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Not just two beauties together, but I meant - 2 photos from a single shot: a close 'zoom-in', and a 'wideangle' - both from the long-ish 55mm end of the kit zoom. Even the 'wideangle' is cropped, 55mm is actually wider (see SooC) but I gave it some spherical distortion for that 'wide' look. As usual, I experimented with different corrections and processing for each one. What do you think?
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A pair of Northrop F-5N Tiger IIs from USMC Adversary Squadron VMFT-401 taxi out at MCAS Yuma to take part in a dissimilar air combat training display during the 2019 Air Show.
That's two Geminid meteors from two different images taken about 3 minutes apart. The longer streak was first.
It's NOT correct to call every meteor during the Geminid shower a "Geminid". The word Geminid implies that the meteor came from the vicinity of the constellation Gemini. Here you can easily see the two bright stars just to the left of the brightest object, the planet Jupiter - those are Castor and Pollux.
Draw lines through each "streak" and you'll notice that they intersect above one of the two brightest stars in Gemini (of course it helps to know the direction the meteors traveled!)
Other things in the shot you might spot include Orion just beneath the tree branch, and the bright star Sirius just rising to the left of the transmission tower.
Authentic certified Neapolitan Pizza, and more.
"VPN Americas is the American Delegation of the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, an international non-profit organization founded in the mid 1980's by a group of Neapolitan pizzaiolis (pizza makers) seeking to cultivate the culinary art of making Neapolitan pizza. On June 1984, the association was officially established as a denomination of control (DOC) by the Italian government, a designation that made the VPN a legal entity able to give special designation to pizzerias who meet strict requirements that respect the tradition of the art of Neapolitan pizza making."
10-366/2016
Trent Barton, ADL Enviro 200 MMC, 157 followed by sister 151 head for Ilkeston on the 'Two' service from Nottingham. This 10-minute service frequency was thrown into chaos due to the insane levels of Christmas traffic congestion along the route. This resulted in the clumping of buses and gaps in the service. A 50-minute gap had elapsed by the time these buses appeared, only to be followed by a third bus, 155 right behind. Unfortunately, there are no on-foot inspectors to regulate services these days, everything done by GPS location and radio communication, which doesn't seem to cut it when it gets this bad.
Interestingly, this was the second day of these buses operating on this service, their launch on this route being on Sunday 21st December 2025, ousting Volvo B8REs from 2015. The replacement 2020 ADLs have come from Kinchbus of Loughborough where they had been used on their Skylink service.
Additionally on the day of this photo, there were at least three stand-in buses working the route (Volvos 723, 747 & Versa 821); I don't know why that was? I did witnesses one of the ADLs (156) blowing off excess air pressure, sounding like an angry rattle-snake as it went down the road. It's never a good idea to mass change things outright before Christmas, it generally only adds to the seasonal chaos and frustrations for passengers and drivers alike.
Photo - Monday 22nd December 2025.
This photo is from an album Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918.
Elstner was my spouse's uncle.
While Uncle Elstner sometimes annotated photos that required an explanation, he never dated the pictures. So all we know is they were taken between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
Yesterday i sculpted the heart on the right. It´s the big sister of the one i have sculpted first. I love sculpting hearts.
Built between 1935 and 1937 as a WPA project, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Went out last night with Jo. I couldn't be bothered with dancing after a busy week last week and working late yesterday.
Two Victorian semidetached houses, the one on the right is "Fernle", the birthplace of Sir Stanley Spencer R.A.
Electric Drive
1.914 hp
2.300 Nm
0-100 sec : 1,97 sec
0-300 km/h : 11,8 sec
Vmax : 412 km/h
1.950 kg
Max 150 ex.
Battery : 120 kWh
Range : 650 km (NEDC)
88th Geneva International Motor Show
Internationaler Auto-Salon Genf
Suisse - Schweiz - Switzerland
March 2018
A Mid 50's Chrysler Powerflite and a 47 Chevrolet Fleetliner
Cooly Rocks On
Coolangatta .
Gold Coast
Two fifty pence pieces! I think I'm right in saying these were / are the world's first seven-sided coins .... shape, heptagon!
Flickr Lounge - Sunday Theme (Week 5) ~ Shapes ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
Two sides to me and my photography. The left side is my photo look. Smiley-ish with cool make up and hair all pretty (or so I tell myself) and the right side is how I look usually. None to little make up, hair tied back in a variety of 3 styles and just being normal really. Of course, most of you only see my glammed up version (except a few photos where I have no make up on)
I'll break it down - on the right side I have on no make up whatsoever. On the left side, I have on, mascara, eyeliner, blusher, lipstick and lipstick lock. The hair is natural on both sides and is pinned back in the middle and tied in a small bun on the right. Thats it :-)
26. I have a love/hate relationship with London.
Two Swans -19-6148
I achieved this effect by editing in the Nik Collection Color Efex 4 using, amongst others, the bleach bypass filter as adjusted by me.
This image may not be fine art or the best photo I've ever taken. It does contain two stories though. One, a story, story and the second a church story!
The story, story;
"Enter the Snaesfelljokull crater, which is kissed by Scatari's shadow before the first of July, adventurous traveller, and thou wilt descend to the centre of the Earth."
Journey to the centre of the Earth, Jules Verne. Well the mountain in the background is Snaefell and its Jokul (glacier)
Church Story.
This unusually black church dates from 1703. Built by locals it was not ordained until much recent times due to religious politics, Churches in Iceland are of two distinct flavours. This kind of traditional shape. But normally white with red, green or turf roofs (go to Hof for the later). Or they are more recent affairs made of concrete, large in size and of what I would describe as a look at me I'm the only church in the village style!
