October 4, 201014 yr The military has always known the efficiency and strategic advantages of rail. Driving each Humvee individually would tie up many servicemen and women for the day. I'm pretty sure that most Humvees, if they even make it back from Iraq, are going to show at least some damage. I know a guy who used to work as a machinist at the facility where they armored Humvees. He said the lifespan of a Humvee in Iraq is about six months.
October 4, 201014 yr The more interesting thing is that our Interstate Highways were ostensibly built to allow the movement of military equipment, yet all of it still happens by train. It seems to me about the only role the interstates have played in national defense is allowing recruiters to drive to their offices every day. The Interstate highways weren't built to move military equipment from production to port, they were conceived, or at least justified, to move military within the US in case of nuclear attack. Urban ring roads were built so that the military could move around bombed out cities, and access points limited so that the government could shut down the roads in case the Commies bombed us.
October 7, 201014 yr Look before you sniff. Edit: One of the people who saw the photo identified the little hunter as phiddipus audax, the daring jumping spider. I have zillions of those around my place, especially around both the front and back doors, every summer, but they're usually less than half the size of that one. A little internet research says they're prone to attack if they feel threatened, can jump up to fifty times their body length, can reach a little more than 3/4 inch in length, and bite. Their bite is no more dangerous than a bee sting; in other words, so long as you're not allergic it's painful but not dangerous.
October 8, 201014 yr ^I learned that the hard way.......in the middle of the night on a panama city beach in '98! Great picture though!
October 11, 201014 yr nice grab! :clap: An Airplane in Front of the Moon Credit & Copyright: Chris Thomas Explanation: If you look closely at the Moon, you will see a large airplane in front of it. Well, not always. OK, hardly ever. But if you wait for days with your camera attached to a Moon tracker in a place where airplanes are known to pass, you might catch a good photograph of it. Well, if you're lucky. OK, extremely lucky. The above image was taken two weeks ago over South East Queensland, Australia using an exposure time of 1/250th of a second and, in the words of the photographer, "a nerve of steel". http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100929.html
October 11, 201014 yr looky what i accidently caught today -- metlife reflected in one madison! ^ i just pointed the iphone up at it while we were crossing madison (on the way to molly's shebeen :laugh: ) the glare was awful so i had no idea until i looked at it later. here's another nice view i got of one mad just before that one:
October 30, 201014 yr Some of the best pulled pork I have ever had. Great cornbread too. They also add to the streetscape very nicely. Acme Barbecue:
October 30, 201014 yr Nice job, Jeff, especially with the color balance. White balance usually is tricky in smaller-city night scenes, because the color temperature can vary widely among street lights, storefronts, signage, etc. I like the color scheme of the storefront, too. It looks inviting. Is the street that runs infront/near/nearby your house? It is. I took the photo from in front of my house. Since mid-August I've had a front-row seat to excavating equipment, a pile driver (the only part that made me leave my house on some days), and dump trucks arriving full of rock and leaving full of dirt. I expect that they'll finish the construction phase by Thanksgiving, and restoration of landscaping probably will wait until Spring. I've taken hundreds of photos with encouragement from the city's flood-control department, permission from the contractor, and grudging acquiescence from Army Corps of Engineers, and put many of them on my web site. After the job is done I'll re-edit to clean out some of the redundancy.
October 30, 201014 yr Nice job, Jeff, especially with the color balance. White balance usually is tricky in smaller-city night scenes, because the color temperature can vary widely among street lights, storefronts, signage, etc. I like the color scheme of the storefront, too. It looks inviting. Is the street that runs infront/near/nearby your house? It is. I took the photo from in front of my house. Since mid-August I've had a front-row seat to excavating equipment, a pile driver (the only part that made me leave my house on some days), and dump trucks arriving full of rock and leaving full of dirt. I expect that they'll finish the construction phase by Thanksgiving, and restoration of landscaping probably will wait until Spring. I've taken hundreds of photos with encouragement from the city's flood-control department, permission from the contractor, and grudging acquiescence from Army Corps of Engineers, and put many of them on my web site. After the job is done I'll re-edit to clean out some of the redundancy. Pretty awesome Rob. The houses in your neighborhood are really nice. I hope this helps with flooding and speeding this fall.
October 30, 201014 yr Nice job, Jeff, especially with the color balance. White balance usually is tricky in smaller-city night scenes, because the color temperature can vary widely among street lights, storefronts, signage, etc. I like the color scheme of the storefront, too. It looks inviting. Is the street that runs infront/near/nearby your house? It is. I took the photo from in front of my house. Since mid-August I've had a front-row seat to excavating equipment, a pile driver (the only part that made me leave my house on some days), and dump trucks arriving full of rock and leaving full of dirt. I expect that they'll finish the construction phase by Thanksgiving, and restoration of landscaping probably will wait until Spring. I've taken hundreds of photos with encouragement from the city's flood-control department, permission from the contractor, and grudging acquiescence from Army Corps of Engineers, and put many of them on my web site. After the job is done I'll re-edit to clean out some of the redundancy. Pretty awesome Rob. The houses in your neighborhood are really nice. I hope this helps with flooding and speeding this fall. This isn't really for flood protection. This spot is on the downstream side of a bend in the river, and at high water periods the river had been scouring soil from the bank and undermining the section along the street. Finally it got to where the street was in danger of collapsing. This work is to build erosion control along the bank. The flood protection area starts in the block just beyond the barricades, and the design awaits $1 million in funding to execute it. That project will restrict traffic flow and make the street unattractive as a shortcut. I've lived in this block since 1972, and the highest water I've seen was in 1982, when it came up to the base of the light pole with the speed limit sign on it. That was one of the 3 hundred-year floods we've experienced since 1978.
