with 20 color options, theres material appliers for legacy, ebody+mounds, evo/evox. You can grab either color pack for 499L, or the fatpack with a lot of bonus colors for 999L.
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Where would Superman change today? Phonebooths have gone pretty much away...
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ~ Christopher D'Olier Reeve. Repainted by artist Noel Cruz.
2022 marks 40 years since the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and its predecessor organization began funding research. It’s a moment in time to reflect on the many people whose passion, like Christopher’s, inspire our mission, Today’s Care. Tomorrow’s Cure. Their belief in the Foundation’s work has made 40 years of progress possible. Today, with our Reeve torch ablaze, we carry forward the flame of passion that is catapulting us toward long-awaited cures.
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Photo by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com. Dioramas by Regent Miniatures and Phone Booth from Monkey Depot www.monkeydepot.com (suit also from MD and Shirt by DressMaker Details).
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M16 The Eagle in HST palette
Since it's cloudy and I'm impatient, I added my HA data captured recently to older color data:
9/9/20:
HA-10x300 as LUM
QHY23M & Meade 8" LX-50
9/21-9/23 2017
LUM-28x30
Red-21x30
Green-18x30
Blue-23x30
HA-15x120
OIII-22x120
SII-16x120
QHY163M &11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar(F/2)
Also known as the Star Queen Nebula, the Eagle is #16 in Charles Messier's 1764 "not a comet list". It lies an estimated 7000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens
Center (RA, Dec):(274.721, -13.845)
Center (RA, hms):18h 18m 53.061s
Center (Dec, dms):-13° 50' 41.487"
Size:26.9 x 23.1 arcmin
Radius:0.295 deg
Pixel scale:1.39 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 258 degrees E of N
It's been a while since I last updated. I came across this thing yesterday and I couldn't resist. That place looked gorgeous in the fog.
I know, I know, this doesn't really make sense. Why would anyone park an X-wing under those lights? And how? But, you know, I don't care, I think it looked fine and took the photo regardless of logic, or lack thereof. :)
As usual with my scale model photos, the great Cedric Delsaux and Bill George loom very close by. Trying to avoid their paths is not easy but the snow provides at least some room to manoeuver without coming out as a exploiting someone else's work too much.
The temperature's dropping rapidly
Normal service will shortly be resumed
I can see its beauty after the snow
Having secured a shot at Cracoe Swinden Lane, it was an easy overtake to Scale House.
60026 HELVELLYN creeps slowly past the ruined barn at Low Laithe on the approach to Scale House crossings with 6Z38, 12.26 Rylstone Quarry to Doncaster Down Decoy Yard.
The train ran empty after an aborted trip to the quarry where the belts and feeds had frozen.
Richard Bitoni www.flickr.com/photos/rbitonti/9310178567/ and TomGrubbe catch a rainbow just before sunset at Font's point in Anza Borrego State Park.
Sometimes including people adds a useful sense of scale to a landscape image.
Update 12/1/2015 - Uploaded a better edit and higher resolution copy of the image.
The Wall: Rome’s Northern Frontieris a Lego model of Hadrian's Wall, a former defensive fortification in Roman Britain built between around AD 122 and AD126, during the rule of the eponymous Emperor Hadrian. The Wall stretched some 120km between the Solway Firth in the west to the Tyne Estuary east and when in use was effectively the northern limit of the Roman Empire. In 1987 the remains of the Wall were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and in 2005 it became part of the transnational Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. The model is roughly sixteen square metres in size and was built on 105 48x48 stud Lego baseplates.
The Wall: Rome’s Northern Frontier is a Brick to the Past creation built by James Pegrum, Jimmy Clinch, Simon Pickard, Steve Snasdell, Dan Harris and Barney Main. It was unveiled for the first time at the Great Western Brick Show in October 2015 and will be on display again at London's Brick 2015 in December. You can view more photos in our Flickr Group.
Brick to the Past is a group of British Lego fans who build historically themed models on a grand scale. You can follow us on:
I just moved house and have been rebuilding my dolly corner. Today I dedicated a place for my 4th scale dolls - well, mainly for my Syb but she doesn't seem to mind my Tonner OOAK Winona sharing it.
The Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 has been revealed at a Geneva pre-show event.
It's matter of looking now as we already now all there is to know about the car and its impressive construction.
The LP700-4 features a curb weight of just 1575 kg (3,472 pounds) due to its carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) monocoque structure which tips the scales at only 147.5 kilograms (324.5 lbs). The whole body-in-white weighs but 229.5 kilograms (505 lbs).
Read more: www.worldcarfans.com/111022730876/lamborghini-aventador-l...
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Let's see: paintbrush/art supplies, check; food, check; clipboard/office supplies, check; hmm, no pens yet; what's next, a larger-than-minifigure-scale kitchen? A bird? A pinball machine? C'mon, I'm so close to getting my bingo!
My third build for the second round of the Iron Forge, with the banana as the seed part, used here twice on the clipboard.