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as we were walking back to our hotel after seeing the Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps, i spotted this cool looking tunnel entrace that had a bluish glow to it...i decided right away to set up for some light trails and it didn't take long as buses were plentiful in this route...in fact, you can see several tour coach buses illegally parked right inside the tunnel...this part must be at the bottom pf the hill coz as soon as we crossed this crosswalk going towards a narrow street, it was 2 blocks of uphill walk towards the hotel...this tunnel is 350meters long, opened in 1902 and connects Via Nazionale and Viadel Trione...have a great evening guys...pls. View On Black
This will be the cake for all the flayers, poster etc. for the first Germany cake show "die Tortenshow" ;) Everything made from fondant
Thanks for looking!
McMichael art gallery Canadian Art Collections from the Group of Seven , sometimes known as the Algonquin School and other Canadian artists , Martin’s photographs , Kleinburg , Ontario , Canada , February 4. 2020
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snow
Wooden fence
IPhone XR
Martin’s photographs
Favourites
Paintings of the group of seven
McMichael
McMichael art gallery
Canadian Art Collection of the Group of seven
Canadian Artists
Kleinburg
Museum
Canadian Art
Art gallery
The Group of seven
Tom Thomson was never a member of the group of seven
Tom Thomson
J.E.H. MacDonald
Emily Carr a closely associated with the group of seven
Lawren Harris
Franklin Carmichael
A.Y. Jackson
Frank Johnson
Arthur Lismer
Frederick Varley
Ontario
Canada
February 2020
Wooden railings
Wooden stairway
#472: As of 7/27/22, under Flickr's popularity rankings of my 3200+ pics, this is listed as #472 in "interestingness."
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As described further in my September 22, 2020 Update on my flickr profile page, I have launched another retrospective series, this one featuring my earliest CD pics dating from 1989-2003. There are various reasons described there for rolling out this series, and know that this is not just a re-posting of old pics. This is a new more-authentic look at some classic pics of mine.
This pic is from January 14, 2003. I took a week off from work to get made up and be out en femme in public on 6 days. On this Day #6, I got a makeover at a beauty school in San Rafael, CA. It was typical for me then to go to beauty schools rather than beauty salons, since I preferred the schools for the greater attention, curiosity, and flattery from the young trainees and their instructors. At salons, the makeup job has felt more "transactional" - and are considerably more expensive of course. Let me know what you think, and if you've had similar experiences at beauty schools and salons.
For this day, I wore a brand new outfit, including the following:
* my auburn-colored wig;
* tan strappy high-heel sandals from Macys;
* a tan matching handbag;
* a light-brown abstract/floral-print cap-sleeve v-neck short dress;
* (in some pics) an ivory open-knit tie-front cardigan sweater;
* nude ultra-sheer pantyhose;
* nude press-on long nails;
* gold bracelets, necklace, rings, and earrings.
I think this day again involved a wonderful makeover, and I felt like a beautiful young woman. What would you think if you saw me?
Let me know your thoughts... :-)
The Hialeah Park Race Track (also known as the Miami Jockey Club or Hialeah Race Track or Hialeah Park) is a historic racetrack in Hialeah, Florida. Its site covers 40 square blocks of central-east side Hialeah from Palm Avenue east to East 4th Avenue, and from East 22nd Street on the south to East 32nd Street on the north. On March 5, 1979, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Another listing for it was added in 1988. The Hialeah Park Race Track is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Hialeah Station at Palm Avenue and East 21st Street.
The Hialeah Park Race Track is one of the oldest existing recreational facilities in southern Florida. Originally opened in 1922 by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and his partner, Missouri cattleman James H. Bright, as part of their development of the town of Hialeah, Florida, Hialeah Park opened as a greyhound racing track operated by the Miami Kennel Club. The Miami Jockey Club launched Hialeah's Thoroughbred horse racing track on January 25, 1925. The facility was severely damaged by the 1926 hurricane and in 1930 was sold to Philadelphia horseman Joseph E. Widener. With Kentucky horseman Col. Edward R. Bradley as an investor, Widener hired architect Lester W. Geisler to design a complete new grandstand and Renaissance Revival clubhouse facilities along with landscaped gardens of native flora and fauna and a lake in the infield that Widener stocked with flamingos. Hailed as one of the most beautiful racetracks in the world, Hialeah Park officially opened on January 14, 1932. An Australian totalisator for accepting parimutuel betting was the first to be installed in America. The park became so famous for its flamingo flocks that it has been officially designated a sanctuary for the American Flamingo by the Audubon Society.
