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This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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One of those sparrows tried to fly off with the piece of bread,but I guess it was too heavy.I've seen them do that,how selfish.
This car competed in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999. It's the 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione of German driver Gerhard Schwing and is chassis 1887GT. This is the competition version of the Ferrari 250 GT, one of 74 built by Scaglietti, with an aluminium alloy body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine. The blue car number 57 beside it is the similar 1960 Ferrari 250GT SWB Competizione of Dutch driver Bart Rosman and is chassis 2179GT, which was originally campaigned by the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps.
Shoreline at Mountain View, Mountain View, CA. The water is reflecting the colors from the pedal boats.
1951 Cunningham C2R (race), one of three that Briggs built to compete in that year's LeMans.
Very few privateers have been as successful in sportscar racing than Briggs Swift Cunnigham. Born as a rich banker's son in 1907, Cunningham got actively involved in motor racing rather late at the age of 41. He had previously backed others, but he did not drive himself until after his mother died, who very opposed to him racing. His first race was at Watkins Glen and the car was a Buick / Mercedes-Benz hybrid, known as the 'Bumerc', the construction of which Cunningham had backed in 1939. This race really spiked his interest in road racing, in which he actively participated for two decades.
More than anything, Cunnigham was interested in long distance racing and he set his sights on the most legendary of all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He did not just want to win the event, but he wanted to be the first to do so with an all-American team. After the Duesenbergs and Millers of the 1920s, very few American successes were scored in Europe. Prepared by Phil Walters and Frick and with the help of 1949 winner Luigi Chinetti, two Cadillacs were entered in the 1950 Le Mans race. One of these was fitted with a stock body, but the second was fitted with a custom built, supremely ugly body, which for obvious reasons was nick-named 'Le Monstre' by the French.
Although the cars were not on the pace, the 10th and 11th place finishes ensured that Cunningham's entries for the 1951 race would be accepted by the picky Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which organized the legendary race. To take on the strong competition Cunnigham bought Walters' and Frick's shop to form B.S. Cunningham Co, which was based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. Over the winter of 1950/51 a prototype racer was constructed, the C-1, powered by a Cadillac engine. Cunningham quickly abandoned the Cadillac engine, because of a complete lack of support from the company. He turned to Chrysler, who were willing to support the development and offer their HEMI engines at a 40% discount.
Dubbed the C-2R, the HEMI powered Cunningham was a sophisticated and well constructed affair. A simple, but effective steel tubular frame chassis formed the basis of the C-2. It was suspended at the front by unequal A-arms and at the rear by an exotic DeDion rear axle. The only gearbox available strong enough to cope with the Chrysler Firepower's enormous torque was a Cadillac three speed 'box. The package was clothed in a simple aluminium barchetta style body. Being very well built and very large, the Cunningham was rather overweight, which made the car very hard on the brakes. This was made even worse by the lack of engine braking by going down the gears compared to other cars fitted with four or five speed 'boxes.
Chrysler modified the Firepower engine to produce around 250 bhp, from the 180 bhp available in stock form. Despite the enormous weight of the car, the C-2Rs proved surprisingly competitive. Three cars were entered livered in white with two blue stripes, the first use of racing stripes ever. Two crashed out, including this car, but the third car held 2nd position when a bearing and valve failure threw it back considerably. It eventually finished in 18th position. Back in North America, Cunningham started to rack up victories with his racers. At the West Palm Beach factory work was started on a new racer for 1952 and a road car, of which the ACO required 25 to be produced to make Cunningham eligible to run as a separate manufacturer.
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I can now continue to reveal the competing images from the 2021 Sandwich Fair Competition.
These images continue the series from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.
Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.
It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.
SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.
This image is of one of the antique engines found inside the railroad tracks as part of the antique engine display, a long-running hallmark of the Sandwich Fair. These antique engines are highly collectible and prized by their owners. Many have been lovingly restored. This one, a Bull Dog, is running, as can be seen at the attempt to motion-capture the spinning wheel.
2021 Category: Inside the Railroad Tracks
For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.
The Eagles of Annette Island
This image was taken from a crab boat just off the coast of Annette Island near Ketchikan, Alaska. We were on the Bering Sea Crab Fisherman's Tour at the time. Part of their excursion is to visit Annette Island and throw carp to the eagles. It creates an amazing photo-op with dozens of eagles competing for the prize.
FYI, these are the folks from the Deadliest Catch TV show. This was a marvelous excursion and well worth the money.
This image was taken on a cold, cloudy day. Hence, the plain background.
Normally, the focus would be on what's in the foreground, the top of the carousel. I chose to focus on the snowflakes. ❄️
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
Trish is competing in a contest with the magazine Max Muscle. At one time she was over 240 lbs and doctors told her the only way for her to lose the weight and be healthy again, was with surgery. Well, she did it on her own! The contest is a celebration of all the hard work put in to get her back to a healthy state of body and mind.
shes proof that hard work, dedication, and determination can all pay off.
you also may notice ive put my JT logo in the corner, with the new flickr changes i need to protect my work alittle
Strobist: EX 150 into softbox cam left high, EX 150 bare bulb far cam left, AB through a beautydish above back cam left for hair and spotlighting triggered via PW's
Darrell Griffin is a long standing centre who has now moved into the second row a role he has proved most effective at. He is seen here outpacing Craig Hall of Doncaster. Craig Hall used to play for Wakefield but as he is knocking on a bit now he has gone part time as he nears retirement. Griffin now also in his thirties seems to be holding back his body clock and fingers crossed will head into next season in good form.
Mother nature vs street art. Competing colors in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
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These images were taken at last light. There was a lame Pheasant approached by another Pheasant. The two males Pheasant began competing in front of me. Surprisingly the lame Pheasant warded off the fitter Pheasant.
The Beewolf Wasp also known as bee-hunters or bee-killer wasps, are solitary, predatory wasps, preying mostly on Bees, hence the name.
The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the territorial males mark twigs and other objects with pheromones to claim the territory from competing males.
The Female shown here is carrying a Bee back to its previously excavated tunnel in the sand, the Bee has been paralyzed and will later serve as food for the Beewolfs larvae.
I spent most of yesterday observing a mixture of behaviors from both the Male and Female Wasp, amazing to watch these little creatures do their stuff and I can't wait to go back for more of the same! :)
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Competing at Camden.
This rider was just one of many of the competitors at the 2021 Camden Equestrid held at Camden Equestrian Centre 22-23 May 2021.
It was fierce competition as competitors were vying for a place in the Australian Equestrian team who will be competing for gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Camden, New South Wales, Australia.
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Near The Gulf Of Mexico
Naples, Florida
USA
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Parakeet photographed while it was eating fruit from a tree.
Native to southern Asia and central Africa, this big, long-tailed parakeet has been very popular as a cage bird all over the world. Apparently it is also very adaptable, because escaped birds have managed to establish feral populations in many regions of the globe.
Most of these are centered around cities, in areas as diverse as Hong Kong, Singapore, Jerusalem, Paris, and London. In the U.S. there are wild flocks around Los Angeles and Bakersfield, California, and around Naples, Florida, with scattered sightings in many other locales.
P. krameri is a common, medium-sized bird found in a variety of forested and other habitats such as light secondary forest, riparian woodland, mangroves, savanna grasslands, open farmlands with scattered trees and parks and gardens in urban areas In its natural range, P. krameri is known to cause considerable agricultural damage.
Due in large part to its popularity as a cage bird, it has succeeded in establishing feral populations almost worldwide, but especially in Europe. Population sizes range from only a few tens of birds to several thousands and although several populations are growing exponentially, the rate of spatial spread seems to be rather. In Europe, P. krameri is known to compete for nesting cavities with native hole-nesting birds. P. krameri is included in the DAISIE list of 100 of the worst invaders in Europe and is considered a pest species in Western Australia. - Wikipedia
Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini
Competing in PFO-The Island. Please fave or comment this photo to help me win!
EXPLORE: Highest position: 413 on Monday, November 24, 2008
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You'd think that it would be almost impossible to upstage that incredible train/engine shed roof design wouldn't you?
I would have, and had fully intended to get a clear shot of it.
I patiently waited for the last train to discharge its latest cargo of passengers, shoving the empty space ahead of them forwards, onwards to the exit, the rest of their lives and, (I hoped) smartly OUT of the shot I wanted to take.
I had already raised my camera, and was about to frame it without too much platform foreground and then these two passed carefully by; making their way along the platform in the wake of human detritis and the eddies of air settling around & about them.
At that point I couldn't imagine the shot without them in it. :)
A medieval castle competed in 1380. The owners in the 1830s decided to build a new and more livable "castle" (actually a manor house) on a hill overlooking this one. They retained this structure as a "garden feature" visible from the newer home.
It is late September, spring in NZ and the Pied Stilts are competing strongly, doing leaps in the air often exceeding 5 metres - it seems a competitive action triggered by sex hormones.
Sometimes collisions occur as here when a descending bird landing on top of a competitor that had not leapt as high.
Nikon Z7 with Nikon PF 300mm lens plus 1.4 x TC
Passing through Belford among the traffic, empty coal train HV263, rides the shadow of loaded GWA coal RV218, with 9031, 9027 and 9035.
2019-07-10 Pacific National 9031-9027-9035 Belford HV263
This car competed in the Allcomers Scratch Race for Vintage and Historic Racing cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1965. It’s the 1947 Talbot Lago T26C of Anthony Brooke which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,485cc unsupercharged engine. The Talbot Lagos took part in the 1948 (pre-World Championship) Grand Prix races but were generally outnumbered and outclassed by the Ferraris and Maseratis, although Louis Rosier won the Belgian Grand Prix and Louis Chiron the French Grand Prix in one of these cars.