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This Steveston Harbour docks sets the stage for this idyllic harbour scene.
Moored is the regular cast ....
Ku'ulakai - Miki Tugboat (1944) Only Miki in Canadian Waters
NAFCO - Fishing Vessel (1941)
Calvada - Fishing Vessel (1979)
Returning to the harbour (Background) ....
Alaska Queen- Fishing Vessel (IMO: 5232907) is a Fishing Vessel that was built in 1943 (78 years ago) . Her length overall (LOA) is 22.34 meters and her width is 6.53 meters.
Currently sailing under the flag of Canada. Formerly also known as MERMAID II. It's gross tonnage is 106 tons.
KU'ULAKAI Tugboat c. 1944 - Presented in her 'Golden Years'
(Ku'ulakai meaning: Hawaiian Fishing God of Fisherman)
Her history: as per online sources: (Unverified)
Built:1944
Length: 111.9
Gross Tonnage: 301
Used as a Tugboat all along the West Coast of BC
Ku'ulakai is said to be the only intact Miki tug in Canadian waters.
Builder: Northeast Shipbuilding, Quincy Massachusetts, USA
According to onlines sources, this tug was built as a wooden Miki US Army Tug - LT465, and used by the U.S. navy during the Second World War to tow damaged ships from the Pacific back for repair.
Online information also reports that later on in life, she was used by drug runners in the South Pacific and that in 1988 was seized by the Canadian Coast Guard for smuggling drugs out of China.
She was originally named: Lloyd B. Gore, decommissioned & sold 1946.
Please note* All information has been taken from online sources and has not been verified to be accurate.
Steveston is an ever so romantic fishing village that is situated in Richmond BC, on the Mighty Fraser River
Canada
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
If you enjoy quaint fishing villages, combined with light and vibrant colours, I am pleased to extend an invitation for you to browse through my.... 'I 💖 Steveston album'
www.flickr.com/photos/120552517@N03/albums/72157677404584764
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships. Wishing you all health during this difficult time.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
*Best experienced in full screen ❤
The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). It also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus Orchis, and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cultivation in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars. Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident, shared derived characteristics, or synapomorphies. Among these are: bilateral symmetry of the flower (zygomorphism), many resupinate flowers, a nearly always highly modified petal (labellum), fused stamens and carpels, and extremely small seeds. 32779
I had heard about the unfortunate addition to the much loved Entrance Shark tower (particularly by landscape togs). I don’t think I was fully prepared for the disappointment when I saw the hideous new signage defacing the beautiful appearance of this structure so I set about to restore the tower to its former glory with a range of Photoshop techniques including transform to copy and flip part of the tower, clipping mask to match colour and brightness and cloning constrained with 0.5 feathered pixel selections using the lass tool to refine the job. It’s hard to verify whether I have been successful without zooming in however I believe it holds up at %100.
The MM theme is odd and the micro-mini duckies are back!! After a MM posting last week that wasn’t at all my usual, I thought the blue duckies should make an appearance.
airandspacemuseum
Verified
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton helped get the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon. She led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, the team responsible for developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft and writing the code that brought astronauts into space and safely back home again.
Hamilton’s leadership and work formed the bedrock of software engineering as a whole. In this now-iconic photo, Hamilton stands next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code.
HMM- the theme for the Macro Mondays group for today, 12/7, is 🎉celebration🎉. This ornament celebrates Christmas 🎄 and the coming of the end of a year of covid-19. Using hand sanitizer, hoarding TP, and wearing masks- all symbols of 2020 that we’ll be glad to leave behind.
May the coming year bring us a successful vaccine that we’re wishing for and the ability to be with our families and friends without angst or worry.
.....By the way I cropped the right side a tad so it would definitely be under 3 inches. There is a size verification shot in the photostream, which I’ll also put in the first comment box when I can get back to my laptop.
World's first steam powered clock
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
Best experienced in full screen.
Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.
