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Here's something a bit unusual; a (usually) Skegness based Gemini in InterConnect purple working a Lincoln depot 16 to North Hykeham. Now - as ever - I'm only guessing, but this did appear to be in the works at Lincoln for a while, but in the meantime a couple of Lincoln E400s either got loaned to Skegness or Lincoln ran a few turns of the 56 with them (given it was the same E400s, I'd say a loan). With no need for 16939 to go straight back to its home depot once the work was over, it entered service at Lincoln!! Perhaps it was only a test to see how it performed following the work done, but whatever the case it's a Gemini working a Lincoln route that normally you'd never see.
16939 pulls away from the stands at Lincoln bus station with a 16 to North Hykeham, here on the sunny evening of 19.4.21 - I purposefully took this while the bus was in the shade as I really, really wanted the blind to come out well on the photo... and it has!
Its allocation to Lincoln only lasted a couple of days, which is a little annoying as I'd have liked to have seen more of it. I did see it on Bustimes working a 19 the following day and tried to get it on Tentercroft Street (for a not-in-the-bus-stn shot) but I have a friend who doesn't understand the meaning of setting off at an agreed time so we missed it.
A couple of days after this all happened, what should appear inside the Lincoln depot building but 16944 with its engine door open, and as far as I know it's still in there... though having said that I did see a purple Gemini just yesterday (13th May) which looked like it had fresh paint and the new style of Stagecoach logo, but I can't be sure.
It's also taken me this long to realise there are only two purple liveried Geminis in use, because 16941 is in Beachball (and looks REALLY tatty might I add), 16943 is the open top Tour Lincoln bus which Skeg have pilfered for Seasider work and no others are on the fleet list.
Anyway, stop reading all this text and look at the bus... it's a rare thing!
This handsome guy appeared in the kitchen on Sunday.
Nice and slow, easy to catch and happy to pose on my finger against the sun lit window. OK I am easily amused. I was busy doing other stuff at the time so I only took a couple of pictures and figured that I could easily go back to him as he was going nowhere fast.
Unfortunately the dogs took my interest with the camera as some sort of instruction that he was a legitimate prey & started leaping at him as he flew slowly in loops, each second or third one down to terrier head height. He was in immediate mortal danger.
I had to let him out the patio door to save him.
He has a odd wee deformed wing bit sticking up - not sure what this is. i have other angles but my shortage of flies means I want to keep them for Fridays!
Happy Fly Day Friday everyone!
You have to admit that as far as intensity of expression goes he can best most top-models.
This is another old photo reworked a bit with photoshop, monochrome mixer and some dust effects.
Little bit of love for all you vinyl heads out there.
Being dropped at Kidrobot today,will you find it....?
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PEACE
A bit of a ‘Flashback Friday’ post, to when Singapore operated the B747 into Melbourne Airport (MEL/YMML) - SQ248 (I think it was) departing 16 in the afternoon light to Singapore (SIN/WSSS) - January 2011!!
Went to SQ Cargo as 9V-SCA in May 2011, and was stored at Victorville 21 Dec 2012 with a rego of N313SQ.
bit of Barry the monkey fan art for my pals over at Rumpus Animation Studios - www.rumpusanimation.com/
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SPNC - Year 4 - Instruction # 12
"Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary"
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On my ~long~ way home yesterday from an appointment, I spotted this marvelous work of art down an upcoming street in East Harlem, so I asked the taxi driver to turn left, then stop for a moment to view this gem...and make some shots. I immediately recognized the face to the right as "Lady Day," more commonly known as Billie Holiday.
I had a bit more trouble discerning the the portrait to the left. At first, I thought it was "La Lupe," a fiery, sexy Cuban singer (1939-1992). When I looked at the photos later, however, I realized that the artist meant to be portray the young Celia Cruz, also a Cuban singer, who was the undisputed queen Afro-Caribbean music for nearly 50 years.
It certainly was a stroke of luck that this young man came along, not walking too fast, so that I was able to add him to the frame, just between the two late, great, divas. It's as if he just entered a new, enchanted world--right in the middle of his own neighborhood!
After taking several shots of this heavenly mural, I sad to the taxi driver, "Para mi, eso es oro." (For me, this is *gold*.)
Fellow flickrites, you will understand...
