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We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.
都忙到忘了前两天是他的生日...哈哈，还和Deepawali同一天:D...很想现在wechat祝福你，给你一个迟来的祝福，想跟你说一声快乐，但我知道会很怪，不过还是想和你说:"W.M.，生日快乐哦!"这张是Green Tea latte ,虽然它不是抹茶，但我相信它是其中一种你喜欢的口味，所以就用它来写下我现在的心情:)
我还记得，今年我的生日，我comment在你的wechat status说:"今天是我生日，为什么不来Wish我"，当时你给我的反应是一点都没有回复，我还用好几天的时间等待你的回复等可是都没有，当时我很生气也很失望...就在 wechat block掉你了:p，不过经过一段时间后我就不在生气你了，可能时间已经冲段一切了吧！现在的我可不想缺你这个朋友哦！还有今天也顺便祝你，1111光棍节快乐…!^^
(Charadrius vociferus) Thomson Marsh, Kelowna, BC.
This fella has a mate on a nest nearby. I haven't actually seen it, but his behaviour clearly indicates it and he's quite determined to distract me. He's probably the noisiest and most persistent Killdeer I've ever encountered. Not afraid, I think, just doing his part in the propagation process.... His Latin name is SOOO appropriate!
Actually a dress from the 80s, but the shape is oh so 50s...love!
Dress and shoes are vintage (from 80s).
Actually, the Marigolds were not really borrowed, they were stolen, as she was not planning on giving them back. She actually pulled the whole plant out of the ground. But...since there will be a frost tonight, they would have been dead in another day or so anyway. Aislynn, my beautiful granddaughter, looks like cozy autumn as she is styling her denim jumper and brown leather boots. Age: 16 months. Used some luminosity edits. f/2.8 1/500 200mm Kelvin 6200
This is the build I made to showcase my batpod , as well as replicate one of my favourite scenes from "The Dark Knight" ( probably my favourite movie , along with the rest of the trilogy ) . The lamp posts took a while to design , as I wanted them to actually light up , and I'm not a big fan of 3d-party lighting for Lego . The solution came from modding the PF lights by removing the covering so that they get "bar" (lightsaber blade) wide , so they can fit through pins . The lamp posts are also designed to look exactly like the ones in the film . The road part of the build is simple and somewhat plain, but I like how it looks . The batpod is probably one of the best things I've ever built ( at least in my opinion ) and I think it is the very , very close to the " real thing " , at least for mining scale . I wont't talk too much about it , since there is a post just for it right here , so head there for more details about it . Finally , the minifigure roster includes the "Tumbler" 's Joker , as well as my custom pad printed Batman ( Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises suit ) , one of the few Lego Batmen with regular ,non-cartoony-white eyes .
Notes: title from album page, actually the copper smelter and steel works, thanks to our correspondent below.
In October 1875 iron smelting began in Lithgow under the direction of Enoch Hughes. The foundry was erected on Thomas Brown's Esk Bank property where ore was found just beneath the surface of the ground.
Hughes successfully encouraged James Rutherford of Bathurst, a principal shareholder and manager of Cobb and Co., Dan Williams a Canadian railway engineer who had worked on the Zig Zag and the Honourable John Sutherland the Minister for Public Works to join him in this steel making venture. By the end of 1876 the blast furnace was producing over 100 tons of pig-iron per week.
Following coal mining and iron smelting, the third industry to develop in the Lithgow region was Copper Smelting. The first smelting in the area was undertaken by a Welshman by the name of Lloyd with ores won at Wiseman's Creek and smelted from the coal slack from Thomas Brown's colliery. Two further copper plants were also to develop in the area; the first in 1876 by the tobacco magnate Thomas Saywell and the second formed in 1895 by the Cobar Syndicate.
Format: albumen photo print, Caney studio no. 54, 195 mm x 150 mm
Date Range: 1880s, Ebenezer and Kate Caney active in Australia 1883 -1887
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: High McBroom
Actually, one of my favorite spots in the Copley Library, this spiral staircase has probably looked the same since the library was built.
I decided not to crop this one, so you can see the edges of the negatives.
Actually it's my pal Flickrite Chuck Kelly (FLY2BIGBEAR) :o)
Enderle Center - Tustin, CA
For a larger view press "L"
Actually there where no other trees around her. I just thought the title sounded cool (:
Strobist info: YN460 at 1/2 power, camera above right on a pass thru umbrella.
Actually, we bought the one next to this one. See below..
By Susan Harris in Goulburn.
The frogs live in a pond in the back yard but their lifecycle is somewhat interrupted by the fish who live there too..
