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"Mummy, it's so difficult!!! I can't understand... Help me please!
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This is the last batch of SOOC jpegs from the Q2 Monochrom, cropped and processed in DxO PhotoLab 6.
Essentials to surviving the study room:
1) Skittles! (my new found drug of choice)
2) Water (too keep hydrated in the kickass deep freeze, drink too much and you'd keep going to the loo, great excuse to get up to take a walk outside!)
3) Redbull - "Red Bull gives you wings!" enuff said
4) Moisturiser (the aircon is dammmmn cold...moisturise moisturise!)
5) The Refresher (somekind of medicated oil which is supposed to make you feel refreshed)
6) Tissue paper (for use when the air con results in a runny nose, or when the toilet paper in the ladies runs out too fast esp during the weekends)
7) Laptop - window to civilisation outside this hell-hole....
also tool to play www.yunshan.youaremighty.com
(morale boosting, ego buttering site to be played as and when necessary esp when hell-hole gets too intolerable or upon return from a 'crash and burn' paper) [site sent by Jieling]
Four days ago, I began calling this address "home." It is full of unique adornments that I cannot wait to share with all of you.
Today I am unpacking, unwinding, decorating, dusting, and chasing my son around a home that is twice the square footage of our old. The study, seen here, is fast becoming my favorite room. I wanted to snap a shot of our books in their temporary home, creatively designed by our friend Michelle.
Now that I'm (somewhat) settled, I'll be around to catch up on the Flickr goodness that I've been missing.
Last month, on my way to the coast, I stopped in Clatskanie, Oregon, to stretch my legs and have a look around.
Almost immediately I came upon an extraordinary survivor from an earlier chapter in the former timber town’s economic life: a large, heavily weathered structure of wood and corrugated metal that bore every mark of an old manufacturing facility. Its siding was sun-checked and silvered, its sliding doors warped and ribbed with age, its windows clouded but still defiant. It stood not as a ruin, but as something that had simply endured.
It was raining that day, and I could do little more than take note of it. The wet boards darkened to charcoal and the details blurred. I promised myself I would return.
This week, under clear winter light, I did. With dry footing and blue sky above, I was able to examine and photograph the building in detail — the scalloped trim, the massive sliding doors, the layered accretions of paint, rust, and lichen, the improvised repairs that spoke of decades of practical use. It would have made a compelling architectural study even if its history had remained unknown.
But high on one wall, almost erased by time, I noticed the ghost of a signboard. The lettering was faint, barely legible, but enough remained to make out a company name. That discovery transformed the building from texture into testimony. Armed with those fading words, I was able to trace newspaper clippings spanning sixty-five years — fragments that, taken together, told not only the story of a business but something larger: the intertwined histories of timber, river, machinery, and the men who built and operated them.
What follows is that story.
Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc.
Clatskanie, Oregon
On the banks of the Clatskanie River, where timber and tide meet, stands an enterprise born of industry, ingenuity, and Northwest determination, Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc.
From Machine Shop to Modern Manufacturer
The story begins in the years immediately following the war. In 1948, L. E. Hoy and associates operated under the name Clatskanie Machine Works, providing repair, fabrication, and mechanical services to loggers, mill operators, and river men throughout the lower Columbia region.
In December 1948, L. E. Hoy and Wilfred Elliott, doing business as Clatskanie Machine Works, appeared in Columbia County Circuit Court seeking foreclosure of a lien on machinery and equipment—an early glimpse into the realities of operating a rural fabrication shop in the postwar years
These were years of rebuilding and expansion across Oregon. Timber was moving, mills were humming, and river commerce was strong. A capable machine shop was indispensable.
By 1949 the shop was advertising the sale of ten rebuilt Cadillac engines, guaranteed “A-1,” suggesting both mechanical expertise and a willingness to trade in surplus powerplants common in the immediate post-World War II economy. Such engines were frequently repurposed for industrial use—yarders, boats, pumps, or mill equipment—illustrating the adaptive, practical nature of small Northwest machine shops.
In 1952 Clatskanie Machine Works faced a labor relations challenge when Machinists Local 63 sought to place the firm on the “unfair list.” A formal hearing was held, and the employers indicated willingness to negotiate
The episode situates the company squarely within the structured union culture of mid-century Oregon industry. Even small-town shops were not isolated from organized labor dynamics that shaped industrial life in the Pacific Northwest.
In September 1953, articles of incorporation were filed in Salem for Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc., capitalized at 100,000 dollars. The incorporators, Leland E. Hoy, Anton J. Haas Jr., William R. Mathews, and Rolland R. Mains, signaled by this step their intention to move beyond repair work into full scale equipment manufacture.
