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This was a test shot with my latest aquisition a Fuji GX680 MkII using a 125mm lens (with full upward shift) and using Agfa's Rollei Retro 80S 120 film with this frame rated at ISO200. The exposure would have been 1/125 sec at f20. I had used the full upward shift available on the camera to negate the effect of my shooting 'uphill' and enabling me to keep the camera level. I was very pleased with this as the image exhibits no vignetting at all so can assume that the lens has an even greater coverage than that required to cover the full range of available movements on the camera.
The film was exposed at various ISO's from it's nominal ISO80 up to this ISO200 frame. This frame was the best of those exposed and still shows that when developed as this was using the Caffenol CL formula (500mls distilled water, 8g Sodium Carbonate, 5g Vitamin C, 0.6g Potassium Bromide and 20g of Tesco's Really Rich Roast Coffee) at 21 degrees C for 65 minutes using a semi-stand technique after a 5 minute water bath the developer was introduced with 30 secs continuous agitation initially, then 3 further inversions after a further 2 mins, 4 mins, 8 mins, 16 mins and a final stage of 34.5 mins before discarding the developer, this was followed by 3 water washes before a 5 minute fix in an Alkali fixer. The film was finally washed for 5 minutes with continuous agitation using fresh water changes every 30 seconds before being dried in my film dryer.
First impressions of the negatives were that they looked a 'bit heavy' and suspect that even with the ISO200 frame there is a little scope for going a bit higher. The negatives also look overdeveloped and the frame numbers back this up by being very 'black and fuzzy'. The biggest surprise for me though was the amount of curl that the film had, this was further brought to light as a definite disadvatage of this film as it was a real PITA to try to get to lay nicely in the film holder's of my Epson V750 scanner. Fortunately I have purchased the 'Better Scanning' MF film holder for my scanner with 2 pieces of AN glass which by inserting the film upside down in the holder and using the AN glass to flatten enabled a decent scan to take place. The image was flipped back to the correct orientation in PP. The very pleasing attributes of this film though do give hope for it's use when developed this way as it has excedingly fine grain and a beautiful tonal range.
The image was scanned at a resolution of 6400dpi using the Vuescan software (also my first time of using this as I usually use SilverFast AI Studio V8) and the image has only had some USM applied in PP, the image is other wise as 'shot and scanned'.
So where do I go from here, I am going to try some more Rollei Retro 80S (particularly as I have another 4 rolls in the fridge) but will rate it at ISO250, I will also reduce the dev time in Caffenol CL by 10% keeping everything else the same.
It is a pity that the film has this awful curl as It would make a really great 'day to day film, especially with it's bias towards Red (which has been well documented) giving an effect of having an Orange filter on your lens and bringing out the Blue tone of the sky in a very natural way. I am hoping the film curl will reduce after being flattened for a while under a pile of books.
Today's deal of the day is this used Cannondale R800 road bike, ca. 2001/02.
It is in superb condition spec'd with full Ultegra components and at 52cm in size it is perfect for a young cyclist new to road biking.
The price tag is only $500.
Used Cannondale R800
52cm frame
Ultegra deraileurs
Ultegra Flightdeck brake / shift levers
Ultegra brakes
Ultegra Crankset (53/39)
Mavic Classic Elite hubs and rims (w/straight pull spokes)
If you'd like to adopt this bicycle you can swing by the Elmore Cycle & Fitness anytime (M-F 10-6 / Sat 9-3) or call us at 419-862-1000
Other used bikes in stock:
$1299 Laser Blue X3 USX Recumbent Trike (like new!)
$250 Black Fuji Allegro road bike 62cm
$200 Nishiki Tamarack 20" (like new!)
$200 Giant Farrago Hybrid 18" (w/ Rack and Computer)
$125 Mongoose Menace BMX bike 20"
$125 Diamondback Outlook 24" kids mountain bike
I had more or less decided that I was switching from expensive DSLRs to using the Sony NEX-7 [and whatever replaced it] as the camera that I would use for street photography. I was hoping to upgrade from the NEX-7 to the A7R but while I might be able to afford the body this side of Christmas there is no way that I could afford a set of suitable lenses within a reasonable time period.
At the end of May I got the opportunity to purchase a Sigma DP3 Merrill at €399.00 including delivery to Dublin so based on a number of reviews I decided to take a gamble and purchase one. I had to wait almost two months and I was about to cancel the order but it arrived a few days ago and I got a chance to test it today.