October 30, 201014 yr Pretty awesome Rob. The houses in your neighborhood are really nice. I hope this helps with flooding and speeding this fall. This project is just to stop erosion from the river undermining the bank at high water; sections were collapsing, and the street was endangered. The flood protection project will start in the block just beyond the barricades and run for about three blocks through the lowest portion. The design has been accepted for the flood protection, but the city can't fund the $1M it will cost. The flood wall project will constrict traffic flow, hopefully making the street less attractive as a shortcut for the suburbanites headed home from downtown after work.
November 7, 201014 yr In with the new...out with the old. The Central Medical Arts building on the southeastern edge of downtown is in the process of shedding its c. 1964 brutalist facade.
November 8, 201014 yr ^ very good -- what town is that in? i spotted this while i was waiting for a pizza today (john's pizza in the village in ny): ^ it's old autographed frank sinatra, smokin joe frazier and pete rose memorabilia -- on the same wall -- pretty good! since i was bored waiting on my pie --here's another shot :laugh: every inch is incredibly carved up by teens of years past and there is a giant old cornball painting of the grotto azzurra...in other words scads of...unh, patina... still has good pizza too! :clap:
November 8, 201014 yr ^^ OMG, I love John's of Bleecker! Heavenly pizza with a pitcher of Sierra Nevada, yes please!!!
November 15, 201014 yr C-Dawg, the word that comes to mind to describe that photo is "ethereal." It has a very dreamlike quality. Here's my latest contribution, somewhat less dreamlike:
November 17, 201014 yr The cupola of the Ohio Statehouse; about a year ago. Ohio Statehouse Cupola by asher519, on Flickr
November 19, 201014 yr A view over the Cincinnati basin from this abandoned 1880's era Italianate rowhouse.
November 29, 201014 yr Here is a teaser: William Tarr House, a large Federal-Revival residence in Kentucky. He was once the owner of the William Tarr Distillery...
December 4, 201014 yr A panoramic sunrise at New River Gorge, Grandview, West Virginia. That is gorgeous!
December 4, 201014 yr Spectacular photo! Those cloud layers in West Virginia's mountains and valleys are an interesting experience for anyone who's never encountered them before. In 1965, driving in the vicinity of Blackwater Falls, I found myself moving through them; as the road rose and fell, sometimes they were below me, sometimes they were above, and sometimes I was in the midst of one of the densest fog layers I've ever driven in.
December 4, 201014 yr A panoramic sunrise at New River Gorge, Grandview, West Virginia. That is gorgeous! Fabulous, even. Great picture, Sherman. Wow!
December 5, 201014 yr Spectacular photo! Those cloud layers in West Virginia's mountains and valleys are an interesting experience for anyone who's never encountered them before. In 1965, driving in the vicinity of Blackwater Falls, I found myself moving through them; as the road rose and fell, sometimes they were below me, sometimes they were above, and sometimes I was in the midst of one of the densest fog layers I've ever driven in. I agree. Driving through Canaan Valley (in the area near Davis and Blackwater Falls), you will encounter some extremely dense fog. On one trip, I took US 33 from Elkins east, and even though it was snowing heavily, there was fog on each and every mountain grade, and then again in Canaan Valley. It was a torturous, slow drive, because visibility was less than 1/4 mile easy. At night. Another trip was from US 219 south of Interstate 68 in Maryland into West Virginia. The valleys were clear of fog, but during the trip up the mountain, it was just intense with fog.
December 12, 201014 yr Sherman those are excellent photos. Epic sunrise. Well the weather was awful today. Here's a couple photos inside my apartment building. Sickly yellow hallways Looking down the standpipe tower. I'm curious how much weight those grates can hold. And how do they change the lights? Service elevator. What it loses in square footage it gains in height with a 10' ceilings. During my move in, they had machine inside that you attached your furniture to, and would tip it up vertically.
December 17, 201014 yr I am starting to become attracted to old elevators. Those shots are pretty awesome. I wouldn't be able to look down that shaft though. I would flip out haha. Three buildings needed to be demolished to make way for Kohl's. This was the only structure I felt was a real loss:
December 19, 201014 yr Central Pacific Railroad No. 1 "Governor Stanford" built 1862 by Richard Norris in Philadelphia, on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento.
December 20, 201014 yr Demolitions can be incredibly sexy. Sadly, most of the stuff built from the sixties on up isn't even sexy when it's being demolished - two-by-fours and plywood or chipboard sheathed in brick veneer! It doesn't even make a satisfying, resounding, dust-billowing crash when it comes down. :cry:
December 21, 201014 yr Virginia & Truckee No. 21 J.W. Bowker built 1875 in Philadelphia by Baldwin, on display at California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento
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