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more abstract work for my photography class.
although i think maybe this one is a bit too abstract.
i'll see what my teacher thinks.
Republica de Angola Bombardier Global Express D2-ANH departing Farnborough with the Angolan VIP contingent for the King's Coronation
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Part of the Naval contingent in the 2023 King's Birthday Flypast was Leonardo Wildcat HMA.1 ZZ375 leading Merlin HM.2s ZH843 & ZH862
The latter are used for Anti-Submarine work and Airborne Early Warning duties when the 'Crow's Nest' side-mounted Radar is attached externally
Unlike the earlier Sea King designated versions, the Navy opted to have a their new AEW system available to fit to a number of Merlins kitted out with the necessary fittings to aid fleet flexibility
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The San Francisco Pride parade is a world-renowned LGBT pride parade. It is held on Sunday morning of the Festival. The route is usually along San Francisco's Market Street, from Beale Street to 8th Street.[1] The parade starts nominally at 10:30 am, though it is hours before all the contingents are able to get onto the parade route, and the last contingent doesn't leave the parade route until 2-4 pm.
The parade consists of hundreds of contingents from various groups and organizations. Some of the more well-known contingents are:
Women's Motorcycle Contingent, also known as Dykes On Bikes.[2] Several hundred motorcycle riders, all women. Some of the women are topless, some wear leather or fanciful costumes. The sound of hundreds of motorcycle engines gives this contingent a big impact. Part of the reason they are first in the parade is that it's difficult for motorcycles to run reliably at the walking pace of the rest of the parade, so as the first contingent they can move faster. On November 13, 2006, they won a battle to trademark the name "Dykes on Bikes", having struggled since 2003 to persuade the United States Patent and Trademark Office that "dyke" was not an offensive word.[3][4]
PFLAG, or Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Usually one of the largest contingents, featuring several hundred people. These are typically the (straight) parents or family members of LGBT people, sometimes marching together with their LGBT relatives. Many carry signs indicating where their PFLAG chapter comes from. It's common to see signs from all over Northern California. This contingent is notable for the swell in cheers (and some tears) that follow it along the route.
Politicians frequently participate in the parade, as a way of making themselves visible to LGBT prospective voters.
Churches of many denominations, or religious-oriented LGBT groups, contribute several dozen contingents.
Dance clubs and LGBT-oriented entertainment businesses contribute several contingents. It's common for a dance club to decorate a flat-bed truck or float, and have several people dancing on it, along with loud dance music.
The Leather Contingent consists of lesbian, gay and pansexual leather and BDSM groups.
Groups which are anti-gay typically do not have contingents. During the 1990s it was common to see anti-gay protestors in the spectator area along the parade route, holding large signs condemning homosexuality, often with biblical passages. In the 2000s such protestors have become less common.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators, if not over a million, line the parade route along Market Street. Some arrive hours in advance to claim a prime spot on the curb with a clear view of the street. Others climb onto bus shelters, the walls of subway station stairs, or scaffolding on buildings to get a clear view. As the parade ends, the spectators are able to pass through the barriers and march down Market street behind the parade. The end of the parade route is near the Festival location at the Civic Center.
4 August 2010. Kutum: South African contingent based in UNAMID Kutum camp site since May 2010. In the picture, soldiers coming back to their tent after patrolling. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / Unamid / www.albertgonzalez.net
Contingent of Bears (and Bear Trappers) participating in the Southern Decadence parade in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, LA / September 5, 2010
Festività e Realtà contingente, Caldo e Freddo, Mediare tra gli Opposti sarebbe come contare i granelli di sabbia in una spiaggia
Preserved VP614 (LK04UWW) alongside Metroline OEM2750 (YJ71GPX), LT12 (LTZ1012) and TEH2080 (LK15CSY) at the Watling Street Truck Stop on the way to Showbus-50.
There were nine women racing on Sunday in the Yarmouth Clam Festival road race. The red-green-red racers finished 1-2-3. This photo was taken near the end of the first lap as they make a sharp turn to head up the only significant hill.
ATALAYAS DE ÉPOCA ISLÁMICA EN LA REGIÓN DE MADRID
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En la primavera del año 711 un contingente de tropas al mando de Táriq Ibn Ziyazq, gobernador de Tánger, entraba en la Peninsula Ibércia . Este hecho supuso la descomposición final y la caída de reino visigodo de Toledo, así como el asentamiento de los musulmanes en un territorio que pasaría a denominarse al-Andalus. A partir de ese momento comienza un importante capitulo de la historia de la Peninsula Ibérica que se desarrrolla durante los ocho siglos siguientes.
