This gem is retired in our local yard!

Bus No: 1917

Body: Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.

Engine: Yuchai YC6L310-20

Chassis: Yutong ZK6122HD9

Suspension: Air Suspension

Transmission: M/T

Route: Cubao-Dagupan

Location: Solid North Bus Terminal, Dagupan City, Pangasinan

Solid North

Solid Rock

Goanna

Out here nothin’ changes

Not in a hurry anyway

You can feel the endlessness

With the comin’ of the light ‘o day

You’re talkin’ bout a chosen place

You wanna sell it in a marketplace

Well

Well just a minute now

You’re standin’ on

Solid rock

Standin’ on sacred ground

Livin’ on borrowed time

And the winds of change

Are blowin’ down the line

Right down the line

Well, after getting out of bed at 3:30am, and driving for 1.5 hours, we headed off down the cliff face in the darkness to shoot the sunrise. Half way down, we had our first casualty, when our fearless leader, John, slipped and fell. All we could do was watch as he tumbled in front of us down the cliff face, but luckily managed to grab on and stop himself. A fractured or broken rib here we think. Got to the rockledge and shot an average sunrise, but found some awesome rock formations, that I definitely want to go back and shoot. Back up the cliff face, and unfortunately, found out that on the way back up, one of the ladies in the group had slipped and smashed her face into a rock, resulting in a very bloody face. The first aid kit came out and was well used. So all in all, one of our more challenging days and not one we'd like to have a repeat of. Here's hoping both John and Lee will recover well. Solid Rock was shot over 65 secs using a B&W Big Stopper.

Rock formations at Seafield shore, near Kirkcaldy in Fife.

A little find for the homie. Somebody sold their N scale collection to a local model train shop. I couldn't pass this weathered one up. Shot with my new Ricoh GR3.

Me on beach vacation @Pulau Besar, Johor, Malaysia.

Video of me enjoying the sun, sand & the sea in tropical paradise: youtu.be/u6oyaEfmK68

Take a Beach Vacation with me in my blog: Pulau Besar, Johor, Malaysia

the rocky skippers pool, a good salmon and sea trout pool, solid from bank to bank. must be very cold as this is one of the deepest pools on the river esk, (border esk) and the first time i have seen it all iced up, looking downstream of the skippers brig. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.

Back to Boneyard Beach on James Island. This massive concrete foundation structure has been a subject before, I have no idea what it was for, or how long it has been there. But I find it to be an interesting foreground element. The local graffiti artists make it a revolving canvas.

Cuyahoga Falls OH

Kept you waitin, huh?

This project isnt on ideas but it would be cool if you supported my project I think: ideas.lego.com/projects/b8e94880-9038-498f-a7a6-3a9b3e80698c

Water mostly in its' solid state, ice, snow, and a few small areas of melt.

52 Weeks of 2016

Week No: 9

Theme: Water

Category: Elements

ODC - As Far as the Eye can See

Courtesy of Mark Ocul.

Finished up the quilt I made for my mother!

Blogged

Version 8 of my Solid Snake fig. Wanted to make another version that didn't rely on other custom items and instead relied more on my skill.

Modified the printing of the torso and died the head to make the headband blue.

Pic stolen

Bus No: 1618

Body: Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.

Engine: Yuchai YC6A260-30

Chassis: Yutong ZK6107CRA

Suspension: Air Suspension

Transmission: M/T

Route: Cubao-Dagupan

Location: Solid North Bus Terminal, Dagupan City, Pangasinan

Torre di Porta Nuova, Arsenale di Venezia

let's go to dasma

IPM building Hall-Tehran-Iran

Bus No: 1625

Body: Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.

Engine: Yuchai YC6A260-30

Chassis: Yutong ZK6107CRA

Suspension: Air Suspension

Transmission: M/T

Route: Cubao-San Carlos

Location: EDSA-Cubao, Quezon City

Feb Rovery 2014.

Solid Soon

- 032 -

Oristano

Nikon F5 + Ilford FP4+

(dev. Kodak X-tol 1+3)

Kallitype print + Gold/thiourea toning

Paper: Hahnemühle Platinum Rag

TO BUY LIMITED EDITION PRINT

www.LDLMT.com

Eximus // Kodak HD 400

Bus No: 1909

Body: Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.

