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A wire is taped to the top of each aluminum tape pad and soldered to a cable wire. The guitar string is wedged in a slot on the PVC tube. The string is soldered to a cable wire. When struck, the string contacts a pad, closing an electric circuit, triggering a drum sound.
I'm always trying to create something original. I think that I never saw a dandelion photo like this.
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Nikon D90 + Tamron SP AF17-50mm f/2.8 (Model A16)
These wires provide the electricity to the cable cars in SFO.
December 4, 2013, 10:58 AM Central Time. I-70, near Manhattan, KS. Kansas, at least the parts I drove through, isn't really that flat. The wide open space does allow for plenty of wind gusts that try to blow your car off the highway; a nice follow up to the ice in Colorado that blocked my view of the top half of my windshield.
Draadstertswael
(Hirundo smithii)
The wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It has two subspecies: H. s. smithii, which occurs throughout Africa, and H. s. filifera, which is found in southern and southeastern Asia. It is mainly resident, but populations in Pakistan and northern India migrate further south in winter. The genus name Hirundo is the Latin word for swallow. The species name smithii commemorates Christen Smith, a Norwegian botanist and geologist.
The wire-tailed swallow is a small swallow, measuring 18 cm (7.1 in) in length. It has bright blue upperparts, bright white underparts and a chestnut cap. Immature birds lack tail wires, and have dull brown (rather than chestnut) caps. The species is named for the very long filamentous outermost tail feathers, which trail behind like two wires. The sexes are similar in appearance, but the female has shorter "wires". Juveniles have a brown crown, back and tail. The Asian form, H. s. filifera, is larger and longer-tailed than the abundant African H. s. smithii.
The neat half-bowl nests are lined with mud collected in the swallows' beaks. They are placed on vertical surfaces near water under cliff ledges or more commonly on man-made structures such as buildings and bridges. The clutch is three to four eggs in Africa, up to five in Asia (Turner and Rose). These birds are solitary and territorial nesters, unlike many swallows, which tend to be colonial.
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Come summer I become very nostalgic...I was born and raised in Italy and then transplanted in California...but during the summer I dream of my beloved island of Capri, possibly the most beautiful place on earth! I daydream of the beautiful coral jewelry that is everywhere on the island and the families that for generations have carved the most beautiful jewels...made for Kings and Queens. This is a tribute to my dreams...
First photo ever taken specifically for the Tenuous Links group (by me anyway).
Tenuous Link: self-reference
Here's an article from Wired online dated "04.07.07" celebrating the Internet's birthday. The article was online on 06 April 2007.
www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/04/dayintech_...