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The waters of Letchworth were not at all high, but had they been you wouldn't have seen this interesting segment.
Playing around with lighting (and my food). But also musing how each day is a segment of a year and how that is a segment of our life...and it is all part of the whole whether we like it or not. So I am going to do my best in the new year to treat each day as a special part of the whole. Have a great Tuesday.
Bright yellow Segmental Bridge Construction crane at the British Columbia Port Mann Bridge over the Fraser River in Coquitlam. www.anthonymaw.com
CO (Lake County)
Day 2
Segment 9 random pond to Segment 10 random spot
So now into Segment 10. I crossed another bridge at Busk Creek and then over Hagerman Pass Rd. Crossed another dirt road just before entering another Wilderness Area. This one was Mount Massive Wilderness Area, which includes Mount Massive. The second highest point in Colorado at 14,421'. The hiking was pretty good, mostly in the trees with the occasional view. Rather typical actually. Lots of rocks, steep side hill, some switchbacks, etc. Saw some aspens but not many. Large boulders were strewn about on the way to Rock Creek where there is a large camping area.
Encountered a number of hikers today. A dayhiker with a dog and some other Colorado Trail hikers. One of the CTers, also with 2 dogs, was doing like I was and filling in some gaps. A few hiking the Continental Divide Trail cruised past while I was making an early dinner at North Willow Creek.
I was planning to camp closer to the Mount Massive Trail, but since I had decided not to hike it at this time, I found a suitable spot about .5 mile past the intersection. I ran out of water just as I got to camp. Fortunately, while searching for a suitable branch to hang my food, I found a small spring. There was also the ruins of an old cabin. 13.2 miles for the day.
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Segments 2 & 3 of the Colorado Trail - Rolling Creek to South Platte River Trailhead. 24 miles. June 2016.
The Ford Galaxie is a car that was marketed by Ford in North America from the 1959 to 1974 model years. Deriving its nameplate from a marketing tie-in with the excitement surrounding the Space Race, the Galaxie was offered as a sedan within the full-size Ford range throughout its production run. In the full-size segment, the model line competed against the Chevrolet Impala and Dodge Polara (the latter, also receiving a nameplate inspired by the Space Race).
The model line was assembled by Ford in multiple sites across the United States; four generations of the model line were produced. The Galaxie was also produced locally by Ford Australia and Ford Brasil, adopting commonality from the third-generation 1965 design.
The 1969 model was built on a new platform with a 121-inch (3,100 mm) wheelbase. It was the end for the 427 and 428 engines, save for only the police package versions which continued to use the 360 hp 428 P Code 'Police Interceptor' as their top motor for 1969-70. Replacing the FE series-based 427 and 428 engines was the new 429 cu in (7.0 L) "ThunderJet" that was introduced in the 1968 Ford Thunderbird; it was part of the new Ford 385 engine series. Power, at 360 hp (270 kW) for the dual-exhaust 4-barrel version, was higher than the 428's 345 hp (257 kW) and lower than the racing-bred 427's final rating of 390 hp (290 kW); there was also a single-exhaust 2-barrel version with 320 hp (240 kW) available. The dashboard was built as a pod around the driver rather than traditionally extending across both sides. The XL and Galaxie 500 Sportsroof had rear sail panels to simulate a fastback roofline. The rear trim panel below the tail lights was used to distinguish the different trim levels. The Country Squire was, perhaps, the pinnacle of design for that wagon with the concealed headlights.
Headrests were featured on 1969 model cars built after January 1, 1969. It was not until 1968 that a station wagon was actually marketed under the Galaxie name. From 1955 to 1968 full-size Ford wagons were treated as a separate model series and were listed as Ranch Wagon, Country Sedan, and Country Squire. For the 1969 model year a higher-trim Ranch Wagon was offered as the Custom 500 Ranch Wagon, the Country Sedan the Galaxie Country Sedan and the Country Squire was marketed as the LTD Country Squire.
The 1973 model was marginally shorter than previous models, but had a heavier, bulker appearance. Three towing packages were optional, each with increasing towing capacity. For law men, there were multiple Police package versions available with engines ranging from the 351 2v to the powerful 460 Police Interceptor. Taxi packages continued to be offered as well. All 1973 full-sized Fords now came with a 351 2v V8-engine and SelectShift automatic transmission as their base driveline. Four-door sedans with metal door frames were replaced with a new "Pillared Hardtop" model which featured a thin "B" post and frameless door glass. This body style was offered together with the traditional pillarless four-door hardtop.
Pattern from Shawn Cipa book reduced by 25%. Acrylic paint on basswood. Sealed with polyurethane followed by gel stain.
Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being prepped to move into the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling -414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X-ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location. (01/07/2009)
Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Givens
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Still green but showing signs of the fall to soon come. West Bend Segment, Ice Age National Scenic Trail
The sixteeth primary mirror segment installed on the James Webb Space Telescope. This completes the center section of the mirrors. Next come the two wings. This is the view from the Webbcam: jwst.nasa.gov/webcam.html
Credit: NASA
MeyerWerft Papenburg, outfitting pier.
segment of the new cruise ship
World Dream, still under construction.
