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Macro-Monday ... Imperfection
Obviously not happy about cracking my iphone, but came in useful for this weeks theme HMM
A contemporary art quilt with a strong social commentary is exhibited in the National Quilt Museum at Paducah, Kentucky.
Artist: Jacquie Geuring
Title: bang you're dead
this is diverted from the railwalkeresque view in that it's more focused on the dandelion.
railwalkeresque views are seen at www.flickr.com/photos/railwalker_de/
Back on Flickr, shot last week for The festival Diwali among our important festivals, we have firework going all around the town and wonderful sky like what you see here. all streets and well lit by residents and lots of sweets :)) too. My first attempt at shooting firework hope you like them.
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**HAPPY NEW YEAR**
I've decided to start a 52 week project! I'm scared and excited at the same time, but I want to look back on this year and say that I've achieved something cool! I've never done a project like this before, so hopefully I don't fail. :)
I hope everyone has had a wonderful new year celebration! I did, but my phone has been destroyed and is now sitting in a box of rice grain recovering :(
thanks for taking a look!
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Broadside at Portside.
“Hear ye hear ye ………………….”
The town crier announces to all and sundry that the time is fast approaching for the Maryborough cannon to announce that the time is now 1.00pm.
It was an off chance discovery on a Torres Strait island for there protruding in the sand was the partially exposed cannon.
The most likely scenario is that the cannon offered protection to an unknown Dutch East Indies vessel that had once plied its trade in the waters north of Queensland.
What is known is that the cannon was gifted to the city of Maryborough where it was restored and fired after a long sojourn for the first time in 1878.
After receiving the official time signal from Brisbane at 12.00pm employees from the Electric Telegraph Department would ceremoniously fire the cannon at 1.00pm to announce the time to residents of the city.
Firing the cannon came at a cost and at 1/3d (roughly 13 cents) a pound, for the blasting powder, and it required almost a pound each firing the Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs based in Brisbane deemed the cost too excessive and so it came to an end.
It was a daily event that began on 21st March 1878 and continued until early 1879.
The local council quickly accepted the responsibility for the daily firing which they maintained until possibly as late as 1890.
In later years a full size replica of the cannon was made and it is this cannon that can be seen in action at 11.00am at Portside, Customs House Residence Lawn, Wharf Street with a later firing at the more traditional time of 1.00pm at City Hall Green where it is always bang on time.
As for the original cannon it can be seen at the Bond Store in Wharf Street.
Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.
Bang Rak lit. means 'place of love'. From my Bangkok in better times.
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Koh Samui, Thailand
Thank you SkeletalMess for texture www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/5560862801/in/set-7215...
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Westbound CSX train B705 passes through CP TL near Woodbourne, PA with a nice pair of CN power in the lead including the EJ&E heritage unit.
Empreinter le cours des choses sans les clefs de la réforme intérieure.
Borrow the normal way without the keys of personal reform.
Hasselblad 500C/M + Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8
Kodak Portra 160 NC expired since 2010 in C-41
Epson V700 Scan Color 48 Bits Scan (No photoshop except from dust)
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design by tui :D ko co' băng đá nên làm đại nước, chứ tên tui hok phải nước nhar, Glacial nhar, tảng băng trôi nha :X
hinh dang ngoi` nen ghep zo nhin chua chuan lam :D
A young Thai boy unleashes a sidekick during a recent taekwondo competition in on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.
📍 Cao Bang, Vietnam 🇻🇳
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In northern Cao Bang, very close to the border with China, there, among towering limestone hills and endless meadows, a mountain emerges with a natural perforated eye that seems to watch over the world from the sky.
What is most surprising about this place is how it changes with the seasons: during the rainy season, the valley floods and becomes a liquid mirror reflecting the immensity of the mountains; in the dry season, the water recedes and green meadows appear where buffalo graze peacefully. Each moment offers a different face of the same landscape.
A view captured from a drone showing a remote and special corner of Vietnam, where time seems to stand still at the end of the day. 🌄