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I captured this image up in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park near Danby during an early/ish morning visit. No sunrise light due to mist and fog!
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A Likay artist puts on his make-up backstage at a temple festival in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Likay is known for its outlandish colourful costumes. Long the main feature of rural temple festivals across Thailand, the popularity of the theatre form appears to be in decline - but nevertheless attracts a small group of diehard fans.
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Words seem to not want to work for me tonight. Trying to do a write up of BrickCon is challenging, because words can't convey the feeling of being around people with the same passion as you.
I met so many people, and hung out with so many more, I'm totally going to forget some names and faces, but I'll try my best.
To sum this year's Con up in a word: Excellent.
The whole of Team Jigsaw was there, including Nick, who traveled all the way from NZ to hang out for the weekend.
Getting to chill with people you've known online for three years in real life is awesome. Many laughs were had, team speed builds were lost by mere minutes, and builds were assembled and reassembled due to the horror that is air travel.
It was an honor gentlemen, until next year, when we conquer the East coast!
The honorary member of Team Jigsaw known as Simon Liu was also in attendance with his frogSHIP, and multitudes of frogpods.
It was great to finally meet you in person Simon, after all the hours of talking and building and generally making fools of ourselves on the interwebz.
Your spaceship and other random HUB items will be displayed on my build shelf, right alongside my shiny new awards!
Yes awards. I had the great honor of bringing home not only one award, but two. One from the Mecha tables, and one from the Bricks of Character table.
So a huge thank you goes out to Iain and Tommy for making me feel so welcome at the BoC table over the Con weekend, and not shunning my year old Little Red to the corner of the tables. Looking forward to seeing Y'all next year!
Then we have the HUB, or HUG, depending on the lateness of the hour.
There were so many people in the HUB that I'm not going to be able to name all of them. Keith, Mike, Gil, Pascal, Breann, Ryan, Simon, Chris, Will, Josh, Andrew, Mark, Nick, Aaron, Sam, the list goes on and on.
All of you guys were gentlemen, builders, and scholars. Wingmen to the last man. I hope we'll all have the chance to join forces and conquer a different con at some point. I hear Texas is great this time of year.
The dregs of BroLUG were also in attendance this year. Big shout-out to Forest and Nick D for giving me the chance to cruise with them, and exchange witticisms, or slightly less than witticisms in my case.
Hope to get out to your guys' side of the country next year for BrickFair!
I'll only be able to lay down a short sentence for you Bruce, since I really only exchanged handshakes and a few words. It was pretty humbling having my work recognized by a builder who I've always seen as way out of my league, and I've got my fingers crossed that at some point in the near future, we'll be able to do a bit more talking about the hobby.
The two people who I owe the most laughs to over the weekend is probably Victor and Maggie, or Mr. and Mrs. EclipseGrafx.I can't tell you guys how great it was to see you guys and get the chance to talk again! You two have been such big supporters of Team Jigsaw, it's hard to put to words how much that support means to me.
Can't wait to see you guys, whenever that may be!
And last but not least...
The Brothers (and sister) Brick.
I've run into you guys online for years, always being slightly in awe of the fact that you were bloggers for TBB. But getting to spend some time with you guys over the weekend really struck it home that you're not only incredible builders, but you're also welcoming and humble. My hat is off to each and every one of you!
Overall, I could not have asked for a better crowd of people to hang out with, and share my passion for LEGO with.
I hope to see you guys next year!!
A nice looking UP ACe trails at the rear of a eastbound stack train, passing the new control point in Wheaton, IL. UP can't seem to make up their mind on what to name this, they've already changed the name three times! First it was Wheaton, then College, and now it's University! We'll see how many weeks until UP changes the name again! Haha
Grass fire on the side of the road burning up the cut bank to the trees. Penn Valley FD and Cal Fire were on it right away so it didn't spread far.
Turns out this train got to me about 45 seconds too late for the sun. Since I was already in the air, I figured I’d go ahead and shoot it.
SD70AH-T4 looking a little like every other piss brick in the UP fleet. Knew it wouldn’t last forever.