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Atalaya (del árabe hispánico aṭṭaláya‘, y este del árabe clásico ṭalā'i‘) o torre de vigilancia es un tipo de fortificación utilizada en muchas partes del mundo. Difiere de otros tipos de torre en que su uso primario es militar; y entre las torres militares o defensivas se distingue en que por lo general es una estructura aislada. Su objetivo principal es proporcionar un lugar alto y seguro desde el cual poder realizar la vigilancia y hacer observaciones militares. En algunos casos, torres de uso no militar, como las religiosas, pueden ser utilizadas como atalayas. También las eminencias naturales con buena capacidad para atalayar (registrar el campo o el mar para dar aviso de lo que se descubre, observar, espiar) son denominadas atalayas.
Fuente: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalaya_(construcci%C3%B3n
Fuente: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalaya_de_El_Berrueco
P.D.: (" ") El entrecomillado es mío.
Metroline OME2654 (YJ19HVE) blinded for 134 Warren Street, TEH2078 (LK15CUH) blinded for 189 Oxford Street Selfridges, VMH2467 (LK18AMV) blinded for 30 Oxford Street Selfridges, and VWH2213 (LK16HZE) blinded for 140 South Harrow, on display at the Hertfordshire county showground for the 2019 Showbus event.
So previously on a picture of Robertson Buses Olympian 7 I mentioned some deckers had been borrowed to act as spare cover, while the summer excursions and beginning of the school term overlapped – plus at least one of you spotted the Stagecoach Local liveried bus hiding about the RB depot. Well that can only mean one thing, right?
It does appear RB has raided the Stagecoach East Midlands reject cupboard, and drafted in a few ex-Lincolnshire machines to temporarily strengthen the fleet! I suppose it was inevitable some former RoadCar/Stagecoach buses would make it into Robertson Buses eventually, seeing as I’ve now got a growing number of them. The Frequento President needs no introduction at this point, and for the time being is ‘on loan’ to the model fleet.
And then there’s the FX06 Gemini, which as yet doesn’t have any Stagecoach names added because if it’s been loaned to RB it doesn’t need them... essentially so it’s in “as withdrawn” condition with the fleet names stripped off (although that didn’t stop me putting the InterConnect 56 blinds in it). Technically it’s still a WIP because there’s a few other bits I need to sort on it, but it’s destined to become a full representation of 16939 in Local livery.
I suppose the main question is why have I done a RoadCar Gemini, in Local livery of all things? Well first of all the standard OOC release Coastal Connect Gemini isn’t something I’m likely to get any time soon – finding the Vyking model for a decent price took long enough – so I wanted to do my own FX06 where I could pick my own fleet numbers and livery. I considered InterConnect purple, or Beachball, but part of me wanted to have a crack at painting Local just for the challenge.
The real life counterparts of both of these have long since been disposed of by Stagecoach, with photographic evidence of the Gemini having been scrapped, and presumably the President is no more either. Here I guess they got sold off or something, and with the President in full Frequento guise a suitable story could be it was restored to its Hull condition by Hull preservationists who live in Hull and like Hull things.
As for the Gemini I could say it’s like 528 and not technically part of the fleet, just owned by a RB staff for preservation and sometimes used as a spare. Although Stagecoach probably would sue them if it ran in service, and besides nobody in their right mind would preserve a bus in Stagecoach Local... right? Whatever the case, it's here now.
From Micah Bauer's excellent C6 standard - www.flickr.com/photos/micahjbauer/albums/72157629352407814
Blue/White - UN Romulo Peacekeeper
Black/White - alien precision fire drone
Red/white - alien cluster rocket drone
Support for the recent Indian Air Force Sukhoi contingent was provided by amongst others this Lockheed C-130J Hercules
'KC 3801'.
Temporarily based over at RAF Brize Norton with the other transport, a C-17 Globemaster III and their Ilyushin Il-78 'tanker', the 'Herc' appeared late Wednesday pm after holding off while various based Typhoons and the three Su-30's recovered.
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Some US Army infantry dismounted from their Matvee while on patrol in support of NATO's Stabilization Force in Eastern Europe (SFOR). Much of the American contingent of this peacekeeping mission is a armored brigade intended to deter aggressive action by the revanchist Yugoslav People's Army, so separate infantry brigades are often rotated into theater to better provide a lighter-weight way to interface with the local population. Still, the heavily mechanized and modernized Yugoslavs and their proxy Black Hand organization remain a significant threat in the Balkans, forcing the American military to consider heavier armaments for their soldiers' utility vehicles. Options such as the Reconfigurable Integrated Weapons Platform are an outstanding choice for this job, and provide units quite a bit of flexibility on what kind of weaponry they bring to the field. The M-ATV pictured above is equipped with a 30mm chain gun and 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, alongside a pair of FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, and a counter-drone jamming system.
