For sale in The Gated Garden.

Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA

Camoed up on the beach. This was lomokev's second spade as he snapped the first one in half digging a moat around a sandcastle.

nikon f3

nikkor 50mm f/1.4

kodak tmax 100

Camera: Zenza Bronica C

Lens: 75mm Nikkor f2.8

Film: Kodak Vericolor III Unperforated 35mm rolled with 120 backing paper

Developer: Unicolor C-41 kit

Scanner: Epson V600

Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)

Cropping: None

Fire buckets at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. Mind you they were empty.

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A quaint farm scene.

Beach Buckets @ The Little Red Hen

Fire Bucket At Bury Transport Museum

Here’s the other half of my city services fleet at the moment. The bucket has some hinge bricks connecting it to a turntable plate in the bed of the truck so it’s able to get to high to reach places.

Metal bucket with wood twigs

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Holidays are over and it's back home we go.

man with bucket - "nong tang" (alley) - Gaoqiao

Because of the lack of proper sanitation and electricity this man carries a bucket of "steaming" water to his home.

Going to The Philippines tomorrow (many of you know why) 19/04/2010 - be back in about two weeks

An interview

1/40th @ f/11

400 ISO

18mm

Taken with a Canon 55-250mm IS lens. Type L for a better view.

I'm not sure where this tree trimming crew was from. The crew that repaired the main power lines in our area were from Ontario.

Bucket with cobweb

Second. Most. Imaginative. Photo. Title. Ever.

Spot the odd one out.

Taken with a Vivitar EZ Big View camera in week 350 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:

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Agfa Vista ISO 200 film from Poundland, processed in the Rollei Digibase C41 kit.

Leather Bucket on HMS Victory. These were used to hold water as fire buckets.

Riveted backseam.

I passed this scene on Cartier Avenue in Pointe-Claire and had to stop to do a very quick sketch. The booms on the bucket trucks were all moving back and forth ever so slowly, like giant praying mantises or daddy long legs in the sky.

Fabric is Lighthearted by Ayumi Mills; tutorial by quarter inch mark; blogged

A bucket

Complete with Cherry Picker Bucket, truck stabilizers, Dumping bed. Chipper with open shoot, and safety bar.

At Sheringham Station, Norfolk.

Huh? Another from Scientific American. I have no idea what it was used for but in 1881 1,500,000 were in daily use somewhere!

OK this makes more sense now. This is one bucket in a series of buckets that carries some material from one level to another. Like a grain elevator. That's how so many were in use. Dozens could be employed in one piece of equipment. I was thinking people lifting elevators!

This time of year many people hang buckets on the trees, drill a hole in the trunk,and collect the sap to make Maple Syrup, one of the most important products of our region.

50 gallons of sap and several hours of boiling equal one gallon of syrup. The weather conditions have to be just right for the "sap to run". The night temperatures have to be below freezing, and the day temperatures above freezing. Rain helps. In recent years tent caterpillars have plagued maple forests making the trees less productive, more prone to disease, or killing the trees outright. These reasons are why it is so expensive.

Yesterday I bought a gallon of syrup from my good friend who has a "sugar bush" or forest of maples. It cost $30. American dollars. That is on the lower end of the scale as to cost. But I am sure you can see why it is like liquid gold.

These are the last few I am going to post of my niece, Ella. I really had a lot of fun taking these pictures...she slept like a baby...he!he!!:)