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A work in progress, this device uses a 3" cathode ray tube to display the current time. Each letter is built up from individual line segments. Anode voltage is roughly 1200V, and the entire clock runs from a 5VDC power supply.
Tel Aviv Promenade (known in Hebrew as the Tayelet) stretches along the Mediterranean seashore of Tel Aviv and it is one of the most attractive destinations in the city of Tel Aviv. Along the Tel Aviv Promenade (Tayelet) one can find an abundance of restaurants, cafés and bars, and the Promenade (Tayelet) itself is a wonderful tourist attraction which combines the beautiful seascape, an enjoyable breeze all year round and a lot of sunshine and sunsets.
The Tel Aviv Promenade (Tayelet) began with the Lahat Promenade- which was built in the 1970s and was named after Tel Aviv’s former Mayor, Shlomo Lahat- between the Dan Hotel and the Opera Tower. In recent years extensive renovation and development work has been done at the Tel Aviv Promenade, and today it stretches along 14 charming kilometers, from Tel Baruch to the north to "The Slope Park” ("Park HaMidron”) in Jaffa to the south.
In the late 1930s, the city council decided to build a promenade for separation between bathing areas and hiking or promenading paths. It extended from Bugrashov beach to where Geula beach is located nowadays. The introduction of the promenade was a turning point in common perception of the city's coastline.
At the same time, World War II started in September 1939, and the British Mandate Regime prohibited bathing in the beach. As a result of that, the city's beaches were abandoned and neglected. In addition, the developing new city was pouring its sewage to the sea and the beaches were banned for bathing for sanitary reasons. Seaside hotels and cafés were turning into questionable bars, gambling joints and brothels. The public abstained from the area, and the city's recreational centers were transferred to the city center, to streets such as Dizengoff Street. In 1942, London Square was founded in the northern part of the promenade. In 1953, Gan-haAtsmaut (Independence Garden) was founded on the gravel hill above Hilton beach. In 1965, at the time of the opening of the port of Ashdod, the ports of Tel Aviv and Jaffa were closed.
In the 1980s, the Dan District Sewage treatment facility was founded, and the sewage was transferred to the plant and not to the sea. That enabled the cleansing of the beaches and preparations to be made in order to open them again to the public for bathing. At that period, tombolo breakwaters were placed, causing significant expansion of the beaches allowing a greater number of attenders to enter. In the scope of the project, beach facilities were restored and reopened.
Currently, the city municipality is advancing a project to join the promenade sections into one continuous platform.
I had the amazing opportunity last summer to tag along with the kids from a popular day camp on the coast of Maine. They were so open and willing to let me immerse myself in their wonderful little world out in those woods and on the shore. I am happily changed from the experience of exploring with them <3
"The Scopes Trial was an American legal case in 1925 in which high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution. Scopes was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality and he was never punished. The trial drew intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked to the small town of Dayton, to cover the big-name lawyers representing each side. William Jennings Bryan, three time presidential candidate for the Democrats argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney, spoke for Scopes. The trial saw modernists, who said religion was consistent with evolution, against Fundamentalists who said the Word of God as revealed in the Bible trumped all human knowledge. The trial was thus both a religious or theological contest, and a trial on the veracity of modern science regarding the creation-evolution controversy, with the Fundamentalists coming out second best in the minds of educated urban Americans, and withdrawing into their rural strongholds. The teaching of science and evolution expanded, as Fundamentalist efforts to use state laws to reverse the trend had failed in the court of public opinion." From Wikipedia
ILRI's scoping visit to Yunnan, China in January 2011 to learn more about their production system. Senior Scientist Fred Unger with ILRI's partners (photo credit: ILRI)
The Chequers, Leominster. Terrific selection of local Herefordshire and Shropshire beers.
November 2014
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Night Vision goggles
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SCOPE 2017, Skagerrak Chemical Oilspill Pollution Exercise offer pictures for free use, with credit like this: "Photo: Kystverket".
Captured on february 4th 5th, 7th, and 13th, 2019 from a Bortle 7 zone
**Equipment:**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astrodon H-alpha 5nm 31mm
* Astronomik LRGB Filters- 31mm Mounted
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Deep Sky Dad Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** 10 hours 23 minutes (Camera at Unity Gain, -20°C)
* Ha- 15x300"
* Lum- 272x60"
* Red- 92x60"
* Green- 92x60"
* Blue- 90x60"
* Darks- 30
* Flats- 30 per filter
**Capture Software:**
* EQMod mount control. Captured using [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu/) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.
