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Shot with Ilford FP4+.  Schneider 58mm Super Angulon XL.

https://mkhardy.com/2020/11/27/osterley-gardens-large-format-film/

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Isleworth Drawdock is a stretch of vertical river wall with regularly spaced piles and a riverbed suitable for taking the ground, that is directly accessible by road. Isleworth is practically unlimited in the size of vessel it can accommodate.

Shot in large format film.

https://mkhardy.com/2021/07/11/janny-isleworth-drawdock/

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Fiona Apple and Sebastian Steinberg - Tintype photos by Giles Clement.

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Finally got chance to get down to Richmond Lock at low tide. 

Richmond Lock and Footbridge is a lock, rising and falling low-tide barrage integrating controlled sluices and pair of pedestrian bridges on the River Thames in south west London, England and is a Grade II listed structure.  It is the furthest downstream of the forty-five Thames locks and the only one owned and operated by the Port of London Authority.

Shot in large format film. 

https://mkhardy.com/2021/05/01/richmond-lock/

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MIRRORS: CHAPTER 6

Summary: Patoto and Kinpa are on another mission in Villainverse.  However, things are getting a little dicey for the pair…

Author Notes: heyyy this’ll be the first chapter posted in the new format!  i’m leaving the comic version of the first bit of this chapter up b/c i did work hard on those but i’ve rewritten that part as well.  i hope you enjoy what i have for you, and thank you so much for sticking with me through this project so far!

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Cambrian Explosion Month #24: Phylum Mollusca – Coats of Mail

Much like Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia, the evolutionary relationships of a group called the halkieriids have been debated for a long time. These animals looked like “slugs in chain mail”, covered in thousands of tiny overlapping mineralized armor plates along with a larger shell plate at each end.

In the past they’ve been assigned to different parts of the lophotrochozoan family tree, sometimes being placed closer to annelids or brachiopods, but at this point they’re generally accepted to be molluscs. The spiny species Orthrozanclus may link halkieriids with wiwaxiids in a larger “halwaxiid” lineage of early molluscs – or they might instead be early members of a group called aculiferans. 

Aculiferans are represented in modern times by chitons and aplacophorans, and they’re distinguished from all other molluscs by having either eight shell valves (chitons) or no shell at all and a worm-like body covered with tiny calcareous spines (aplacophorans).

(Also chitons are especially weird, with magnetite teeth and thousands of eyes in their armor plates.)

A related fossil species called Calvapilosa kroegeri from the early Ordovician of Morocco (~480 million years ago) seems to link halkieriids with aculiferans, placing the chain-mail-slugs as a stem lineage close to the common ancestor of modern forms.

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Halkieria evangelista is the best known species of halkieriid, found in the Sirius Passet fossil deposits in Greenland (~518 million years ago). Up to 8cm long (~3"), it was preserved with all of its armor fully articulated, making it vital in our understanding of the appearance of other halkieriid species that are generally only found as scattered separate pieces.

But those little isolated pieces are incredibly common and widespread, known from Early Cambrian deposits all around the world between about 530 and 513 million years ago – and if halkieriids were aculiferans this suggests their ancestors diverged very early in mollusc evolution, possibly in the late Ediacaran.

While halkieriids largely disappeared after 513 million years ago, fossils from the Canadian Burgess Shale (~508 million years ago) and Australia (~507 million years ago) indicate that the group survived for a little while longer, at least into the mid-Cambrian.

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One of the earliest definite aculiferans is Qaleruaqia sodermanorum from the Aftenstjernesø Formation in Greenland (~516-513 million years ago).

Only known from a few isolated shell plates, its full appearance and size is uncertain. But based on other fossil aculiferans it was probably a worm-like animal around 1cm long (0.4") with a total of eight shells running along its back. Numerous microscopic holes in its shells may represent sensory pores similar to those in modern chitons.

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kento nanami as you boyfriend

[a/n: trying out a new format and debating on making this a jjk series? we will see we will see- also going back to black divider since my theme idea might change- again- sorry bout that]

-> first off- mornings with this man? the best. he has breakfast down to a science and is a pro at making waffles to the point where you regularly wake up to the smell of them cooking on the griddle wafting through the apartment, and when you get into the kitchen, there’s a stack of them piled high on the counter, toppings adjacent for you to pile on at your choosing

-> whenever his eyes land on you, he’s right behind you, arms snaking around your waist pressing a good morning kiss onto the top of your head. and he’s always so warm- even in the middle of summer, he’s your personal furnace

-> likes to read the newspaper after breakfast and always invites you to either sit with him or in his lap while he reads if you want. if you chose to sit in his lap, he’s stroking your hair the whole time, every once in a while pointing to an article and asking you your thoughts

-> he also does the cross word puzzles in the newspapers as well and while he rarely gets stumped, you’re the first person he goes to when he does

-> he absolutely adores classical music and old jazz/swing music- at least a few times a week you both’ll slow dance to frank sinatra or art tatum at night in the kitchen after doing the dishes or in the living room underneath the morning sunlight- its fucking adorable

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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE / IRISES / 1987

large-format photogravure on chine-collé 34 ¼ × 32 in (87 × 81.3 cm)