Shot with the Olympus E-M1 in Venice, Italy.

This photo has been in Explore on January 26, 2023. Highest position = #83. This is my 191st photo in Explore.

Entrance tunnel to the 1 Train at 191st Street

Over the weekend this tunnel which connects Broadway to the 191st Street Subway Station had it's murals and graffiti painted over. The community was outraged and almost immediately the walls were re-tagged and painted. It's a big news story here in New York.

While I was there this skateboarder flew by.

Explore # 141 on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 - the 191st

A shot from Victoria Peak.

191st Street Tunnel

Entrance tunnel to the 1 Train at 191st Street

New art installation in the #1 train - 191st Street Station tunnel that leads from the street to the subway

This is the work of Queen Andrea called "Prismatic Power Phrases"

191st Street tunnel, Washington Heights

Army Aviation Heritage Foundation Sky Soldiers showing off the capabilities of this Bell UH-1 series Iroquois helicopter, more commonly known as the "Huey". This particular helicopter was manufactured in 1969 and served with 191st Assault Helicopter Company during the Vietnam War with over 1200 combat flight hours. The 191st was nicknamed the "Boomerangs" because boomerangs always come home. Considered to be the most widely used helicopter in the world, with more than 9,000 produced from the 1950s to the present, the Huey is flown today by about 40 countries.

Title is from Shirley Jackson's novel "The Haunting Of Hill House"

Tunnel to the 191st Street Subway Station on the 1 train

The tunnel entrance to the 191st Street Station of the 1 train was repainted. It's pretty, it's decorative and I am sure it will be vandalized and painted over soon. The Department of Transportation selected 6 artists to paint the tunnel - they used stencils and had the help of people from the community to paint the designs. All great ideas but the result is underwhelming with too much blank space.

This part of the tunnel was painted by Artmandan/Daniel Bonilla

Air Fete 1987 - RAF Mildenhall

Scanned from 35mm Negative

My 191st Explored photo !

I processed this one about 5 times. I felt it had potential but just couldn't get it right. Still not sure about it. I just want to see what you guys think? It's 3 exposures hand held. From 7 stories up on 191st street & St. Nick...

Now in their 191st year of brewing in the Pottsville Area, Yuengling's Port Carbon plant receives loads behind RBMN SD50 5017.

The entrance tunnel for the 1 train at 191st Street specifically bans riding bicycles, while walking through I saw at least 5 fly by.

I don’t ride the train into town very often, but whenever I do I almost always spot interesting looking potential stranger models. However, I’ve never acted on those opportunities because it has never felt right. It just seems too awkward to ask someone to pose in the tight quarters of a populated transit car.

The other night I was riding into town when the person who would become my 191st stranger boarded the train and sat right next to me. Although I had not planned on any stranger portraits that night, my stranger meter was going haywire at the sight of Keezy, and I knew I had to figure out a way to photograph him. The train was very crowded, so photographing him right there was not going to work. Therefore I started our conversation by asking him if he was going all the way downtown. Once he replied in the affirmative, I began to explain my purpose and to see if he would be willing to pose for me once we disembarked. During my spiel, I showed him some of my other stranger photos, and those definitely piqued his interest. As we chatted, Keezy divulged to me that he is a recording artist, and he also expressed an interest in using the photos from our shoot for his own promotional purposes. Of course I was game for that, and I began to think I may have a full blown photo shoot awaiting for me once we got to our destination.

Even though I was thrilled to have received Keezy’s cooperation for a portrait, two major challenges lay ahead of me. The first was that the sun was about to dip below the horizon, and I was painfully aware that good light was going to be a rapidly decreasing commodity. The second challenge did not present itself until we disembarked. It turned out Keezy was accompanied by a couple friends (seated elsewhere in the train car), and they were not particularly interested in hanging around for a photo shoot. Keezy was kind-of caught in the middle between his friends, who were in a hurry to get to their destination, and me, who needed to stop to find a suitable location for a portrait. I tagged along with the group for a couple of blocks hoping to find my opportunity. When we turned onto Prospect Avenue, I recalled my ‘Stranger #107 : Logan’ portrait from three years ago was captured on this street. I immediately decided that the area in which that portrait was taken would work again for this circumstance.

“Hey Keezy…there is some really cool graffiti right up the street here. It would be perfect for a portrait.” Moments later, we arrived at my forecast graffiti wall, and Keezy was in agreement that this spot was ideal. Therefore, at that point Keezy’s friends had to put on the brakes so that the two of us could take a few minutes to create this portrait.

Check out the rest of the stranger street portraits in my project at Paco's 100 Strangers Project and find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.

I am an original....

Let the Good Times Roll

I can only be me..... and sometimes that is good enough

thanks to my lil buddy Gabe for letting me borrow his hat

I was so bringing sexy back

after this photo was taken

I LOST 20lbs because I saw these shots of myself (HOORAY BEER)

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Explore #429 and dropped before I saw it....

This is my #191st to make Explore woohoo

Imagine stepping off the elevator and being greeted by this. Artist Tally Dopesick

Photos of this series: tinyurl.com/y7w3kfh5

Population 165.000 ( Dec. 31. 2015 ) ( Metropolitan Region `Bremen / Oldenburg´ 2.4 million people )

New art installation in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the subway at the 191st Street Station on the 1 train.

Painted by various artists - each artist or group was given 200 feet in the tunnel.

When I walked through on the first day that the tunnel was reopened to the public there were still 2 groups of artists working on their designs.

