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This is my somewhat successful attempt to combine old with new. The stainless steel on these amfleet cars harkens back to all the CB&Q trains that used to run under these searchlights back in the day. Even with the modern GE, this looks a bit like something from the 40's and 50's. In reality this is just the nightly 383 making it's trip to Quincy. Get these shots while you can as the new signals are ready to be installed here at West Eola.
Brettenpad 16/04/2021 14h09
De Lange Bretten park is a bit of a forgotten piece of nature in Amsterdam. Completely wrong. It has few facilities but it is an oasis of peace and great for a relocation between Sloterdijk and Spaarnwoude and Halfweg.
Lange Bretten
De Bretten, and sometimes also called the Lange Bretten, is a nature reserve in Amsterdam's Nieuw-West district with an area of 130 ha. It is a green strip to the north of the Haarlemmertrekvaart and to the south of the Western Harbor area on the polder grounds of the Spieringhorner Binnenpolder. The area is named after the Huis te Bretten, one of the country houses that once stood along this canal. This house stood west of Sloterdijk along the Spaarndammerdijk and was demolished for the construction of the first railway line in the Netherlands, from Amsterdam to Haarlem. The name of this country house may have been derived from Borch in Bretten near Katwijk and / or the 'Brittenburg', a Roman fort near Katwijk.
The area remained undeveloped within the framework of the 1935 General Expansion Plan, based on the ideas of the urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren, who proposed a kind of green fingers (green wedges) between the city districts (lobes) in order to allow nature to penetrate the urban area. .
From the 1960s onwards, the area was part of the reclaimed land of the Amsterdam harbor, but because the area was left empty for a long time, spontaneous developments took place, creating a rugged green area. Incidentally, some city nomads also lived there. There have been plans for housing or industry, while the Amsterdam - Haarlem railway line and a motorway (Australiëhavenweg) also run through the area.
In addition to the rugged green area, there are also sports parks (Spieringhorn) and allotment parks. In the 1970s, the allotment park 'De Bretten', later also allotment park 'De Braak', was created. The construction of paths and play facilities in 2006 made the area more attractive for recreation. In addition, there is a continuous cycle route from Westerpark via the Brettenzone to Halfweg and the Spaarnwoude recreational area.
At the western end of the Lange Bretten is the 30-hectare nature reserve De Kluut, which was set up and managed by the Noord-Holland Landscape in 2000. In 2008, the area was given the management of the Noord-Holland Landscape for a period of 25 years with the intention of turning it into a nature reserve. The area is freely accessible and there are also some recreational facilities.
In 2010, a start was made on the construction of the Westrandweg, which has been bisecting the area on the west side (near De Kluut) since 2013.
Since at least 2013 dance festivals have been held in Sportpark Spieringhorn, just two hundred meters from the residential area between Burgemeester Vening Meineszlaan and Haarlemmerweg. The production of mainly low-frequency noise from these events caused unrest and resistance in the neighboring neighborhoods.
Cricket on Spiderwort shot at life size (1=1). This cricket is only 4mm long. This required a lens change and a good amount of bellows extension.
I'm a bit shy and anxiety-ridden anyway, and now with the braces I'm even less secure...but I decided to go ahead and put myself out there!
[DAVROS] Tropical_Tempest_Sunrise
Visit this location at Craggy Island - A wee bit of Ireland in Second Life
A 8-bit image of the local channel Telefriuli's teletext, photo captured from the TV on a boring rainy afternoon!
Ceretificate for the purchase of Victory Bonds purchased by my grandparents.
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Continuing at the Horn Lake Target for this photo, but we’re jumping forward a bit. Interrupting our August 2023 remodel photoset, this shot takes us to a time after the remodel’s completion, looking at a set of emergency exit doors at the rear of the salesfloor within sporting goods. Ten years ago, a photo of this very spot was my first-ever upload to flickr. (They realigned the dang aisles in the remodel – there’s now an endcap blocking the spot where I was standing back in 2014, so it was impossible to get the exact same angle!)
I suppose it’s a cliché in and of itself to say I’m at a loss for words, but truly I am. (This, despite the long description you can clearly see below!) I can’t say I’m surprised it’s been that long, because in a lot of ways, no, it does feel like I’ve been doing this for a long time. On the other hand, in other ways, it’s still crazy for me to think I’ve been at this for so long. Ten years is a very long time! That’s a decade of my life – and I’ve only had two of those, plus some change! When I started this account I was a junior in high school, bored at home over Christmas break. I enjoyed the opportunity to document local retail in the region I grew up in as well as the opportunity to join the community, interact with y’all, and curate a photostream (and a blog!) as a fun hobby during college. Five years of that went by, and now I am a CPA living in the capital area of the state I’ve called home for my entire life. I don’t know what I envisioned for myself post-graduation – nothing concrete, really – but I will say that this was an unexpected location, and it’s crazy to me that flickr, and all of its people, has been there this whole time, throughout everything.
