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Ralf__ is on tour...

Ralf__ — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:27:25 GMT

I will be mostly quiet during the next three weeks, as i have been also during the passed two weeks.
A lot of travelling due to my job and holidays mean about 7.000km on the road during four weeks. My camera is with me and i will post some illustrations as soon as i am able to.
Have a good time. May be there will be a little jump-in from time to time.

Seismic Vessels of the World

ombugge — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:00:58 GMT

We have many pictures of Seismic vessels in various thread but they are so specialized that they do deserve their own thread.
I'll start of with a number of such vessels seen at a shipyard in Singapore yesterday.

The Geo Atlantic:

Pakarang View of Geo Atlantic:

The business end of Geo Atlantic:

She is set up for 10-streamers configuration.

To the 'Guests'

Sterkoder — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:34:04 GMT

Hi there, Guests!
Every day (on any given time, mostly) you are about 80-90 individuals in here, hopefully to look around and see what we are doing in here.
Why don't you sign up and join in...??
CVF needs traffic!!!!

A trip to Bod� Air Museum

Speedbird — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:33:53 GMT

A few pics from yesterdays visit to the Air Museum. A good test for my new camera :)

The museum is shaped like a two blade propeller with the main entrance and caf� in the hub and a military exhibit in the north blade and a civilian exhibit in the south blade. On top of the hub is the old control tower from Bod� airport.

An astronaut looking at the endless sky:

Looking north at the military section:

One of the many scale models, this depicts the early polar research flights:

S/T BORGENES - a goodbye

Sterkoder — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:11:06 GMT

S/T (Steam trawler) BORGENES has been moored in Kristiansund for years now, without any restauration being done except putting her on the slipway at Krimek every now and then to do maintenance on the hull below the waterline so she don't sink at the quay.

Just a handful of dedicated people saw any interest in the boat, and a few weeks ago they got the thumb down from the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway.

The group of people around BORGENES decided to end their work, and the vessel will most surely be broken up by locals.
Now that they have removed all the tarpaulins and other cover, she suddenly looked like a boat, and more open to be taken pictures of.

In the following posts, I will give you my "goodbye" to the old trawler, by posting pictures taken earlier this evening.

big names in the cars industry

janihudi — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:18:23 GMT

a facebook friend placed a message,

Caroll Shelby died on the age of 89.

http://autoblog.ca/reader/news/carro...dead-at-age-89

damn,the man that made my ultimate favorit car.
the AC COBRA

the first time i see this car was in the movie gumball rally.
love at first seight.
end of the rally,the parking place at QM.
it was a long surch to found out what that car was.
but the only one's i can pay, are models of her

(image lent from Lady E's 12 door garage)
1. A Shelby Cobra

my number 1 too

R.I.P Caroll

A ne web-page for ship- and shipping history

Sterkoder — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:30:48 GMT

For those interested in shipping history, a new web-page will see the light of day this evening, May 10th at 20:00 PM norwegian time.
The page is unfortunately in norwegian only, for the time being at least, but there are several interesting photos, and of course it's a 'Skipslogg' (Ship log).
I'm deep into the work of constructing the pages, and have the responsibility for the weekly ship log.

The grand release will take place at the time described above, but you're welcome to take a look inside as of right now.
(Some pages might be under construction right up until the release).

The page is the official website of Norwegian Shipping History Society Nordm�re in Kristiansund.

Link: www.skipshistorisk.no

Norwegian Air Power - 100 years

Sterkoder — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:18:40 GMT

For those interested in military air power and military aircraft, Norway is the place to be the last week-end in May to mid-June.
RNoAF is celebrating 100 years of military air power with huge airshows at different places. Old and historic up to modern norwegian military aircraft will be shown, and we will be visited by several foreign military aircraft along with known display teams...., Frecce Tricolori, Patrouille Swiss, Patrouille de France to mention a few.

It all start with Kristiansand/Kjevik 12. May, it moves along to �rland Main Air Station (home of 338 sqn and E-3A Sentry AWACS) 2. June, then Stavanger/Sola 9.-19. June and finally Bod� 16.-17. June.

Some links:
http://forsvaret.no/aktuelt/luftmakt...r/default.aspx

http://tigerairshow.com/en/

http://www.solaairshow.no/index.php/en/

http://bodoairshow.no/

One specially designed RNoAF F-16 will fly at the remaining shows. The top is, as you can see, painted in the norwegian colours, while the bottom has an ols classic silver finish, like our old F-5 fighters
(FOTO: AIM Norway/Erik T. Hoels�ter)

Kong Harald and Nordkapp in Harstad

Gaelsail — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:20:42 GMT

Short video of Kong Harald's arrival and Nordkapp's departure from Harstad on 21 March 2012

Could I please have the attention of the Admin or the highest ranking moderator please?