In 1987, the horse-racing movie Let It Ride, with Richard Dreyfuss, Terri Garr, and Jennifer Tilly, had most of its principal film photography shot at Hialeah Park. Hialeah Park also made an appearance in Public Enemies but most scenes were shot in the Midwest. The Champ (1979) with Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder filmed scenes on Flamingo Day, 3/4/78.
Hialeah Park Racetrack was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1979. On January 12, 1988, the property was determined eligible for designation as a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior.
In 2001, Hialeah Park stopped hosting racing after a change in state law kept it from having exclusive dates in its competition with Gulfstream Park and Calder Race Course. Consequently, owner John Brunetti closed Hialeah Park to the public. The filly Cheeky Miss won the last thoroughbred race run at Hialeah on May 22, 2001. Among the races the track hosted was the appropriately named Flamingo Stakes, an important stepping stone to the Kentucky Derby for 3-year-old horses, and the once prestigious Widener Handicap, a major race for horses four years and older that was the East Coast counterpart to the Santa Anita Handicap in California. Important annual stakes races that were run annually until 2001 were:
Flamingo Stakes
Widener Handicap
Bahamas Stakes
Black Helen Handicap
Bougainvillea Handicap
Everglades Stakes
Hialeah Turf Cup Handicap
Hibiscus Stakes
McLennan Handicap
Royal Palm Handicap
Seminole Handicap
n 2004, the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering revoked Hialeah's thoroughbred permit because it did not hold races for the previous two years. As of 2013, its facilities remain intact except for the stables, which were demolished in early 2007.[3] In 2006, the abandoned Hialeah Park site was considered to be a possible location for a new Florida Marlins Ballpark.
On March 2009, it was announced that track owner John Brunetti was awarded a racing permit. Design firm EwingCole was selected to develop a master plan for renovation and further development, including a new casino. A $40–$90 million restoration project was begun in mid-2009.
On May 7, 2009 the Florida legislature agreed to a deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida that allowed Hialeah Park to operate slot machines and run Quarter Horse races.[6] The historic racetrack reopened on November 28, 2009 but only for quarter horse races. The park installed slot machines in January 2010 as part of a deal to allow for two calendar seasons of racing. The races ran until February 2, 2010. Only a portion of the park has been restored and an additional $30 million will be needed to complete this first phase of the project. The full transformation was expected to cost $1 billion since the plan included a complete redevelopment of the surrounding area including the construction of an entertainment complex to include a hotel, restaurants, casinos, stores and a theater. On June 2010 concerns were raised over the preservation of Hialeah Park's historical status as the planned development threatened to hurt Hialeah Park's potential as a National Historic Landmark.
On August 14, 2013, Brunetti opened a new casino at Hialeah Park and continues to host winter Quarter Horse racing meets (using temporary stables)
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The world seems to spin faster at Tokyo Disney Sea. At least thats the feeling you get because you're having so much fun that the day ends long before you want it to.
As far as self portraits go, this was the best. I got to eat a whole jar of chocolate. I know I didnt have to eat it all, but it took that many takes and I had to do so many different shots. By the time I had finished the whole lot had gone.
The kids have had their eyes on the Nutella for a few days now.. knowing I was saving for todays photograph.. they are going to be dissapointed when they get home from school and find it all gone !!!
Taken for FGR "World Nutella Day !!"
As everyone would have noticed I have been very absent from your streams lately. I have been continuing to photograph things but have been posting them on Instagram, which is a little like Flickr on crack. This has got me through the winter and the almost complete absence of flowers and insects in Melbourne! I hope you are well.
As I came out of a forest onto a cliff in Karukinka Natural Park, a scene with multiple Andean Condors floating in the skies just below me unfolded. It turned out there was a young on the cliff edge who was learning to fly. This magnificent bird made me feel small. You are looking at a 3 meter, or 10 feet wingspan here.