There is no doubting the fact that the DP3 Merrill is very different to anything that I have used to date [including the original DP1 or DP2] and while I am glad that I got it there are many issues. The main problem is battery life, there is no way that 45 photographs per charge is acceptable. The second problem is that Adobe Lightroom does not recognise the output from the DP3 Merrill [I only shoot in RAW] so one must use the software that is supplied by Sigma. Sigma Photo Pro is not as bad as some may have you believe but in my case I am not at all keen to add another stage to the process.
The third problem is that I am really limited to shooting at ISO100 so it is a waste of time shooting in poor light and there is plenty of that here in Dublin.
The Sigma DP3 uses an excellent 50mm f/2.8 prime lens which is the equivalent of a 75mm optic on a 35mm camera. The lens design features ten elements in eight groups, and there's a seven-bladed aperture diaphragm. Focusing is possible to as close as 8.9 inches (22.6cm), and maximum magnification is 1:3 (0.33x). There's no image stabilisation which may make the camera less suitable for street photography.
How to send or receive a fax with a mirror... and some other gear.
I rarely use fax, and the last fax machine I used was over 15 years ago. On the rare instances I need to send or receive a fax, I use my computer with a Zoom USB fax modem that connects into a phone outlet.
Problem is, I haven't had a dedicated phone line either in over a decade – my land line is VOIP through my cable company (Comcast).
So to send or receive faxes I have to connect my computer to my Zoom fax modem, then connect it with a phone cable to my Comcast cable modem, which is stuck in a corner close to the wall, and is hard to access.
So my solution is a mirror pinned on the wall that lets me see my phone line, which I can pull out to temporarily connect my fax line.
Sony A7RM2 + Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M
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We used the portable toilets outside the little information building in Hartland, then found out that the information building was open and had toilets. Oh, well. But I really took the picture for my sister-in-law Patty...
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ParalympicsGB Athlete, Jonathan Broom-Edwards aged 33, from Colchester, wins gold in the High Jump T64 - Men event, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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ParalympicsGB Table Tennis athlete, Joshua Stacey aged 21, from Cardiff, competing in the Singles Class 9 - Men event, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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Mike Ver Steeg, a Northwest Iowa Farmer, holds a laptop computer in a field near his farm recently. Ver Steeg and other farmers are using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Blogger to tell people about their lives on the farm.
Click here for the rest of the story: www.iowafarmbureau.com/fullarticle.aspx?artid=25865
Here's another article on Mike.agwired.com/2009/04/07/farmer-tweets/
You can follow him on Twitter - www.twitter.com/foodprovider here: @foodprovide
I usually despair of using that otherwise invaluable site Bus Lists on the Web to identify any vehicle built before the era of year-suffix registration numbers. However, a couple of educated guesses and I found it by chassis number on only the third page I opened. New to Potteries Motor Traction in October 1960, it was a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Weymann front-entrance lowbridge bodywork seating 73. The photograph would have been taken on Saturday 3rd March 1979, probably in Hanley, but perhaps somewhere along the mile-and-a-half walk from Stoke Station. I quite liked these early Atlanteans, with their boxy, no-frills bodies. In some indefinable way Atlanteans ceased to be interesting when they went over to the AN68 model.
We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn't affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn't materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
You May notice discrepancies in the spelling of some Spanish words or names, this is because Valencian is used on signs, in some guide books and maps. There are two languages in common use with distinct differences. There may also be genuine mistakes - it has been known!
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.
so many of you guys been asking for an example.
here it is. pretty nice isn't it?? lovely light!! and this is a RAW picture, no photoshoping :)
Strobist info: Beauty dish on right 45* degree, and a rim light on left
i used two SB-28 with youngnu chinese trigger thing.
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a crackdown on the illegal use of e-bikes in New York City on Thursday October 19, 2017. Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography Office.
Using a Hasselblad 203FE and a CF 150mm F4 lens, shot at F5.6 on a tripod and cable release.
Film used: Provia 100F, developed using Tetenal E6 3 bath kit.
Lighting was a Nikon SB24 powered beauty dish above the model and SB24 powered 30cm softbox below, synced using off-camera radio triggers.