Thank-you for visiting
~Christie by the River
The #MacroMondays theme for 5/13 is charm. Bracelets, necklaces, wine glasses, keychains - am figuring any ornamentation is fair game, as long as it’s small. Loved the blue shadow on this one! And it’s blue (surprise, surprise) and sparkly (more surprise)!… will include the size verification in a bit. It's a bit over 3cm
By the way, I dithered a bit between this and the Dutch clog
…….💙 HMM 💙
Cierta vez, un hombre pidió un DESEO: Una flor... y una mariposa.
Pero el deseo que le concedieron fue un cactus...y una oruga.
El hombre quedó triste, pues no entendió por qué su pedido llegó equivocado. No comprendía el error, y se quedó muy apenado.
Pasado algún tiempo, el hombre fue a verificar el pedido que dejó olvidado.
Para su sorpresa, del espinoso y feo cactus había nacido la más bella de las flores y la horrible oruga se transformó en una bellísima mariposa.
No siempre lo que deseas... es lo que necesitas.
Cuando te llegue algo, y no es lo que esperabas, sigue adelante sin dudar ni murmurar.
La ESPINA de hoy... Será la FLOR de mañana.
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Once, a man made a WISH: A flower... and a butterfly.
But the wish that was granted was a cactus...and a caterpillar.
The man was sad, because he did not understand why his order arrived wrong. He did not understand the error, and was very sorry.
After some time, the man went to verify the order that he had forgotten.
To his surprise, the most beautiful of flowers had grown from the thorny and ugly cactus and the horrible caterpillar transformed into a beautiful butterfly.
Not always what you want... is what you need.
When something comes your way, and it's not what you expected, move on without hesitation or murmuring.
Today's thorn... Will be tomorrow's flower.
This Royal Tern is a winter bird with white forecrown.
{I had recorded this in my notes from 2010 as a Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia), but with the caveat that the ID required confirmation. A reconsideration suggested to me that it was actually a Royal Tern, and I put this image to the Bird Identification Help Group here on Flickr which verified that.}
This sighting was during a kayak excursion at the Laguna de Potosí south of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero State, Mexico, on February 23rd, 2010.
Chicks are going on 3 weeks and food demands are increasing. I would say 80% of the food brought in is by the male. I think she probably killed this bird herself, because a whimbrel is a pretty large bird for a male to handle. In any event it is always a treat to see a large shorebird brought in. Can't really tell it is whimbrel from the image, but other images verify that it is.
The Macro Monday theme for 1/30 is screw. This choice fits the three parameters of the theme for MM. It also has garnered the most views and faves. I like the other three for totally different reasons, so I think I’ll dither for a bit before choosing.
Btb, I had an incredibly difficult time getting any of these to post. I finally discovered a work around but I’m hoping that my iPhone and Flickr app learn how to play nicely together again— SOON
…..💙HMM 🔩💙
Recently returned from a wonderful, impactful trip to Israel. As we approach Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday (Easter), thought the timing would be good to share this shot. In the foreground is the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives by the Garden of Gethsemane. It was built in 1920 on top of two previous churches (Byzantine and Crusader). It is said to enshrine a section of bedrock where Jesus prayed before his arrest. (Mark 14:32–42). In 2020 they discovered Greek inscriptions written on the floor of the 1,500 year old Byzantine church, "for the memory and repose of those who love Christ… accept the offering of your servants and give them remission of sins”. This is the oldest archaeological evidence to verify this site as the Garden of Gethsemane. The Church of Mary Magdalene (up the hill on the right), with seven gilded turrets, is an East Orthodox Church and was built in 1888 by the Czar of Russia.
GMC 910 Truck 1969 Owner Verification (Vintage manual focus lens) - Chatted for a while to the owner of this 1969 GMC 910 Truck (he verified the year) who was unloading it outside the skate hire shop at Olympic Plaza today. He’d owned the truck for a number of years and was thinking about having it repainted in the spring. Didn’t look in bad shape given it’s age!
Me:"Conductor, do I have time to run up for a photo?" Conductor: "You have 2 1/2 mins. Be sure to get right back on". Monon No.5 Thoroughbred with RPO at last light at, I think Hammond IN. stop. Someone can verify. Last few days of this train. 9/67.
