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The White Room of Castle Rising, Norfolk. Part of the 12th Century keep. It is one of the finest Norman keeps remaining.
Isabella, daughter of Phillip IV of France, was married to England's Edward II at the age of 12. The marriage deteriorated and she returned to France in 1325 where she raised a small army that sucessfully overthrew Edward and replaced him by her son Edward III with Isabella as Regent.
The yound Edward eventually became impatient of her as Regent and she was exiled to Castle Rising.
Her stay was comfortable and tranquil with servants, luxuries and visits from her family. The White Room is reputed to be the favourite of her quarters.
Notwithstanding this, folklore has it that she haunts the keep with maniacal laughter and shrieks echoing across the Norfolk countryside.
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Went out with Mr Wild yesterday on a pretty sucessful mission. We didn't know that the place we were going was the right one, no background but when we got there (and it took a while) it was worth it.
This is one of the best places I've been exploring just fantastic.
Far Ings, LWT. Lincolnshire, UK. - a very wet Kingfisher, but a sucessful catch.
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We are beside the east end of CSX's (former C&O) Fulton Yard in Richmond, VA, at a railroad location known as Egypt, on Jan. 27, 1990. Fulton is built on a .63% grade against eastbounds. Helpers are required to get eastbound unit coal trains out of the yard and several miles to the crest of the grade at Fort Lee. It was always fun to watch those heavy coal trains start on the grade, most of the time sucessfully, occassionally not. B30-7 No. 5555 and GP38-2 No. 2701 have just gotten an eastbound underway and the sound was glorious. Two SD40-2s are shoving hard on the rear. Once past Fort Lee, those two four axles will be fine for the trip to the piers at Newport News. As information, those red hoppers starting eight back were leased from Santa Fe, providing a bit of variety for a short while.
This place is one of the most photograph places in Portugal. Lucky to live near by... ~
And lucky to catch this sunset...
Typically, this place is searched for long exposures shots in high tide...
Think I was sucessful to try something different
Carrasqueira, Portugal
All the males I saw yesterday had nicks in the wings, some looking very torn and tatty. The females were a bit better but this female was the only undamaged individual I found. After initially finding it, I had to wait a long time to get a set of shots as a huge grey cloud came over and all the butterflies went to ground. Despite blue sky eventually appearing all around, a stream of grey steadfastly remained and obscured the sun for half the afternoon. I was on the verge of leaving when finally the forecast clearer skies appeared on the horizon, the sun eventually came out and the butterflies re-emerged, though it remained very windy, even inside the deeper quarry holes - even the butterflies were struggling to nectar sucessfully! This one is nectaring just in front of the back wall of one of the deeper quarry holes. I never saw the aberration from Saturday again, though the Painted Lady was still there.
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Adventure always starts with an idea, and leads to something greater than expected. The idea of adventuring is to have new experiences which can only be found by exiting your comfort zone and searching exploring. This night was an off trail night, just falling short of a predetermined goal which I had no knowledge of in the field. I started a journey some time ago I call star collecting. Basically you find points (GPS) of interest and mark them with your navigation systems. Then when you're out in the field, rather than wander blindly you can seek out these points. This was one of those nights. Not nearly as sucessful as I'd hoped, we fell short of my target and ended up with this instead.
I thought it was quite beautiful to see what appeared to be spires on fire quickly lighting up and dissipating almost as quickly as they came. Right below here is a narrow long slot canyon and as I ran through it in almost dark you could see the bats. They looked like alien creatures and their eyes seemed to watch me as I moved through their home.
A trip upto one of the top secret quarry which is littered in old smashed up veichles- its bloody amazing! and we were a bit more sucessful than last time too!
After this shot it quickly cleared up and the whole place was lit by the moon!
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Hi everyone, sorry for the inactivity!
I'm working more on my brand now, so it's time to do the marketing stuff like this AD. So I would like to introduce you to my most sucessful item yet and I hope that you like it as much as I do.
I always wanted something like this to exist so I did it for me and I want to share it with you.
There is a video available to see how the moon works (excuse me about the quality).
This product includes:
One version with 4 bento poses for each hand and wearable and typer versions for the head.