Using lyrics from their first dance song and Elizabeth Hartman's Refrigerator Magnet pattern, I made Jake and Kali's wedding quilt! Blogged here: www.esposetta.com/blog/2015/3/30/jake-and-kalis-wedding-q...
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Delta Lloyd, skippered by Roberto Bermudez (ESP) at the start of leg 7 from Boston to Galway
The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain, on 4 October 2008, it will, for the first time, take in Cochin, India, Singapore and Qingdao, China before finishing in St Petersburg, Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles, visiting 11 ports over nine months, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews.
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By Tom Butler for Gibson Puzzles, G7029.
1000 pieces, used and complete.
27 x 19 in.
695 x 490 mm.
From the base of the box:
"THE ARTIST
Tom Butler's early years included achieving a 1st class honours degree in Illustration at Swansea University following which, he set out on a career in the commercial art world.
It was during a holiday in southern France that he became inspired by the character filled small towns and villages of the Gard and Provence regions. Tom's studies of his surroundings attracted the attention of local galleries who quickly seized the opportunity to display his paintings in their front windows.
This region of France is well known as an artist's delight, but for Tom the real allure is the textures of the buildings themselves. The crumbling masonry, the sun weathered layers of paint or a fading 'advertisement', the shutters, doors, awnings and umbrellas.
Tom has successfully exhibited his artworks at many galleries and exhibitions and they are to be found on wall art, greetings cards, tableware and now jigsaw puzzles!
THE PAINTING
The London scene on a Sunday morning is very different from the hustle and bustle of the working week. It's relaxed and more intimate, it sometimes feels like a village rather than a great big city. A walk down the south bank, a stroll across Trafalgar Square, a meander through St James's Park, or a browse of the stalls in Covent Garden; it's the perfect place to spend a lazy Sunday."
I used to develop Delta 100 in DDX. Having no access to fresh DDX + a few more feet of Delta 100 in a bulk loader, I shot the film at rated ISO to test the Chiyoko Super Rokkor 45/2.8 lens and developed in Diafine.
Used to bell out ends of copper tubing to make a slip joint when reconnecting the evaporator. Kit also contains a flaring tool but this is not used for any Monitor Top work. Had this kit not been available, I would have used commercially made joiners. Note that copper tube used for refrigeration is not the same as that used for domestic plumbing. Refrigeration tubing is dehydrated and filled with nitrogen when manufactured. Sizing is also different with sizes referring to outside diameter rather than inside.
Quillow made for my Mother-in-Law in about 1998. Photo taken after years of use! Also a Margaret Rolfe pattern.
Thanks to Hayley Schroeder for her use of this picture in her valuable blog article for the University of Georgia on efforts to halt the disappearance of Monarch butterflies!
Here's her great story!
athensscienceobserver.com/2016/12/25/a-matter-of-milkweed/
The value of making our pictures available to others through Creative Commons is thus demonstrated. . . . .
This wonderful wildflower on which the Monarch butterfly is so dependent is again being appreciated, instead of being routinely eradicated as a WEED along highways and other public places. This was seen at the Asheville Botanical Gardens, but thanks to many such places, Common Milkweed is again being propagated and the word is getting around that this tall plant should be more widely grown. The North Carolina Arboretum, also in Asheville, has a major educational program about Monarch butterflies and promotes the growing of milkweed to help feed them. The Arboretum also demonstrates the banding of the tiny butterflies in order to track their migration--fascinating!
www.monarchwatch.org/milkweed/prop.htm
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Wikipedia (re Monarchs):
"In North America, the monarch ranges from southern Canada through northern South America. It has also been found in Bermuda, Cook Islands, Hawaii, Cuba and other Caribbean islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, the Azores, the Canary Islands, South Africa, Gibraltar, Philippines, North Africa and Honolulu. It appears in the UK in some years as an accidental migrant."
Milkweed is a very interesting plant, as I learn from looking at Wikipedia!
"Asclepias species produce some of the most complex flowers in the plant kingdom, comparable to orchids."
Watching a Southbound freight the other night, this well-worn workhorse caught my eye among a cut of BNSF grain cars. This color green used to be commonplace among freights but it seems nowadays they get to be a little scarce, not as rare as finding an L&N or Clinchfield, but scarce nonetheless. Photo taken June 2nd, 2020 at Carrell Rd., just to the North of Bucyrus.
