Your Today in Pictures...

[Dominique De Bast]

Alexandria in Egypt

[Dominique De Bast]

No need to say where those pictures were taken, I think 😀

[Graham Ritchie]

Brilliant Dominique

[Steve Klare]

Nicely Done, Dominique!

-It's been a long time since anybody added a whole new Continent to "Your Day in Pictures"!

[Dominique De Bast]

Glad you like the pictures. I'm still in Egypt, in a small oasis close to the Libyan border. I'm staying in a hotel for...€ 5 a night.

[Graham Ritchie]

Fantastic Dominique

We were up at a place called "Arthurs Pass" yesterday, its just over 2hrs driving the distance of 149 km that's about 92 miles. We are into spring time at the moment, with the temp up there about the 6C mark. The weather like the road conditions were perfect, there are many good walks at "Arthurs Pass", some more ambitious to do than others. We decided just to do the "Devils Punchbowl" which is fairly easy going so took a couple of photos. It certainly brought back long ago memories of when we used to go there a lot. Afterwards armed with our own lunch packs and drinks we found a nice BBQ table spot and enjoyed taking in the views

[Douglas Meltzer]

Dominique & Graham,

Terrific photos! Dominique, what are the two structures in that bottom picture?

[Dominique De Bast]

Doug, they are dovecotes. I'm impressed by the beauty of those constructions.



This one looks older.

[Graham Ritchie]

On our way last Saturday to "Arthurs Pass" we stopped at a place called "Springfield". Its about there that there is a sign to let folk no if the pass is open or not. In the winter they recommend to take chains. Anyway, note the name connection of the place and this doughnut. What caught my eye was the old hotel. I remember calling in there a few times in the past, great place for a stop.

[Dominique De Bast]

I took the opportunity of my stay in London (for the Group 9.5' Get Together, yesterday), to go today to Southend-on-Sea, which is about one hour by train from UK's capital. The main purpose of my visit there was to meet John Salim, the gentleman who process reversal movie colour stocks. I wished to pick up four 9.5 films I had sent him for processing since he seems to be, at the moment, the only one capable of that. Every nine-fivers who used his services are complète completely satisfayed so I took the plunge as well. By arriving by train the city looked nice so I decided to make a short visit after having seen John Salim (and havin g had a good chat wiyh him), some British members probably know.


Season's tradition respected !

[Steve Klare]

Amphibious Update: CineSea 25

As I often do, I brought my scratch-built WW2 Ford Amphibious Jeep model with me to CineSea. Maybe somebody needs to make a rule here, but people that don't have a pool at their house really shouldn't build one of these: all of our friends that have pools know this thing well! -yes, I'll drop by and feed your cat while you are away, but while I'm there...

For the first time since my son went to college, I have a co-pilot here. Greg Perry has taken an interest in this project for some years and I invited him to enjoy it with me. (Fine by me: I'm getting a little mature to work both sides of that pool!)
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Here, Claus has caught us in a moment of electrical crisis! (-note the concentration!)

Also note the pronounced list to starboard (-or is that "right" in an amphibious vehicle?). We really aren't taking on water, but the batteries have just died and we are waiting for the wind to push the thing to shore. You'd expect it to gradually slow down, but it got right out in the middle of the pool and basically said "Nope!".

My Electrical instincts are no worse than average even on a bad day, but that day they were doing pretty well! It so happens I had two fresh "C" cells in my coat pocket. We brought the Jeep up on the diving board (-great work bench! -who'da thought?!), took off the top deck and replaced the batteries.

-after that, it was smooth sailing!
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Enjoy Group 9.5 Get-Together, Dominique!

(-and if you also have a tiny watercraft, may the pool be both clean and available!)

[Lincoln Thorn]

Tis the season!

[Graham Ritchie]

Steve you need to be careful, I am sure I saw Doug submarine in stealth mode slowly moving towards your Amphibious Jeep at the far corner of the picture

[Steve Klare]

I had a thought the other day: I'm going to go on E-bay and buy a broken radio control, cheap. Then I'm going to sit next to a lake and just move the controls around. Somebody walks up and asks what I'm doing, I'll say "Radio control submarine!. I just dived, if you come back in an hour, I'll surface."😊

-for the Jeep, my son and I want to launch it into a lake and paddle alongside in canoes: keep it out of trouble!

[Ed Gordon]

Today in history
October 26, 1922

In 1924, a film crew headed by famed Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille is forced off Mount Rainier’s Nisqually Glacier by blizzard conditions. DeMille is shooting “The Golden Bed,” with the mountain standing in for the Swiss Alps. DeMille and a crew of 40 arrived in Tacoma in mid-October, in preparation for shooting the Alpine scenes. But conditions on the mountain changed so quickly that DeMille had to abandon $20,000 in lighting and film equipment on the glacier. DeMille's crew eventually retrieves the equipment. DeMille, speaking later at the Tacoma Hotel, calls Rainier “the grandest mountain in the world.” (Compiled from HistoryLink.org)

Source: Seattle Times

With more than 13,000 feet of exposed film in their possession (footage that was, to the company, more precious than the equipment they left behind on the glacier), the blizzard incident marked an end to DeMille's shooting schedule on Mount Rainier. After appearing before local reporters the day following the incident, the cast and crew of The Golden Bed beat a hasty retreat from Tacoma at 1:05 a.m. on October 28, 1924, traveling back to Hollywood in a special train car.

Link to article: https://www.historylink.org/File/7337