All the menus are accessible by clicking the moons of the hands.
The moons are scripted to spin over your hands and orbit around your head.
Resizable.
Not animesh.
Outfit by Skellybones, Hair by tram, Halo by Minuit, Skin by more more, Eyes by AG.
Hodbarrow Lighthouse (also known as Haverigg Lighthouse) is built on the Hodbarrow Outer Barrier sea wall, near Haverigg. It was built by the Hodbarrow Mining Company in 1905. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1949 and gradually fell into disrepair. The Haverigg Lighthouse Committee was established by people interested in restoring the lighthouse, and were sucessful in getting a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2003. The lighthouse was restored and an opening ceremony took place on the 15th of July 2004, including a procession by parents and pupils from Haverigg Primary School, who had been involved in the restoration project.
Mauritian Endemic, Bel Ombre, Mauritius.
This delightfiul little bird was the only native bird I found in the hotel gardens and is one of nine endemics that can still be found in Mauritius. It is the only one that seems to have sucessfully adapted to the modern world and is still widespread on the island.
A stop-off on my way home from a sucessful few days away in East Kilbride on business.
Wednesday afternoon turned warmer and sunnier the further into the Borders I got, so a snap decision was made to visit the NNR at Caerlaverock.
So good to see plenty of butterflies as well as a good number of Common Darter dragonflies
Similar appearance to other Darter species, particularly Ruddy Darter
Common Darter can be distinguished by its:
1. pale leg stripes
2. males: yellow patches on the sides of the thorax.
Shot taken using an Olympus OM-D E-M1 mkii with Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 IS Lens
There are a couple of comets passing by right now. I tried in vain last night to spot the other but failed.
Clearly I was more sucessful tonight. (see the red arrow). This one isn't visble to (my) naked eye but I knew where to aim the camera and let it do it's thing. Gratifyiing Result.
Interestingly enough if you zoom in there are a lot of streaks in the sky. When I noticed them I thought it was my camera but two other frames taken were different. I think they must have been Starlink satellites. Now I understand why the astronomy community has their concerns!
a sucessful hunter, the male had to hunt for two as the female was already nesting, northern Hokkaido, Japan
A bit of redemption in the dart. After the not totally sucessful effort while moving, we moved the lights up for some efforts while standing still.
Lighting provided by Michael T. Burkhart.
Hope everybodys had a great weekend I certainly have 2 sucessful explores today and a productive day yesterday. Been a bit busy this weekend but will catch up with you all in the week
Here I am modeling the first first costume I ever made, sewn for my UCSC costume class, and I had tried (only moderately sucessfully) to make something that might be seen in the Franco Zeferelli film Romeo and Juliet, which was already 5 years old at this point but still a favorite. A friend of mine, Eileen, had made a sort-of copy of the kind of dress Olivia Hussey would have worn- since Eileen did not look anything like Olivia Hussey but our friend Lisa did, we asked her to pose with me in Eileen's dress. My friend David took these photos for me, and we hiked out to the meadows behind Crown College to take the photos on a glorious day in May.
[Now that very meadow we are sitting in is a mass of student housing and offices]
The first snow of the season. OK it was really the second, but the first was an anomaly back in October. After almost absurdly mild recent temperatures, it became quite bitter on this day (yesterday), so I met fewer walkers on the trail. This was the beginning of the storm, and a day later there is still 'weather' going one, so the school buses are cancelled today.
This is something that I hadn't tried before, or if I did I can't remember, or it wasn't sucessful. It's a 4-stitch pano, but 2 across and 2 up. Lightroom handled it easiliy.
I converted to b&w although there was little colour to begin.
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Ross Rowland sits in the cab of his beloved C&O 614 on June 8th, 2025 shortly after the historic 4-8-4 arrived on the Strasburg Railroad's property at the Leaman Place interchange.
He came down to Strasburg to celebrate the sucessful move of the 614 and to present a cerimonial handoff to its new owner: RJD America.
Just a little over a month later on July 19th, 2025 Ross passed away following a brief battle with cancer.