I don’t know what to say to you guys. I really don’t think I would have been (or continue to be) as engaged in this hobby if not for all of you – the photos you upload, the blog posts you write, the comments you leave, the images you fave. I wish I could say I had some grand special plan to celebrate ten years, but I really don’t. Heck, as I wrote last week, we’ll be starting 2025 with the remainder of my first-ever photoset not to conclude cleanly at year’s end: no big deal, of course, but internally at least it does seem to speak to the ever-decreasing amount of time I seem to have available to devote to this hobby. And that makes me sad. But, by the same token, I’m still not intending to go anywhere. I do want this to remain fun for me, and I think the crowd I “grew up” with on flickr is mostly experiencing similar pulls in life drawing them away from more regular activity, and that’s okay. I love all the newer folks too, and thoroughly want to continue encouraging people to keep joining the hobby, as it is a ton of fun. Moreover, I like to think it actually does accomplish something important: not just photographing a random store, but documenting an appreciation of design decisions, historical recordkeeping, and so much more than that. And it’s wild to think that my photos may well be an impetus for some people to join the site – I never really anticipated I’d be an inspiration just like many others have been to me!
Anyway, to continue what I was saying – in order to keep this fresh and fun and not get burnt out, uploads may keep slowing down, I don’t know. I don’t want them to, but I’ve also learned I don’t want to make any promises, lol. What I do want to do is keep going through my backlog, because I’ve got plenty of neat places to share, and to let you know that I haven’t stopped adding to the backlog, either, even if it is in much less frequency than years past. I have uploaded over 8,630 photos, and written over 150 blog posts. I can’t believe it! And y’all have viewed and read so, so many of those, some of you 100% of them. Thank you for that!!
I had a goal to photograph all 29 Kroger stores in Mississippi, and I finally met that goal last week, just shy of this 10-year mark. (I’ve actually photographed 32 out of 29 – Kroger closed a few over the years!) I’m sure you know by now that I love the state I live in and I’m proud to be sharing its retail with you guys. As I said, I’ve got so much more to upload in the future, and while I don’t have anything specifically special planned to celebrate ten years, I am at least happy that my final photos of the Horn Lake Target post-remodel will serve as a bit of a way to mark the occasion. With that store having been the very first one I ever uploaded a photo of, that seems pretty fitting to me, and so too was my thinking behind sharing this particular photo for this anniversary.
I did notice that somewhere along the way I must have gotten myself confused, as it looks like that “before” image was uploaded on December 30th, 2014, not the 31st, which is when I thought I joined the site :P Ah well, my annual New Year’s Eve post has become a tradition for me by now, so no sense in changing that up! I’ll see y’all in a few days with some fresh uploads to kick off 2025. Happy New Year everyone, and thanks again for supporting me for 10 years on flickr (and counting)!!
(c) 2024 (for about a day or so anyway) then 2025 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
A bit of an abstract take on the Peter Iredale shipwreck on the Oregon Coast. As a trained engineer and rather inflexible thinking guy, these kind of shots are few and far between for me. But I am trying, and just maybe there will be more to come!
This photo was taken on the same evening as a previously posted photo from earlier this spring.
Mount Pocono, PA. September 2019.
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Pyper asks that you please ignore her skinny 'chicken legs'. She had a bit of surgery last week...teeth cleaned and a wart removed on her toe. The vet tech must have been a little over zealous with the clipper. At least she has sweet smelling breath again.
These are my newest video game earrings, inspired by the 8 bit Nintendo Mario Bros game. Part of my Foxy Momma Creations/SpriteMe2 beaded video game jewelry collection.
Just a bit of zoom away as the colors in the clouds off in the distance stood out brightly on this particular morning. I did enjoy the tiny piece of the prize off in the distance even if things were a bit spread out in the overall view. Photo taken on Armand Bayou near Bay Area Park.
Just as a footnote, I do know that other people are having he same issues as I am having, so not being able to see everyone’s post is a widespread problem here on Flickr. Not certain how they will resolve the problem, but they are aware of it. I suggest that you contact the Flickr team if you are having issues so they are aware of just how far reaching the problems are. I first noticed that my views had fallen dramatically from roughly 300 to 5 along with a drop in the comments. Let them know and maybe something will be done.
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Little photograph that just looks better as a video. Shot with the Sony A7s.
Audio: "Rain" by Uncle Neptune is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Something a bit more recognizeable: tall Scots Pine trees casting their shadows over a well-loved path through a Caledonian Forest remnant.
Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/photo/The-Structure-of-Trees-18-cabb790a2409e...
A toned black-and-white photograph of trees concentrating on the natural forms of trunk and branch - how limbs grow, split and stretch through space. Some trees lean or bend under their own weight, others reach upward or out in wide arcs.
Light filters through the canopy, casting soft highlights and deep shadows that bring out the grain of the bark and the structure of the leaves.
No dramatic weather or wide vistas here - just closeup attention to the way trees deport themselves in the quiet of the woods.
Nature does not require justification - least of all as a means to further some goal of mankind - especially because humanity has yet to develop a collective exhaustive knowlege, much less appreciation, of its unknown delights, benefits and pitfalls. It should just be, pure, beautiful in its authentic rawness, left to do what it will.