Artist Cope2's "Art is Life"

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**** This frame was chosen on October 1st 2020 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #330. This is my 191st photograph to be selected.

I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 37.279+ Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****

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This Thirty seconds long exposure was taken at an altitude of Zero metres, in the golden hour around sunrise at 06:20am on Tuesday 24th September 2019 around sunrise off 1st Street and Bevan Avenue, between the boat jetty and Bevan Avenue Fishing Pier in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The Bevan Avenue fishing pier is one of the main focal points in Sidney, and Work commenced on the pier in 1993 with Phase one, a 90 metre straight section being completed in 1996. A year later the 110 metre Phase two section was completed.

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Nikon D850 Focal length 24mm Shutter speed 30 seconds long exposure. Aperture f/16.0 iso1250 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR.Lee SW150 MKII filter holder. Lee SW150 77mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 0.9 (3 stops) ND Grad soft resin. Lee SW150 Filters field pouch. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.Manfrotto 055XPROB Tripod 3 Sections (Payload: 5.6kgs). Manfrotto 327RC2 Light Duty Grip Ball Magnesium Tripod Head (Payload: 5.5kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag.Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release cable.

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This isn't very far from where I live but I hadn't been down this street but I wanted to get a picture of something that was on Rosa Road and I thought I could get it from the car across the street.. What a surprise to find this beautiful fence at the end of the cul de sac.. That turned out to be a twofer... Happy Fence Friday, Everybody!!!</b?

Here is the 191st installment for my dc Figures

Left-Right

Forager: I really like how he turned out, I might tackle a young justice version down the line

Cyborg Superman: no matter how much I love the new 52 design, I don’t love any combos that I can come up with. It’s that stupid head I tell ya lol. So this version it is for now

Fiddler: Too goofy to pass up

© Steve Kelley 2008

Riding the train out to work gave me an idea which I'll try to develop over time...

This is a shot from the 1 train at the 191st Street station as the train is zipping by since I was in the first car.

Please view on black and large:

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Air Fete 1987 - RAF Mildenhall

Scanned from 35mm Negative

191st Street Subway Tunnel, 1 Train, MTA, New York City.

The infamous pedestrian tunnel of 191st Street Station

Manhattan

New York City, September 2023

The 191 Street Station, the deepest in the system, is one of the most unique stations in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

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While I was shooting a surrealist self portrait yesterday, I noticed three women taking photographs in an alleyway nearby. I continued on with my work, but as they approached I said hello. The tallest one watched me working off my tripod rather bemused, and she asked what I was doing. I told her, and explained the process.

Deb is a photography student, Taylor is her daughter, and Makayla is her daughter in law. They were just out enjoying the fair weather, and Deb asked if she could photograph me while I work, I told her only if I could photograph her group and I explained the 100 Strangers project. I took this rather uninspired portrait, and I invited them to stop by my studio down the street.

Thank you ladies for being the 191st stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.

Day 322/366 of Project 365 (Tuesday, 2020 November 17 - 191st consecutive daily photo): As the sun peaks it's head above the horizon, it paints the tops of the trees lining the shoreline of Crescent Lake a magnificent shade of orange that contrats nicely with the dark blue western sky. Just as I was about to say this would make a great combination for the uniforms of a college sports team, I found this article:

www.alligatorarmy.com/2016/9/17/12953460/florida-gators-u...

UP 4014 is rolling northbound on BNSF's Hinckley Subdivision at Cedar, near Andover, Minn.

This picture was shot at the 191st Street stop of the #1 train subway. This 1,000-foot-long tunnel connects its station at St. Nicholas Avenue to an entrance on Broadway. Graffiti and street art brighten up the tunnel, as you can see here.

Air Fete 1987 - RAF Mildenhall

Scanned from 35mm Negative

This tunnel leads to the 191st St station for the 1 line in New York. It was painted in 2015 as part of a beautification project, but much of the artwork has since been covered in graffiti.

Geilenkirchen AB, Germany

Seen in Maria's Garden, NJ.

191st Explore

I'd been eyeing this fence for some time but there wasn't room to stop on the road.. I finally decided to pull into 191st and just stop there and take the shot thru the windshield.. That was a nice thing because I got a bonus.. There was another fence in the cul de sac that I was able to shoot also... Happy Fence Friday, Everybody!!!!

Headstones similar to this can be seen in many cemeteries across the USA.

In 1890 Joseph Cullen Root founded Woodmen of the World, after hearing a sermon about "pioneer woodsmen clearing away the forest to provide for their families." Taking his own surname to heart, he wanted to start a society that "would clear away problems of financial security for its members.”

The history of this organization includes numerous philanthropic efforts, community outreach projects, a program to donate American flags, and broadcast interests that were to own the first television station where Johnny Carson worked.

An enduring physical legacy of the organization is distinctive headstones in the shape of a tree stump. This was an early benefit of Woodmen of the World membership, and they are found in cemeteries nationwide. This program was abandoned in the late 1920s as it was too costly. Typically the headstones would include a stump or felled tree; the maul and wedge; and an axe. As Woodmen "do not lie", a common inscription was "Here rests a Woodman of the World".

The organization survives today as WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) as a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society.

See Wikipedia.

Also see agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2011/06/woodmen-of-world-and-...

For We’re Here!, today visiting Plants, Plants, Plants, Plants,and more Plants,

My image is a composite of my own photos from the Yountville Pioneer Cemetery, and two source images provided by jus tt for fun -- see the originals in the first comment box below. This is my entry in the 191st Treat This event at Kreative People.