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Tara went exploring with me to a small pond nearby.
Ahem. Tara has asked me to kindly say a word about his weight problem. There is no problem. He is just fine. He is fat just like an NFL linebacker is fat. It's all muscle. Don't believe it? Just stick your hand down there to pet him and watch him rip it off! He says he can run faster, climb higher and catch mice better tha ever and he challenges any cat to challenge him. So there. Enough with the fat comments. (Now maybe he will give me my arm back. It's tough typing with only one hand!)
A platform scale-weight laying along the walkway at Westminster Abbey -- wonder how long it has been holding down that block?
For 'MacroMondays' theme of 'Copper'.
Perhaps our kitchen is old fashioned, or more likely we are, but everyday we use brass weights and a copper pan balance - no electronic scales here!
So quite naturally these weights that look like chess pieces are a 'natural' for this week's MM theme of 'Copper'. Taken from the kitchen these three were placed on a mirror in my study and lit with just one LED lamp with a red enamelled sweet tin providing the reflected colour.
That weight to the front is for 1/4oz (about 7g), is only 16mm high, and with its two companions takes less than 2" of the allowed 3". And all three are back in their allotted place in the kitchen !
Olympus Zuiko OM Auto Macro 50mm ............................ less than 2"
I pulled into Nazareth
Was feeling 'bout half past dead
I just need some place
Where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me
Where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand
And "No" was all he said...
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We rolled into Ash Fork, Arizona before noon after a wonderful time in Williams and the first thing we noticed, besides the Hi-Line Motel was how few people were out and about...almost like a living ghost town...
Original photo: CJ www.flickr.com/photos/frootsmoothie/1831755111
Process: Yours Truly
This image is for the new "Pimp My Pixels" group on flickr. Basically you upload and untouched/unprocessed image and then members of PmP will process it for you and in return you get to see how others would have processed your photo.
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When I was in England I stumbled upon this man on the beach, half dressed, bruised and bleeding. He was shivering violently and his teeth chattered together so much his words were barely audible, but he managed to tell me he had carried this suitcase full of rocks all the way from France, or rather... swam with it... across the English Channel.
When I asked him "Why!!?", he explained that he was carrying out an old tradition; The suitcase full of rocks represented all his worries, and he'd swam the channel in order to take them, and leave them, far, far away. I wondered out loud if he was going to swim all the way back again. To which he replied, "Fuck no, I'm taking the Eurostar! ...Do you have any socks?"
We laughed and laughed, thawed our feet and hands on car air vents, and then went back to the placeI was staying, where we ate Mexican food, and I discovered he was actually a crazy Flickr photographer named Simon McCheung!! Small word, ay?
Its like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.After many a trip to this location. Finally the shot I've been waiting for.
Out of the 6 or so occasions of going here twice the pool has been completely empty. The other times its been a rubbish sunrise.
I got up at 5.00am, looked off my back deck and headed back to bed only to think I'm up now i may as well just go. On arrival I thought it could be a chance.As the sun came up all was revealed, "FINALLY"
Hope everyone has a good friday and weekend.
Lee 3 stop hard
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Rusty Metal Chains suspended in front of a weathered factory window - emphasizing raw materials and industrial atmosphere.
First of all the credit for this photograph must go to Mary, she took it. This was shot after our heavy snowfall in early December. Mary’s school was closed so she could play in the garden with her camera. While this was taken I was not so happily digging the snow off the drive so I could get to work. She is standing behind me right now so I have to say it’s a good shot. At the bottom of the shot you will notice our blue guttering later in the day it came off the wall due to the weight of snow. Happy Days
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« Le poids de soi », créée par les artistes scandinaves Elmgreen & Dragset.
Lyon, devant Palais de Justice
For the Macro Monday pool. Each week on Monday's we post up to five images following a theme.
This week's theme is "Spot Color"
Mammoth Hot Springs is a large complex of hot springs on a hill of travertine in Yellowstone National Park adjacent to Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District. It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Because of the huge amount of geothermal vents, travertine flourishes. Although these springs lie outside the caldera boundary, their energy has been attributed to the same magmatic system that fuels other Yellowstone geothermal areas. The hot water that feeds Mammoth comes from Norris Geyser Basin after traveling underground via a fault line that runs through limestone and roughly parallel to the Norris-to-Mammoth road. The limestone from rock formations along the fault is the source of the calcium carbonate. Shallow circulation along this corridor allows Norris' superheated water to slightly cool before surfacing at Mammoth, generally at about 170 °F (80 °C). Algae living in the warm pools have tinted the travertine shades of brown, orange, red, and green. Thermal activity here is extensive both over time and distance. The thermal flows show much variability with some variations taking place over periods ranging from decades to days. Terrace Mountain at Mammoth Hot Springs is the largest known carbonate-depositing spring in the world. The most famous feature at the springs is the Minerva Terrace, a series of travertine terraces. The terraces have been deposited by the spring over many years but, due to recent minor earthquake activity, the spring vent has shifted, rendering the terraces dry. The Mammoth Terraces extend all the way from the hillside, across the Parade Ground, and down to Boiling River. The Mammoth Hotel, as well as all of Fort Yellowstone, is built upon an old terrace formation known as Hotel Terrace. There was some concern when construction began in 1891 on the fort site that the hollow ground would not support the weight of the buildings. Several large sink holes (fenced off) can be seen out on the Parade Ground. This area has been thermally active for several thousand years. The Mammoth area exhibits much evidence of glacial activity from the Pinedale Glaciation. The summit of Terrace Mountain is covered with glacial till, thereby dating the travertine formation there to earlier than the end of the Pinedale Glaciation. Several thermal kames, including Capitol Hill and Dude Hill, are major features of the Mammoth Village area. Ice-marginal stream beds are in evidence in the small, narrow valleys where Floating Island Lake and Phantom Lake are found. In Gardner Canyon one can see the old, sorted gravel bed of the Gardner River covered by unsorted glacial till. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Hot_Springs]
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park]
Todays Scrabble sunday shot, Feather Weight.
