Archive for March 2010
TR6 and Sharpness
You can take the word “sharp” to mean a lot of things. In this case I’m applying to the crispness of a very cool automobile… My love of TR6s is enhanced by this photo. For starters I love the color! I love the clean surface of green with the saddle interior and the snap of those red-line tires. Like a drive on a crisp autumn morning this TR6 has it all!
I did some playing with the sharpening tool in Adobe Elements – to the point where I think you could put your fingers into the tread of the tires.
Fun Times at Jalopy Joe’s
Word has it, that if you enter here for the evening’s entertainment, you’ll come out a whole different person!
Fun Times at Jalopy Joe's
TooJay’s in Chevy Town
TooJay’s Gourmet Deli is a wonderful Jewish Deli-Restaurant in Central Florida. Love the potato pancakes, love the corned beef sandwiches. Breakfast and brunch are crowded for a good reason – it’s wonderful!
These Chevys were clean and lean. Great looking cars and fun to watch and remember past times and think about who had this car when you were a kid, or a young adult – or “My Dad had one of these!”
I rendered these in “grunge” – i thought it was the best fit.
TooJays in Chevy Town - The Villages, FL
Week’s Work
Over the past couple of weeks a took a couple hundred photos, but didn’t have much time to work with them, post-processing and so on. Next week proves to just as busy, I can’t seem to breath Monday thru Friday. Living for the weekends here! I’m in one of those situations where I can’t relax. I have a pile of books I want to read, but I can’t relax enough to read even five pages. I have three high-profile projects, and I have to keep my wits about me. I wish I could retire, but that’s just not in the cards right now.
Fishing - Lake Eustis
Night Sky
Top Drawer - College Park
California Special
Woof Vroom Vroom
Fat Fender
Fill – er – Up
Over at the Chart House in Daytona beach are are million-dollar yachts docked along the inter coastal waterway, their Captains trading stocks with on-board internet connectivity. Just down the street is a look back seventy years – this old filling station now serving cold drinks on a wooden patio.
Transformations
Famous Baxter's in Hyannis
Mr. Grant
World's Most Famous Beach
Get Discovered!
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’55 Porsche Speedster
55 Porsche Speedster
| General specifications | |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Chassis number | 550-04 / 550-015 / 550-0030 |
| Numbers built | 78 |
| Produced from | 1954 – 1955 |
| Body design | Erwin Komenda |
| Engine | |
| Configuration | Type 547 B 4 |
| Location | Mid, longitudinally mounted |
| Construction | aluminium block and head |
| Displacement | 1.498 liter / 91.4 cu in |
| Bore / Stroke | 85.0 mm (3.3 in) / 66.0 mm (2.6 in) |
| Compression | 9.5:1 |
| Valvetrain | 2 valves / cylinder, DOHC |
| Fuel feed | 2 Solex PJJ Carburettors |
| Aspiration | Naturally Aspirated |
| Drivetrain | |
| Chassis/body | aluminium body on tubular steel ladder frame |
| Front suspension | twin parallel arms, transverse torsion bars |
| Rear suspension | swing axles, torsion bars, double-acting telescopic shock absorbers |
| Steering | worm and nut |
| Brakes | drums, all-round |
| Gearbox | 4 speed Manual |
| Drive | Rear wheel drive |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 612 kilo / 1349.2 lbs |
| Length / Width / Height | 3600 mm (141.7 in) / 1540 mm (60.6 in) / 1050 mm (41.3 in) |
| Wheelbase / Track (fr/r) | 2101 mm (82.7 in) / 1290 mm (50.8 in) / 1250 mm (49.2 in) |
| Performance figures | |
| Power | 110 bhp / 82 KW @ 6200 rpm |
| Torque | 120 Nm / 89 ft lbs @ 5000 rpm |
| BHP/Liter | 73 bhp / liter |
| Power to weight | 0.18 bhp / kg |
| Top Speed | 220 km/h / 137 mph |
Drunk on the Kool-Aide
OK, I admit it. My name is Paul, and I’m an HDR-aholic! There! I said it. I’ve been sloppy drunk on HDR lately – I can’t seem to stop myself. I know it may be a bit over-the-top. In some ways it really grabs you and is easy on the eyes. In other ways — well, it’s a bit much. I’ll be doing this for awhile if you want to leave and come back in a couple of weeks. If you think it looks OK, then hang around.
I was in Orlando yesterday at a meeting at the Citrus Club (la-de-da). Terrible meeting, but I took some photos from the top floor where the dining area is. I’ve always loved emeralds and sapphires – and that’s what I was trying for with these two buildings.
Emeralds and Sapphires
I took this next one a year ago in Altamonte Springs at Cranes Roost Park. Its the tower of … @* ? I dunno what the tower is supposed to be for or what it represents. Its just this faux, artsy-fartsy tower here in Central Florida.
Artsy-Fartsy Tower at Cranes Roost Park in Altamonte Springs, FL
