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This design is my rendition of Jim Garrett's MOC (www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/24322330618). I stumbled on it online a while back and immediately recognised how effectively it had been captured in Lego. The original was brick-built, and I was only able to find two low-res photos, but a few hours later in Stud.io and this is what I came up with.
The Frazi-class Heavy Fighter was briefly seen several times in Babylon 5, often used in scouting and intelligence gathering missions.
This is one of my go-to workout songs that really helps push me to my limits and gets a lot out. I think there’s a lot of truth in the last set of lyrics… life’s not always going to be a smooth and easy road, and I think I’ve learned so much more from when I got burned than when I had it easy…
Song: Primal Scream
By: Motley Crue
Theme: Power In Words
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
I use to think I almost hated photographing people, but that was before I started photographing people - and a long time ago. Making people look good is becoming an addiction. I just want to keep learning and then practicing - rinse and repeat. This is so fun.
Subject standing about 10 feet away from matte black wall.
Lumopro180 directly in front of subject up high in shoot through umbrella at 1/4 or 1/2 power.
Alien Bees 1600 totally bare on the floor balanced on a water bottle pointing almost straight up; with a slight angle toward wall. Blasting at 3/4 power.
This shot made in Dunoon, UK in September 2010.
Nikon D300s
Tokina 11-16/2.8
Singh-Ray Daryl Benson 3stop reverse GND
Benro tripod
Nikon Capture NX2
Photoshop CS5
This is a derelict Delorean that is now setting beside a wood pile near Duffield, VA. The car is pretty much complete, but is full of leaves. At least its not going to rust away.
This big male lion known as Simbeo to the rangers was in a near by field with a female lioness probably involved in mating which in lions last for hours.....as this male lion was not far away from M2-SAM probably that was the reason why it was roaring...the lion has a fixed stare into something at distance..while the female was lying in the tall grass.....
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
nocache.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/southern/articles/20...
The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
This place used to pump all the sewage out of London during the victorian age. It was built after the "Great Stink" of 1858 and was operational up until the 1950's. During it's time it was an engineering marvel as well as featuring some beautiful ironwork that you can see in the Octagon here. It was derelict for decades but has been partially restored recently and you can see one of the steam pumps in operation on one of their open days.
This was the most huge and amazing booth!! just loved everything!! and all perfection! the bad part is that everything was SD sized!! >_<"""
Although the weather was not particularly rough, the waves were still crashing up against the rocks.
This is one of about a half dozen wild horses we came across in the paramo at very high elevation (about 12,000 feet) in the Andes near Cerro de Arcos.
This one was photographed in Ecuador guided by Neotropic Photo Tours.
This was a couple weeks ago, it's a bit faded, but I really like it. I'll Probably stick with this one for a while. :) All colors are Special Effects brand except the blue, which is also what is mixed with the pink to make that purple in the back. The blue is Raw.
» The 100 Bicycles project: 100 different bicycles photographed in detail. This is bicycle number 40.
To learn more about this project see the 100bicycles group.
complete album: click here
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
fun day shooting in Rotterdam with Suus
This week has been extremely productive! I've taken all my rolling stock and converted it into box cars! Also creating a new single truck. I've used up heaps of tiles and bricks into making all of these and have tried to include more detail than previously. The wagons include: 1x cattle wagon and 4x fish wagons (1x 9V powered wagon). I also had the time to WIP up a decent size LMS brake van, which I'm very happy with :) I'll post some nicer photos of the wagons and brake van soon!
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Monthly Scavenger Hunt - May '08
Headache
Advil.
The pack tells me they're supposed to help relieve muscle pain, (endured thanks to my efforts in taking my Day 103 photos).
The pack lied! :-p
This is my "something medical" shot for the 365+1 Group scavenger hunt.
This was the best I could do without trespassing and was taken from the road outside, and the Coach has recently pitched up here following the recent Closure of Taylors Coach Travel of Thanet, though I'm not sure about the Electric Bus yet.
This ten meter high sculpture of a kissing couple in Delftish Blue was made by Saske van der Eerden in 2017. It's a very large copy of a famous souvenir from the Netherlands. It's standing in Amsterdam-Westpoort next to the Noordzeekanaal. Seen here from the other side of the canal.
This is the first time I have ever been able to get a shot of one of these sitting on a post like this and it was a grey, grey morning and against the light
✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/1SCJIbo
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Hello! This is me 😊 have a wonderful Sunday everyone (📷 my Eloise)
by @jannelford on Instagram.
Fred is Billy's second cousin, twice removed.
He is also a frog.
Fred the Frog.
He is also Kermit the Frog's lesser know brother.
Pepe's, too. They're all brothers, separated at birth.
He does not do much.
Frogs are amphibians.
Just an interesting fact for you about frogs.
What do you mean you already knew that?
A common fact?
Dang...
Well, this is awkward.
Anyway!
I encourage you to make Fred.
So does Billy.
#BillyPresident2020
This is the imagine in my mind. March Hare, Alice and Hatter, from left to right. Now, the girls need face up and dresses!
This group of students was on a tour of Gettysburg. From the tall tower at Culp's Hill I captured a tilt/shift image of them making them look like scale-sized people.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 T/S wide open
This Wall Mural at American Legion Pasadena Post 280 was created with the help of volunteers from LA Works in 2017.