Strobist... 580exii lastolite exybox speedlite camera left 1/8 24mm. 580exii lastolite strobo gridded camera back right 1/16 105mm.
Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan - U.S.A.
Type: Model 68 V8 Series 2-door Cabriolet
Production time: 1936
Production outlet: 14,068
Engine: 3622cc V-8 90° OHV L-head
Power: 85 bhp / 3.800 rpm
Torque: 207 Nm / 2.200 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 130 km/h
Curb weight: 1390 kg
Wheelbase: 112 inch
Chassis: rigid X-frame and all-steel “slantback” unibody
Steering: worm & sector
Gearbox: three-speed selective sliding manual / floor shift
Clutch: 9 inch single plate disc
Carburettor: Stromberg single downdraft
Fuel tank: 53 liter
Electric system: 6 Volts
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: 12 inch mechanical internal expanding drums
Brakes rear: 12 inch mechanical internal expanding drums
Suspension front: rigid axle, longitudinal transverse leaf springs
Suspension rear: rigid axle, longitudinal three quarter semi-elliptic transverse leaf springs
Rear axle: live 3/4 floating type
Differential: spiral bevel 4.11:1
Wheels: 4 x 16 steel wires
Tires: 6.00 x 16
Options: dual horns, Steward Warner gasoline heater, oil pressure gauge, radio (it replaced the ash tray), radio antenna, electric dash clock, rumble seat, leather interior, spotlight, dual white wall tires with trim rings, cigar lighter, spider hub caps, banjo-spike steering wheel, white sidewall tires, dual windshield wipers, dual side-view mirrors, fog lamps, full carpeting, dual cowl-mounted lights, wire wheels, dual-tip exhaust, a rear-mounted luggage rack,
Special:
- Ford was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge who would later found the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company.
- Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, the largest family-controlled company in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression.
- The Victoria Model 18 V8, the first V-8 Model, was styled by Edsel Ford, Henry’s son in 1932. This one-year-only model (called the Deuce”) bore a marked resemblance to the Lincoln of the same year, which had also been designed under the direction of Edsel Ford.
- The later V-8 Series was redesigned by E.T. “Bob” Gregorie, Ford's first design chief. The 1936 models were given a front-end restyle by Holden “Bob” Koto, of Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit (Michigan).
- 1936 marked the year in which Ford manufactured its twenty millionth vehicle and its three millionth V-8 engine.
- Ford passenger cars would be powered by refined versions of what would become known as the Ford “flathead” V8 through 1953 (and in Canada, through 1954).
- The 1936 Model 68 V8 Series was available as this 2-door Cabriolet, as 2-door Coupé 5 Windows (78,534 units built), as 2-door DeLuxe Coupé 3 Windows (21,446 units built), as 2-door DeLuxe Coupé 5 Windows (29,938 units built), as 2-door Cabriolet (14,068 units built), as 2-door Club Cabriolet (4,616 units built), as 2-door Deluxe Roadster (3,862 units built), as 2-door DeLuxe Tudor (20,519 units built), as 2-door Sedan with trunk (166,018 units built), as 4-door sedan with trunk (39,607 units built), as 4-door Convertible Sedan (5,601 units built), as 4-door DeLuxe Fordor (42,867 units built), as 4-door DeLuxe Sedan (7,801 units built), as 4-door Fordor Sedan (31,505 units built), as 4-door Fordor Sedan Touring (159,825 units built) and as 4-door DeLuxe Phaeton (5,555 units built).
- They were produced in Atlanta (Georgia), Chester, (Pennsylvania), Chicago (Illinois), Long Beach (California) and in Dearborn (Michigan).
Heavy weight and work stained 37716 is seen in Doves Holes Quarry during loading on the glorious morning of Wednesday 27th June, by this point the loco had been in the area for over four weeks seeing daily use, even then it wasn’t the easiest engine to catch in action and as a result it managed to avoid a few lone photographers period.
The summer of 2018 was a difficult one for me personally the lure from one of my favourite engines locally meant I flagged several mileage trips down, satisfied with staying local. The improved traction (from an enthusiast point of view anyway) of Class 37s & 56s was a pleasant and welcome change which brought crowds from far and wide but ultimately as a result the change in operations saw my departure from DB Cargo and the Peak District.
Weight on an older industrial scale.
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