World Dream
Im Herbst 2017 wird ein Schwesternschiff der Genting Dream, die World Dream, an die Reederei Dream Cruises abgeliefert. Das Schiff mit der Baunummer S. 712 hat eine Länge von 335,35 Metern, eine Breite von 39,7 Metern und eine Größe von 151.300 GT.
(HP Meyer Werft)
World Dream is a cruise ship that is now under construction (MeyerWerft Papenburg) for Dream Cruises. She was previously ordered as World Dream for Star Cruises. The ship is designed for the Asian cruise market and has a large number of restaurants and casinos along with specially designed cabins.
World Dream has a length of 335.35 meters, a width of 39.7 meters, a size of 151,300 GT, and a top speed of over 23 knots. The delivery is scheduled for autumn 2017.
When completed,World Dream will be among the biggest cruise ships in the world
(Wikipedia)
Scientific Name: Parastacoidea reptantia
Family: Creep-crab
Olimar's Notes:
This gigantic beast is wrapped in a hard shell. In an atypical evolution, the right front leg of this creature is hypertrophic, taking on the function of an arm, rather than a leg. Its asymmetric physical development is unique in the natural world. One unlucky explorer's incorrect conclusion that this creature adheres to a pattern of peaceful, quiet behavior led to an unfortunate incident. In fact, this beast exhibits intensely hostile, aggressive tendencies, aiming at prey and ramming them at full speed.
Louie's Notes:
Dessert meats are all the rage on Hocotate. When the planet's finest chefs hear about the kind of sorbets, pies, and parfaits you can make with the claw meat on this sweet beast, they'll clamor for every morsel we bring home!
For more photos and details about this creation, click here!
Photo and Creation © 2009 Filip Johannes Felberg
Olimar and Louie's Notes © Nintendo
In the foreground is segment 4 of 5 of the carport expansion. In the distance is the dug out area with the wooden form that will form the fifth and final segment, filling the expansion to the concrete ramp next to the pedestrian gate on 1st Street. To the right is plastic sheeting that underlay this area when the earlier landscaping laid gravel and soil here, possibly in 1987 when the carport was originally poured according to a date stamp in the driveway.
Experimenting with very low evening winter light in Sydney with some dark surfaces and backgrounds. The cake is a gorgeous dark chocolate cake baked in a sunflower bundt pan with a dusting of cocoa and vanilla sugar.
I feel I'm stuck on this abandoned grain elevator in Colony, KS. There were so many great things like this segmented spout hanging from this rusty and crusty treasure. I hope you aren't getting bored.
Have you noticed that oranges can often be halved neatly, but not quartered?
A banana has three segments. Bananas are monocots, apples are dicots that commonly have five fold rotation symmetry. An apple core has five radial seed chambers that usually contain one seed each (but may have two). Oranges are dicots. One might expect five or ten segments? Ten is common, but many do have an extra one or two (often smaller). There is some irregularity.
Just before Sunset a brilliant vibrant rainbow segment hung over the Tucson AZ foothills. Appeared almost as if there was a tear in the murky clouds allowing the brilliant color to leak through.
reduced saturation version
CO (Lake County)
Day 3
Segment 10
random spot to Segment 11 Interlaken Trailhead
Twin Lakes reservoir comprises two lakes. The trail crosses a dam at the far side of the larger lake. There are numerous recreation activities here. Camping possibilities are also abundant. Interlaken Historic Resort is located on the far side.
Phone battery was almost dead but just enough to reserve a room for Friday night at Inn the Clouds hostel in Leadville. Tonight I camped near Mount Massive Trailhead. Camping is allowed almost everywhere on Halfmoon Creek Road. The night before I climbed Elbert a few years ago, I camped along the road so I had a spot in mind that overlooked the creek. Unfortunately, someone turned in there just as I drove up. Oh well, I found another spot.
14.8 trail miles for the day; +1 to hike back to my car.
eight similar segments (fields) are stuck together with modified plates 4081 (www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4081a)
just comment if you have any further question -thx for your interest
CO (Saguache County)
Day 5 random campsite (Segment 19) to random campsite (Segment 20)
Segment 20 begins at Eddiesville Trailhead where a pit toilet is available. This is area is very remote but I did see a few vehicles here. I even spotted one cloud. The trail exited the Wilderness Area briefly.
After taking a short break (and using the pit toilet, of course), I resumed hiking and shortly thereafter reentered La Garita Wilderness. This area is only served by a dirt road so I was somewhat surprised to see a house. Presumably a rancher because there was ample evidence of cows.
I had a destination in mind for the evening which was still several miles away. While still following Cochetopa Creek the trail went through a narrow valley toward San Luis Peak, another 14er. I encountered some hunters. 3 of them, each carrying out a piece of elk. Very cumbersome and very heavy, I was sure.
The wind began to increase, kinda like a funnel coming down the valley as it continued to narrow. I decided to search for a different campsite. I was losing treeline quickly and did not want to be exposed to the wind all night long. I found a suitable site and setup camp after a 16.8 mile day. Overall, a great day of hiking.
This was taken at the corner of Perry and the West Side Highway
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...