Pasadena/Los Angeles; April 2022
This emblem is designed to represent Poitier and is found on the Gare d'Austerlitz as the station used to have trains travel to the city.
Want to learn more? Go to www.eutouring.com/gare_d_austerlitz_train_station.html
This photo was shot before the Dolomites June 2015 photo workshop. See more workshops here www.hanskrusephotography.com/Hans-Kruse-Photo-Workshops/W...
This is a video of bike ride i did yesterday up a mountain called Meall an Uillt Chreagaich which is about 2850 feet high in the Cairngorms. I started in Glen Feshie, which is a stunning place and full of heather at the moment. Then i headed up the track to the top of the mountain and now i'm knackered!
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this is the last day with my mother for now.
I'm taking the train back to the southwest coast around 7pm.
we're spending this wonderful afternoon outside with the sun and the blue sky.
This comes from the Edmonton Valley Zoo's Festival of light. They put on exhibits using lights as the focal point of the show. This was my favorite exhibit as the cold light of this piece brings out the details in the snow and sculpture, while also creating deep shadows as well. Merry Christmas Eve!
This full day in Spokane was a busy day for us. We started by exploring the amazing Manito Park, which has a many smaller gardens in it. Although the Japanese Gardens were the highlight, we also visited the Rose Garden, their conservatory, as well as other places. From there, being on the search for autumn colour, we thought the Spokane arboretum would be even more amazing, but it wasn't. Still, a lovely park, but so close to the I90, you could hardly hear yourself think. We finished the day in downtown Spokane, just wandering about. Inspired by our visit to Chicago, we just walked into buildings that interested us and explored them as far as we could (the Paulson Medical and the Fox Theatre), but didn't actually get too far. We ended the day with a nice drink and ginormous appetizer at the lobby bar of the Historic Davenport - we just couldn't resist another round of poking about there.
This tranquil scene of 40 years ago might stir considerable nostalgia.
Ä°stanbul in 1976 was peaceful, safe and - interesting. Very interesting. Imagine my great surprise when asked - by a teller at the bank where I was changing money - "What do you think of white Americans?"
(Eartha Kitt, the great African-American singer and actress, might have remarked, "Oh, those Turks!"
(Miss Kitt recorded a classic Turkish folk song, "Kâtıbim," in 1953; it is known in the U.S. as "Uska Dara (A Turkish Tale);" "Uska Dara" = Üsküdar'a, as in" Üsküdar'a gider iken." A "YouTube" audio is here. A "YouTube" clip of a 1967 television performance is here. Also of interest: "Üsküdar Vapurunda "Katibim" Sürprizi.")
Nostalgia aside, this photograph belies the political atmosphere of the times. The first "Nationalist Front" cabinet (Milliyetçi Cephe Hükûmetleri), a four-party coalition government organized by Süleyman Demirel during 1975, would collapse during 1977. Demirel's "Second Nationalist Front" cabinet (2. Milliyetçi Cephe Hükûmeti) would last for an even shorter interval . . .
In that era, pre-Internet, pre-social media (e.g. Twitter), a visitor who did not read the news might have come to Ä°stanbul, stayed for a few days and then departed, all the while remaining blissfully unaware of Turkey's ongoing political turmoil.
UPDATE: I made the original scan of this image with the scanner set for too low of a resolution. I've made a "rescan" and uploaded it above (2021 October 27).
1976 August 4.
This is a scan of an original kodachrome slide. It was scanned with an Epson Pro V750, and finished up with very minor post processing work in Photoshop.
The original comes from my own slide collection, which contains both my own photos and those acquired over the past forty or so years collecting.
The uploading of the material in this Flickr collection is just for the purpose of sharing the pictures with people who may find them of interest. Comments are welcomed.
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This 1977 Leyland National was delivered to Maidstone & District as their 3566. In the run-up to the privatisation of the National Bus Company it passed to the new Hastings & District Transport and numbered 366. It is in this guise it is seen in Luton, Bedfordshire, on 21 February 1988 on hire to London Country North East and working their route from Stevenage. This bus has been preserved, albeit with a Volvo engine.
This is definitely my favourite piece from the Re-Ment Sailor Moon cafe set. It looks good enough to gobble right up! Surprisingly, this is the only Re-Ment cherry pie I have... almost everything else is strawberries!
This Renault Premium truck from Hungary, was parked at a cash and carry supermarket near Calais. The truck was operated by Csősz Trans, based in the town of Felsőzsolca, located to the immediate east of the city of Miskolc in north-eastern Hungary.
Marck, Pas-de-Calais, France
This big 2.5" wide belt is great for warming a lad's arse ... it gets the arse cheeks well reddened in preparation for a good whippin with one of my heavy oak bark belts.
This time I present a small collection based on beautiful fabrics lace, that got thanks to my beautiful friend Machelle!
This is a series of shots of a young orangutan trying to learn the skill of swinging through a tree. Follow the #s of the images and you will see his journey. I hope you love the expressions on his face as much as I do. This is the end of the series and the end of his harrowing journey down the branches of the tree. Please do look at the earlier posts and by numbers if you have time.