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Olympus OM-10
G.Zuiko 35mm f/2.8
Fujicolor C200 (expired 2012) @100asa
Lab Developed.
Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Someone made unusual modifications to this abandoned, or ghost, ship.
A piece of curved, reinforced sheet metal has been permanently attached to the front of the vessel's pilot house. This is not normal as it would completely block the crew's view and make it impossible to steer the vessel safely from within the pilot house. Photos elsewhere taken from the other side of the boat show that the barrier does not extend as far around the starboard (right) side of the pilot house.
Also, metal bars that run from just below the roof of the pilot house to the top of the railing seem to prop up the port (left) side of the pilot house. This is not a normal feature of modern naval architectural architecture. Among other things, the row of metal bars would get in the way of people wanting to walk along the port side of the boat.
I can describe the modifications but I'm at a loss to explain them.
Willapa Harbor, Washington.
A longhorn steer near Winesburg in Holmes County, OH. The horns must be 6 ft. (~2 m) across. Don't touch the white wire.
This guy was one of many on the river in Hoi-An who offered short rides to tourists. it was nearing sunset.
This spider apparently got into my car while I was parked under a tree with the windows cracked. It jumped onto the steering wheel while I was driving, giving me a bit of a start. I recovered and pulled over to capture it for a photo session later. Happy 27th of Arachtober!
Phidippus otiosus (female), body length = 16mm
“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”
--David Sedaris
Found old photos. Being unorganized with my photography does have its perks. They're few, but they're there. Like Christmas, it is. Happy weekend, all.
Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
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Bulldogging or Steer wrestling can be a bit of a challenge in terms of getting the players all in. Here the hazer on the outside keeps the steer in line, the cowboy comes off his horse and wrestles the steer to the ground. All 4 hooves down mark the end of the timed event. There are typically 8 events in an officially sanctioned rodeo - I'll probably show you a few more from my night out.
Very recently placed into service by J&A Recovery is LJ75BXY, a Scania R560 8x2 with Essel ET12000 equipment and a Fassi F345RB loading crane.
Antelope Island State Park, Fielding Garr Ranch, Utah
James 3:4
Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.
This cowboy went down for the capture but the calf didn't maintain his speed. The cowboy overshot the calf and hit the dirt. Score for the Calf...!
I can't say I enjoy seeing these animals yanked and jerked and then "body-slammed" to the ground and "hog-tied".
To me, this event is a little too rough on the animals....