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Can anyone identify this building? It was taken by the late John Hambley in August 1975 and appears to be next to a London Country garage, presumably in Kent or Surrey, the sign pointing to a National Travel Office.
LCBS offices at Reigate (see below), since demolished.
Guess its galaxy season and I was looking to add some detail to a wide field shot of M81&82.
The data looked good enough at this scale so im posting it until I get finished with the whole shot even though the seeing wasnt the best this night.
Ha was not long enough but I was really just filling time while the moon was out.
This is also a bit of a crop since I did a meridian flip and it wasnt aligned the best , did learn a new trick on my hand controller to set a user object and have it be the center of the frame to do the flip with.
39 5min subs with no filter and 13 10min Ha subs from a semi dark sky at ISO 1600 stacked in DSS and then adjusted in PS CS2. Canon 500D(Gary Honis modded) being run by Backyard EOS , Orion Atlas mount and the scope is a Celestron 8" SCT with a .63 focal reducer(FL 1280) and a 7x40mm finderscope as a guide scope.
Hello everyone!
I’d like to present my final entry for the Eurobricks Architecture Contest. My entry is a micro scale model of the University of Waterloo Mathematics and Computer Science building. The base is 57x 34 studs. The building consists of 1600 bricks.
The MOC is the same size as the TLG set- Robie House.
Some facts:
Location: ............................... Waterloo, Ontario
Date: ..................................... --- to 1968
Building Type: .......................university building
Style: ..............................................brutalism
Materials ...............................stone, glass, wood, concrete
Why I chose this building?
I was browsing the Internet for an idea but couldn’t decide on anything. It was my elder brother who gave me a tip. He suggested that I should make one of the campus buildings of WU, where he’d got his diploma. I liked Maths and Computer Science building, which is a typical example of brutalism, most of all and immediately got to work. Few days ago I found True Dimensions's creation. This was gorgeous! And I solved, that I must finish entry. I ordered necessary bricks from Bricklink and continued work. Hope you like it!
Why Brutalism?
Most people strongly criticize Brutalism, calling it ugly piles of steel and concrete. But I don’t think it is so harsh and hostile after all. Aesthetics of Brutalism appeals to me. I am fond of clean lines and simple geometric forms. Of course I wouldn’t call Brutalist buildings beautiful. What I like them for is the fact they reflect our life style. We tend to choose functional things at reasonable prices nowаdays, don’t we? I agree with a French architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, who considered all buildings to be tools and said: “A house is a machine for living in." And brutalist buildings are cheap and functional.
Starting with "Bright Green Under" and a cube in a corner of a field...
When I took the shot I had hunted in vain for any information sign...so hence the internet search as I posted...
I wasn't very successful to start...
And then I remembered Geograph m.geograph.org.uk "The Geograph® Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
So I checked our GPS route to work out which grid square I thought it was in..
Then I found the advanced search on Geograph - that took a few attempts so I have saved the link here www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?form=text
Then I looked for images within 1 km of SK1664 (the grid reference) as it was on an edge.
I spoted a shot - and it gave me the extra word of Limestone and and the idea to include Cales Farm in the search (Neil had put in grid square SK1663 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3596177
I then headed back to Uncle Google search with "bright under green limestone cales farm"
Bingo!
www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/site14/details14.htm
Full information from Sites of Meaning...
inscription - Bright Under Green Limestone Edges. With Queen Ann Lace and Cranesbill in her Hedges
Michael Dower
proposer Emma Youatt
mason Heritage Stoneworks
location West Footpath to Cales Farm from Long Rake.
grid reference SK 16495 63959
notes Sometimes called the Bugle Stone, after the name of the community newspaper that Emma Youatt founded and edited.
From www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/preface/about.htm
Sites of Meaning was a millennium project of Middleton and Smerrill in the Derbyshire Peak. It marks the seventeen entrances to its parish with boundary stones each inscribed with a text chosen by members of the parish.
So hopefully if we trip over any of the other 16 stones I'll remember where to look.
If you've got this far, I was rather chuffed I found the information and hence the rather laboured notes above on how I got there. Now, was I meant to be doing anything else this morning, I think the "to do" list will win again today!
No more pinholes but this developer is really black in the shadows. Agitation is every 15 sec. Might try once every minute next time to reduce the contrast.
