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Sea Fury takes its inspiration from the Atlantic seas that crash into the rugged Cornish coast during the long dark winter. First brewed in 1996 to satisfy demand from local fisherman for a stronger ale after perilous stints at sea
Appearance
Pours with a big frothy white head. Ruby red coloured beer
Taste
Caramel fruit berry taste
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This 3’6” gauge 4-8-0 wood burning loco was one of a batch built by Sharp, Stewart of Glasgow in 1896 for the Cape Government Railways, later sold to the Zambesi Sawmills Railway, one of the longest logging railways in the world. When this was taken over by Zambia Railways in the early 1970s, this loco was bought by David Shepherd and moved to static display at Whipsnade where it is seen on 18th September 1982 alongside part of the 2’6” gauge Whipsnade and Umfolozi Railway running around the Safari Park. The loco was subsequently donated to the Science Museum and has been displayed at York and Shildon.
Test shots using Soviet lens Tair-11A 135mm f2.8. This thing is built like a tank shell. I was able to swap the M42 mount with a Nikon F mount and have no issue focusing to infinity. Colors are warm and beautiful, contrast is good.
Lens is a bit soft a f2.8 but is perfectly sharp at f4.
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Key Signature: When one sharp appears in the Key Signature, the piece is in G Major.
A few days ago, at the beginning of December 2024, celebrations televised worldwide heralded the coming back to life of the Notre–Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the accidental and disastrous timber roof fire of April 2019. This joyous occasion was an opportunity to vaunt the vastness of the cathedral.
Well, today and over the following days, I invite you to discover a much-less known, but much more surprising, church, the abbey church of Pontigny, in the equally little known département of Yonne (a part of Burgundy), about 150 kilometers southeast of Paris. There, at the edge of a small village and framed by the tall trees of a dark forest, an enormous vessel of stone stands in the middle of wheat fields, towering above everything else, even though it doesn’t have towers nor spire...
It has two things in common with the cathedral of Paris: at 120 meters, the length of its nave almost that of Notre–Dame (130 meters), and in addition to being an abbey church, Pontigny is also a cathedral... It is also the oldest, as when the first stone of Notre–Dame was laid in 1163, Pontigny was already built.
The abbey of Pontigny was founded in 1114 by a group of monks led by Hugues of Mâcon. For the second time after the foundation of La Ferté the year before, monks of the Cîteaux Abbey left the mothership to found a new monastery. Pontigny thus became and will forever remain “the second daughter of Cîteaux”, an important claim in an order than will number more than 2,200 monasteries of monks and nuns.
Donations flow in. Counting more than a dozen Kings of France among its benefactors, not to mention a good half-dozen Kings of England, the abbey will also give refuge to three archbishops of Canterbury, two of them saints: Thomas Becket and Edme (or Edmund) of Abingdon, whose relics are still buried in the choir of the church.
Built largely thanks to generous funding by Thibaut the Great, Earl of Champagne whose daughter Adele will marry King Louis VII, the church we can still admire today is built between 1138 and around 1150, although additions will be made to it as late as the early 1200s. It is mostly Romanesque, but the influence of the Gothic style can be seen in the latest rows of the nave, and of course in the ceiling, which is rib-vaulted —the first time this architecture was ever used in Burgundy.
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the abbey will be one of the richest and most powerful of the Western world, counting more than forty priories, vast lands and assorted properties in many different cities. Its library was also famous.
Listed as a Monument historique (Historic Landmark) on the very first list drawn up in 1840 by Minister Prosper Mérimée, the abbey church is almost all that’s left of the abbey, which was severely damaged during the Hundred Years War, then during the Wars of Religion, and finally during the French Revolution.
Since 1954, the abbey church is also the legal seat and headquarters of the “Mission de France” territorial prelature, which inspired the so-called “worker priests” which are quite well known in France. For that reason, the abbey church was granted by the Pope the status of cathedral of that prelature.
I’ve had the pleasure to visit this grandiose church, the largest ever in the Cistercian order, in late May 2024, within the scope of a photographic mission for the Fondation pour La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the not-for-profit organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer. I was given access to what’s left of the cloister, a part which is normally off-limits.