As nice as this image turned out, it was a total grab shot. I was looking the other way when this bird decide it was going to leave. I caught it out of the corner of my eye and swung quickly ripping a burst of about 10 frames. I always try to instill on the need to not just shoot a couple of shots and then check the back of the camera....you will inevitably loose the best frame when you do."Make a movie" a good friend told me.
Or hard yakka - as the Aussies would say, being an oxpecker on the rump side of the world
Sighted from -1.26186,34.99558 (01°15'42.7"S 034°59'44.1"E)
1 Sep 2013 4:50pm
3D4_6154
Nikkor 400/2.8 VR
I had named them Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus), but they are in fact Yellow-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus) on a Common eland (Taurotragus oryx). In the Red-Billed, their entire bill is red.
Thanks to @maqsmughal and @Piet Grobler for pointing out my error
Bateleur Camp, Kichwa Tembo, Oloololo Grant, Masai Mara
-1.24667,35.01358 (01°14'48.0"S 035°00'48.9"E)
Nice to see their A330s in Bangkok, as this type does not serve my hometown airport of Hong Kong which instead just gets the 777s.
As I've said before, one of my goals in photographing birds was to get this particular resident species, the Oak Titmouse. (Second on the list was the White-crowned Sparrow in breeding plumage.) My first two cameras didn't have the range for avian photography of any kind ... well, with the first exception when an Oak Titmouse popped up on a newly planted five foot orange tree right in front of me.
Still, I persisted, and I think I have 15 pretty good images of this titmouse. One in particular was my prize and was the first image I hung on my wall. (flic.kr/p/ufUbT1) That's not the reason that I never posted this image. The reason for that was that I wasn't on SmugMug or later Flickr, and so I just printed this, put it in an album, and there it stayed until this morning.
I was in the archives again, and I must say I really like this shot. The way the tail just clears and follows the curve of the piece of rotten oak which was also used as a granary for Acorn Woodpeckers (which is why I was there taking pictures that day in March). More than that, there appeared to me that there was movement in this pose. He actually had just landed, and was already about to take off again. 1/640th was my go to prep speed, and it worked very well here. The light was good, too. And that's why I'm starting off the week for you (I can look at it any time) with one 3 gram Oak titmouse on a Live Oak (that's the name, not the description).
I've described this bird many times. Let's just let it go with this: The Oak titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the plain titmouse into the oak titmouse and the juniper titmouse in 1996, due to distinct differences in song, preferred habitat, and genetic makeup. It sleeps in deep cavities, and what better place than a woodpecker hole in an oak or yucca. We are surrounded by thousands of acres of three of the twenty species of oak in California: valley oak, interior live oak, or blue oak. The Valley Oak is the largest oak in the state, and we have 30+ heritage oaks within a quarter mile of my front door. (Heritage oaks are huge, some with canopies 100 feet or more across, 70 feet tall, and with trunks about 25 feet in diameter. How can you tell if one is a "heritage oak?" Easy: every heritage oak is numbered with a metal tag about 8 feet off the ground ... and that's all I'll say. They are also between 200 and 350 years old. And every one has an Oak titmouse in it! I just made that up, but it's where I'd start to photograph these little flitters.)
Things have changed
I am not
as Sweet as
candy any more.
And I am not so
innocent as you may
think.
Having great fun with the bag of shells i bought on holiday , the best £3 i've spent.
As close as I could get with my current lens.
“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.” ~ Anne Brontë
Started as three bracketed images taken in infrared using a modified Canon EOS 5D. Plenty of manipulation of the colours to give predominantly two complimentary ones.
As this Turkey Vulture saw me, he opened his wings and started to do different poses. :)
It went to Explore! Thank you, my friends! It is a true Flickr Star!!!!
As 2005 came to a close there remained only one....After DRGW 5390 was patched in October of that year #5371 became the last of her kind. The last true, unrenumbered original Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the vast Union Pacific roster.
As east 92 day inspection approached there was fear that she would be sent to Roper or Denver (or away from "home" rails) to receive the dreaded patch.