You can purchase more of her works in acrylic or watercolour from sushar47@gmail.com
Columbia Road Sunday Flower Market well-intentioned STUPID Covid-19 Coronavirus Social Distancing measures which actually make the situation Worse by creating crowded Queues and bottlenecks
Actually, billionaire philanthropist Yu Panglin's house, Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Yu bought the house for HK$850,000 in the 1960s and rented it to Lee up until the martial arts actor died.
The 5,699 sq ft house, which has until recently been used as a love hotel, was put up for sale along with four other properties to raise money for victims of the Sichuan earthquake. One offer was HK$105m - but Yu decided to withdraw the house from sale after calls for the house to be turned into a Lee museum.
Discussion between interested parties, including the local Bruce Lee Club and the HK government, continues.
...actually nothing could be further from the truth.
Good morning and Happy Feathery Friday to everyone. Featured today is the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus). Mainly the male as above, but I did include one pic of a female in the comment section.
As for these pics, they were all taken at "the pond across the street" on what was a low overcast day. Quite dark and gloomy actually as a cold front was moving through. As a result I had to up the ISO more than I prefer, along with slowing down the exposure, so the shots are not as crisp and clear as I would like. As for the background in all the pics, while it might look like clouds it's actually a tree line in the far off distance.
I hope you enjoy this series on these very raucous birds and find the commentary informative.
Thank you for visiting...and I hope you have a great Friday and weekend.
Lacey
ISO800, aperture f/6.7, exposure .008 seconds (1/125) focal length 450mm
I actually pulled an all-nighter on this piece. I just wasn’t sleepy but also, I was just getting into putting this thing together. The momentum was rolling and I didn't want to stop.
This mech is made for mid to long range battle, Gatling gun on one arm and a sniper rifle on the other. It uses energy “bullets” so it has cooling systems built around it. The feet look really small in the profile shot and I was debating if I wanted to beef them up but decided not too. It had to be nimble and with clunky feet, it would have a hard time getting footing on craggy surfaces. There are 4 boosters that tuck away facing forward round the body. It can be used to repel close range combatants or help gain some distance from the target. When using the Sniper rifle, the boosters can face the opposite direction and compensate for the kickback the heavy rifle produces.
This was a fun mecha piece, especially since it has been years since I’ve played with my LEGO bricks. I used a laser pointer to illuminate the “eye” in some of the shots. I do have a light brick but I didn’t incorporate it in the design. Many next time in another piece.
Actually a 10 month old pure white husky. She belongs to Tara’s daughter and lives off grid here in Dumfries and Galloway. Very difficult to photograph as she is so lively!
Actually this day was not bad. We drive from Buena Vista to Frisco (Summit County) often which takes us over Fremont Pass (11,319'). We have been on this road when conditions have been a lot worse and things were pretty dicey!
This pass normally gets a lot of winter season snow - anywhere between 300-400+ inches.
actually, 3 of the 6 pieces here are for my rack, while i had the sander and the oil out i figured i might as well
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw.
... I think this is the producer's favorite segment of Love Actually and I have to admit while I was more enchanted by Jamie and Aurelia, I thoroughly enjoyed Billy Mack.
This from Wikipedia ...
Billy Mack and Joe ...
With the help of his longtime manager Joe (Gregor Fisher), aging rock and roll legend Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) records a Christmas variation of The Troggs' classic hit "Love Is All Around." Despite his honest admission that it is a "festering turd of a record," the singer promotes the release in the hope it will become the Christmas number one single. During his publicity tour, Billy repeatedly causes Joe grief by pulling stunts such as defacing a poster of rival musicians Blue with a speech bubble reading, "We've got little pricks." He also promises to perform his song naked on television should it hit the top spot. The song does go to number one and Mack keeps his word-albeit while wearing boots and holding a strategically placed guitar. After briefly celebrating his victory at a party hosted by Sir Elton John, Billy unexpectedly arrives at Joe's flat and explains that Christmas is a time to be with the people you love, and that he had just realized that "the people I love... is you", despite simultaneously hitting Joe with insulting comments about his weight. He reminds Joe that "We have had a wonderful ride" touring around the world together over the years. He suggests that the two celebrate Christmas by getting drunk and watching porn.
Here's the link to Love Actually on Wikipedia ...
We've been wanting to try some bubble teas from the new shop in town for a while now... finally got some today because A) it was nice and B) I had a coupon (hehe). So Una and I sat out on the Green and did homework and tried to make sense of those silly black squishy things coming up our straws. It would have been a really cool thing if they actually tasted good, or like anything at all... but they didn't. So we drank around them (hey, the tea was still good) and, well, needed to find something to do with the leftover "attack balls." I think our net enjoyment of the teas exceeded anyone's expectations (or intentions)...