East Harlem // Spanish Harlem; "El Barrio"
New York, NY USA
One day,the robot came earth from universe.The loud speakers on both sides are very noisy and speak a language that I don't understand well.Orange lights chase us.The face changes one after another
According to Wikipedia - "The Rottweil Test Tower is an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany. It is owned by ThyssenKrupp. It is 246 metres tall, and was completed in 2017. It is the tallest elevator test tower in the world."
Personally, I don't think it looks completed (the crane give it away?) but it definitely looks like a drill bit for a drill.
I took this image handheld as we were driving out of the valley.
I hope you enjoy it.
Bit of 'Horse Power' on show here..
So my RE Himalayan makes 24.5 hp at 6500 rpm, with 23.6 ft lbs torque at 4500 rpm.
I have no idea what that means - I looked it up!!
Wishing you a little of everything
A little bit more joy, a little bit less sorrow
A little bit more peace, a little bit less strife
A little bit more progress, a little bit less obstacle
A little bit more fulfillment, a little bit less work
A little bit more variety, a little bit less of the same
A little bit healthier, in mind, body and spirit
A little bit wealthier, in what really counts
A little bit stronger, to weather the storm
A little bit happier, with enough to share
For a little bit is all you need but I wish you
Lots and lots of love in the coming year!
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Messing about with off camera flash and photoshop...i saw something simlar to this in a local restaurant and thought i would give it a go!
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CHARO - DANCE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER (EDIT DJVJDELEY)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-I30ygP5Gc
Location: Barcelona, proud parade 2024
Nikon 180mm f/2.8 AF-D ED
A bit better prepared this week for #mocaroundgang #mocaround57 for 80's touring cars.
This period covered my life ages 7 - 17, so a primetime interest in cars. It helps that I also live in Australia, home to the legendary Bathurst 1000 km Touring car race, held in October.
The 80's started off in Australia running Group-C regulations, with a switch to International Group-A in 1985.
Dick Johnson’s 1983 Bathurst 1000 race began the day prior when his famous GREENS TUF XE Falcon made contact with the wall at Forrest’s Elbow and crashed out during the Hardies Heroes shootout for pole position.
In arguably his team’s finest hour a replacement Falcon was sourced (Andrew Harris’ ex-Bob Morris car), and the rebuild began. In the last minutes of a cold Saturday night a crowd of dick Johnson fans gathered watch one of the miracles of Mount Panorama.
The rebuild was going to take them all the way to the start line. The team were faced with the challenge of working in such a small space with so many people.
They were also trying to introduce all the development from the crashed car that they had found over the year and put it into a car that was a year old and hadn’t had any development since.
The new Greens Tuff was freshly repainted green with the #17 added to it. Dick Johnson made it out onto the track just in time to take up 10th place on the grid.
This mocaround challenge is hosted on instagram by @illuminated_mocs
It's been a long year (and two months and two days) since we last saw the sea. We went crazy at the weekend and drove to Seaton for a day out. This is the first time we've gone anywhere further than ten or twenty miles from home since the first lockdown started in March 2020. And boy oh boy, was it nice to be beside the seaside!!
Sony α7 II
Sony Zeiss 16-35mm f4 lens
It annoys me a bit that I can't be as beautiful and sexy as some of the fabulous trans girls I put in my posts with their pert little breasts and tight little bums. Of course I tell myself if I take that bike ride or refrain from eating an extra chocolate buscuit I might in a few months helped along by my hormones be just like them. I think the real truth is they were usually very young fresh and newly transgendered with budding breasts and healthy sexual appetites. Well I don't do so badly there in some respects but of course I might not feel old but I'm a bit too matured and crusty to pass myself of as a fresh and innocent teenager lol. However like football players I think a lot of those girls have a short time in the limelight making money which might explain why some at least spoil what they've got by being encouraged to to extend it with what are for me at least ugly enhancements and modifications. Then there are pimps and drugs and killers on the streets so unlike Jojo who can just play at it for them it's a hard life and I just hope some manage to save up enough money from doing porn to buy a nice little earner, that hair-dressing salon or corner bar. Indeed some of the girls nearing retirement go into management and production and no doubt some because they have that special gift and beauty find husbands but I doubt Jojo will not be that lucky staying lumbered with her swirling pond of blow-job mimicking goldfish.
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