From 2005 to 2007 I served as an MTO (equivalent of a lead trainmaster) for Union Pacific on the Salt Lake Service Unit. I made know bones about my unabashed love of the Grande (which certainly won me a bit of favor amongst the men based there). So without official sanction from any of the division leadership (the DTS and Superintendent would not only have said no, but HELL NO) I called up my colleague in Helper. Trainmaster Kurt Jensen was and old Grande hand there who ran the far flung outpost. While he was gruff and a man of few words he was Grande through and through and proud of it. So I asked about possibly running Tunnel Motor 5371 up to Soldier Summit just for fun and if I could invite a bunch of area railfans. He agreed and the word went out (although not to the folks down at the Ford building!) and a dozen or so folks assembled in Helper on glorious mid winter Friday.
And after attending to a little business in the yard and delivering three tank cars to Price around 10 AM the "work train" headed west. It was a bit of an odd work train in that it ran light engine 50 miles round trip on the mainline and touched nary a car once! Following a long trackside with my railroad radio in hand the crew obliging paused the old girl (built by EMD in August 1975) wherever we asked for photos along the way.
A photo charter on a Class 1? It can be done! And this is the proof.
As fate would have it, we needn't have rushed as 5371 would dodge the dreaded patch till the end and with but a few exceptions (including a stint working locals out of Roper) she called Helper home for just barely two more years! She made her last revenue trip on the LDP45 "dirt train" on February 29, 2008. Shipped to Cheyenne she waited out another year and half before being sent back to the Beehive State to her final home safely under a roof and proudly displayed at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden.
He she is paused at the 7477 ft crest of the Wahsatch Range at MP 651.8 on the modern day UP's Provo Sub.
Soldier Summit
Wahsatch County, Utah
Friday February 17, 2006
As seen in the SYFY channel series "The Expanse"
expanse.wikia.com/wiki/Rocinante
The coolest thing about all the vessels in the series is how artificial gravity is created through constant thrust. Ships are arranged like sky scrapers with the engines located at the base. Far more structurally sound than the spinning sections of other scifi designs. Instructions not available on rebrickable. rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-37166/tbone_tbl/mcrn-tachi/
As I marched north of Qarkyr, Rhalyf wrote after the ordeal was over, the wind obstructed my path. The beginnings of a sand storm hit with no warning. Before I could find shelter, the road was obstructed from me. Within a matter of minutes, I was off my path and into the Parched Lands, Rhalyf continued.
Just as unexpectedly as it started, the storm subsided, leaving me bewildered but well. I made my way north, intending on finding the road without delay, but the hills and the sand guided me ever so westward. I was obliged to this direction.
I soon saw I was not ambling aimlessly, but rather a stone dais lay before me. I knew avoiding this henge in the desert would be in vain, so I approached it, prepared as one can, for what might be.
“Lay down your staff!” a voice said from the stone platform as I ascended.
I sized up the sorcerer I saw before me. So, this was the reason for my divergent course. I kept quiet, waiting my time.
“I will not ask again, Rhalyf,” the wizard said.
Still, I watched. Unconcerned he knew me, though I not him. Without additional warning, he cast a binding spell.
I met the spell and withstood it, but still he persisted. “Cease your assault!” I commanded. My words went unheeded.
As I gathered my strength to throw off this spell, the very stone beneath us tremored and glowed, the same evil as this sorcerer’s spell.
“Enough!” I cried as I pressed back. I heard a crack and saw the dark figure fall. At the same time, the sand storm returned enveloping the stone henge, soon blocking everything from sight.
When the storm subsided again, I was alone in the desert again. No trace of the stone platform or the sorcerer.
This is my “Wizards Duel” entry into the Colossal Castle Contest 2020 (CCC XVIII) as well as LOLUG’s December competition. Wizards Duel
The challenge prompt did not provide a setting, leaving it wide open. The first concrete idea I had was a magical henge. Lighting seemed like the best way to convey a sense of magic to the environment and I went with trans-neon green. I am happy with the way the pillars came out, but was hoping the lighting in the floor would have been brighter and more uniform.
