Still life photography of a bar of Swiss Toblerone chocolate with an accompanying text from one of my other blogs.
Eating Europe piece by piece.
Not today but did eat this rather large bar of Toblerone chocolate straight from Switzerland.
In all, you could definitely eat it one rib a time but nothing too special I should say.
This one is dark but I prefer white and yellow Toblerone.
However this bar of choc was not the largest piece of chocolate I ate, I had something much bigger once.
In a bird-watching mode now, and here are two Eurasian Jays sighted in Moscow earlier this week.
My first sighting of them in Moscow, I have and see (and even feed) plenty of them at my place in the country but it's a first time sighing in the city.
Too bad I didn't have with me my dedicated bird watching kit mainly consisting of a Nikon P900 with its superior zoom and it even has an in-built bird watching mode.
These exposures are achieved with a Sony RX100 m2.
Today.
Spring with Ruddy Shelducks in Moscow.
Snow has thawed... in the city at least.
Exhibition photography with a Sony rx100 m2 and an (old) iPhone SE.
No additional equipment, used mainly P mode (and not entirely satisfactorily) on the Sony; and no editing as per usual.
And so here are some 70 photos from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds Exhibition in Moscow visited in March 2021
Body Worlds ad board, at Pavilion No. 21.
There was a line for 15-20 minutes to enter, price of admission RUB 1,000.
Some info on the founder and inventor himself.
Description of the Plastination process in English.
And now hit the jump for actual photos from the exhibition.
"The 4th generation M5 is a monster saloon that easily exceeds 300 km/h."The BMW M5 based on the S-generation E60 5 Series, first appeared in March 2004 at the Geneva Motor Show. Details were shrouded in secrecy at first, but BMW revealed the whole package around the time of the Paris Motor Show that September.
Drawing the most interest was the engine, a 5.0-liter V-10. It featured a 90-degree bank angle and a high strength cast-iron crankshaft, supported by six bearings for extra structural strength housed in a lightweight aluminum crankcase. It incorporated BMW's double-VANOS system, a mechanism that independently varied the valve timing of both the intake and exhaust valves. Each cylinder had its own throttle body with variable throttle valves. The result was 500 HP/7750 rpm and 384.0 lb-ft of torque. The close proximity of peak power delivery to the rev limit of 8250 rpm meant that the power plant constantly produced power all the way to the redline. The 1755 kg car ran from zero to 62 mph in a scant 4.7 seconds and boasted a top speed of 205 mph (with the 155 mph restrictor removed).
The gearbox was also noteworthy in that it was the company's all new 7-speed SMG. Besides launch control, the transmission also featured six manual and five automatic shift modes, each with their own shift speed and response, allowing finer control in a variety of driving conditions.
Introduced to the European market in January 2005, the M5 represented ultimate sports sedan of the 21st century.
