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Actually, I don't know for sure if she's a Vermonter - there's no identifying info - but I got her at an estate sale in Bristol, Vermont, today, so I'll call her that until I hear differently. : )
She's sweet, although a little blurry - but for $1 I couldn't let her get thrown away.
I 'm thinking 1940s but if, by looking at the print, you can tell it's earlier, let me know.
It's a 4' by 6' print.
Actually, that 'thing' which sits atop the roof of the PNC Bank Operations Center across from the Philadelphia International Airport, is a sculpture called "Firefly", created by R.M. Fischer. I would estimate a zagillion people ride by and say..."What the hellzatt!"
actually the one beside the driver is an inspector :)
nagpapicture sila after unloading passengers at magallanes bus stop..
Actually I was just trying to shoot the fields & hillsides full of daffodils - but Gibbs Gardens was so crowded yesterday that it was very difficult to get nature shots without the visitors. Lots of fun and it was 75o.
Gibbs Gardens / Georgia
Actually sat in a field just next to Roundway. I'm aching to do one of those photographs where there's trees pointing upwards and you stand under them and point upwards too. But this is the closest I got to that today.
Actually, this is a light painting image taken by panning across the night-lit Eiffel Tower in Paris, while the rapid strobing "twinkly" lights were firing. They're so quick, they appear as point sources against the trails of the fixed lights.
This is a summer-flowering plant of native Bird's Beak (Cordylanthus rigidus) in the Orobanchaceae plant family - actually showing some flowers. The flower petals are usually hidden in the bracts, but sometimes they are visible like here. It looks like it should be a very "buggy" plant - and sometimes it is, see this photo. (San Marcos Pass, 22 August 2017)
Actually, this train was not running. The train everyone else got on is to my left. Normally, this track is where the trains come to unload and load up passengers for the daily commute. I caught it at the right moment, without any people around. I waited for my train, which came ten minutes later. It also stopped on the track to my left.
Actually, it was Kurt's gag visor with fake hair, but it suited Uncle Jim so much more!
2016 Bowley Family Reunion and Potluck, Sundre AB.
Actually the plants are growing through cracks and holes in the sidewalk.
Dixie Square Mall -- Harvey, IL -- 8/22/10 -- HDR
This was actually the second of two Kestrels. What was interesting was the different style of hover - this one maintained a straight tail - the other a fully spread tail.
...actually, it's both Pretty AND Invasive.
(and this counts for my one obligatory flowery shit spring foto)
this is actually a two flavoured soft serve, the chocolate is at at the bottom, it was so good !! I wish they have this in madrid.
My girlfriend's construction art here. Though it looked great, because it was inspired by Citizen Kane. And actually not the real location. Its just the Rosebudd location was at the "Colorado Lode", so just making fun. I am actually from Minnesota.
It's a decent title, but actually, I had never seen this thing in my nearly 20 years in and out of Reno. It lurks off the interstate on the east side behind a bunch of mini storage buildings. Something about being out shooting random shit last Friday had me in a different space. And even though I have spent most of the last 6 months between Exit 65 and Exit 56 on what is now called I-580, I had never spotted this. I was actually going to try to get some work done in the late afternoon. Headed south, I saw this thing to my left. And so I drove all around finally discovering that it was part of a mini-golf course. Have I played there? Maybe? There was once a mini-golf game in my earliest days of grad school (Fall 2002), but back then, I slept a lot less and drank quite a bit more socially. So I just don't remember. Maybe Tristan or Kevin do. Would it matter though, because it felt like I was seeing it for the first time.
Anyway, there was lots of neat stuff to shoot through the ugly god damned fence. The Instax version is interesting, though I wish the red eyes were visible. There are two Hasselblad frames of this Moai, here and here for a more powerful view. Still, it's not the kind of thing that normal people are drawn to. Or is it? I dunno, there was a recent spate of documentaries about what happened to the people of Easter Island and further speculation about what they were meant to symbolize. I watched those last fall in weekly motel in a Washington lumber town. Or did I? The NOVA disc was released only days ago. Cool
Life's been good to me so far, said Joe Walsh.
Actually a night shot from my previous walk on the Highline Park in NYC. The lighting is a warm lamp shooting up from the base of the plant, which gave it some uncommon shadows and warmth from below. I love the light and contrasting colors.
