2020 Flickr PhotoWalk - Drumbo, Ontario (April 4)
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We don't get many of these mornings but this one made me stop in a carpool parking lot...it sure was pretty....and prelude to a stormy evening On Explore Jan. 19 @ 387, up to 204 Jan.20/09
Do you like a story? Would you like to hear, or should I say read, the story behind this one? Okay if you insist :)
See the pointy rock to the right, then see the big rock to its left? If you blow the photo up large and look closely just to its left, you’ll notice a small boat. That boat, the "SS Oxidation" belongs to Rusty Malloy. Good old Rusty.
Not many people know this, but Rusty has a sister named Bree. Bree is ... spirited. Rebellious could be another word for it. As younger sisters sometimes are (I hope mine isn’t reading this). When Bree herself was younger she briefly dated a local hooligan who went by the nickname Knuckles. Real piece of work, Knuckles.
One afternoon Knuckles thought he would try & impress Bree by acting tough on a train, giving a hard time to a quiet young couple named Hugh & June. June, as it turns out, was an upcoming gymnast - very promising. There was talk she might even make the Olympic team one day. She believed gravity was mostly a guideline and flat surfaces a career opportunities. June's biggest supporter in her endeavours was her hard-working, salt of the earth, father Arthur.
Arthur, worked at a plant nursery called The Little Shop of Growers. Model employee. Employee of the Month several times, chosen personally by the boss, Mossy Greenwell, a woman who trusted three things: compost, clipboards, and hard-working, salt of the earth people.
Arthur used to carpool to work with Nettle, the nursery’s bookkeeper. Nettle had a strong dislike of silence and always had talkback radio blaring on the ride to work. One morning, while stuck in traffic, they heard a segment about underappreciated Olympic sports like - you can guess what, hey! - gymnastics! This inspired Arthur to buy June a second-hand balance beam off a bloke named Colin.
Still with me, stick with it ;)
Colin repaired kayaks on weekends. He once mentioned, during a very long explanation about epoxy & resin, (yes, I used to try & fix my own surfboards so like stuff about epoxy & resin is interesting. In particular how to get it off your hands when you are covered in it. Anyway, sorry for digressing. Good word "digress" especially when you say it slow and meaningfully. Sorry , digressed again) that his cousin, Anita Bath, worked in coastal erosion management, specialising in dune rehabilitation and native grass planting.
Soooo, Anita later consulted on a small, low-budget shoreline stabilisation project. At a little-known beach known as Gravelly Beach on the Central Coast. Right here!
To cut a long story short, in case you are falling asleep, those grasses helped stabilise the sand, which protected the shoreline, which reduced erosion, which meant fewer rocks breaking off into the water, which made boating safer.
And this of course brings us back to one particular small boat. A very special one. The "SS Oxidation".
I had to tell you this story because the SS is such a key element of this photo, and without those exceptional circumstances, it may not have been participating quite as well in buoyancy as seen here. And that would have ruined the whole photo.
Have a great start to your Christmas week everyone! Thanks for any comments, always appreciated :)
PS: This explanation exists mainly for narrative convenience and should not be fact-checked too closely ;)
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Some day, when I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
Yes, you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight
With each word your tenderness grows
Tearin' my fear apart
And that laugh.wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart
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Lovely ... Never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it? 'cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
It touches my foolish heart
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Another day of waking up late and seeing a train I want to shoot...
The GTW Heritage Unit is something that I've wanted to shoot for a while, but haven't had the opportunity. After seeing posts about the unit finally back on GT rails leading today, I asked a friend a few determining questions. After establishing that I would be able to make it down in time, I hopped on 127 and started my journey south. Once to Durand, it was known that there was plenty of time until the train would be moving as it was meeting a southbound. Myself and a couple other friends decided to carpool and head off to shoot the GT unit. After what felt like a short drive, we got to Davisburg and settled on the bank of a pond. The fun chase began.
