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It'll happen to me at work. I'll see someone pass by, just start wondering what their life is like. That lady in the costume department...why did she bring her dog to work?
People in the car next to me, while I'm driving. Why is that guy wearing a mask inside his car?
Folks on the street, having an argument. Maybe getting into a fight. At the supermarket, why all that alcohol on a sunday afternoon?
the curiosity is nonstop, whether I like it or not. Incessant, really. And so far, only photography helps soothe that curiosity. Every once in awhile, I'm able to reach out, get those questions answered by asking to take someone's picture.
It's that curiosity that drives every single click of the shutter.
Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah.
The nearest communities are Jensen, Utah, and Dinosaur, Colorado. The park contains over 800 paleontological sites and has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Abydosaurus (a nearly complete skull, lower jaws and first four neck vertebrae of the specimen DINO 16488 found here at the base of the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation is the holotype for the description) and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915. In April 2019, the International Dark-Sky Association designated Dinosaur National Monument an International Dark Sky Park.
The rock layer enclosing the fossils is a sandstone and conglomerate bed of alluvial or river bed origin known as the Morrison Formation from the Jurassic Period some 150 million years old. The dinosaurs and other ancient animals were carried by the river system which eventually entombed their remains in Utah. The pile of sediments were later buried and lithified into solid rock. The layers of rock were later uplifted and tilted to their present angle by the mountain building forces that formed the Uintas during the Laramide orogeny. The relentless forces of erosion exposed the layers at the surface to be found by paleontologists.
The dinosaur fossil beds (bone beds) were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working and collecting for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He and his crews excavated thousands of fossils and shipped them back to the museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for study and display. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the dinosaur beds as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915. The monument boundaries were expanded in 1938 from the original 80-acre (320,000 m2) tract surrounding the dinosaur quarry in Utah, to its present extent of over 200,000 acres (800 km²) in Utah and Colorado, encompassing the spectacular river canyons of the Green and Yampa.
The plans made by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on a ten-dam, billion dollar Colorado River Storage Project began to arouse opposition in the early 1950s when it was announced that one of the proposed dams would be at Echo Park, in the middle of Dinosaur National Monument. The controversy assumed major proportions, dominating conservation politics for years. David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society led an unprecedented nationwide campaign to preserve the free-flowing rivers and scenic canyons of the Green and Yampa Rivers. They argued that if a national monument was not safe from development, how could any wildland be kept intact? On the other side of the argument were powerful members of Congress from western states, who were committed to the project in order to secure water rights, obtain cheap hydroelectric power and develop reservoirs as tourist destinations. After much debate, Congress settled on a compromise that eliminated Echo Park Dam and authorized the rest of the project. The Colorado River Storage Project Act became law on April 11, 1956. It stated, "that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of the Act shall be within any National Park or Monument." Historians view the Echo Park Dam controversy as signaling the start of an era that includes major conservationist political successes such as the Wilderness Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
As I kid, I remember that they used to argue a lot!
Shot by my father using his Kodak 35m Retina loaded up with Verichome Pan roll film. He never took a lot of spontaneous photos, but this was a rare delightful moment in time.
Until two weeks ago, I never knew this photo even existed. One of my Los Angeles cousins mailed me a treasure trove of old family prints which I've been scanning and restoring. This is one of them.
"Поистине всегда там, где недостает разумных доводов, их заменяет крик." Л. да Винчи
"Truly always, where there are not enough reasonable arguments, they are replaced by scream" L. da Vinci
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1314-1316 - Master of Angera - chariot of the sun and chariot of the moon - Hall of Justice - Rocca Borromea Angera
la Sala di Giustizia è uno tra i più antichi ed importanti esempi di pittura di argomento civile del Medioevo occidentale, risalente alla fine del duecento.
the hall of Justice is one of the oldest and most important examples of western medieval painting of civil argument, dating from the late late thirteenth century
No, nothing to do with this photo. I was just in the process of posting this, when who should walk in the door....but Daisy! Seems there was a gas leak at work and they sent everybody home. Just the thing to perk up an otherwise drab day, wouldn't you say? 😍💖
Anyway, I'll finish what I was doing while Daisy does her makeup routine. She may be off work today....but she's not off anything else! 💋💋
Here, Daisy is taking off her belt in a huff after I told her I didn't like it. I like to throw in a few "real" moments here and there. Arguments aren't anything like they used to be between Daisy and me....but they still happen. Just on a smaller scale. I'm happy to allow Daisy to vent a bit. But once I've had enough, all I have to do is give her "The Look"....and it's done! 😘
Two young Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) have an argument on the banks of a swampy area in Moremi National Park of Botswana.
