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and all the gray is gone, everytime I see you smile. What i'd do to make you see who you are to me.
Say hello to my lovely best friend and incredible sister Hannah. This was taken on the way home from camp tonight and after she shared some heavy things that had been on her heart..
I am so honored I am to be a part of her life. She chooses to stay faithful and strong through hardships no one should ever have to face. Her heart is hands down the most beautiful I've ever gotten to know and she sets an example for me daily. God was thinking of our family when he made her.
~ Antoinette van Kleeff ~
My album of flora in winter here.
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In the 1960s Ferrari's Prototipo 'P series' sports car racers proved highly successful in terms of races won and imaginations captured. Of course speed rather than beauty was the goal of these cars, yet the two were seemingly inexorable at a time when intuition was a guiding principle. The P4, designed by Mauro Forghieri and William Casoli was both a zenith and nadir of the genre – perhaps the most beautiful, yet also increasingly outdated at a time when aerodynamics were coming to the fore.
And so Ferrari commissioned Pininfarina to explore advanced aerodynamics for the 250 P5. Young recruit Leonardo Fioravanti was chosen to design the car because of his mechanical engineering education at the Politecnico di Milano where his studies focused on aerodynamics and car body design.
Revealed at the 1968 Geneva motor show, the P5 won immediate acclaim for its futuristic design, even if some Ferrari purists grumbled at its perceived departure from Ferrari design orthodoxy. Built on P4 chassis number 0862, the two-seat coupe featured a three-litre V12 engine mounted in its tail. A walk around the brilliant white car (later repainted red) revealed a design composed of intersecting convex and concave volumes, its ovoid masses contrasting with deeply scalloped recesses for vents and wheel wells.
Revealed at the 1968 Geneva motor show, the P5 won immediate acclaim for its futuristic design, even if some Ferrari purists grumbled at its perceived departure from Ferrari design orthodoxy. Built on P4 chassis number 0862, the two-seat coupe featured a three-litre V12 engine mounted in its tail. A walk around the brilliant white car (later repainted red) revealed a design composed of intersecting convex and concave volumes, its ovoid masses contrasting with deeply scalloped recesses for vents and wheel wells.
The design featured a low, concave front fascia with a narrow slot for ventilation for the radiator. Just above this, integrated into the hood, was a bank of headlamps. Flanking this front assembly were pontoon-like fairings for the front wheels. It seems Enzo Ferrari was not overly impressed with this, referring to it as the “suppository”.
More successful were the Dino-like ventilation scoops with flow vanes integrated into the openings while at the rear a strong character line outlines the top of the wheel opening and then ascends and curves across the deck lid. Underneath this somewhat duck-tailed assembly, a strong composition of horizontal vanes covers the tail-lights and engine ventilation openings. It's clearly a theme Fioravanti was proud of as it was to reappear on his later Testarossa.
The upper body was almost entirely formed of a transparent teardrop canopy, its gullwing doors revealing a spartan composition of two seats, driving controls and little else. Seats were minimally ergonomic and the headrests are built into the firewall that separates the cabin from the engine compartment.
A Gentlemen’s Agreement
As popular as the P5 was on the car show circuit, changing racing rules and the complex and ever-developing programmes at Ferrari soon meant the P5 would not be developed further. Indeed, Fioravanti and his team were already working on a successor, the P6.
As it slowly became public knowledge that P5 was not to be a part of Modena’s future, an unusual request came to Enzo Ferrari from his longtime friend and associate, Dr. Giuseppe Luraghi, Chairman of Alfa Romeo. If Ferrari was not to continue the development of the P5, would he cede the project to his company to develop further? In a move that would be unheard of today, Il Commendatore granted the request.
[Text from CarDesignNews.com]
cardesignnews.com/articles/concept-car-of-the-week/2016/0...
Year of the Pig. Luck is NOW finally on my side
Strugglin’, but I be thuggin’ like when pigs fly
Don’t know why, but I feel good about this year
So now I steer in the direction this is the ploy
Living comfortable would be nice. Kung Hei Fat Choy
Gung Hay Fat Choy....Xin nian hao....gong xi fa cai
Ella es Elizabeth, dejando huella de su arte en la calle Real de A Coruña.
Asistencia técnica, Andy
Sugerencia musical:
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“And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness? "
With CP 286 with CP 7023 leading slow rollin' up to Norma for UP CNAOK to clear the switches with UP 1943 bringing up the rear, it was inevitable the two units would meet somewhere in the Des Plaines area. Right in front of me however, I was not expecting. 286 kept moving through slowly, and when I thought it would block me out totally, CNAOK's rear DPU popped out of the brush.
I just love the deer family, the fawns are so darn cute, funny how one has no spots and the other is covered with them. I was lucky to get them all looking at once and clearly too, usually one has moved his head when you snap the photo and that one is blurry!
When I Read I Dream heads on Disney VIP (Cece Jones) bodies. The girls wear Dollsahoy dresses and a combination of VIP and Monster High shoes.
Their dolls are Polly Pocket mix & match (Pop & Swap) dolls, and two are hybrids using Petal Pixie (Mattel Fairytopia) heads.