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Explore: July 15, 2012 # 166
These breakers are just north of Sunset Beach near Stanley Park in Vancouver. Look closely and you'll find two young women sitting on the rocks enjoying the sunset and the early evening. I used the HDR toning feature of PS in post for this image.
Building with two sets of large bay windows on Main Street in Towanda, Pennsylvania. I like the five decorative bricks near the top of the building.
Purple Gallinule ~ The most vividly colored bird in the wetlands.
Seven different colors. Florida Everglades
St Martin, Nacton, Suffolk
Nacton is one of a number of lovely villages in close proximity to Ipswich. And it really is close to town - I live near the centre of Ipswich and I can cycle out to Nacton church in twenty minutes. The village is scattered in a valley, with two great houses, Broke Hall and Orwell Park.
There are a couple of exciting 1960s modernist buildings as well, although the village does have the unenviable reputation of not having had a pub for a couple of centuries, thanks to the temperance tendencies of not just one but two major landowning families in the parish. Technically, the vast Shepherd and Dog on Felixstowe Road is within the bounds of Nacton parish, but it is not the kind of pub I expect many villagers would make the effort to get to when the smashing Ship Inn at neighbouring Levington is closer and more convivial.
The two great families were the Vernons and the Brokes. St Martin is in the grounds of Orwell Park, and a gateway in the wall shows where the Vernons used to come to divine service, but the Brokes must have arrived by road. Orwell Park today is a private school, and Broke Hall has been divided into flats, but St Martin still retains the memory of the great and the good of both families.
Externally, St Martin gives no indication of the early 20th Century treasures in store within. It only takes the sun to go in, and that rendered tower ends up looking like a grain silo, the colour of cold porridge. This is a pity, because on a sunny day there is something grand and imposing about it, especially with that pretty dormer window halfway along the nave roof. It gives a pleasing Arts and Crafts touch to the austerity of a building which was almost entirely rebuilt between 1906 and 1908 by Charles Hodgson Fowler. They'd actually been two dormers, and Fowler retained that on the south side. They had been installed in the 1870s by a budding medievalist, but there had been an earlier going-over by Diocesan architect Richard Phipson in 1859. Mortlock tells us that Fowler added the aisle, the organ chamber and vestry, the porch and the east window. The roofs and floors were also replaced. The small south transept survived from the earlier restoration, largely because it forms a memorial chapel to the Broke family of Broke Hall. Grand memorials record their miltary deeds, including captaining the Shannon when it captured the Chespeake during the American War of Independence.
The medieval font also survives, and is a good one, although perhaps a bit recut. Around the bowl, angels bearing carved shields alternate with symbols of the four evangelists.The wild men are striking, and the smiling lions are reminiscent of those you often find on Norfolk fonts of this type.
There are two image niches in one of the window embrasures, but otherwise this is almost entirely a Victorian and Edwardian interior, full of Brokes and Vernons. Their greatest legacy to St Martin has been the large range of stained glass which ultimately gives St Martin its character. It is interesting to compare the church to St Peter at Levington, a mile or so off. There, the church is simple and rustic; the difference that the money spent here has made is accentuated by a visit to both. But St Martin has been given a sober gravitas, a self-confidence that falls short of triumphalism.
There are some fragments of medieval glass surviving, including a fine shield of the Instruments of the Passion which may or may not have come from this church originally, But the glass in Fowler's north aisle is the star of the show. At the west end is a finely drawn 1913 Adoration of the Shepherds and Magi by Burlison & Grylls. The shepherds are lifted directly from the late 15th Century Portinari altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, today in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. The use of images from Northern European old masters was common practice for the workshop. To the east of it is a rather less successful window by By Christopher Powell, and believed to be his only work in Suffolk, depicting the three figures of the Sower, the Good Shepherd and St Martin. It is interesting to compare it with his similar window at Dersingham in Norfolk.
Next along is a memorial to the Pretyman family. Herbert Pretyman died in 1891, and when Fowler's aisle was complete in 1906 his widow installed the central light, a typically predestrian image of St George by Clayton & Bell. However, the two figures that flank it, St Michael as Victory and St Raphaeil (but actually St Gabriel, surely?) as Peace are something else again, tremendous images installed in 1920 to give thanks for the safe return of two Pretyman sons from the horror of the First World War. The angels are wise and triumphant, their feathered wings flamboyant. No one seems to know who they are by (it certainly isn't Clayton & Bell) and it would be interesting to know.
To the east again is a lancet of the Blessed Virgin and child by Kempe under the guiding hand of Walter Tower, and the Kempe/Tower partnership was also responsible for the east window, a not entirely successful collection of workshop cartoons of the crucifixion and Old Testament prophets. Beside it on the south side of the chancel is the earliest modern glass in the church, two post-resurrection scenes by William Wailes. The only other 19th Century window is on the south side of the nave, a chaotic assemblage of heraldic symbols from Broke family marriages, showing arms and crests over the generations. It dates from the 1860s, and is by Clayton & Bell.
When the church reopened in 1908, people were said to be delighted by the Anglo-catholic mood of the time which had been injected into the building. Outside, their ancestors lie beneath headstones that have been eroded and smoothed clean by the salty air that comes from the great river beyond the school. Hardly any of the 18th and early 19th century inscriptions are legible now. One exception is to a man who died in the middle years of the 19th century who fought at Traffalgar. This is as clearly read now as it was when Arthur Mee came this way in the 1930s.