**[PixInsight Processing](i.imgur.com/nDQGxYq.png):**
* BatchPreProcessing
* SubrameSelector
* StarAlignment
* ImageIntegration
* DynamicCrop
* DynamicBackground Extraction
* Luminance:**
* AutomaticPSF
* AdvStarMask
* Deconvolution
* TVG/MMT Noise Reduction
* HistogramTransformations
* **RGB:**
* LinearFit to Green
* Channel combination
* DBE
* PhotometricColorCalibration
* NBRGBCombination with Ha
* SCNR
* ABE
* ArcsinhStretch
* HistogramTransformation
* LRGBCombination with luminance
* ACDNR
* LocalHistogranEqualization
* [Curve](i.imgur.com/Gtrj6Ay.jpg)Transformations
* MorphologicalTransformation
* Annotation
Finally completed my Razor 10/22 clone. I bought an 80% completed receiver from Select Fire LLC. Finished up the receiver by drilling all the remaining necessary holes, and installing the rest of the parts to make a complete rifle. No serial #, no FFL paperwork, no ten day wait, and perfectly legal.
Here are the specifics:
Select Fire 80% RAZOR Receiver with Extended Rail (aluminum finish)
Select Fire Modified Black Bolt Assembly 10/22
R25P Bolt Buffer
Select Fire 1022 Stainless Charging Handle and Spring assembly
Volquartsen® TG2000 10/22LR Trigger Guard and Assembly
Adjustable Barrel V-Block Kit
Green Mountain 20" SS Bull Barrel .920 outside diameter
Stainless Steel Stock Take-Down Screw
Fajen basic composite stock
Weaver Quad Lock Rings 1" Med Height (Silver)
Vintage Tasco 4 X 40 rifle scope (Made in Japan)
Harris Bipod
a sniper scope, my first tattoo the day after i turned 18.
it says "they want power, we want respect"
it's a line from a Beneath the Sky song, one of the best hardcore bands out there.
Experimenting with light painting and bulb exposures. This was "drawn" using X/Y mode of my oscilloscope :-) I love the green/orange colour contrast.
This is my Horus Heresy era, Imperial Fists Legion, Reconnaissance Squad in recon armour. Also known as plastic Space Marine Scouts with sniper rifles.
I’ve really fallen in love with the aesthetic of six-man specialist squads. All of the Tactical Support and Heavy Support squads currently (and planned future projects) in my collection are six-man squads.
I got these as a birthday present from my Aunt back in March. Finishing a six-man infantry squad in only a month and a half counts as speed painting for me. I wish I could say that I enjoy painting, but I’m not sure I do, what I actually enjoy is finishing painting a project.
I’m really happy with how they have turned out, but it wasn’t an easy road getting there.
I’m not keen on the stock heads that come with the Space Marine Scout kits, so I decided to do a simple head-swap, replacing them with Skitarii Ranger heads that I bought on eBay. Their hoods can be easily blended with the Scout’s camo cloaks with green-stuff, and they look like they’re wearing gasmasks. I wanted them to look environment sealed as my collection is themed around Mars.
These fit the theme of my recon squad perfectly, even if they didn’t fit the models perfectly. I had some trouble fitting the heads to the torsos with enough contact points for plastic glue to bond them together. I also had to trim the necks back a bit as they looked too long. It was also necessary to use green-stuff to fill gaps and improve the fit.
The plastic Space Marine Scouts with Sniper Rifles set is also a little dated, and it’s clear on their legs that the two halves of the mould do not align properly. I tried to address this with some cutting and scraping.
I mounted my squad on 32mm Citadel Sector Imperialis round bases. Because they’re awesome, and one of the best value for money kits Games Workshop have ever released. I chose 32mm bases because 25mm bases just look too small these days, and although these guys are wearing recon armour, they’re still Space Marines (in 30K, in 40K they’re nearly-Space Marines).
The yellow parts of their recon armour I painted in the same way I paint all of my Imperial Fists. Although in this case I started from a ‘Corax White’ spray can primer instead of ‘Averland Sunset’ spray or air via airbrush. It’s ‘Averland Sunset’, drowned in a coat of ‘Seraphim Sepia’ shade, layered with thinned down ‘Averland Sunset’ and then edge-highlighted with ‘Ushabti Bone’.
The grey fabric parts of their clothes were painted with ‘Dawnstone’, washed with ‘Nuln Oil’ shade and then layered on the raised areas with ‘Dawnstone’ again.
The camo cloaks? The camo cloaks nearly drove me made.