Titanic 6th officer — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:25:57 GMT

Hello. On enormous times I had contacted a mod or admin with no reply back?

Just wondering, Did you get my PM's?

Funny (or silly) Tee-shirts

ombugge — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:04:02 GMT

I always look for funny or silly Tee-shirts being worn by people, some knowingly and some have no idea that it either.
Here is an example to start off this thread:

Permission granted by the subject, (she's family) but I did crop the picture a bit anyhow.

Photo Assignment: Graveyards and cemeteries

Seagull — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:17:29 GMT

I�d been rather undecided about where to post some photographs I took a couple of days ago. They are certainly not at all a carefully selected and edited �own portfolio� of images that belong in the photo galleries of Rookie and Pro, yet taken in circumstances too �photograph-y� for a more places kind of thread in The World � Pilot Guides (where I�ve never felt up to starting a This is Edinburgh thread anyway).

Even when deciding on the Photo Assignments section, I hesitated regarding the Abbey's, Churches, Crosses, Crypts & Monasteries thread. Close, but not exactly� so in the end I�ve started this new assignment thread for Graveyards and cemeteries.

Actually there is one other thread that might, but not quite, have been a contender for these photos�. iPHONE photography , except that I don�t have anything like so smart a phone that it actually takes photos!!!!!! BUT � and I expect you can now see where all this is going � I have recently become the proud owner of a new (i.e. v3) iPad. �Paddy� to his friends!

So last Thursday I was at my place in town and went out to vote in the local elections. Strolling back, for the weather had changed to unexpectedly sunny, I was about to continue past the gates of the Dean Cemetery but instead went inside. I did not have my camera with me, but I did have Paddy in my bag and time to spare. Wouldn�t it be interesting to try out the camera facility on the iPad!

As well as simply seeing what the camera function was capable of doing, finding out what to press, and generally getting used to handling the pad without putting my hand over the actual camera, I decided to approach this photo assignment in a �what if� sort of way. What if I was away somewhere on my travels and just as I�d arrived at a special place my camera had failed? Yes pakarang, even a Nikon! Actually while looking at photos I�d taken in Thailand recently the thought suddenly struck me that I�d had no back up had that happened. (I had in Antarctica back in 2005�and lent it to a fellow passenger who found himself in exactly that situation on his holiday of a lifetime.)

I�d thought that I would be restricted to a more wide-angle approach than I would have tended to do with my Nikon zoom lens. Not a bad thing at all to be encouraged to take wider shots more often. However, now that I�ve seen the results from the iPad on the computer I realise I could also have taken more shots with the specific intention of enlarging the thing of interest, and I�ll have a go with that in mind next time. There are plenty of megapixels to spare! Otherwise the only things I missed that I'd do with �big camera� would be those unusual angles and depth of field type shots �another thing to do on another occasion.

So these first photos from Paddy are only slightly cropped or not at all, with the minimum of additional processing, resized as usual for posting here, and in general treated just as I would any set of images from my Nikon.

I should also add that I have already posted iPad photos of a restaurant meal�and Paddy really is the camera of choice in that situation where one may need to be discreet and not disturbing other diners�I�d have to stand up, move chairs around and generally be far too conspicuous with �big camera�! Exactly like I was in that same restaurant to get the shots you can see in the preceding posts of that thread.

Japanese Food

ombugge — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:23:21 GMT

Can I interest you in a Japanese meal, know as Shabu-Shabu???
Since it was the eve before Vesak Day (today) no beef, only pork and vegetables this time:

It all goes in here:

Then it is only to take one piece of the meat with your chop sticks and "shabu-shabu" it back and forward in the broth for a few seconds, until it is cooked.

Simple and good.

Amels 55m luxury yacht "Step One" in Bergen

Tom McNikon — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:46:09 GMT

"The brand new Amels 55m motor yacht, Step One, has completed her first day out at sea. And with all tests completed to the full satisfaction of Lloyds Register
and the Owner’s Representative, Moran Yachts & Ship, Amels can proceed with a very full order book."
www.superyachts.com - 11 April 2012

The yacht is now in Bergen and I don't know for how long, but the yacht was very welcome for my lens :) Only 3 weeks after it was finished with the last sea-trials.

Step One by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

Step One by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

Step One by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

..and here along with the 33m yacht Sagamar of Norway

Sagamar & Step One by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

Sagamar & Step One by Tom McNikon, on Flickr

Georges Simenon and Hurtigruten

yvneac — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:22:34 GMT

In March and April 1930 Georges Simenon (Maigret's father) sails from Bergen to Kirkenes on a coastle line ship.Here is a link about this trip.
www.trussel.com/maig/figaro2e.htm