It was an argument over which was Europe’s fastest game bird that led to the production of the Guinness Book of Records. On 10th November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of Guinness Breweries) was with a shooting party in County Wexford, Ireland. Some Golden Plovers were shot at, and missed, which prompted a discussion as to whether they were Europe’s fastest game bird. Consulting reference books did not solve the issue, and it occurred to Sir Hugh that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in the 81,400 pubs in Britain and Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records. He discussed the matter with Ross and Norris McWhirter to see if their fact and figure agency could help. The result was the first Guinness Book of Records being published in time for Christmas 1955.
Bizarrely the question that was the reason for the creation of the Guinness Book of Records was not answered until the 36th edition in 1989: "Britain's fastest game bird is the Red Grouse (Lagopus l. scoticus) which, in still air, has recorded burst speeds up to 92.8-100.8 km/h 58-63 mph over very short distances. Air speeds up to 112 km/h 70 mph have been claimed for the Golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) when flushed, but it is extremely doubtful whether this rapid-flying bird can exceed 80-88 km/h 50-55 mph - even in an emergency". And I'm sure you knew already but this is a Red Grouse flying at speed, taken on the Peak District Moors.
talk, it's only talk
arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
ariculate announcements
it's only talk
talk, it's only talk
babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker
brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
it's only talk, back talk
talk talk talk, its only talk
comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
conversation, contradiction, criticism
it's only talk, cheap talk
talk, talk, it's only talk
debates, discussions
these are words with a D this time
dialogue, dualogue, diatribe,
dissention, declamation
double talk, double talk
talk, talk, it's all talk
too much talk
small talk
talk that trash
expressions, editorials, expugnations,
exclamations, enfadulations
it's all talk
elephant talk, elephant talk, elephant talk
Constructed between 1847 and 1849 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, (MS&LR - later became the Great Central), this is Torksey railway Viaduct, which crosses the River Trent between Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire, roughly half way between Lincoln and Gainsborough. Designed by John Fowler (1817-1898), who later was one of the two engineers for the Forth Rail Bridge, Torksey Viaduct is a rare, and early surviving example of a tubular girder bridge.
There are two 130-foot spans over the River Trent, each consisting of two massive wrought iron girders - as seen here.
These are supported on stone piers - one in the centre and one at each side. On the Lincolnshire side is a 570-foot approach viaduct of 20 spans, and the bridge proper starts over a small natural island in the river. The position of the Bridge was chosen to use this island to simplify the task.
Captain Lintorn Simmons, the Board of Trade’s inspector, refused to grant permission for the viaduct to be opened, having “entertained doubts as to the ultimate security” of the bridge. After much argument, Fowler, supported by the Engineering profession, won the day, and the first train passed over in April 1850.
The bridge was twice strengthened - in 1877 & 1897, because increasing traffic and train loads. A conventional steel lattice girder (again, seen in this photograph) was inserted centrally into both main spans in the 1897 works, whilst the northern girders were moved out to maintain track clearances.
The "Leverton Branch", as this line (which ran between Sykes Junction near Lincoln and Clarborough, just West of Gainsborough), was known, was closed on November 3rd 1959, with Lincoln-Sheffield trains taking the only slightly less direct route through Gainsborough Lea Road. However, the line to the West of the Trent was reinstated in 1969 to serve the new power station at Cottam's need for coal, whilst on the Lincolnshire side, the line was run from Sykes Junction to the Shell petrol depot at Torksey. Only the viaduct itself remained closed.
The Oil traffic ceased in the late 1980s, and the track is now all lifted (and the road bridge on the Gainsborough-Lincoln road was removed).
Until the early 1990s it was possible the walk across the viaduct - this was no longer possible by the 1990s as the track bed had been removed on the bridge itself, and that part was fenced off. Happily, this was resolved during the las 12 months. The cycling and footpath charity Sustrans have installed the required safety fencing and reinstated the bridge bed on the North side. There is now a fine footpath over the impressive bridge to the riverbank on the Western (Nottinghamshire) side of the river. This shot shows the (still without a track bed) South side of the bridge.
The viaduct is rightly covered by a Grade II* listing but worryingly, also features on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm zoom
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
One of the old lionesses of the Basel zoo showing to Mbali the male, that she doesn't agree with him...
