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NGC 5907 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 50 million light years from Earth. It has an anomalously low metallicity and few detectable giant stars, being apparently composed almost entirely of dwarf stars. It is a member of the NGC 5866 Group.
NGC 5907 has long been considered a prototypical example of a warped spiral in relative isolation. Then in 2006, an international team of astronomers announced the presence of an extended tidal stream surrounding the galaxy that challenges this picture and suggests the gravitational perturbations induced by the stream progenitor may be the cause for the warp.
NGC 5907 is also known at the Knife Edge or Splinter galaxy.
The galaxy was discovered in 1788 by William Herschel. Supernova 1940A was in this galaxy. (Wiki)
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
The Slplinter 453 S was inspired by the Plymouth Prowler. This Hot Rod is powerd by a 3.5 liter V6 producing 453 horsepower. It is available with or with out a front wing. It will do 0-60 in 4.2 seconds and on to a top speed of 165 MPH!
This is a remake of a much older LDD MOC of mine that was made in 2008. This new car has been upgraded to the Speed Champions style wheels, and the wheel base has been lengthend by 1 stud over the original model. New to this model is also the front wing. I experimented with several front bumper designs but this one looked the best. I also moved the front wing back by 1 stud from the last design, as it made the car to long and it looks better this way. It is buildable in yellow, black, blue, red and white.
Here's April O'Neil from the recent TMNT reboot, with a teeny Beast Boy and a teeny Starfire. The latter two's Mom is Raven, just out of shot.
Another example of the sort of shot I like to find, but didn't feel comfortable about taking under last year's photo policy. The wall alongside the staircase was just a good place to sit near the end of a long day. When April saw the kids' interest in her Donatello, of course she let them play with it. It was about as cute as cute gets.
This scene illustrates what I love about modern cons: they're multigenerational. It's not just the same group of aging fans. You see people in their Fifties and even Sixties, all the way down to yoots like these.
A NSAWC aggressor in splinter camo departs Boeing with full AB!
Franz and I are sporting trash bags over our gear as the rain comes down making for some pretty difficult shooting conditions.
Better late than never, huh? I wasn't planning on building any Vic Vipers this year(seeing as the ones I built last year didn't turn out so well), but I did anyway. I think these are far better than my last attempt. What do you think?
Photograph taken at an altitude of Two metres, lying flat on my belly at 14:58pm on Monday 22nd September 2014 off 1st Street and Bevan Avenue, on the Bevan Avenue Fishing Pier in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
The Bevan Avenue fishing pier is one of the main focal points in this small but beautiful town where some of my family are so lucky to reside. I am never happier than when walking around and capturing the beauty and charm of this most special of locations. Work commenced on the pier in 1993 withn Phase one, a 90 metre straight section being completed in 1996. A year later the 110 metre Phase two section was completed.
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Nikon D800 24mm 1/2000s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Handheld. AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 48d 38m 51.80s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 23m 36.49s
ALTITUDE: 2.0m
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
I know this sprinter waited for the opportunity to jam itself under a nail, or deep into a finger, or the palm of a hand. Once photographed it was removed. Gone forever. Revenge is best served in any way possible ðŸ˜
Of course, where there's a jousting exhibition, there's going to be some controlled mayhem. I previously showed you some of the earlier face-offs, but for these shots, I was using a wider-angle lens to capture more of the action at once.
SN 1635, 11:22:72; Retired caboose 1635 at Westside, just feet from the Sacramento River and the iconic Tower Bridge in West Sacramento. Dave Stanley photo ©2022
I started to whittle alone one fall day when my sweetheart was far away, and the kids were all out of the house. I shaved deep gouges into a little branch, feeling through the knots, finding memories like splinters.
I went to Lawton elementary school in San Francisco. Lawton is actually a K-8 school, so I was there for a good amount of time. Nine years. Nine years of the same people too. Everyone knew one person from the next.
Lawton does not have an expansive play area, nor a dedicated gymnasium; so often times physical education teachers would march their classes up to Sunset Recreational Park, just one block up (literally). It's here we had, what was perceived at the time as, a large green field to play soccer, softball, flag football (loved this the most!), ultimate frisbee ... yeah, the good stuff.
It's been ten and a half years since I've left Lawton, and to be frank -I don't really miss it. The park is still here though. I live just a stones throw from it.
Somehow playgrounds just satisfy me in a way that other places can't. Come'on. Monkey bars? Slides? Swings? Sweet stuff right there. I've had my fair share of scrapped knees and bloody elbows at this park. Splinters too (damn those).
The park has seen some small changes over time -changes manifested mainly as the removal of this awesome mini-carousel contraption that managed to get everyone dizzy all the time, and the addition of some weird whacked out cat structure for kids to run in and out of. Creepy looking, and it does not really match the rest of the wooden playground.
My favorite thing to do at a playground as a child was to play on the swings. But I didn't sit in them. I stood on them while I rode them. Imagine that. Such a brilliant child I was.
My second favorite thing to do would probably be the monkey bars ... always a challenge to get all the way across with my measly little arms.
What was your favorite thing to do at the park?
Ah, the wonderful feeling of having sand in your shoes. Oh, and I just noticed that my sweatshirt coincidently matches the [now peeling] paint job of the play structures -Schweet!
And to those that may say "Grow up Anthony," I simply reply, "No, you grow down."
In any case my dad was a bit under the weather this past weekend, and I think I may have gotten whatever bug he had. Doesn't seem to be hitting me that bad though, so I'm glad. I should be in spiffy shape for Las Vegas this weekend. Should be fun ... can't wait to see what there is to photograph there!
Lighting: All natural
Named for its splintered legs and lack of feet. This Assault Cores (A.C.) preferential mode of transit and combat is in the skies due to an increase of mobility; however, the Splinter Z02 is also a capable ground assault unit. His equipment consists of a wrist mounted laser, which doubles as a laser sword in close combat and a high impact deflector shield on the opposite wrist. Splinter Z02 isn’t the toughest or the most lethal A.C., but he’s probably the quickest and most agile making him an ideal matche against heavier armored A.C.’s. He can fly circles around them and before they’ve even managed a lock-on, he’ll have come in for a surgical strike to the power relays, rendering them defenseless.
This is another shot of that little beast that I showed you yesterday. This one, honestly, isn't quite as good as the last one, but this slightly out of focus shot is one of the clearest shots I have of the full length of the spider. I really wanted to show off this spider's markings but it was quite the difficult task. You see, the spider kept flying away using its web-sail. Don't forget, this one was really tiny. You'll have a sense of scale in later shots.