When traveling through SW Missouri, I usually take Route 60 through Neosho, Monett and Springfield. I left Route 60 and traveled N. to Verona and as I pulled up to the crossing on the SW side of town this trio of BNSF 500’s approached. I had less than 30 seconds to create this image. This is the second time I have gotten lucky at this crossing in three years. This train I believe is a Springfield-Tulsa local as it had only about 40 cars. Monday December 5th, 2016 was my lucky day to see some unique power in action on a BNSF train.
When in Norway, it is worth going for a walk in the Norwegian woods!
It is a pleasant walk on asphalt up along the Flåm River, which starts as runoff from the Omnsbreen Glacier, and travels 40 kilometres (25 miles) before emptying into the Aurlandsfjord on the other side of town.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/a-walk-in-a-norwegian...
we are aiming at one direction... when a rare opportunity comes in...
we are looking at our goals and we are caught up with other things that sway us from our original vision...
chances are few and we just have to learn to make a perfect blend...
A fairly abstract depth of field exercise....
This photo's title dates from my 2012 photo-a-day effort, where it was a recurring theme. We had a more impressive trellis back then.
Actually, we've still got that trellis, but it's in pieces and leaning against the garage because a wind storm took it apart some years back. My year-ago excursion through our yard included two pics of that one, by the way, and two of a third that used to support a (failed) rose garden.
What I posted, though, was a view across the street, taken from our yard. It's a decidedly wintery photo (I called it "January") and several of our neighbors' yards are represented. As things turned out, versions of that photo were my "if all else fails" shot last year.
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For much of last year, my monthly routine went like this:
* For the first week of the month, I'd set the camera up as fully manual.
* For the second week of the month, I'd set the camera up as Aperture Priority but with manual focus.
* For the third week I'd reverse that--autofocus, but exposure controlled manually.
* For the rest of the month the camera'd be set up with autofocus turned on and (usually) Aperture Priority.
The objective was to force myself to think about these things. I like to think it was a learning experience.
This only worked with the Olympus, by the way. My Nikon 1 doesn't support manual focus in any useful sense, but I've long routinely operated its exposure controls manually.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 17
Title of folder: When in Doubt, Shoot the Trellis
Other photos taken on 1/4/2021: none
How times have changed! I remember when Virgin Atlantic took delivery of its first Boeing 787 back in early-October 2014 and were once the future of the airline fleet... Skip ahead to 12 years later and Virgin Atlantic is downsizing the fleet as new Airbus A330-900s enter service.
Back in early-July 2025, Virgin Atlantic announced the future pertaining their 17-strong fleet of Boeing 787-9s, where it was revealed that the fleet will undergo major interior refurbishment as they continue to feature outdated cabins unlike the much newer Airbus A330-900s and Airbus A350-1000s. The Boeing 787-9s will receive cabins very similar to what is featured on their Airbus A330-900s.
Having said that, not all of the 17 Boeing 787-9s will actually receive the interior refurbishment as Virgin Atlantic's fleet plans indicate that the Boeing 787-9 fleet will drop from 17 to 14, with 3 of the aircraft not part of the refurbishment programme to be returned back to their lessors.
The 3 aircraft not to undergo interior refurbishment have since been identified, with G-VZIG, G-VYUM and G-VBZZ not part of Virgin Atlantic's long-term plans. The 3 Boeing 787-9s are earmarked to leave Virgin Atlantic from the 1st half of 2027, and are expected to transfer over to Polish flag-carrier, LOT Polish Airlines whose long-haul fleet is entirely based on the Boeing 787.
Currently, Virgin Atlantic operates 17 Boeing 787s, all of which are Boeing 787-9s.
Victor Zulu India Golf is one of 17 Boeing 787-9s operated by Virgin Atlantic, delivered new to the carrier on lease from Avolon on 9th March 2015, leased from ORIX Aviation since 2024 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-K2 engines. Her name is a reference to the David Bowie 1972 single, The Jean Genie.
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner G-VZIG 'Dream Jeannie' on short finals into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on VS301 from Delhi-Indira Ghandi (DEL).
When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!
― Akilnathan Logeswaran
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a few shots from yesterday, apart from using stupid iso, it was a great day!!! i found the only thing worse than waiting for a kingfisher is....waiting for a kingfisher to do something
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thanks for taking the time to comment and things !!! cheers : )
Pillow/Urban Home Good swap pillows mixed with friends from Target!
Red/Aqua, Blue crazy 9 patch and Cathedral windows from swaps, yellow floral, blue bird, red crest and green trellis print from Target.
When your 8yo kid is crazy about and brilliant at mountain biking.
I'm pretty fit and skilled on a mountain bike but my son will be kicking my butt long before he reaches his teens. Building a good MTB to suit a 128cm/23kg kid is a challenge though. This bike is actually built on a youth cyclocross frame with 26" wheels. It's so tiny that there's toe overlap with 140mm cranks, well at least if I try to ride it. Anyhow we've been experimenting with different setups and have it pretty dialed in now.
Fun fact: We run his 47mm tires at well under 1 bar.
Fun fact 2: The bike weighs 9.0kg. That's light for a mountain bike but ufortunately almost 40% as much as its rider.