The base of some columns in the nave has been decorated, while most of them remain bare. I have used the rotating and tilting possibilities of my lens to restrict sharp focus to the two bases I meant to showcase in this photograph.
Calidris acuminata
11 Nov 2016
CA, LA Co., LA River at Willow Street
Found by Bob Schallman earlier in the day
We have both the sharp-shinned and Coopers visiting our backyard. It’s sometimes hard to tell them apart. This one was only about 12 inches from head to tail so concluded he/she was a sharp-shinned. Marion County, Oregon.
Little Hiddles finally has a body! It took a bit of doing, getting the bits to fit together right, and then getting the clothes to lay right, but he looks quite the dapper tiny plastic gentleman, wouldn't you say?
I was iffy about that head with its somber expression and lack of facial hair, but seeing him put together, well, I love him to bits.
The setup :
- A small transparent bowl
- Water
- A white cloth under the bowl (it help also to catch the water ;) ).
- A reflector (white) behind the bowl.
- 1X 580EX at 1/16 oriented on the reflector
- 2X 430 EX on manual at 1/32 a lot higher over the bowl oriented sharp at the top of the bowl (angle 30dev).
-1X ST-E2 to control the flashes
- I used a Canon 100mm macro.
It takes a couple of shots to get the timing. I like the result!
It is a bit overkill for this photo but it was fun! :)
Great back end on this radio. I just love the large automotive fins and tail lights. Less rocketship and more 1957 Chevy or Chrysler.
These rear, plastic tail lights rarely survived - either falling out or being pulled out, depending on the type of usage the radio had to endure.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I just barely made it to Cholla Garden in time for sunrise on a clear morning. The sunlight may look warm, but the temperature was in the 20's. Cholla cactus have a fuzzy and glowing appearance when they are backlit by the sun. You have to watch where you're going on this trail because if you barely brush up against a cholla, they seem to jump out and attach themselves to you.
Sharpes of Nottingham Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse RIG6495 (GN06EVP) is seen working route 300 to Lowdham on 29/07/2022. This route is due to pass to CT4N next Monday.
Next up on my journey home to Hampshire (07/02/2025) was a look in at Sharpes of Langar. Their coach fleet is made up of absolutely immaculate Van Hool coaches and has got to be one of the best presented in the UK. Simple as that!
Thanks go to the Sharpes staff for showing me around.
I will never be able to understand how wearing your pants around your knees is cool. I can just imagine this guy trying to go to a job interview dressed like this. Definitely not a sign of intelligence if you ask me.
Sharpes of Nottingham Vanhool T915 7 JXO seen at Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum Telford
Seen 7/8/19
Taken from underneath, using a glass floor, the plan was to get some interesting shots of the pups. This is one of my favourites!
Strobist info, 3 light set up. Main light 580ex through softbox camera left at 1/8 power, fill 580ex bare at 1/16th power and 580ex high, pointing at the ceiling on full power, Triggered by pocket wizards.
This guy flew to a perch nearby while I was sitting under a spruce hoping for warblers to come by. I had to take this shot from my knees, and it flew off as soon as I stood up to get a closer shot. I think this is a male because it was about the size of a Merlin. It wasn’t a great day for Warblers so I was happy to come home with this.
Emily Murphy Park Edmonton. August 23, 2009.
This picture is #53 in my 3rd round of the 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Still on the hunt for sharp, suited people, I was walking past the entrance to the DLR station when I saw Florian here walking at pace towards the entrance. He had such style, I had to ask though I really didn't expect him to even stop. But stop he did, and be moved over to this wall and struck a pose for me just how I asked him to. Once I had the shot, he was off, I barely had time to give him a card. He sounded Swiss but I can't be sure but I'm really grateful to him for giving me the time to get this, my first street style shot in a while.
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This is old. I didn't have the creative energy to take any pictures today so instead I sifted through all of my old outtakes and found this along with ten others I'll probably upload in time =]
I'm starting to feel like I should get a pro-account.
I have good news; my basement is unfinished, I just got a huge white sheet, and my parents let me build a make-shift 'studio' haha. It's awesome and I'll probably post a few pictures of it tomorrow XD. Hopefully this will help my creativity resurface.
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