My photo uses light to create a sense of peacefulness in the photo. The inside of the bridge is dark and seems scary while the outside is bright and glows. This shows that although something might be dark and hopeless, at the end, there is something bright with hope.
I placed myself on the side where I could see the unique shapes of the bridge and the outsides bright light. I wanted an angle that would show the area around the bridge too. I had too bent down so that I could get a view of the ground in the photo too. i edited it so that I could get the many unique colors to pop out. I lightened the greens and darkened the bridge a little bit more so that it would somewhat contrast the other colors.
In 1863, Ramsgate Harbour station opened, and over time was a heavily used station. Only problem was that the town was served by two rival companies, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway had their main station here. Access to the station was via a tunnel nearly a mile long and a downward gradient of 1:75, in addition to the steepness of the line and danger of runaway trains, space at the bottom was very limited, with only space for a small turntable, so only small tank locomotives could be used.
Under rationalisation on Thanet in 1926, this and the Margate Beach branch was closed, and the main line linking the two networks completed, Ramsgate Town station being moved to facilitate this.
An electric narrow gauge railway was constructed before the war, and run until 1965 when another accident resulted in closure.
Since 1965, the tunnel had been sealed, but urban explorers did break in and left graffiti everywhere.
Prior to the Second World War, a series of tunnels were constructed for use as air raid shelters, and it is these which the tours now operating are taken along.
The main railway tunnel still has soot on the roof over where the up line would have been, and in places you can see where the sleepers for the narrow gauge railway was lifted.
The shelter tunnels run for over a mile, and had many different entrances, though all are now blocked up, and some of the tunnels have collapsed.
The tunnels dug were in a U shape and had room for thousands to shelter in bunks each night, and although when opened were seen as a waste of money, were very much needed at the end of 1940 as the Blitz began to bite.
People even lived down in the tunnels if their house was bombed, pre=fabricated wooden frames were used, draped with curtains or other fabric.
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The Herne Bay & Faversham Railway company was founded in 1857. In 1859 it became the Margate & London Railway, and two years later took the name Kent Coast Railway, by which it was known for the rest of its independent existence. It built a line from Faversham to Whitstable Town in 1860, extended it to Herne Bay & Hampton-on-Sea in 1861 and opened the section from there to a station called Ramsgate on 5 October 1863.[2] This was much closer to the seafront at Ramsgate than its predecessor, Ramsgate Town, which was opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1846.[3]
In 1871, the Kent Coast Railway was bought by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway.[2] In June of that year, Ramsgate station took the name Ramsgate & St Lawrence-on-Sea, which it bore until 1 July 1899. For the rest of its existence it was known as Ramsgate Harbour.[4] The station was very popular and well-used, but was on a cramped site which was reached through a tunnel down a long 1-in-75 gradient. A train went out of control down this slope on 31 August 1891. One person was killed.[3][5] Plans were made to simplify the poorly connected railway network in the Thanet area; these were quickly adopted by the Southern Railway company, which took over the London, Chatham and Dover Railway's operations on 1 January 1923 as a result of the Grouping Act.[3] It built a new line, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long, to connect the former Kent Coast Railway route from Faversham and the former South Eastern Railway route from Ashford,[2] which bypassed both Ramsgate Harbour and Ramsgate Town stations. Two new stations, Dumpton Park and Ramsgate, were built on this line to serve the town.[3] The line and the new stations opened on 2 July 1926, and the section of line between the new junction and Ramsgate Harbour station, and the station itself, closed on the same date.[2] The station site was bought by a company which converted it into a funfair. The station building was damaged by fire in 1998 and subsequently demolished. Part of the former route through the tunnel was opened as a narrow gauge tourist railway in 1936 which became the Tunnel Railway[3]. Services were suspended during World War 2. It reopened but it closed in 1965 following an accident at the beach station and the owners decided to close the railway. The railway was then dismantled. In 1939 part of the abandoned railway tunnel became an air raid shelter.[6] A network of tunnels was constructed leading from the disused railway tunnel leading under the town with various access steps to the surface. After the war finished these tunnels were abandoned. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Grant sections of the abandoned railway tunnel and wartime air raid tunnels have been restored and were officially reopened on 27 May 2014.
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Opened 23 Dec 1922 providing bathing pavilion, tea rooms & dance hall. Used by Semaphore Lifesaving Club 1960s, left abandoned, renovated 1990s, now hotel & function centre.
