View allAll Photos Tagged Afloat,
I just love this - no, it's not green screen superimposed. This is the real deal.
Posted in ODC - Marine.
I enjoy a trip to Calshot Beach as you never know what you will see. Today the Army was on the move!
Winter in Hokkaido is about snow and ice festivals, snow sports, wildlife viewing and some of the best seafood worldwide.
Eastern Hokkaido wears a snowy coat from Siberia. Here, Red-Crown Cranes, Whooper Swans, Long-Tail Tits, Stellar and White Tail Eagles, Ural Owls and a flock of other species are shot by photographers migrating from the U.S., U.K. and China.
Relative to Tokyo and its southern neighbors, Hokkaido prefecture is agricultural and rural. Geothermal sulphate springs keep most villages warm with an onsen or two.
The Okhotsk Sea separate Japan and Russia. Which country’s flag flies over a series of islands has been debated since WWII. This political tension keeps navy ships afloat in the drift ice.
This collection of images are from myself and newfound photography friends with oversized lens.
Photos shot in and around Kushiro, Tsurui Village, Otaru, Sapporo, Asahikawa, and Hakodate.
"Marbles" made from: www.flickr.com/photos/plumnutz/5528855633/
"Shadow Box" made from: www.flickr.com/photos/hppos_set/3671288230/
see this and other entries here: www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157628296704759/
Had trouble coming up with an idea for todays photo. Decided to use the feather that I pulled out of a spider web a couple of months ago and float it in a bowl of water.
This British Airways Boeing 747-400 is seen leaving KSFO (San Francisco International Airport) and headed to EGLL-LHR (London-Heathrow International Airport).
A gentleman I spoke with had a wife on this flight (01/02/2013) and he loves America for how well we treat everyone here! I hope he enjoyed my knowledge and hospitality while waiting for this beast to taxi and take off!
-Take 2.
©2002-2013 FranksRails.com Photography
Giant Catalpa leaf floating and carry a bit water among a variety of other fallen Autumn leaves along the lake shore.
Sorry for so many photos, just saving more Autumn memories, no need to comment.
“Now, with these new gardens, times of flood can mean growth and life, not just loss," says Rina Begum. During the floods, when cultivating crops on land becomes impossible, "floating gardens" provide one opportunity to produce much-needed food. In this way, Rina and hundreds of other families across the Gaibanda district can survive. A raft is constructed, using aquatic weeds, on which vegetables can be grown and seedlings can be raised, ready to plant after the flood waters recede. At the end of the growing season, the raft is used as compost for land-based farming. This flood-friendly technology helps families to plan their futures without the fear of losing their livelihoods during the next monsoon.
Photograph: Practical Action
Find out more about how DFID is tackling climate change at:
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
The Memorial for compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces of Aggression (simplified Chinese: 侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆; traditional Chinese: 侵華日軍南京大屠殺遇難同胞紀念館; pinyin: Qīnhuà Rìjūn Nánjīng dàtúshā tóngbāo Jìniànguǎn) is the Memorial Hall for the people killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. It is located in the southwestern corner of Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen, near a site where thousands of bodies were buried, called a "pit of ten thousand corpses" (simplified Chinese: 万人坑; traditional Chinese: 萬人坑; pinyin: wàn rén kēng).
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing (at the time, Nanjing was known in English as Nanking). It is widely accepted that during the first six to eight weeks of their occupation, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, including rape, arson, and mass executions. There is, however, controversy over the scale of the alleged massacre, especially in Japan where a minor group of negationists even go so far as to claim that the massacre never happened.
The Chinese government insists that an estimated 300,000 civilians and unarmed Chinese soldiers were brutally slaughtered. This estimate of "more than 300,000 dead" was made from burial records and eyewitness accounts by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal and included in the verdict for Hisao Tani.
Corpses littered the streets and were seen afloat in rivers for weeks, and many structures in the city were burned down. Countless shops, stores, and residences were looted and sacked.
Japanese soldiers were also reported to have conducted killing competitions and bayonet practice using live Chinese prisoners. Approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred within the city during the first month of the occupation, according to the "Judgement of the International Military Tribunal". Even children, the elderly, and nuns are reported to have suffered at the hands of the Imperial Japanese army.
The Memorial Hall
The Nanjing Memorial Hall was built in 1985 by the Nanjing Municipal Government in memory of the 300,000 victims who lost their lives during the Nanjing Massacre. In 1995, it was enlarged and renovated. The memorial exhibits historical records and objects, and uses architecture, sculptures, and videos to illustrate what happened during the Nanjing Massacre. It occupies a total area of approximately 28000 square meters, including about 3000 square meters of building floor space.
The memorial consists of three major parts: outdoor exhibits, sheltered skeletal remains of victims, and an exhibition hall of historical documents.
Outdoor exhibits
The outdoor exhibit include statues, sculptures, relief carvings, tablets, and a large wall listing the names of victims, as well as an atonement tablet and memorial walkway. The memorial walkway displays footprints of survivors, some of which were impressed as recently as 2002.
Skeletal remains
The skeletal remains of massacre victims, now exhibited in a coffin-shaped display hall, were excavated from Jiangdongmen in 1985; 208 more were uncovered in 1998.
Exhibition hall
The tomb-like exhibition hall, half underground, contains more than 1000 items related to the massacre, including an immense collection of pictures, objects, charts, and photographs. Paintings, sculptures, illuminated display cabinets, multimedia screens and documentary films serve to demonstrate to visitors the crimes committed by the Japanese military.
A baby Canada Goose, a gosling, floats down the Thames River in Gibbons Park in London Ontario Canada
Tower Bridge is one of two bridges, and the original road bridge, into Sacramento, CA. Today, the bridge still lifts as needed for boats. The Hornblower Cruises is one of them, as seen here.
©FranksRails Photography, LLC.
The illustration was originally to accompany an article about how some owners were affected by the economic crisis while some seemed to have avoided it all together. unfortunately it was not used.
An old covered barge from the New York Central Railroad floats in a cove with a few other derelict watercraft in Athens, N.Y.
The NYCRR, like a lot of railroads in the Northeast, had an extensive fleet at one time, and was especially active in New York Harbor. Marine activity faded away in the 1950s and 1960s, and the NYCRR itself ceased to exist in 1968.
I don't think there's much left of the fleet, though I certainly could be wrong. I was flabbergasted five years ago on my first trip to Cape Cod to find a NYCRR tugboat sitting in the parking lot at a diner in Buzzards Bay, of all places.
That neat old tugboat illustrates my point, though: It was chopped into bits to make way for ... drumroll please ... a bigger parking lot!