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. Based on his experiments he argued that the geometric nature of the laws of reflection and refraction could only be explained if light is made of particles, which he referred to as corpuscles, as waves don't tend to travel in straight lines. Newton concluded that light is composed of colored particles that combine to appear white.
So this version includes the essence of the teabag. #SmileonSaturday theme of #CoffeeorTea. It smells delicious in here! I may go brew me up a cuppa!
And this version is a possibility for the #MacroMondays theme of #string. And, yay, I found the ruler! So I can do a size verification, later!
I do love a two-fer
…….💙HMM🎻🎸💙
…..By the way, I decided to go with this one because I really like the reflection of the string in the tea house. 🏡 …. The size verification coming up later- the whole scene is about 5cm.
A few days ago, I uploaded a photograph of the Provençal village of “Barles-la-Sombre” (“Barles the Dark One”), mentioning writer Pierre Magnan and his fictional character Commissaire Laviolette (this unfortunate little village got a bad reputation from that book, I wonder if it would still be possible to do something like that today with the political correctness and all that, or if the mayor would sue and the author would have to make up a fictional village name... Where is the world going to?). It is true that a small part of my trip through Romanesque Provence in September 2022 was to be devoted to a couple of places that appeared as shooting locations in the TV series based on Magnan’s novels and featuring actor Victor Lanoux as Laviolette. One of those places, featured in my favorite, two-part episode Les courriers de la mort (“Deadly Mail”), is the small Saint-Vincent parish church built atop a high hill above the village of Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron.
Originally erected during the 11th century, it was rebuilt in 1614. Remarkably for that time when preservation of heritage was not even born as a concept, the new church was made to look as much as possible like the old one: how wise on the part of the local people!
In the Laviolette story, this church is supposed to be that of a monastery/orphanage and within resides a vital clue for the solving of the “Deadly Mail” mystery. In reality, it stands very much alone on its hilltop, and I couldn’t verify anything about the inside, as it was closed... But it was a fun side trip in a very peaceful and beautiful place.
The splendid panorama on Upper Provence mountains that one can admire from the church’s hilltop.
Once verified the operation and management of the new camera and tested its proper functioning and not to tire the staff, I will upload pics as varied as possible of my huge stock.
In this case it is Zúrich that is a city whose tourist center is beautiful and I have many already edited and about to be uploaded to Flickr.
The conjunction of the urban landscape and the river Limmat gave me the ability to shoot the camera without rest and that most of them are good. The problem is to choose what to show in my gallery, because I have always intended to make it as varied as possible.
The opinion is always personal and there is the possibility of what I like, for another it is a vulgar photograph.
The edition is slightly different from my last images. I have tried to make it visually beautiful even though it is already by itself.
By the way, on the terrace with red flowers that looks to the left of the image, we ate my wife and myself. We ate very well, but the Swiss bills are terrifying.
Thank you in advance for your visits and comments.
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Una vez comprobado el funcionamiento y manejo de la nueva cámara y comprobado su buen funcionamiento y para no cansar al personal, voy a volver a subir fotos lo mas variadas posible de mi inmenso stock.
En este caso le toca a Zúrich que es una ciudad cuyo centro turístico es bellísimo y tengo muchas ya editadas y a punto de ser subidas a Flickr.
La conjunción del paisaje urbano y el rio Limmat me dio la posibilidad de disparar la cámara sin descanso y que la mayor parte de ellas son buenas. El problema es escoger cual mostrar en mi galería, pues siempre he tenido la intención de hacerla lo más variada posible.
La opinión. siempre es personal y existe la posibilidad de lo que a mí me gusta, para otro sea una fotografía vulgar.
La edición es ligeramente diferente a mis últimas imágenes. He intentado que sea visualmente bella aunque ya lo es por sí misma.
Por cierto, en la terraza con flores rojas que se ve a la izquierda de la imagen, comimos mi esposa y un servidor. Comimos muy bien, pero las facturas suizas, son terroríficas.
Agradecido de antemano por vuestras visitas y comentarios.
Fleet No.: 81918
Reg. No.: AWA 436
Manufacturer: Koyo Manufacturing Corp.
Chassis: Hino RU2PSS
Engine: Hino P11C-TE
*Equipped with 6 speed manual air-shifter transmission w/ overdrive.