SRR X90 @ Leaman Place, Paradise, PA
RJDX J3a 614 (C&O)
Marconi Beach. Wellfleet Cape Cod, MA
From this bluff inventor Guglielmo Marconi. In 1903, made the first sucessful transatlantic wireless communication transmission originating in the United States at Marconi Station. Was a message from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. From here radiotelegraphy was born.
This transmission changed the world and ship travel across the Atlantic
There was still some activity at that day in the well known sand pit. At that day 21D-006 is doing the job. The second track with the beautiful german bucket excavator wasnt in use because of track movements.
Taken on a sucessful trip with @analoge content.
Poland, Kotlarnia, July 2025
Mauritian Endemic, Bel Ombre, Mauritius.
This delightfiul little bird was the only native bird I found in the hotel gardens and is one of nine endemics that can still be found in Mauritius. It is the only one that seems to have sucessfully adapted to the modern world and is still widespread on the island.
A Minotaur IV rocket launch from Wallops Island, VA. The Pelicans seem unimpressed. Here is a link with more information:
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these are more drops from my first attempt with clear water.I'm going to get some food colouring and have another try at the weekend...I took hundreds, playing with the size of the drops, delay between them and camera shutter delay to get the right combination of settings - and all in the dark! Not too many were sucessful...
Calcium oxalate crystals in garlic peel
Inspired by oldTor (thank you very much for your advice!) I searched for gems in garlic peel. Well, not so sucessful, but found a few sapphirs... :-)
Mitutoyo 50xHR, NA 0.75, tube lens: 165mm (Thorlabs)
Illumination: polarized and oblique
Spock and Mini Spock give it two Vulcan Salutes (the equivalent of two thumbs up for you Terrans!)!
This is not your momma's Star Trek! But that is a good thing! Never before has Star Trek provided so many nail biting, edge of your seat moments! It is much hipper and somewhat more believeable than the typical Trek of old, and has a much more frenetic pace. However, the filmmakers never lose track of what made the original Trek work so well - the characters!
The characterizations here are all very faithful and strong. All of the main characters get their moment(s) in the spotlight.
Not only is this movie much more action packed and exciting than ye olde Trek, it's a lot funnier too, with lots of great character driven humor. McCoy and Scotty in particular are hilarious and the actors playing them deserve special reckognition for so sucessfully capturing the essence of these characters. Of course, it's all about Kirk and Spock and here again, both actors do an excellent job with these Sci Fi icons. Chris Pine in particular does a great job of giving us a Kirk who still seems like Kirk without doing a cheesy Shatner impersonation. He owns the character and makes it his own, as does Zachary Quinto as Spock. Eric Bana's villian, Nero is quite excellent, I only wish we had seen a bit more of him. Leonard Nimoy's appearances in the film are all fantastic and serve the purpose of passing the torch quite well. You'll want to cheer when he first shows up!
Continuity hounds should not allow themselves to be thrown or discouraged by events that seem at odds with established Trek lore, if you hang in there, all will be explained, just sit back and enjoy the ride.There are a few minor things that seem like plot holes to me, but they didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the movie and I don't think most people will notice them, they'll be too busy having a good time!
The designs of everything in the film harkens back to what made the original series so cool, but succesfully purges them of their dated, somewhat silly elements.
This is hardly the best film ever made, but it is a great tribute to a Sci Fi classic which constantly entertains and leaves you begging for more. It is the best reboot/reimagining of something I've ever seen. It's one hell of an origin story for this legendary crew, but it is nothing less than what such classic characters deserve.
if this movie doesn't re-energize the Trek franchise, then frankly NOTHING ever will. In fact I suspect it will re-energine the entire sci-fi space opera genre in general.
May the new Trek franchise Live Long and Prosper!
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The world has seen a million sucessful mergers over time. Hall and Oates, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Beer & Pizza, and so on. This wasn't one of them. to say the least. But it made for a decent photo.
Irina and INdeever live at Marwell Zoo. It's not very often you catch them lazing around together. These two have been a couple for 10 years and have sucessfully bred a number of children as part of the Marwell Zoo breeding program to increase the numbers of this endangered species. They are a fully loved up couple and walking around the corner to catch them like this was a very beautoful momnet.