I wanted them to have a Martian red tinge, to fit the theme that these guys are fighting on Mars. I base-coated them with a 50:50 mix of ‘Mournfang Brown’ and ‘Wild Rider Red’ and then shaded them with ‘Agrax Earthshade’.
Here’s where it all went wrong. I tried to layer them with a 50:50 mix of ‘Mournfang Brown’ and ‘Troll Slayer Orange’ (I think). I was aiming for a slightly lighter shade of red-brown, but I ended up with a very pale terracotta colour, which was a really stark contrast with the layers beneath and not at all what I wanted.
I ended up having to repaint that layer with a new 50:50 mix of ‘Mournfang Brown’ and ‘Zamesi Desert’. Which I then highlighted with a 50:50 mix of ‘Mournfang Brown’ and ‘Ushabti Bone’.
I wanted to paint a camouflage pattern on their cloaks and I found a design I wanted to emulate through a Google image search. Unfortunately the person who painted the design I was referencing is a much better painter than me generally, and also used an airbrush. Although I have an airbrush I don’t have the skills to use it for anything other than base-coating.
That said I was happy with how mine turned out…
Until I applied weathering powders to it.
I like to use MIG ‘Standard Rust’ (P025) pigment powder as a weathering powder representing Martian dust. I’ve used it before and never had any problems. I then use MIG ‘Pigment Fixer’ to fix the weathering powder, by gently dabbing it on and letting it soak into the powders and dry.
It’s always worked before, but this time it seemed to mix with the powder turning it into a thick paint which would then dry leaving tide marks like a shade applied too thickly and allowed to pool.
I didn’t know how to fix it or undo it, and I got very frustrated. I wasted probably a week trying to apply powder every night and get it to dry looking like clinging Martian dust instead of stodgy brown opaque paint.
In the end I couldn’t solve it and had to make my peace with it and move on. If I hadn’t forced myself to carry on I’d still be there now painting the cloaks over and over again and slowly losing the will to paint ever again.
The guns I painted black and edge highlighted with ‘Dawnstone’ then edge highlighted only the upper surfaces with a mix of ‘Dawnstone’ and ‘Ice Blue’. But the end result was too bright, so I matted it all down with a coat of ‘Nuln Oil’ shade, which I proceeded to knock over and spill all over my palette.
I had a funny issue with the crosshairs on their sniper scopes. I painted them before highlighting the rifles and varnished them with ‘Ardcoat’ to protect them from being handled. But ironically, it was the varnish that caused a problem with them being handled. I noticed after a while that some of the crosshairs had moved off of centre, not smudged, moved. It turns out that if I applied a gentle pressure to the layer of varnish, it was moving around like a water-slide transfer that hasn’t dried, and moving the layer of paint beneath it too!
Despite everything I finally got to a stage where I was happy to call them finished. I like to throw caution to the wind, and live dangerously, by spraying my models with ‘Purity Seal’ spray when they’re finished. I’ve had problems with it clouding miniatures in the past, but I think I’ve solved that now. It’s just a case or REALLY SHAKING the can for A LONG TIME.
But just to be sure I still spray indoors in a small room with no ventilation to control environmental factors and now I can feel my throat and lungs coated with ‘Purity Seal’.
At the end of the album you can see some comparison photos with a similar Scout Squad I painted for my own Space Marine Chapter, ‘The Unity Marines’ about ten years ago. It’s always interesting to see how far (or not in my case) your painting ability has progressed and developed.
On to the next project!
Finally completed my Razor 10/22 clone. I bought an 80% completed receiver from Select Fire LLC. Finished up the receiver by drilling all the remaining necessary holes, and installing the rest of the parts to make a complete rifle. No serial #, no FFL paperwork, no ten day wait, and perfectly legal.
Here are the specifics:
Select Fire 80% RAZOR Receiver with Extended Rail (aluminum finish)
Select Fire Modified Black Bolt Assembly 10/22
R25P Bolt Buffer
Select Fire 1022 Stainless Charging Handle and Spring assembly
Volquartsen® TG2000 10/22LR Trigger Guard and Assembly
Adjustable Barrel V-Block Kit
Green Mountain 20" SS Bull Barrel .920 outside diameter
Stainless Steel Stock Take-Down Screw
Fajen basic composite stock
Weaver Quad Lock Rings 1" Med Height (Silver)
Vintage Tasco 4 X 40 rifle scope (Made in Japan)
Harris Bipod
The fine Tektronix 5440 scope with 5A48 and 5B42 plug-ins. Displaying a sine wave from the HP 4204 signal generator.