I had taken this shot of the Confederate Gen. Breckenridge statue in downtown Lexington on the day of the Great Eclipse of 2017. In the four-plus months since that day, I have been very conflicted about posting this on social media, because at the time, the emotions were running white hot in the middle of the debate over keeping or removing the statue, and there didn't appear to be a lot of in-between; it was either you were for keeping the statue due to concerns over whitewashing history, or you were for moving or destroying it because it stood on the site of one of the biggest slave auctions in the US at the time, and was erected during the Jim Crow era. When I saw this, I found it fitting the image of him appearing to plead his case in front of the iconic 5/3 building, one of the most prominent and identifiable features of the Lexington skyline, with the partially eclipsed sun setting behind it, juxtaposing old and new Lexington, all of this on the heels of the riots in Charlottesville. The statue was taken down in October, thanks to the efforts of the Take Back Cheapside movement and in part, due to the ripple effect of what happened in Charlottesville. It was certainly one of the big stories of 2017. #igerslexington #igerslouisville #igerskentucky
Two Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) engage in a dominance fight in a small pond in Mikumi National Park of Tanzania. When Hippopotamus fight, water goes everywhere!
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If you have been kind enough to look at my two recent pictures taken on Friday (6 September 2019) you will already have noticed the lack of variation in my poses. I have to admit that as my opportunity to cross-dress as a woman literally came out of nowhere, and was a brief period of time, I seized the moment as it has been seven months since I last became my female alter-ego. Over the last seven months a desire to evolve and present more realistically as a woman has been taking hold with me. I am a transvestite so I do enjoy dressing up and indulging in the more feminine clothing styles. I do hear quite recently cross-dressing men expressing the view women are no longer feminine. The bottom line is women are women not an idealised male fantasy of what women should be. To expect women to dress in ultra feminine styles and uncomfortable shoes, such as high heels, is an outlook I find unsettling. Women have a hard enough time as it is and though things are improving I still think society seems to treat them as secondary to males.
I’m not trying to start an argument just expressing my own observations. For the last 30 years I have mainly worked alongside women and have witnessed the prejudices and barriers they encounter by being female. Some of my female colleagues are aware I cross-dress as a woman and tell me I am fortunate in that I get to spend time as a woman but don’t face the realities of actually being one. This is not meant as an insult or to undermine and I know it to be true. I enjoy the more feminine aspects such as make-up, hair styles, dresses, high heels, the more glamorous aspects but it is all superficial. I’m not facing the daily realities of being a woman. I can never be a mother, I’m not likely to require HRT treatment, I never feel vulnerable to unwanted male attention or the threat of sexual abuse or personal sexual attack. I am simply enjoying the thrill of taking on a female appearance but I’m still a man.
I say I am a man yet I know within me is a deep desire to be a woman. I am a transsexual but despite now understanding this it is not a dominant enough feeling to make me want to transition. I find the black and white, yes or no, attitudes somewhat fail to explain the reality of transgender feelings one may have. It is not that straightforward. Over the years I have been told I either should transition into a woman full time and if I don’t and only cross-dress then I must be homosexual. Well, I am not homosexual as I have no attraction to men. I am attracted to women. I can say with confidence though, I do enjoy male attention when I cross-dress as a woman. It’s a real thrill if a man finds me attractive as a female. I enjoy that, I won’t lie. However, my feelings are not reciprocated. I find it a validation of my efforts to create a convincing female persona. Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely have no issue with embracing my desire to be female and I’m happy to leave my male self behind. I physically wish I was more feminine looking, I would love to be more girls than male yet I am reluctant to give up my male self. I like, increasingly I have to say, the awareness I have both genders within me. I am gradually edging towards accepting my true self. If I become a woman, through my cross-dressing, I want the result to be a woman not a man. If I have got through all the effort to look female then I am comfortable behaving and responding as a female. If that means behaving as a female may alongside a man I would do that. The part many cannot understand is if I can do that then how can I say I am not homosexual? I know I am not, I’m not denying this by constant repetition, it’s a topic I am genuinely intrigued by and love to discuss as openly as possible. It does appear to be a paradox but it’s not. Whilst I am happy, indeed enjoy, behaving as if I am female it stops there for me. i have no issue with cross-dressing males who have sex with men while they are dressed as women. I admire their certainty. I enjoy being perceived and treated as if I am female but I will never desire intimacy with a man.