I remember seeing Franz Ferdinand play a small club in Chicago called The Empty Bottle for their first US tour back in 2004 or so...I wasn't taking photographs at shows back then so I can't be sure but I know they had just either put out their self titled album or were about to release it. I had a sense of their greatness at that time, to be honest, and felt the space wasn't big enough for their sound.
Fast forward to 2009 when I was taking photographs and was set to shoot Coachella for the very first time. I was super excited to photograph Franz Ferdinand outdoors when I could capture the jumps! I flew in to San Diego to carpool with my friend J when all of a sudden, halfway through the drive, my body started feeling super wonky and dis-regulated. At one point, J pulled into a taco joint and I actually laid down in the parking lot on top of the asphalt . I was so dizzy, nauseous, and having a hard time breathing but I knew that I had to still get to the festival so I could photograph Leonard Cohen as that was the main reason. As soon as we reached Indio, I ran a cold bath and just tried to shock my system into being more alert. I don't really recall anything about that weekend except that some of my photos turned out OK but what I recall the most is that I missed Franz Ferdinand because I was in a bathtub trying to turn human again. After the fact, I saw these awesome jump shots from the set and was really kicking myself. When I finally got home, I got my diagnosis-my first major sinus infection combined with acute altitude sickness. I was out sick for an entire week after that.
Fast forward again, this time to 2012, I had a chance to shoot Franz Ferdinand again at Lollapalooza when, about an hour before their set, the sky turned completely dark and a tornado drill meant everyone had to evacuate. Most people honestly had nowhere to go except if they lived in or were staying in the loop. I ended up going into The Art Institute nearby for awhile until hearing that they were letting people back in. I ran back and caught a much shorter Franz Ferdinand set. Unfortunately, their big stage set up with lights was not fully functional for those first three songs and there was still some more haze or dust around atmospherically but I still think this shot was worth posting.
Btw, I recently discovered that it looks like Alex Kapranos is actually single, which surprised me because all this time I honestly thought he was in a poly-amorous relationship with Jacqueline and Michael.
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Another spot on the 'other side of the tracks' to everyone else that allowed me and carpool buddy Greg some elevation and three or four crackers at sundown ...
Cumbres and Toltec, 30 Sept 2015
Driving on the 55 Freeway going north towards the Edinger offramp in Orange County, California, we spotted thick black smoke coming from the right shoulder of the freeway. As we got nearer, it was evident that a car was on fire. We were in the carpool lane at the time, and traffic was creeping along. I got one chance to snap this photo...The Volkswagen was completely engulfed in flames. No one appeared to be in the car. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For years they poured burning coals over the top of the cliff at Glacier Point. It was eventually decided that it wasn’t a natural event and should be discontinued. A few years later a photographer discovered that the valley had being pulling off a natural event that had gone unnoticed every February on the opposite side of the Valley. The shadow from El Capitan would line up just perfectly so that the rocks were in the shadows and only the water was illuminated. This stunning spectacle only works if there is sufficient snow melting atop the falls, the skies to the west are clear so the light can slip under any clouds and make the water glow like fire. It’s is a spectacular event and at the end of a really good show you can hear the entire valley applaud and cheer for the great showing. The event has become a spectacle as a mass of photographer descend on the valley jockeying throughout the day looking for the coveted parking spot. Then comes the clamor to get out of the park once the show is over and can take hours sitting in traffic. So if you go, do what you can to carpool with other photographers.
Dave: Alright, Eva, you ready for your weekly photo.
Eva: Sure thing. And we're definitely upstaging James Corden on this one!
Dave: James Corden? Are we doing carpool Karaoke?
Eva: Nope. Enthusiastic singing is more of Aggie's thing.
Dave: Makes sense. But I don't know why you're referencing James Corden when we're gone to take photos of you by this grove of trees covered in hoar frost.
Eva: Oh, because I'm upstaging his movie "Into the Woods".