By 1955, the firm publicly declared its evolution:
We are the former Clatskanie Machine Works.
The name had changed, and so had the scope.
Serving the Timber Industry
During the mid 1950s, Hydraulic Marine Equipment advertised new logging yarders for all sizes of timber, automatic hydraulic electric sawmills, and custom logging and sawmill equipment built to order.
This was no idle boast. The postwar timber industry demanded modernization. Hydraulic controls replaced cumbersome cable systems. Electric drive systems provided smoother, more reliable power than steam or belt driven gasoline units. Efficiency meant safety, and safety meant productivity.
The company’s automatic hydraulic electric sawmills represented the progressive spirit of the era, machinery designed to reduce physical strain, increase output, and adapt to the growing importance of second growth timber.
From its Clatskanie location, the firm supplied equipment to operators across Oregon and beyond.
The Haas Influence
At the center of the company’s growth stood Anton Tony Joseph Haas Jr.
A Marine veteran of World War II, wounded in the South Pacific and decorated with the Purple Heart, Haas returned home in 1946 and entered the logging trade. By 1948 he had gained an interest in Clatskanie Machine Works and would later guide its transformation into Hydraulic Marine Equipment Company.
In the early 1950s, Haas and his partners developed what would become the firm’s most enduring contribution, the hydraulic powered gillnet roller.
For generations, gillnet fishermen hauled their nets by hand, grueling work under difficult conditions. The hydraulic roller changed that practice. Nets could be retrieved more efficiently and with far less physical strain. The device quickly found use on the Columbia River and as far north as Bristol Bay, Alaska, a testament to its practicality and rugged construction.
It was a Northwest solution to a Northwest problem.
Expanding Lines and Regional Service
By the 1960s, Hydraulic Marine Equipment had broadened its offerings. Advertisements in 1966 promoted Poulan Mustang chain saws alongside other models, reflecting the company’s continuing service to loggers and small operators. The firm had become not only a manufacturer but also a trusted regional equipment supplier.
Corporate officers such as Rolland R. Mains continued to serve in business and civic roles into the 1970s, indicating stability and community standing.
The Gillnet Legacy
By the late 1980s, as the timber industry underwent consolidation and the Columbia River fishery faced new regulatory pressures, Hydraulic Marine Equipment had refined its identity around its most distinctive product:
We build all sizes of famous Columbia Gillnet Rollers.
Advertisements in the Columbia River Gillnetter continued for decades. Stuart Haas, representing the next generation, carried forward the company name and reputation.
Through changing economic climates, fluctuating salmon runs, and shifting industrial patterns, the firm maintained its commitment to custom built hydraulic equipment tailored to working fishermen.
A Community Enterprise
Tony Haas retired in 1988, having served not only as owner and operator but also as a civic leader and long time member of local organizations. His career embodied the spirit of mid century Columbia County, military service, hard work, mechanical ingenuity, and public commitment.
Hydraulic Marine Equipment Co., Inc. was never a large corporation in the metropolitan sense. It was something more enduring, a regional industrial house built on craftsmanship and practical engineering.
> Its yarders served the forests.
> Its sawmills processed second growth.
> Its rollers worked the nets of the Columbia and the waters of Alaska.
In the story of Clatskanie, it stands as a reminder that innovation does not belong only to cities. Sometimes it is forged in a small shop near a river, by men who understand both timber and tide.
eMo is used to study human-machine interaction. He was developed by Professor Noel Sharkey's robotics group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
Clear glass ambrotype. MPP 5"x4" with Zeiss Jena 180mm lens, wide open at f/4, 25 sec exposure. Lit by two soft boxes and a white reflector.
This year I'll be taking the Japanese Languange Proficiency Test (JLPT or Noken) for level 2 (or 2-kyû, which is the second most advanced level), so I've been studying since January.
The exam is in December, though XD
Well, it's not that I have been studying really hard 'cause I still have a lot of time, so it's been a really relaxed but constant study so far. That doesn't mean I will stop studying during summer holidays, though!
In this pic you can see my "friends" when preparing the exam.
I wish Momohime could speak and teach me Japanese, haha
This was basically a study for rock work with panels. I got the basics of it from Halhi's Tutorial, which has a ton of good info.
I tried 3 other ways of doing the water, which was painful, but I am pleased that I kept pushing on.
at columbia social work, you have 2 days of class and 3 days of field placement per week; first and second years shake out to different days. everyone has class on wednesdays, and everyone has field placement on fridays, however, so on our friday afternoon visit, things were pretty deserted. i wonder what this boy was doing...
manhattan bound to explore: a new home; a new school; and an old wallet, once lost , since found.