I watched and captured a few frames of this Coyote watching and catching a Mole.
I combined these four photos into one image, as an alternative to four separate photos.
I continue with my project "My industrial playgrounds" after sucessful series from Mokrá cement plant. This new series from PKZ Keramika - ceramic plant in Poštorná in Czech Republic is a quite different. I visited this historical industrial place in late summer in 2014. PKZ Keramika Postorna a.s. is a company with more than 130 years long tradition. First bricks were baked in 1867 in a so called lichtestein's brick-yard.
I hope you'll enjoy series from this place!
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Hmm....
Despite my eeevil computer I managed to make an attempt at Colour round 3.
I'm quite pleased with it, mostly because it's my first sucessful try at drawing hair from scratch. =]
Other than that, I'm not sure. Should I submit it?
.. is the day on which the color blue reflects love. Obviously, I love Blue Mondays.
Have an amazing and sucessful week, everyone!
I almost forgot.. new buddy icon and profile update!! :)
Remember this photo from SDH? :D I recovered it sucessfully from my dinosaur computer and decided it needed to be uploaded.
Kristy- WTF Chri-
Chrissa- MY. BANANAS.
An unusually harsh winter has been especially hard on Chicago area roadways. Pavement is coming up all over, to the point where corporations are offering to patch and brand the holes (KFC) and locals are buying cold patch with their own funds and filling in the damage themselves. The missing asphalt here is near the intersection of State Street and Kinzie and has revealed brick pavers that may well date to the 1872 reconstruction following the Great Chicago Fire.
"pavement which J. K. Thompson, city superintendent, laid in the year 1864, at the intersection of North State and Kinzie Streets, in the city of Chicago... was made of wooden blocks, six inches square, set in rows, on an earth foundation... It was put down by him as an experiment. It proved sucessful, and was in use until the great fire in Chicago in 1871..."
At which time, it burned, along with about 500 feet of similar pavement around the LaSalle Street Tunnel, and any other wooden boulevards in the path of the fire.
I'd read before that having overbuilt with wood had contributed to the Fire, but until I looked up the "cobblestone" systems chicago was using, I had no idea that even the streets were flammable.
"Oops."
--J. K. Thompson, 1871
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The hill fort was created some 2000 years or so ago. It was the Easternmost outpost of the Silures, an iron age Celtic tribe who occupied the greater part of what is now South Wales. In 48 AD after sucessful campaigns in the South and East of Britain, the Romans tried and failed to subdue the the Silures so as to expand their influence westward. In order to do so the Romans established a heavy industrial and military presence in the Forest of Dean across the River Wye, down upon which river the Doward hill fort commands the view from its Eastern side.
The Silures fiercely resisted Roman incursion on their side of the river and in turn made frequent raids on Roman sites in the Forest of Dean. For 30 years or more the Silures continued to both resist and harass the full might of the invading Roman legions. Never defeated as such they finally made uneasy peace with the Romans some time around 80 AD.
BR 45321 (LMS 5321) was purchased direct from BR at the end of steam in 1968
The loco now carries the name "The Sherwood Forester"
Digitally scanned off a 35mm Kodachrome 100Asa Neagative film Canon AE-1.
You can compare this identical shot scanned off a Slide fim here :
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Photographing Black locos in stormy overcast conditions is not usually very sucessful.
Adult Little Ringed Plover one of a pair that bred on land cleared for building houses.Fledged three young before work commenced so a sucessful outcome.
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York, New York City, United States
The Pratt Institute Faculty Rowhouses are a cluster of 27 dwellings located at 220-234 Willoughby Avenue, 171-185 Steuben Street, and 172-186 Emerson Place. Built in 1907, they were designed in a Colonial Revival style by architect Hobart A. Walker. The houses, situated at the northeast corner of the Pratt Institute campus,, were commissioned by the institute to meet its expanding needs.
Pratt Institute was founded by Charles Pratt for the training of artisans, foremen, designers, draftsmen, and other technicians. The school was an outgrowth of Pratt's interest in manual training and his belief that the best way to help others was to teach them how to help themselves. The type of technical training established at Pratt was unprecedented in the United States at that time.
