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SPEC
Frame:*FAIRWEATHER* track BLUE LUG CUSTOM PAINT by COOK PAINT WORKS
STEM:*NITTO* technomic stem
Handle:*NITTO* b355 kite bar
Head set:*CHRIS KING*
Wheels:*GRAN COMPE* small track hub × *H PLUS SON* archetype rim
Tire:*FAIRWEATHER* for traveler tire
Brakes:*DIA-COMPE* brs 101 road brake
Crankset:*FAIRWEATHER* CX crankset
SADDLE:BROOKS* swallow chrome
Grip:*BL SELECT* old fashion grip
Pedal:*MKS* pambda
February 20, 2024. Where the tracks cross the side road, just outside town, as seen on my daily walk. It wasn't quite as dark as depicted here but I wanted to emphasize the clouds and the afternoon sunset. Today was another full day working on my literature review; it's almost done and really is in the process of final crafting. Four days till the first spring training ball game.
HMS Tracker is an Archer-class (P2000) patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy. Along with the batch 2 Archer class, HMS Raider, Tracker is part of the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron based at HMNB Clyde.
Tracker is one of sixteen 20-metre, 54-tonne P2000 patrol craft operated by the Royal Navy. She is constructed from glass-reinforced plastic. As a "batch 2" vessel, Tracker has a sustainable top speed of 24 knots, faster than her batch 1 sister ships due to her more powerful turbocharged MTU diesels; she can exceed 24 knots in suitable sea conditions. Both Raider and Tracker operate in the force protection role, providing maritime security for high value shipping in the Firth of Clyde, and are armed with three general purpose machine guns.
Tracker commissioned alongside her sister Raider in January 1998, with Tracker replacing Oxford University Royal Naval Unit's previous training craft, Loyal Chancellor. She served with Oxford University Royal Naval Unit for sea-based training of both students and regular personnel in UK and European waters. In October 2012 both Tracker and Raider joined the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron.
I regret never riding this frame. Sold on eBay for the prices of the Inflated Track Bike Scandal of 2007 as it will be known in 5 years.
this is the track we were faced with on day 5 of the hike. high altitudes are not for the faint-hearted.
new zealand, south island - 2009/2010
Rail track repair at the Korntal station. Photographed with a Minolta MD 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens on Fujifilm Provia 100F (RDPIII), Camera body: X-700
I’m starting to better understand the variables involved in soap bubble macros. And there are lots of variables. Lens focal length. Amount of extension tubes. Angle of shooting. Distance between camera and bubble. Size of the bubble. Age of the bubble. Static bubble or wind blown. Liquid recipe (varying amounts of water, dish soap, and glycerin). On and on. Endless experimentation.
This bubble is pretty small - perhaps about 1 inch in height. It was created in the bottom of a plastic 35mm film canister (you remember those, right?), so it has a base diameter of about 1.25 inches. Shot with a 100mm macro lens coupled with a 36mm extension tube. The bubble is nearing the end of its life cycle, and will soon dry out and bust.
Pygmy Rabbits are a tiny rabbit, the smallest in the world, that live exclusively in Sagebrush thickets in the Great Basin and Intermountain regions of the west. They are becoming very rare and this population along the Utah-Wyoming border in the Bear River valley is the only one in Utah I know about, although I have also seen them farther east in southern Wyoming. They also are unique in being the only native North American lagomorph to dig their own burrows.
Grand Central Terminal is a place I could spend the whole day in. The architecture, old beauty and buzz in the air are a photographer's dream.
Texture Tuesday using Kim Klassen's "Framed" texture.
Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia (ED and BC) Railway grade, north of Sexsmith, Alberta 1920. Note the poles used as ties. It appears that track repair is in progress. The passengers are watching the process as Eng. No. 23 waits in the background. Photo courtesy Provincial Archives of Alberta (PA18315).
"During World War II, Japanese built railways in the border territory of Thailand and Burma and in Sumatra. For these constructions they recruited prisoners of war (POW) and Asian civilians, known as the Romushas.
The life and work conditions of these forced laborers were very miserable. More than 60,000 POWs, among them 18,000 Dutch, worked on the 414 kilometers long railway in Burma. About 20% of this number of people died during the construction. Around 6,500 POWs, most of them Dutch, were recruited for the railway construction in Pekanbaru. One third of these did not make it until the end of the war. According to experts, 80% to 90% of 100,000 Javanese forced laborers in Pekanbaru and 160,000 Romushas in Birma died during the construction of the railways at both places.
More than fifty years later, Jan Banning tried to trace survivors of the railway constructions. The result of it is the "Tracks of War", which consists of a series of photos and text of 24 survivors who worked as forced laboreres in one of those railway constructions. Jan Banning photographed 16 Dutch and Eurasian survivors and 8 former Romushas, now living in Sumatra and Java.
During the conversation and photo session, Jan Banning led these men back to their lives during the war. They are photographed in the way they worked those days: stripped to the waist."
This is a quote from a poster at the exhibition which launched yesterday at the Fotogalerie Rotterdam, Conradstraat (backside of the Groothandelsgebouw). The show will be up through June 2nd, 2010.