If you see any puppies floating around in the sky... please let me know. ;)
I've been meaning to post this for some time now. I took it back in the middle of August. It's taken me that long to put it together and post it. Ahh well. Such is life!
Black and white version of Up!- My neice Madaline and nephew Aiden play in the waves in the Outer Banks, NC 2007. Link to the original here, which do you like better? www.flickr.com/photos/14781202@N04/1548179572/
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my new packaging set-up. Blogged about the details here: vol25.typepad.com/vol25/2009/03/i-promised-pictures.html
I've been meaning to upload this follow-up picture for a while now!
It shows XOU525V, a Kenworth K series operated by John Golding Heavy Haulage of Wotton-under-Edge, Glos, with a fairly wide 8-wheeled trailer now seen with its tracked crane load aboard.
I'm fairly sure this is an ex Pickfords Scheurle 16-wheeled drawbar trailer converted to semi-trailer spec.
A photograph taken by Joe Sullivan, now in my collection.
UP 3201 leads the westbound Granite Job. The UP recieved this train this morning from the BNSF in Cheyenne, and they take it to a location west of Cheyenne called Granite (you can probably figure out why). It usually takes about 8 or 9 hours to get the job done.
I must say, it's pretty cool seeing an old vet SD40-2 leading newer GE locomotives.
UP Laramie Subdivision
West of Cheyenne, WY M.P. 527
11/14/2013
A71 notches up around the corner into Allansford with a late running 9203 DOWN Warrnambool Goods - 23/9/2013
I realized I never took a 'face to face' comparison picture of these girls when I was making Pajelle, so here one is :)
"Uh, mom...need a little help here. Mom? MOM?!" A USGS grizzly bear researcher snapped this picture of a mother grizzly bear and her cub at Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Adult females are the most important segment of the grizzly bear populations because they are the reproductive engine.​ Learn more about the importance of grizzlies and other large carnivores and how USGS is vital to this research area​ at usgs.gov/norock.
Photo credit: Frank van Manen​, ​USGS
Anyone feel like a building challenge? How about this:
Seed parts: 3x www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=57906 Any color.
www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2340 Any color.
No specific theme or genre, just build :)
And that's it :) I think I'll try to get something together, I'm not sure what though...
I must confess that this recent trip in the Chimanimanis was probably one of the most physically challenging that I have done. All my "no-*£$%^&-way" sensors were maxed out on a few occasions. Boy was I confronted with the fact that I have not been 36 years for quite some time now :-)
It didn't turn out to be an exciting sunrise this morning. The sun came up for a couple of minutes and was then stuck behind the thickest lot of clouds for hours. The swell was up though along with the westerly wind. So I managed to get this wicked close-out with plenty of spray while the sun showed its colours for a few moments. I'm used to shootin the waves in daylight with a shutter speed of over 1000 to capture the speed with detail. This was shot at a shutter speed at 250 which was the highest I could go due to the low light.
On a dreary afternoon in Echo Canyon, a massive westbound K-Line stack train drifts downgrade by the I-80 rest area.
Back along Grassmarket, up Patrick Geddes Steps to Johnstone Terrace and then back down Upper Bow to Victoria Terrace where this view greets you.
3.2 secs / f/8 / 14mm / ISO100 / -0.66 EV
oooooohhhhh-miss green-wake up- we are going to miss the dolly challenge-its all happening over at the blog world of lori-from faerie window-
For the last few years Dubai has been a playground for architects from all around the world, a place where they could come up with outlandish ideas that might actually be built. This fact becomes really obvious when you’re on the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa looking down at Dubai’s main highway, Sheikh Zayed Road. On both sides of the highway there are huge buildings, each with its own architectural style, sometimes not looking quite good next to each other as a whole.
For me, although they were some of the first tall buildings built in Dubai, the Emirates Towers still remain the most beautiful ones out there. The two towers are visible at the top-right of the image (the two buildings facing each other with very sharp angles at the top). Do you have any particular favourite building in Dubai?
To view the blog entry go to: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/?p=2743