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Since 1973 a villager from Mertzig, has been building a castle worthy of the name according to his own ideas. For 40 years the hard-working builder devoted every minute of his free time to the construction and made it the jewel on an island in the middle of a pond. The artist himself cut every stone of the property, which was bought by the municipality to be opened to the public.
Since 1973 a villager from Mertzig, has been building a castle worthy of the name according to his own ideas. For 40 years the hard-working builder devoted every minute of his free time to the construction and made it the jewel on an island in the middle of a pond. The artist himself cut every stone of the property, which was bought by the municipality to be opened to the public.
From 1964 until his death in 2007, Pol Gilson built himself Château Turebaach, stone by stone. The Castle near Mertzig in West Luxembourg is named after the stream that feeds the lake. The town clerk and musician devoted every minute of his free time to this lifelong project, often using recycled stones given to him. His widow sold the castle to the municipality, and we hope that it will be open to the public in the future as a visitor centre with unusual guest rooms (chambre d'hôtes insolites) and a restaurant.
From 1964 until his death in 2007, Pol Gilson built himself Château Turebaach, stone by stone. The Castle near Mertzig in West Luxembourg is named after the stream that feeds the lake. The town clerk and musician devoted every minute of his free time to this lifelong project, often using recycled stones given to him. His widow sold the castle to the municipality, and we hope that it will be open to the public in the future as a visitor centre with unusual guest rooms (chambre d'hôtes insolites) and a restaurant.
From 1964 until his death in 2007, Pol Gilson built himself Château Turebaach, stone by stone. The Castle near Mertzig in West Luxembourg is named after the stream that feeds the lake. The town clerk and musician devoted every minute of his free time to this lifelong project, often using recycled stones given to him. His widow sold the castle to the municipality, and we hope that it will be open to the public in the future as a visitor centre with unusual guest rooms (chambre d'hôtes insolites) and a restaurant.
After almost two years of work, my house is almost completely finished. The house has three floors, the top one was not finished, when I moved in. We put the isolation in and made the walls inside for the room separation. The big height (5.5 meters) and the size in general, made this project last for longer than we thought first... (maybe I will post some images)
But now the bigger work is done and theres just some smaller stuff to do. Finally I can enjoy my selfbuild house. Now its time to "reactivate" my telescopes and stuff for galaxy season.
There are also plans for an observatory in my garden. Idk if it gets finished this year...
To the image:
This is one of nearly countless reworks I made on this data set, captured it in March 2019. These are almost 12 hours of data in LRGB.
-- EQUIPMENT ---------------------------
Camera: SBIG STF-8300
Filterwheel: SBIG FW8 (8 x 36 mm)
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS P2, Astrodon RGB
Telescope: TS 10" ONTC Newton (1140mm f/4.5)
Guiding: SBIG OAG with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO CP4
Software
Capturing: Sequence Generator Pro
Mount control: AP V2
Guiding: PHD2
Processing: Pixinsight
-- Details -----------------------------------
Date: 29th + 30th March 2019
Location: My backyard
Bortle Scale: 5
Temp CCD: -30°C
Pixel size: 5.4 μm
Pixel scale: 0.97 Arcseconds per pixel
-- Exposures ------------------------------
L: 23 x 15 min
R: 12 x 10 min
G: 12 x 10 min
B: 12 x 10 min
Total integration time: 11.75 hours.
"Small town", selfbuild folk architecture not very far from México City.
Leica M4, Summicrome f2.0, kodakchrome color slides, scanned some years afterwards with a Nikon scanner.
Adrian’s Model “A” Ford
SSC – Vintage/Retro
My neighbour Adrian was very obliging and rolled his Model “A” out of its garage to allow me to photograph it.
Of the Model “A” he told me:-
Henry Ford built the Model “T” up until 1927 which he followed up with the Model”A” which was built until 1931. In 1932 the Model “B” came out with a V8 engine. This is the engine I have fitted in my Model “A” Ford.
1928 Model “A” Ford Roadster Pick-up
“I built this vehicle over a 12 year period starting with the chassis, which came from Oklahoma. The main bodywork came from Uruguay in S. America. I had to travel to the US on a number of occasions for other parts as they are difficult to locate in this country. The aluminium cylinder heads I found in Los Angeles and bought them from Barney Navarro (who engineered them). Barney used to race at Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1940’s.
Until recently I used to race the truck at Pendine Sands in Wales, where Malcolm Cambell ran the Bluebird to a land speed record. My fastest speed to date is 82.02 mph! It is generally a 9 hour trip just to get there. There are three race attempts on the sand over a weekend. Then 9 hours to drive home again hopefully without breaking down!”
Thanks Adrian.
Was lange währt...
4 Tage Kamera um einen 9x12 Filmhalter basteln
+3 Wochen auf Planfilm warten
+ungefiltert 25/30/30 Sekunden belichten
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Efke IR820 Planfilm in Tanol Speed 1+1+100 12:00 - 15:00mins.
Fomatone in Easylith (30+30+500 2:45 - 3:10mins), Siena (15+5+5+500 1:00 - 1:30mins) & MT1 Selen 1+ 30 30secs).
I love old farmhouse kitchens and I was scared that when we built our house that the kitchen wouldn't have any charm. Using stone and pieces of wood we found here and there and some very new wood we cut from our woods, we had the start of a room that felt "lived in" as we were building it.
I added the old wooden tables which I've had since I was a student in Glasgow, a few chairs that have been given to me over the years, a woodstove we bought second-hand and a few bits that have followed me around for years and the new house feels like home.