It's been a fair few years since this "cyclotouriste" has owned or regularly ridden skinny tired, fenderless "race" bikes but, the Urago gives a fast, responsive yet comfortable ride. It has been the go-to machine for day rides for much of the summer...
"I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world ... And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom." -- Oscar Wilde. "De Profundis" (1897)
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Lock-Down / Quarantine - Italia
@ Fattoria di Petrognano (c.1680 A.D.), Tuscany, Italy.
B/W study in back-lighting / silhouette - [plate II.2]
(+) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tfadddgoY
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The Masnavi:
Description of Love
"A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
The lover's ailment is different from all ailments;
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
A lover may hanker after this love or that love,
But at the last he is drawn to the KING of love.
However much we describe and explain love,
When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But love unexplained is clearer.
When pen hasted to write,
On reaching the subject of love it split in twain.
When the discourse touched on the matter of love,
Pen was broken and paper torn.
In explaining it Reason sticks fast, as an ass in mire;
Naught but Love itself can explain love and lovers!
None but the sun can display the sun,
If you would see it displayed, turn not away from it.
Shadows, indeed, may indicate the sun's presence,
But only the sun displays the light of life.
Shadows induce slumber, like evening talks,
But when the sun arises the "moon is split asunder."
In the world there is naught so wondrous as the sun,
But the Sun of the soul sets not and has no yesterday."
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History / Storia:
Petrognano draws its origins from the Gens Petronia as if to say "Gentis Petroniae Fundus", as in the Val di Sieve there are two other places of the same name: Petrognano di San Gaudenzio and Petrognano di Borgo San Lorenzo. The Petrognano Farm is located in the Val di Sieve, 35 km from Florence in the Pomino Doc area and covers an area of 250 hectares with landscapes and crops characteristic of ancient Tuscan agriculture. // Petrognano trae le sue origini dalla Gens Petronia come a dire “Gentis Petroniae Fundus”, in quanto nella Val di Sieve esistono altre due località omonime: Petrognano di San Gaudenzio e Petrognano di Borgo San Lorenzo. La Fattoria di Petrognano si trova nella Val di Sieve a soli 35 km da Firenze nella zona del Pomino Doc e si estende su una superficie di 250 ettari con paesaggi e colture caratteristici dell’antica agricoltura toscana.
Via di Petrognano divides the two nuclei, noble and agricultural, of the rural settlement of Petrognano in two, consisting of several buildings. The actual villa, formerly owned by the Donati and Borromei families and today by the Gambaro counts, dates back to the 17th century, and has a rectangular plan, facing west on an English lawn, and to the east on two panoramic terraces, one of which it houses an Italian garden . The garden houses a couple of fountains with statues and masks, and a shed that was once perhaps a noble chapel.
On the other side of the road is the farm, which made up a rural village in which there was a public fountain (still existing and functional), a wash house, an oil mill, a cellar and other housing and working complexes for the peasants. // La via di Petrognano divide in due i due nuclei, signorile e agricolo, dell'insediamento rurale di Petrognano, composto da più corpi di fabbrica. La villa vera e propria, già delle famiglie Donati e Borromei e oggi dei conti Gambaro, risale al XVII secolo, ed ha una pianta rettangolare, affacciata a ovest su un prato all'inglese, e ad est su due terrazze panoramiche, una delle quali ospita un giardino all'italiana. Il giardino ospita un paio di fontane con statue e mascheroni, e una rimessa che un tempo fu forse cappella gentilizia.
Sull'altro lato della strada si trova la fattoria, che componeva un borgo rurale in cui si trovava un fontana pubblica (tutt'ora esistente e funzionale), un lavatoio, un frantoio, una cantina e altri complessi abitativi e lavorativi per i contadini.
774 A.D. The first certain news of Petrognano dates back to the Lombard period. Giovanni Lami in his work “Monumenta Sanctae Ecclesiae Florentinae” wrote that in 774 Charlemagne assigned churches, castles and courts to the Badia di Nonantola in the Modena area and among these the Court of Petrognano. // Le prime notizie certe di Petrognano risalgono all’epoca longobarda. Giovanni Lami nella sua opera “Monumenta Sanctae Ecclesiae Florentinae” scriveva che nel 774 Carlo Magno assegnò chiese, castelli e corti alla Badia di Nonantola nel modenese e tra queste la Corte di Petrognano.