Dave: We're upstaging his entire movie with Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Chris Pine with a single photo of you posed in front of a grove of trees?
Eva: Darn tootin. You see coming "out of the woods" is always better than going "into the woods" regardless of the cast.
Dave: I didn't realize that.
Eve: Yup. There are much comfier beds and more reliable meal service when you're not stumbling around in the woods looking for a white cow and a red scarf.
Dave: But the white cow and red scarf drove the plot in that movie.
Eva: And I have spots like a cow and like to scarf down biscuits. So let's move along the plot of this photo and let me start scarfing down those motivational cookies.
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We've had a bit of a magical January here with days upon days of hoar frost. This was taken in a grove of trees close to where we cross country ski within 5 minutes of our house. Saskatoon can be great in the winter for those who like the outdoors.
As I was driving home from work yesterday evening I noticed this beautiful little box turtle friend walking in the gutter between the curb & road on a heavily trafficked street... no way out for him because of the height of the curb. It was a shocking sight. There was also no where to pull the car over so I kept going, found the closest pull-off, and sprinted back half a mile in hopes he had not wandered into traffic. Luckily, when I arrived he was still in the gutter area now completely trapped & retracted. Poor little fella. Typically when rescuing box turtles I put them back in the woods as close as I can to where I found them, but this area was so heavily trafficked it just didn't seem like a good idea. So instead, he joined me as a carpool companion, and I dropped him off this evening at the local woods / nature area that I frequent across the way. Probably not ideal, but I do believe it's his best hope of carrying on, and for now at least he's safe. Good luck little friend. :) -H3
Here is a fun long-exposure shot of the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza. These car light trails never get old to me. I will always chase this type of shot.
Went to meet someone on a carpool parking, to find out we both had a different carpool parking in mind when we made that appointment. So I had plenty time to make a photo of this imported Omega.
Exported 8-2022.
Keith..........
Just for you:
"The shortest distance between two points......is under construction." :-))
Love it and You xxx
I was on my way home from a photoshoot, took a wrong turn, and then another and found myself trapped in a carpool lane heading onto the Bay Bridge at about midnight. I thought, oh well, lets see if there is anything to see.
...and there was.
Adele Carpool Karaoke
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nck6BZga7TQ
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Sia Carpool Karaoke
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Image: Benday Fauvist Digital Abstraction
Molly and I were a few minutes early to meet her carpool partner, so we sat in a parking lot and waited. As we sat there and listened together to the radio, a pretty woman walked around the truck and to my window. She said, “Hi! My name is Tricia, and I’m a Jehovah’s Witness. We like to go to neighborhoods and knock on doors – you’ve probably had us knock on your door – but people see us coming and try to avoid us or hide, so we come to parking lots and lie in wait and pounce on unsuspecting people.”
I kid you not! That is what she said. I felt that after such a brilliant opening line, I owed it to her to accept her Watchtower and pamphlet teaching me how to be a better parent.
Molly had the radio on “her” station, which was playing the “top 40”. After Tricia left, we were treated to a glorious in-studio interview with Fifty Cent, or 50 cent, or $.50, or however it is he spells his name. Not many people have names containing Arabic Numbers anymore. I guess it’s handy if you want to use your own name for your alpha-numeric password or PIN. Maybe I should change my name to Buck twenty-five, or buck and a quarter, or $1.25 – I haven’t decided how to spell it yet, I guess that depends on my PIN number. I’ve always wondered how long until our names and SS# would be one and the same.
But I digress…
What I really wanted to share with you about the interview with Fifty Cent, or 50 cent, or $.50, or however it is he spells his name, was this wonderful quote, delivered when Ryan Seacrest asked him about his wearing a bullet-proof vest. “Have you been receiving threat?”
“Well you know, the envy breeds jealousy.
This afternoon I’m scheduled to take Jack downtown to the Flyleaf concert. Perhaps we’ll find more insight and profundity.