“On Saturday afternoon the Mayor of Port Adelaide (Mr. H. Slade) declared open the new bathing pavilion and palais, which have been erected on the Semaphore foreshore. . . Accommodation had been provided for catering for 500 bathers at one time. For 3d. bathers could enter the pavilion, leave their clothes hanging up, without the fear, to use a colloquialism, of finding some one ‘nipping’ them.” [Register 25 Dec 1922]
“An imposing entrance to the pavilion faces the Esplanade. The building is of castellated brick, with rough overcast, and is two-storeyed, being surmounted by a large square-based tower. The larger portion of the lower storey is used as the bathing pavilion, the remainder of this level being divided into shops. The men's compartment of the bathing pavilion has 66 cubicles. . . Regular habitues may avail themselves of lockers, of which there are 352, in which to place their bathing costumes, &c. There are 44 cubicles in the women's compartment and176 lockers. . . Towels may be obtained from in attendant.” [Advertiser 25 Dec 1922]
“Semaphore Kiosk Opened. Splendid Bathing Facilities. . . On the second floor. . . is a large hall. . . probably be used extensively for dancing, although it can be converted into a picture theatre. . . Two outside flights of stairs lead from the second floor to the roof garden. . . A square based tower, with large leadlights on each tide of its four sides, surmonts the building. On the tower is a staff and signal hoists.” [Daily Herald 25 Dec 1922]
“The Semaphore Palais de Danse, on the lawns at the Semaphore Beach, is now under new management, and will open its summer season to-morrow night, when dancing from 8 till 11 p.m. will be held. . . Miss O. Durnell's jazz orchestra has been engaged for the season. The floor is in perfect condition. The management are providing supper on the balcony on each Saturday night.” [Port Adelaide News 31 Oct 1924]
“The tea dance will be held in the Semaphore Palais to-morrow afternoon and every Thursday. Non-dancers or those wishing to improve their dancing are specially catered for, as instruction in latest ballroom dances will be given by Mr. Leo Thiselton and Miss Rita Thiselton.” [Advertiser 20 Jul 1927]
“Largs Bay Dinghy .Club dance will be held in the Maris Palais, Semaphore.” [News 10 Sep 1928]
“A most successful bridge party was held at the Semaphore Palais in aid of the Semaphore Tennis Club.” [Observer 25 May 1929]
“Members of the Australian Garrison Artillery will entertain about 350 guests at their annual ball, which they will hold in the Maris Palais tonight/ The battery colors of red and blue are represented in bunting which the ball committee has hung around the walls.” News 10 Oct 1933]
“The Semaphore Barrierites' Social Association held its first anniversary at the Maris Palais, Semaphore. Mr. C. Penalurick's orchestra provided the music for dancing.” [Advertiser 21 Aug 1937]
“Ëxtensive alterations are being made to the palais and bathing pavilion at Semaphore by two new lessees, Messrs. L. R Northey, who has taken over the bathing pavilion, and J. Morris, who will conduct dances there. The bathing pavilion will be open day and night during the summer months. It is expected that the palais will be opened by a ball for the Red Cross Society in September.” [Advertiser 18 Jul 1941]
“Under the auspices of the Port Adelaide Red Cross advisory committee, a dance organised by munition girl workers of Holden's will be held in the Semaphore Palais on Wednesday night, to raise funds for the local prisoners of war appeal.” [The Mail 4 Jul 1942]
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This is the updated Z-Bar mounting system for my SD1000 twin-cam rig. This configuration allows a smaller inter-axial spacing: 60mm and maximum of 154mm. This is generally my "Travel camera" since it is easy to pack and easy to carry.
Type in use: Karmina Sans.
Designer Nynke Tiekstra chose Karmina Sans for the setting of the scientific book A Manual for the Identification of Plant Seeds and Fruits. Karmina Sans was used to get a clear publication: "still scientific, but alive. Due to the shortness of the texts and high amount of images it turned out to be a wonderful choice".
Using the 10th Anniversary of the route's conversion to OPO as a pretext, Timebus of Watford ran two Routemasters on this service one Sunday in March 2008. Their RML is seen here at West Hampstead.
Expired Fuji tungsten slide film at an abandoned WWII warehouse. Pentax 645 w/45mm lens.
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