The round edge of the stone platform uses the standard 1x3 brick and 1x1 round brick technique. The center/floor is made up of various slope pieces, tiles and plates, many not connected, but just laying there. For the sand, I borrowed Blake Foster’s technique from his amazing M:Tron Magnet Factory.
#392: As of 1/16/23, of my 3300+ pics, this is listed as #392 in most # of faves.
#1189: As of 10/26/22, of my 3300+ pics, this is listed as #1189 in most # of comments.
#1212: As of 7/27/22, under Flickr's popularity rankings of my 3200+ pics, this is listed as #1212 in "interestingness."
As described further in my September 22, 2020 Update on my flickr profile page, I have launched another retrospective series, this one featuring my earliest CD pics dating from 1989-2003. There are various reasons described there for rolling out this series, and know that this is not just a re-posting of old pics. This is a new more-authentic look at some classic pics of mine.
This pic is from February 8, 2003. I had a good female friend of mine come up to visit me from L.A., and she knew about and supported my crossdressing interests, so we decided to have a "girls day out" after she arrived. I took the day off from work to get made up and be out en femme in public. I went to a beauty school in Alameda, CA to get my makeover. From there, I met my friend at Oakland airport en femme.
For going out in the evening this day, I wore a 2nd brand new outfit, including the following:
* my auburn-colored wig;
* gold metallic XOXO ultra-high-heel stiletto evening sandals from Macys (I wish I'd kept these really sexy heels, but I donated them while trying to pare back my collection when moving some years back);
* a gold metallic matching evening handbag;
* a beige-tan polyester coordinated set featuring a spaghetti-straps sleeveless short top and zip-in-the-back slinky pants (my 1st women's pants ever worn at that point);
* a gold metallic ladies coat, as I was getting ready to head out the door;
* gold ultra-sheer pantyhose;
* french-tip press-on long nails;
* gold bracelets, necklace, rings, and earrings.
I think this day and night again involved a wonderful makeover, and I felt like a beautiful young woman. I had a great time going out this night clubbing in San Francisco with my friend. What would you think if you saw me that night?
Let me know your thoughts... :-)
A very foggy afternoon on the Blue Ridge Parkway as the sun tries to break through the fog and mist at the Flattop Mountain trail parking area….
As I wait for the first signs of spring to arrive I am using this hibernation time to go through my old files to critique myself. This is an exercise that is very helpful to me as it makes me judge myself as a photographer. When I came across this shot it made me stop and realize something, and that is as much as I want to believe the reason I picked up a camera in the first place was to be a great landscape photographer, the real reason was because I wanted to be a photojournalist. I didn't discover Ansel Adams until my senior year in high school when he died.
Photojournalism comes naturally to me, as where I've had to really push myself to learn how to shoot a landscape correctly. In the end of this exercise I learned that early on a lot of my landscapes were lacking one key element, and that was a sole main subject other than me capturing a nice scene. I feel I've corrected that in the last couple of years.
As for this capture, this scene was not staged, it was as it was when I shot it. I was photographing the statue of Abraham Lincoln at his memorial when I spotted this couple reading the plaque, I quickly spun and let my inner photojournalist come out. ;-)
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw last week!!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
As it is a Bank Holiday here today and typically no sunshine,
I thought I'd post my own bit of yellow....
Kerria Japonica growing madly in my garden....
sweet as....Geisha?....or Spidy?......Cookie?............K?...........my contacts? :-)
or are they really sweet As
As a change from my usual bird posts here is one of a Hairy Hawker dragonfly which we saw on Studland Heath on our recent holiday to Dorset
This was taken approx 5 minutes after I had one again managed to capture my nemesis (The Wren)
Olympus OM-D E-M1 mkii and Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm f/4.0-6.3 ASPH lens
As you enter Croome Court, the pathway takes you past the manor's church, St Mary Magdalene. This Grade I listed building was built in 1763 by Capability Brown for the Earl of Coventry. A medieval church nearer the Court was demolished to make way for this church, the interior of which was designed by Robert Adam.
Inside the church members of the the family are intered with very ornate memorials.
2016 02 19 125002 Worcestershire Croome Court PM1