Actually, today we have been invited to my professor's house to see my junior, Tini wearing hakama (Japanese traditional wear- they wearing hakama ONLY on graduation day). I have no chance to wear it on my grad day, cause too expensive to rent it! Huhu...
But then, I was surprised that Mrs Miyamoto (my prof's wife) had rented a kid's kimono special for Rafiqh. So lucky my baby... For Japanese, they believed that taking a photo of 3months old baby in kimono will leads him/her to live healthy...
Tapi sayang seribu kali sayang, Rafiqh yang dah mula kenal orang memang refused untuk di"siap", hmmm. Tambahan pula, dia dah ngantuk. Sesi bergambar jadi ala-kadar, sungguh tak menarik. Mrs Miyamoto kata, tunggu Rafiqh besar sikit, dan bijak sikit, kita ambil lagi gambar ok. Next time, Rafiqh akan bergaya ala2 samurai/ninja gitu, heee tak sabarnya nak tengok baby mama jadi ultraman, opss samurai laa, hehe...
Thank you so much Mrs Miyamoto! \(^v^)/
Actually, this is the Sunwapta River, a major tributary of the Athabasca, which flows along the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) between Jasper and the Athabasca Glacier. Here we are about a third of the way between Jasper and Banff, quite near the Athabasca Glacier, which is the main source of water for the river. The gorgeous mountain to the left of the road is called Tangle Ridge.
The Athabasca River including the Sunwapta has its headwaters in the Columbia ice field located just behind the mountains in front and to the right in this photograph. I will show photos and talk about the Columbia ice field later in this set, but now I would like to say something about the river itself. The Athabasca is one of Canada's most beautiful rivers, especially in its upper reaches, because it flows through one of the country's most scenic regions, the Rocky Mountains. It is also one of the most threatened of the entire world. This is the same Athabasca River that flows pass Fort McMurray and through the oil sand region of Alberta, about 1,000 km downstream from here, before it empties into Lake Athabasca in the far north of the province. All Canadians are well aware of the mega controversy surrounding the oil sands. Because of the oil sands, Canada can claim to have the second largest proven oil reserves in the world (at 179 bbl of which 170 bbl are in the oil sands). But exploiting those reserves is proving to be extremely detrimental to the ecology, most notably to the lower Athabasca River basin.
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw.
Actually three Basaaks and a Blythe.They have been neglected since I discovered the BJDs, They need some attention, new makeup, new clothes, and some cute hats. I need to put that on the "to do" list.
Actually you schould give theese women some cuc (cuban money) when you want to get some pictures but i catched the moment befor they realized what is happening
It's the first time to see such a catarpillar with blue and yellow.
But, but,,, I'm sorry you're tough to deal with.
Originally taken by D70, photoshopped and then created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Actually she doesn't here me loud and clear, there is a construction going back there but, I like this candid moment more than a proper pose.
Actually my second meal at Le Commensal: the first time, I got overexcited by the presence of two actual vegan baked desserts, spent way too much money, and stuffed myself silly before remembering I should've taken photographs.
Here, there's couscous, three-bean salad, tofu business, leafy salad, pasta salad, avocado with a mustard sauce, bread, and carrot cake. (I adore restaurants that clearly label all their vegan items.)
i haven't done a black and white photo in awhile
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i know you all love my huge ass nose(;
Actually designated "Boogie Down Collective Walls 2023," this was seen in the Westchester Square neighborhood of the Bronx.
so, i paid a visit to the remember me set today and it was actually quite worthwhile
i got to watch them filming for about 2 hours... maybe a little more
the crew was actually very nice, let everyone stand across the street, provided the fans moved into washington sq park so as not to be in the shot as the filmed
basically, this morning/afternoon, they filmed a shot where rob and the guy who plays his friend in the movie are saying goodbye and parting ways
of course, they filmed it over and over and over
unfortunately, when they broke for lunch, a bunch of fans went way out of control.
i promise you, i was not one of them. in fact, when they broke loose and took off, chasing rob and his bodyguards out of his trailer and around the block, i turned around and went around the corner in the OTHER direction
but, then, i re-encountered the angry mob when i rounded the corner
obviously, i'm a little nuts... i stood at a movie set all day... and, you know i've done other kooky things.
but, i could never, would never, will never RUN after someone
and, these people took it one step beyond that, they actually grabbed at him while they chased.
and, many of them were NOT kids
i have no idea how anyone thinks that's okay.
anyhow, hope poor rob wasn't too emotionally scarred from the first day on the nyc set
i am busy tomorrow with work... so, i won't get to go back
but, even if i don't catch another glimpse for the rest of the summer, i'm content
i was about 10 ft away for several hours and that's good enough!
:-)