Charles Pratt (1830-1891) was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1851 he moved to New York City and worked for the firm of Schenck & Downing, dealers in paints and oils. He joined the firm of Reynolds, Devoe & Pratt, which manufactured and sold pdint and related products in 1854. In 1867, Pratt established the firm of Charles Pratt & Co. with the intention of marketing a less flamable kerosene for lighting, one that would have a flashpoint of more than 100 degrees F. "Pratt's Astral Oil" gained a worldwide reputation, and the firm began to manufacture tools, cans, petroleum barrels, and similar products.
The Pratt Manufacturing Co. was founded to produce sulphuric acids and other chemicals used in petroleum refining. Pratt's business interests were acquired by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil in 1874. At that time Pratt's refineries had a capacity of 1500 barrels of oil a day and were regarded as the most sucessful in the country. Pratt remained with the company and quickly became a major force at Standard Oil.
Pratt, whose philanthropic interests were wide ranging, not only founded the Pratt Institute and its Free Library but also endowed the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, Amherst College, and the University of Rochester* He built the Astral Apartments, a model tenement development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, near his oil refineries, and gave $100,000 towards the construction of Clinton Hill's Emmanuel Baptist Church, a designated New York City Landmark. Pratt had moved into the Clinton Hill area in the 1870s, building his large mansion at 252 Clinton Avenue in 1875. He also bestowed houses in the neighborhood as wedding presents for his sons, and all were built on Clinton Avenue after Charles Pratt's death in 1891.
Pratt Institute opened on October 17, 1887, with a drawing class of twelve students. From these modest beginnings, the school rapidly expanded its departments, facilities and student body. Consequently, it was logical that the school should wish to provide residential accommodations for its staff on a site convenient to the campus, on land which Pratt Institute had purchased some fifteen years earlier. The commission for the houses was given to Hobart A. Walker.
Walker, a specialist in residential design, began his architectural practice in 1895. Other known commissions are the late Romanesque Revival carriage house (1903) for J. Henry Alexandre at 173 East 73rd Street, Manhattan; the Colonial Revival Ralph H. Wilson residence (1907) at 162 Argyle Road in the Prospect Park South Historic District in Brooklyn; and the neo-Jacobean William H. Burger residence (1.902) at 443 Clinton Avenue in the Clinton Hill Historic District in Brooklyn. Walker's choice of a Colonial Revival style for the Pratt rowhouses is both characteristic of his work and reflects the popular taste in residential architecture of the period. While more commonly used in freestanding houses, here the style is used to successful effect in a rowhouse design.
The 27 rowhouses are clustered in three groups with the fronts of the houses facing the streets and the rears facing a center garden divided by two alleyways, Each house has a small front yard enclosed by an iron fence. Each row of two-and-one-half-story red brick houses has two alternating house types, one with a peaked stuccoed gable, the other with a stepped gable. Paired stoops lined by railings lead to entrances with paneled double doors.
Above the doors are windows with diamond-paned sash set below dentil courses and stone lintels. Adjacent to each entrance is a two story, three-sided window bay. Square panels are placed below the windows. The sash at the second floor level are diamond paned, and the bay is surmounted by a dentil course and molding. The use of such sash and window bays is characteristic of the Colonial Revival style. At the attic story the gables are set in front of sloping roofs. .
The stuccoed, peaked gables have paired windows outlined by wood framing. The stepped gables have paired windows set below common arched tympana with foliate panels. Such stepped gables are based on Dutch Colonial sources, and their use adds an especially picturesque note to the design. The side walls of the end houses in the rows are pierced by rectangular window openings which have diamond-paned sash at the second floor. The walls terminate in stepped parapets, echoing the form of the front gables, at the roofline. The rears of the houses are visible from the alleyways. Each has a small brick-faced two-story win)', with a small entrance vestibule.
This picturesque group of houses is an excellent example of Colonial Revival design as adapted to rowhouse architecture. Designed by Hobart A. Walker, the houses are characteristic of his residential work. Built by the Pratt Institute to serve its expanding needs, the houses are still an important element of the Pratt Campus.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report