**Aluminum chassis
***Specifications are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice.
After a string of 4 clear nights in late March, it's been a long time since we have had a stretch of clear moonless nights. So no astrophotography for me…
In the meantime, I had upgraded one of my astro cameras to a new camera known as the ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro. This is a mono camera based on a new generation of larger APS-C size sensors. It offers much higher resolution, a full 16-bits of dynamic range, outstanding noise characteristics, and a much deeper well capacity (which means I can overexpose bright areas of the image - stars - much more before I saturate the sensor). This was also a bigger and heavier camera and I needed to rework my rig to balance things out. I have been eager to test this out.
Recently I had that chance. Choosing Messier 63 - the Sunflower Galaxy as my target I took over 15 hours of exposures through Luminesce, Red, Green, Blue and Hydrogen-Alpha filters over the nights of May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th. I thought I had clear nights but it turns out that thin clouds passed through on EVERY night - enough cloud to mess-up my exposures but not enough to shut things down. I inspected every single frame and I ended up throwing out 5 HOURS of data due to "Cloud Pollution". I got to tell you - that HURTS.
So about our Target…
I have captured M63 before and I wanted to see what difference I could make with a new camera and a bit more experience under my belt. I am very pleased with the result of my first effort with this camera. Good detail, excellent color.
Located 29.3 Million Light Years away, this is what Wikipedia has to say about M63:
Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy,[6] is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.[7] M63 was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, then later verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.[6] The galaxy became listed as object 63 in the Messier Catalogue. In the mid-19th century, Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structures within the galaxy, making this one of the first galaxies in which such structure was identified.[8]
The shape or morphology of this galaxy has a classification of SAbc,[5] indicating a spiral form with no central bar feature (SA) and moderate to loosely wound arms (bc). There is a general lack of large-scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy. However, when observed in the near infrared, a symmetric, two-arm structure is seen. Each arm wraps 150° around the galaxy and extends out to 13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs) from the nucleus.[9]
M63 is a weakly active galaxy with a LINER nucleus – short for 'low-ionization nuclear emission-line region'. This displays as an unresolved source at the galactic nucleus that is cloaked in a diffuse emission. The latter is extended along a position angle of 110° relative to the north celestial pole, and both soft X-rays and hydrogen (H-alpha) emission can be observed coming from along nearly the same direction.[10] The existence of a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the nucleus is uncertain; if it does exist, then the mass is estimated as (8.5±1.9)×108 M☉,[11] or around 850 million times the mass of the Sun.
Here is the detail around this image:
*Number of frames is after bad or questionable frames were culled.
71 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II L Filter
81 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, 0 gain, ZWO Gen II R Filter
67 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II G Filter
79 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II B Filter
27 x 300 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, Astronomiks 6nm Ha Filter
Total of 9.7 hours
25 Darks at 300 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
50 Darks at 90 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 Dark Flats at Flat exposure times, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 R Flats
30 G Flats
30 B Flats
30 L Flats
30 Ha Flats
Capture Hardware:
Scope: Astrophysics 130mm Starfire F/8.35 APO refractor
Guide Scope: Televue 76mm Doublet
Camera: ZWO AS2600mm-pro with ZWO 7x36 Filter wheel with ZWO LRGB filter set,
and Astronomiks 6nm Narrowband filter set
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290Mini
Focus Motor: Pegasus Astro Focus Cube 2
Camera Rotator: Pegasus Astro Falcon
Mount: Ioptron CEM60
Polar Alignment: Polemaster camera
Software:
Capture Software: PHD2 Guider, Sequence Generator Pro controller
Image Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop - assisted by Coffee, extensive processing indecision and second guessing, editor regret and much swearing…..
"Check"
Douchanbé (Asie Centrale - Tadjikistan)
Blocage de l'avenue par la police pour le passage du cortège présidentiel.
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Fleet No.: 8060
Reg. No.: CWL 398
Manufacturer: Kia Motors
Model: KM949S Granbird SD-II "Super Parkway"
Engine: Hyundai D6CB
*Specifications are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice.
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