This is a one-off 1954 Buick RM-Landau. It was built by General Motors for the GM Motorama Show circuit. At the conclusion of that tour, as with all cars built for such a purpose, it was scheduled for destruction. However, the president of GM at that time, Harlow Curtis, issued a stay of execution. It was used to ferry top level executives around for a year and then was saved again by a top Buick executive who bought the car for himself.

It is powered by a standard Buick Fireball V8. There is a powered section of the roof, hidden by that cover, that can extend upward to isolate the passenger section. There is also an electric window that will rise to separate the front of the interior from the rear area.

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Hello all, I’ve been a photographer for 60 years. I have never owned a tripod. I always lived in the city and spent most of my time walking the streets. Recent health issues require I walk with a cane so I’m going to try my hand at landscape photography. I’ve watched a number of tripod shootouts on YouTube and I like the Sirui ST124 ST-Series Carbon Fiber Tripod with K-10X Arca-Type Ball Head. My question for anyone that has owned this is it worth $350? If not what would you suggest under $400? I’m six foot tall and my main camera is a Nikon D750. Thank you for the help. Marty

Enjoyed discussion of PRIME vs, ZOOM lenses. Now I would like to ask any one who used TELE EXTENDER supplemental lenses. For over 5 decades, 2X tele extender was very cheap alternative for getting your SLR
camera system, i.e. made a normal lens 50mm/f=1.4 to 100mm/f-2.8. The image quality in center was acceptable but edges are terrible. So, it was used for only portrait photography? Yes, it was very good special artistic tool.
Meanwhile, as optical design and production have been making great progress, I start using two tele extenders for my EF 70-200/2,8. They are small and light weight, 1.4X extender make my lens 105 to 300mm f=4.0. Then, the 2X piece making my relatively heavy big lens 140 to 400mm 5.6. Realized, sensor ISO can be good and much higher than film time, so I had better handling to shoot sport photography EF 300mm f=2.8. Since I borrowed such fast prime lens, I did not have time to make comparison. Is any one there shooting with modern improved tele extender's?

Some of you may remember a post of mine I put up a couple of years ago that featured this place. It's an absolute " pickers " gold mine. I stopped by again this past October and the old carriage I had coveted was still there. I tried to buy it last time but the old gal that owned the place wouldn't budge off of her unreasonable price.

The old lady died and the grandkids now own things. I struck a deal with them and bought it. A friend up there is storing it for me in his barn until I relocate it. Along with a few other pieces I've acquired, it will become a yard decoration item at a new home my wife and I hope to start soon near Roan Mountain, TN.

No rain or snow scheduled for this morning so I decided to play tourist and took a bus and a train to walk up on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Built by John Roebling, it opened in 1893 as a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge, and was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was during its construction that Caisson Disease (the bends) had to be addressed for the first time. 20 men died from it, and many others suffered permanently from the decompression sickness.
The first four images are walking towards Brooklyn. The next two are some of lower Manhattan that one can see walking back towards the subway. The green culo is the Woolworth building. The freedom tower, which is on the other side of Manhattan, can be seen to its left. The gold statue, 30 feet high, and facing away from the statue of liberty, is on the Municiple building, which was built after the five boroughs comprising NYC combined in 1898.
The 4 image pan is across from the foot of the bridge and is what one sees coming and going on the subway.
The dreamer and the squinter are just a couple of shots I grabbed while on the train and waiting for the bus.