I do feel concerned about my pursuit of the idealised feminine appearance as I fear it is a male idealisation of women. Despite now understanding I have transsexual aspect to my persona I am happy to call myself a transvestite. by that I mean I live my life as a man but on occasion take on a female appearance and set free aspects of myself I keep locked away most of the time. I see it as self expression and freedom to be more open. The inner desire to be female is satisfied emotionally by my occasional cross-dressing yet I am aware that I also enjoy the dressing up and the transformation process. I get a real thrill out of disguising myself as a female. A part of me embraces that and I enjoy the clothes and the make-up and feel lovely wearing them. I have said to friends in the past that one of the best things about being a transvestite is if someone thinks you are woman despite me being a man, it’s an amazing feeling. I have self doubt about my abilities to look female and I need to be more accepting of my efforts. Physically I am fortunate as I am small in height and quite slim build. I am also aware I was blessed with nice looking legs so all of this helps with my female appearance. I do have some limiting factors such as I have big hands and big feet for my height. I used to worry about this and have finally realised that I have what I have so work with it and go forward. I steeled myself to read the comments posted on the photos I’ve posted in 2019 and was rather taken aback by the complimentary words and encouragement others kindly expressed. It turned into a positive experience rather than the uneasy fear I had when I decided to look at them. I found it interesting that my videos have proved reasonably popular, I feared they were the height of self indulgence. I am buoyed up with warm feelings now :-)
Returning to my early words about the realities for women and the hyper feminine ideal favoured by many of us that cross-dress, I think the daily life of women is about comfort in terms of clothes and shoes rather than being a hyper feminine looking women. My own aspirations with my cross-dressing are to look like an actual woman, I have used the phrase ‘real world woman’ which I’m uneasy saying as I feel it may insult them but I’m trying to express, albeit inadequately, that just as men choose clothing they are comfortable wearing for their day then so it should be for women. My observation of women out and about is that there are some lovely clothes that look good and are casual and comfortable and the femininity is there. I see jeans, various trouser (pants) styles, amazing stylish yet comfortable flat female shoes and gorgeous tops and shirts out there. They all look comfortable and they still look feminine to me. Being a women is not all about wearing a dress or skirt, trousers feature. The styles available are varied and some are purely for women. To wear some of them definitely requires shaving your legs and tucking your genitals is essential. They can look stylish and elegant and feminine. I do love to wear a dress or a skirt but I also enjoy women’s trousers and jeans. What I want to do, like real women, is mix up the clothing choices, I want to choose dresses, skirts as well as women’s jeans and trousers. I still feel very feminine if I wear trousers styled for women. It is a different experience to wearing male trousers, I do not exaggerate, it really feels different.
I recently bought a pair of women’s skinny jeans and some fitted women’s shirts and some flat female shoes and can honestly say I felt as much excitement wearing them as I have when wearing a dress. The cut and fit are just delightful! I loved the colours and patterns, to me they are very feminine, of the shirts and I almost passed away with sheer delight as I buttoned up the shirt. I felt very feminine indeed and that joy gave me increased confidence and a huge feeling of euphoria overcame me. I was walking about the house smiling and laughing and my spirit felt free!
Alongside the jeans and shirts I purchased my first ever lace front wig. I also decided to try a different colour and chose a blonde with darker roots as I felt it looked more real than wig. It was expensive but I got a nice deal as it was on offer in spring sale. I was not prepared for the emotional impact this wig would have on me. I am sold completely now on lace front wigs. Maybe this is a good time to explain the picture that accompanies this narrative. I was surprised when I saw it. It is actually a still frame from a selfie video I recorded on my phone. I usually tend to cross-dress late in the evening to avoid any interruptions. my unforeseen opportunity occurred between elate afternoon and sunset. The late evening sun was coming through the window behind me and was filling the room with a nice orange light. I was quite thrilled by the way it backlit my wig and cat an orange warm hue across the whole picture. I had used my Airbase airbrush foundation applicator, this sprays the foundation onto your face in small droplets. It leaves a lovely smooth finish and seeing my face covered so evenly and the blemishes disguised I was seriously excited Having applied mascara, eyeliner and soft pink lipstick, which I glossed up, I was maybe too impatient and did a poor job with my blusher, I could barely contain my delight and once in the fitted patterned shirt and skinny jeans I felt I was close to weeping with the sheer joy of the moment. I don’t mind crying as a girl, cross-dressing frees me emotionally and I embrace this. The picture is a bit soft due to the fact it is from a moving video but it captures a moment I will treasure. For awhile I was a woman…man. What man? I love cross-dressing!
Texas Blue Bell Wildflowers
Anytime you see the word "grandiflorurn" included in the scientific name of a flower, it should get your attention--the word indicates large blooms. This is certainly an accurate description of Texas Bluebell (Eustoma grandiflorurn), sometimes called "lisianthus." With its tulip-shaped blooms and its richcolor (usually a deep blue to almost purple), Bluebell is considered by many to be our state's most beautiful wildflower. It is easy to see why that argument is a strong one. Few flowers will look as beautiful -- or as unique -- as the native Texas Bluebell.
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snooted (diy) Metz 48 high cam right @1/16, snooted McGoat SS-150 at left behind me.
Canon 7D + Tokina 12-24 f4
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
--Percy Byshhe Shelley, Letter, January 3, 1811