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The mute swan is a very large white waterbird. It has a long S-shaped neck, and an orange bill with black at the base of it. Flies with its neck extended and regular slow wingbeats. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species. The problem of lead poisoning on lowland rivers has also largely been solved by a ban on the sale of lead fishing weights. Some birds stay in their territories all year, while others move short distances and form winter flocks. In cold weather, some birds arrive from Europe into eastern England.
The M33 galaxy in Triangulum. After four nights of imaging and a couple of hours of image processing, there's the final result. I'm quite pleased with it, although one can always do better. More info and another image here: timelessphotons.blogspot.nl/2013/09/m33-revisited.html
Manassas National Battlefield
Manassas. Bull Run. The first major battle of the Civil War, plus a second battle a little over one year later. Manassas Junction, just twenty miles west of Washington, D.C., became the site of two struggles to solve the split in the Federal government started with South Carolina secession and the bombardment of Fort Sumter. It was a struggle that many thought would be over quickly, so much so, that when it was learned that a battle was brewing along the edge of the stream known as Bull Run, picnics were packed and bonnets were tightened amongst the political class and aristocracy of the city. By the end of one hour amongst the hail of bullets, cannon fire, and the shrieks of the wounded and dying, it was pretty clear that the callousness and lack of seriousness that the citizens of the city thought about the strife, would be gone forever. Fours years later and over 700,000 citizens and soldiers dead would make the first day at the first battle of Bull Run, in Manassas, Virginia, far from a quick and easy problem to solve. Remember, that those casualties caused on the fields from this suburb of the District of Columbia to Vicksburg and Atlanta, to Gettysburg and Shiloh, came in a nation not of three hundred million residents, but one of thirty-one million people as of the 1860 census in all the states and territories.
This is a fun Harry Potter-themed MOC I finished in 2023.
It started as a set adaptation of 75980 Attack on The Burrow: first I wanted to create a 360* look, instead of a playset with an open backside. I decided to change much of the interiors as I wanted to add seperate rooms that needed to be accessible by a staircase. This meant a complete make-over of the set as a whole, which was a great puzzle to solve. I added double hinges to the folding mechanism, so that the dinner table and the master bedroom are bigger once opened.
The original house in the movie is only shown in a single shot, but it looks so whimsical and lived in. It was a great joy to put this MOC together.
I will accept my Nobel Prize with grace and humility for solving this age old problem. Thank you all :-)
ODC: WHO AM I
Among other things, I am a problem solver. We got a package of these puzzles; the kids and I spent a fair amount of time testing our patience and determination... proving to ourselves that we are able to solve these problems. Eventually... problem solved!!!
Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF 85mm ƒ/1.2L II USM prime @ ƒ/1.2, ISO 1600, .8 sec exposure, camera sitting on a folded coat in lieu of tripod as I didn't have one with me.
I find that the faster you shoot these, the more subtle colors you get. Long exposures tend to make the quick flicks of rarer colors blend into one another; I was fortunate to have the ƒ/1.2 lens along.
Imaged from my heavily light polluted back garden in Leeds on 7 September 2013. Would have imaged from a darker site if the Met office could get the weather right just once.
Canon 7D + Canon 500mm f/4 L IS @ ISO1600 mounted on an AstroTrac TT320X.
30x 60 Second lights
Taken with a 60D at prime focus through a Skywatcher 200p on an EQ6. Not enough data, levels corrected in photoshop after stacking
- (sp) : ¿Quién busca dando? ¿Quién raqueta ofreciendo?
- (en) : Who quest by giving? Who racket by offering?
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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News of the day :
End of course for Banco Popular. The sixth Spanish bank barely escaped bankruptcy, thanks to its acquisition for 1 euro symbolic by the Santander group. The announcement made Wednesday morning puts an end to weeks of suspense, during which the management of the troubled bank sought a solution to solve its liquidity problems. The situation had become unsustainable, while Banco Popular was caught in a stock market spiral that had made it lose last week, half of its capitalization on the Madrid Stock Exchange, from 2.7 billion euros to 1.4 billion euros.
Fin de parcours pour Banco Popular. La sixième banque espagnole échappe de justesse à la faillite, grâce à son rachat pour 1 euro symbolique par le groupe Santander. L'annonce faite mercredi matin met fin à des semaines de suspense, durant lesquelles la direction de la banque en difficulté a cherché une solution pour résoudre ses problèmes de liquidité. La situation était devenue insoutenable, alors que Banco Popular était pris dans une spirale boursière qui lui avait fait perdre, la semaine dernière, la moitié de sa capitalisation à la Bourse de Madrid, passant de 2,7 milliards d'euros à 1,4 milliard d'euros.
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