Engine: Yuchai YC6L310-20

Chassis: Yutong ZK6122HD9

Suspension: Air Suspension

Transmission: M/T

Route: Cubao-Dagupan

Location: Solid North Bus Terminal, Dagupan City, Pangasinan

blogged

block size: 40 cm (about 16")

mein november block - viel zu spät! - für lina.

ich hoffe, er gefällt....

beim nächsten mal weiß ich, dass ich diese seidig glänzenden, etwas "schlüpfrigen" stoffe (die einen tollen effekt durch die hst ergeben!) mit bw-batist hinterbügeln muss, damit sich nichts verzieht...

SolidNorth Transit

physical reversals

ink on paper

Utah juniper tree root near enough to the 'trail' in the Firery Furnace that it required a defensive armor protection. Fiery Furnace is a limited access area of Entrada sandstone fins in Arches National Park, UT.

Hasselblad 501CM with Zeiss Makro-Planar f4 120mm CF, Kodak Portra 400, developed in Tetenal Rapid C41

Found inside of an abandoned home in St. Michael Alberta.

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If you're in your 50's and look just as awesome as you did in your 30's, then you're obviously related to solid snake.

Oh, and Kothlis, if you're wondering: Of the four-and-a-half sets of Solid Snake decals I printed, this is the only full set I managed to salvage. All thanks to some defective(?) Decal paper.

I've had some success capturing various things passing in front of the Sun and the Moon, but this is the first time I've caught an AtlasV rocket transit, and oh, what an AtlasV it was. Flying with five solid rocket boosters strapped on, the CEO of United Launch Alliance has nicknamed this AtlasV configuration "The Bruiser." It's an apt name.

At 8:47 a.m. Sunday, September 10, United Launch Alliance launched "The Bruiser," sending the NROL-107 satellite Silentbarker to orbit. The joint national security mission for the National Reconnaissance Office and the Space Force's Space Systems Command - SSC is reported to be a success, resulting in a "high-priority" payload being delivered "directly to Geosynchronous Orbit." (Source: ULA)

With the help of flightclub.io, I mapped out 12 possible shooting locations all over Titusville, all chosen with the hope of getting this shot at any point through the launch window. I traveled light; usually, I set 2 or more cameras, but for this launch, it was a single-camera operation. For the first spot for the start of the launch window, there was a multi-story building one block away and between me and the pad. This meant I couldn't see the rocket until it cleared the building; at that point, it was too close to the Sun to see it without welding goggles. So, at T-0, with the Sun in the viewfinder low and to the left of the center, I pressed record (8k, ftw) and watched the camera screen. I had calculated the transit would occur ~45 seconds in flight, and that's an excruciating amount of time to wait. At T+47 seconds, I was ready to accept failure, but just then, a dark line zipped across the right side of the Sun, and the plume that followed was unmistakable. My head exploded.

When I could sit and look at the scene, for the briefest of moments, "The Bruiser" looked like it made the Sun melt, both as the rocket approached and passed by. You can see the activity in the series below, or check out the full-motion and slowed video, linked below.

It's well-explained by Dr. Philip Metzger on the Twitter, aka X.com: "The refraction of light is caused by variations in density of the air. Density can be varied by either pressure or temperature (or both). You can see both effects in this video. [Near the top of the rocket] are shockwaves which vary both the pressure and temperature, so light bends in the shockwave. Previously dark areas can be bright or previously bright areas can be dark depending on where the bent light came from." He also explains the effect on the Sun as the rocket passes by as "variation of the temperature around the plume causing variation in air density, also bending the light."

And Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen put it very elegantly: "Want a space pic which includes solar activity, advanced aerodynamics, and a rocket all at once? Look no further - Mike Seeley has got it".

TL;DR: The Bruiser and the Sun walk into a bar...

Video (preferably watch in 4k): youtu.be/ByVwk-xCaKA?si=dPi2luiVSxwOP8lR