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Actually, there no one knows exactly how many monks in In Ganayon Kyaung Monastery, they came, they studied, they left.
Date: Jan. 30, 2013
by Seagull 4B with Kodak Pro 160
Actually, it’s quite sunny in downtown Nottingham today. It’s not due to last, of course, but I thought I’d take advantage of the extra light and give this autumnal number a quick spin. I used to have this same skirt several years ago - yet another ‘Peggy’ from the now defunct Lindy Bop label. I won’t be as quick to purge it this time!
Actually two beach days - this was the first. The best way to combat jet lag is simply to push through that first day without sleeping. Getting a lot of natural sunlight also helps the body to reset its internal clock. What better way to stay awake and get sun than to play at the beach. We took the subway from the hotel, walked a few blocks to Barceloneta Beach, and decided that was all the tourism we needed for the day. We rented a few chairs and an umbrella and called it good.
The present structure is actually the third Augustinian church erected on the site. The first San Agustin Church was the first religious structure constructed by the Spaniards on the island of Luzon. Made of bamboo and nipa, it was completed in 1571, but destroyed by fire in December, 1574 during the attempted invasion of Manila by the forces of Limahong. A second church made of wood was constructed on the site. This was destroyed in February 1583, in a fire that started when a candle set ablaze the drapes of the funeral bier during the interment of the Spanish Governor-General Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa.
The Augustinians decided to rebuild the church using stone, and to construct an adjacent monastery. Construction began in 1586, based on a design by Juan Macías.
The structure was built using hewn adobe stones quarried from Meycauayan, Binangonan and San Mateo, Rizal.
The work proceeded slowly due to the lack of funds and materials, as well as the relative scarcity of stone artisans. The monastery was operational by 1604, and the church was formally declared complete on January 19, 1607, and named St. Paul of Manila. San Agustin Church was looted by the British forces which occupied Manila in 1762 during the Seven Years' War. In 1854, the church was renovated under the supervision of architect Luciano Oliver. Nine years later, on June 3, 1863, the strongest earthquake at that time, hit Manila leaving widespread destruction to the city with San Agustin Church, the only public building left undamaged in the city. A series of strong earthquakes struck Manila again on 18–20 July 1880.
On August 18, 1898, the church was the site where Spanish Governor-General Fermin Jaudenes prepared the terms for the surrender of Manila to the United States of America following the Spanish-American War.
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, San Agustin Church was turned into a concentration camp for prisoners. In the final days of the Battle of Manila, hundreds of Intramuros residents and clergy were held hostage in the church by Japanese soldiers; many of the hostages would be killed during the three-week long battle. The church itself survived the flattening of Intramuros by American forces in May, 1945 with only its roof damaged, the only one of the seven churches in the walled city to remain standing. The adjacent monastery however was totally destroyed, and was later rebuilt in the 1970s as a museum under the design of architect Angel Nakpil.
The San Agustin Church is patterned after some of the magnificent temples built by the Augustinians in Mexico, its present edifice was built in 1587, and completed, together with the monastery, in 1604.The atmosphere is medieval since “both church and monastery symbolize the majesty and equilibrium of a Spanish golden era.”
The massive structure of the church, the symmetry and splendor of the interiors (painted by two Italians who succeeded in producing trompe l'oeil), the profile of the mouldings, rosettes and sunken panels which appear as three-dimensional carvings, a baroque pulpit with the native pineapple as a motif, the grand pipe organ, the antechoir with a 16th-century crucifix, the choir seats carved in molave with ivory inlays of the 17th century and the set of 16 huge and beautiful chandeliers from Paris.
Actually, I think I prefer this panorama to the previous one... the bridge is more prominent.
20100916 Edit: Have now cropped and so-on, ahead of getting it on a canvas...
Actually it was sunset, but who's counting. Maybe I don't give lens flair enough credit, I always thought it was a nuisance, but this shot was too cool to throw out.
My version of the UNSC's hornet, and I am extremally pleased with the results. I don't know why, but everytime I look at it I just feel all good and fuzzy inside.
actually its just the reflexion of my face on the window of a train in the direction of south ouest of France.
you can see the difference with the original one, kymberlee used photoshop! great job isn't it?
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.