1046 A.D. The oldest part of the Villa di Petrognano dates back to the year one thousand, born as a watchtower of the valley, built in stone blocks. In 1046 the Benedictine Abbey of San Miniato al Monte, which at the time was part of the Diocese of Lucca, was patron saint of Petrognano. // La parte più antica della Villa di Petrognano risale all’anno mille nata come torre di guardia della vallata, costruita in blocchi di pietra. Nel 1046 risulta patrona di Petrognano la Badia Benedettina di San Miniato al Monte che all’epoca faceva parte della Diocesi di Lucca.
1286 A.D. The Petrognano Farm was passed to the Diocese of Florence and subsequently to that of Fiesole, as evidenced by the documents of the Bishop's Curia of Fiesole. The Villa di Petrognano was a stately home of the bishop's canteen of Fiesole and was cited several times for the excellence of its wines. // La Fattoria di Petrognano passò alla Diocesi di Firenze e successivamente a quella di Fiesole, come testimoniano i documenti della Curia Vescovile di Fiesole. La Villa di Petrognano era una casa signorile della mensa vescovile di Fiesole e citata più volte per l’eccellenza dei suoi vini.
1677 A.D. Due to its splendid position in the valley and the particularly mild climate, the Villa di Petrognano became the summer residence of the Bishops of Fiesole. The villa was enlarged in at least two periods: between 1677-1689 by Cardinal Filippo Neri Altoviti, and by Bishop Ranieri Mancini in 1703. // Per la sua splendida posizione nella vallata ed il clima particolarmente mite la Villa di Petrognano divenne residenza estiva dei Vescovi di Fiesole. La villa venne ampliata in almeno due momenti: tra il 1677-1689 dal Cardinale Filippo Neri Altoviti e dal Vescovo Ranieri Mancini nel 1703.
1866 A.D. Petrognano was bought by the Budini Gattai family, great building contractors at the time Florence was the capital. They invested a large fortune by buying 17 farms in Tuscany and the Palazzo Grifoni in Piazza SS Annunziata in Florence. In the hall on the first floor or Petrognano, there is a frieze on which all the villas owned by the family are represented. // Petrognano fu acquistata dalla famiglia Budini Gattai, grandi imprenditori edili all’epoca di Firenze Capitale. Investirono un’ingente fortuna comprando 17 fattorie in Toscana ed il Palazzo Grifoni in piazza S.S. Annunziata a Firenze. Nel salone al primo piano corre un fregio su cui sono rappresentate tutte le ville possedute dalla famiglia.
1870 A.D. Massive state-of-the-art works commenced on the farm: New farmhouses, roads, aqueducts, a power plant with a hydraulic turbine and a large water storage were built. The villa was further enlarged and restored taking on its current appearance: a large cellar, the wine cellar, the orciaia, the mill, the oil mill and an immense terrace overlooking the valley were also built. // Nella fattoria vennero iniziati imponenti lavori all’avanguardia per quell’epoca. Furono costruite nuove case coloniche, strade, acquedotti, un impianto per lo sviluppo di energia elettrica con una turbina idraulica ed un grande deposito dell’acqua. La villa venne ampliata ulteriormente e restaurata assumendo l’aspetto attuale: venne costruita una grande cantina, la tinaia, l’orciaia, il mulino, il frantoio ed una immensa terrazza sulla vallata.
1930 A.D. Maria Francesca Budini Gattai married Count Enrico Galeotti Ottieri della Ciaja who had the church dedicated to St. Peter rebuilt in front of the farm. From their marriage, 5 daughters were born; Cecilia Galeotti Ottieri della Ciaja is the current owner and lives in the main villa with her 3 children. // Nel 1930 Maria Francesca Budini Gattai sposò il Conte Enrico Galeotti Ottieri della Ciaja che fece ricostruire la Chiesa dedicata a San Pietro di fronte alla fattoria. Dal loro matrimonio nacquero 5 figlie; Cecilia Galeotti Ottieri della Ciaja è l’attuale proprietaria e vive nella villa padronale insieme ai suoi 3 figli.
2000 A.D. By virtue of its history, architectural, artistic and environmental characteristics, in the year 2000 the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities notified the Villa of Petrognano and its annexes worthy of protection. // In virtù della sua storia, delle caratteristiche architettoniche, artistiche ed ambientali, nell’anno 2000 il Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali ha notificato la Villa di Petrognano ed i suoi annessi beni degni di tutela.
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(+) An 18-year Journey, in Poetry and Image:
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Studying. Notice how they conveniently put "DYING" at the end of this word
So I have Exams starting friday, I have them also on Monday and Tuesday. Tomorrow I have my History and Musical Theater class exam.
Right now I SHOULD be studying for my History exam. But Studying is so boring.
Oh and I found this picture online and just edited the Bokeh in...so its not mine(: