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This shot comes from Newton, NJ. A last minute trip Tuesday night of last week resulted in a bit of an alternate route due to all of the flooding from Hurricane Irene. We passed a good deal of traffic headed in the opposite direction that was being detoured off of Rt 287 (part of this road was completely destroyed) but ended up headed back to Toms River late enough that we didn't get stuck in any on our way home. It was a new moon so the foreground was lit with a flash light and some tricky techniques that I hadn't tried before. Overall, I'm definitely happy with how it turned out. I'm hoping to make it back to the field during the day, but I definitely need to check how late in the season sunflowers are in bloom until. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!
Thanks to everyone that made it out to my opening in Asbury Park at The Gallery 13. I couldn't have been any happier with how everything went. Thank you so much!
Nevada has figured out that in the cannabis market, they have a real advantage. Millions of tourists visit every year, and many are from places where cannabis is illegal. So, titty bars, strip clubs, gambling, whoring and now we add cannabis to the mix. What's not to like?
Planet 13 is an incredible upscale cannabis vendor. Check them out here:
The billboard is planted there quite deliberately. And, across the street from Planet 13 is another huge cannabis vendor. The competition is fierce.
Welches Kreuz ist am weitesten oben?
Welche Rundung am rundesten?
Man erzählt sich, dass der Architekt des (Ost-)Berliner Fernsehturms die Kugel absichtlich so gestaltet hat, dass die Reflektionen der Sonne immer ein Kreuz ergeben.
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Safari panel for SCC internal competition - slight rework of images including recrop and adjust white balance to match the set.
This is a scene during the robotics competition sponsored by the ECE department at BYU. Robots chased each other around the oval track to see which was the fastest.
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Some pictures taken by the late Michael Cleary. Summer 1983 I believe.
If I remember rightly there was an early trial of deregulation in Hereford. It looks like this operator was competing against Midland Red on this route. Having 'proved' it worked we all know what happened in 1986!
Spectators look on as one of the competitors in the 2017 ploughing competition goes through the motions of ploughing a straight furrow. One of the scenes at the 2017 Festival of the Plough near Epworth in North Lincolnshire.
The blurred red background is the trunk of a red sealing wax palm, about the only thing as colorful as the geckos.
Small White butterfly (Pieris rapae) and bee, Loughshinny, Co Dublin, Ireland.
As always, I am open to correction on butterfly ID!
♥ Week Six
One entire week without my camera or creative outlet ohmygod I really want to take a new picture now.
I've planned my next photo to upload and I don't think i'll be able to do it till the weekend (where I hope my camera will be fixed) but it'll be great.
Tumblr if you put this photo on your blog i'll check you out.
The on the morning of the 18th of June 2012 the skies cleared before dawn and I was treated to the best Noctilucent Cloud display I have seen this season so far.
Details:
Location: Killygordon, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Date: 18 June 2012
Time: 02:00-02:30
Camera: Self modded Canon 1000D, Simga 20mm
Exposure: 6sec, ISO 400 F5
By Stephen Badger | Office of Communications, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
The 31st Annual Maryland Park Service Lifeguard Competition took place on August 3 at Gunpowder Falls State Park. Maryland Park Service lifeguards from throughout the state competed in physical and skills events that showcase their training, which they use every day to protect swimmers, canoers, kayakers, and other water enthusiasts at Maryland State Parks.
10kL Competition Submission
Credit to: Dawson Wylder
Enter the comp by taking a photo within Urban city and send your photo to our email Urbancityuce@gmail.com
ENDS 26TH
Topic 3 (make an OC character that's never been made before):
Jack: An unknown ghoul who haunts Halloween night in Avalon City, it's said that Jack'O Lantern has found a body...but still enjoys cutting heads off for enjoyment with his blazing sword called "Firebyte". If your out on Halloween night in Avalon City run!
Brat: A young girl who when angered or upset release a powerful kinetic force! She is a world class brat who when not getting what she wants lashes out with her powers causing a large amount property damage to the city.
Canvas: When Oliver (Canvas), tried to become a world famous artists his art work was bought for a small price and then forged and sold at a higher price to bidders in Avalon City auction by a con man. When Oliver found out the news he tried to report it to the police but had no evidence as the original copies were destroyed by the con man. Heart Broken and poor Oliver tossed a nickel into a magic wishing fountain hoping for his situation to turn around, little did he know the fountain granted him a wish but...with a price.
The wish gave Canvas a magic paint brush which used magical inc and a canvas. The magic items allowed Oliver to paint whatever he wanted...however Oliver soon found that whatever he painted leapt off the canvas and became a real item or creature.
Using this ability to get revenge on the con man that screwed him over, Oliver made a persona called "Canvas" who painted a machine gun and used it to gun down the con man. Now becoming a criminal Canvas hides from the police however his persona Canvas slowly grows stronger and more dangerous...always thinking "big picture" Canvas is painting a large Hydra Dragon to wreak havoc on Avalon City.
Painting bundles of money and drugs he is a dangerous distributor in the back market and even paints Nuclear warheads which comes to life and sells them to thugs and super villains.
WEEK 11 – S Perkins Sprouts, Set I
Again, I encourage you to revisit those blog posts linked in the previous description for details and photos of Sprouts’s construction; I may also mention some details in this album, but no promises and definitely not right now, so if you want to see the development of the store beforehand, it’s probably best to go and check that stuff out instead. The short story, though, is that Sprouts made a number of modifications to the building -- much more extensive than anything Schnucks or Kroger ever did -- but ultimately, that is in fact the same 1970s building underneath. The road signs, too, remain from the Seessel's days -- a nice touch, which I'm very happy about :)
Alright, so jumping back into it here – remember that I said Sprouts' first area location opened up in Lakeland, circa 2014, just a few years before this store opened. I also briefly called out Schnucks's bogus-ish competition claim, that they left as a result of “fierce competition including a growing number of non-traditional grocers” – while it’s true that Memphis did have a fair amount of nontraditional competition then (and has even more now, what with the entrances of Sprouts and Trader Joe's to the market), I'd argue that it's unlikely any of those really took away much, if any, business from Schnucks... many of these "other" stores serve specific markets -- Whole Foods and Fresh Market have upscale clientele, and Save-a-Lot and Cash Saver are more price-impact/price-minded stores, for instance -- and that's exactly why they are called "nontraditional." They have specific audiences that don't have very much overlap with the others. As far as "traditional" competition goes, all we've really got are some scattered independent grocers, mainly Superlo Foods; Walmart; and Kroger. And if you're going for truly "pure" competition, as in a chain grocery store with service bakery, deli, and butcher in every location -- Kroger is it. It's the only one. We don't have a lot of grocery options around here.
Looking at Kroger's own information released to shareholders, we can get some additional information to form a better picture of the logistics of the Memphis grocery scene. Kroger's annual fact books commonly list specific metro areas, along with the top two competitors Kroger faces in those areas. In Memphis, the number one competitor has been, is, and probably always will be Walmart. No surprise there -- not totally comparable, since Walmart isn't a traditional grocery store in and of its own right, but it's absolutely to be expected and is surely where a lot of people (including myself!) get their grocery shopping done. As for the second competitor, though? For a few years there it was *Walgreens.* Walgreens! A drugstore! They listed a freakin' pharmacy as the second-biggest threat they face as to courting customers to buy groceries from them!! That should certainly serve as proof that all those other "nontraditional" players that Schnucks went on about in reality have very little pull in the Memphis grocery market as a whole. Rather, besides the behemoths that are Kroger and Walmart, Schnucks likely only has themselves to blame for their failure.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I do want to mention that Kroger's most recent fact books have now begun to show Superlo Foods as their second-biggest threat when it comes to competition in the Memphis metro. That's at least a much more credible, as opposed to laughable, competitor, especially since Superlo has continually grown over the years -- they opened their ninth store just two years ago, as a matter of fact, in a building that Kroger gifted to them, no less; and another of their locations is one of those four Schnucks stores that Kroger didn't take over in 2011, which I've shared with y'all a few times before in my photostream (see my album here). But still... it's very unlikely that an independently-run local grocery chain with only nine stores can have anything beyond a relatively minor impact on a national grocery behemoth that operates 31 stores in a two-county area.
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