(more details later, as time permits)
Note: I've blogged about these cars in Rapid City, as well as other photography-related topics, on my Tumblr photography blog at
www.tumblr.com/blog/yourdonphotography
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In early July, we ventured out to Spearfish, SD for a family reunion with a large contingent of my extended family; you can see photos of the gathering here on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/albums/72157653622664043
Before and after the reunion, we stayed at the stately old Alex Johnson Hotel
in downtown Rapid City, and I happened to stumble upon an amazing display of graffiti-covered walls along a block-long stretch of alley on one side of the hotel. It’s called “Artist’s Alley.” You can see some of the scenes here on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/albums/72157657185019741
When the reunion ended, we drove back into Rapid City to spend a final night at the Alex Johnson hotel … and were taken by surprise when the streets surrounding the hotel were blocked off, forcing us to park a couple blocks away and haul our suitcases down to the hotel’s front entrance. It turns out that the streets had been blocked for a vintage car show — which consisted of dozens of brightly-painted, highly-buffed and polished old cars parked along the streets all around the hotel. After we had checked in, I went out to photograph the artist’s alley in more detail than had been possible when we first arrived a couple days later; and then, for good measure, I walked around the block a couple times,and photographed all of the fancy cars.
I should point out that I don’t even own a car at this point in my life; there’s no need for one in New York City, and on the rare occasions when I need to drive someplace away from the Center of the Universe, there is always ZipCar (or Hertz, if it’s a longer trip). Though I have owned various cars throughout my adult life, they’ve all been fairly modest contraptions. I don’t consider myself an automobile aficionado, and I really couldn’t identify most of the makes and models of cars that I saw. Some were more obvious than others, but many were attractive (to me) simply because they were so bright and shiny.
It’s hard to imagine that these cars ever operated in the bright colors on display today, not even when they were first built in the 1960s, 50s, or before. In any case, they are certainly different than today’s cars, which are typically a muted gray or blue, and almost indistinguishable from one another. Indeed, the cars on display here reminded me of the bright, snazzy 1950’s-style autos that I saw all over Havana on a trip down to Cuba in late 2011; you can see some of those cars (and other scenes of Havana) in this Flickr album:
www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/albums/72157628422219911
From a photographer’s perspective, I had another problem with the cars — at least these cars, sitting out on the street: they were “static,” and thus fairly uninteresting. Obviously, they show no expression or emotion; if you photograph them now, and then five minutes later, they’re exactly the same. So I tended to photograph them all somewhat quickly and sloppily, without thinking very much about the details.
In retrospect, I now realize I should have done a more careful job — if only because it’s unlikely that I’ll ever go back to Rapid City (boo hoo), and I’ll probably never see those cars again. I should have photographed every car from multiple angles and perspectives, up close and far back, so I could have chosen the most interesting one. As you’ll see from the photos in this album, it was also difficult to get an unobstructed photo of many cars, because they were parked so close together … but I’m sure I could have done a better job if I had tried harder.
So there’s something to be learned from every photographic “adventure,” and that was my lesson from this group of photos: if you’re going to bother photographing something, you might as well do the best job you can. You might never have another chance to photograph the scene again; and ten years from now, you might be stuck looking at a bit of history you’ll wish you had captured more artfully.
The Queen arrived in Liverpool on Wednesday 22nd June 2016 on the royal train which pulled into Lime Street on Wednesday morning. She first visited the International Festival of Business before heading off to the Town Hall at around midday and was greeted by a contingent of the Merseyside Sea Cadet Corps. Inside the Town Hall, the Royal couple met a group of people invited because of their work in the local community.
They then made an appearance on the famous Town Hall balcony to wave to well-wishers on Castle Street at 12:30pm.
Back inside, they were entertained by eight young people from St Vincent’s School, who will sang the Hollies song ‘He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother’, before sitting down for lunch.
The Royal couple then went to the new Alder Hey Children’s hospital and unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the building.
NATO's Medium Extended Air Defense System (or MEADS for short) is built up of four primary building blocks, the first of which serves the mmost glamorous function--actually engaging the enemy. The Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) utilizes the MIM-104F PAC-3 MSE missile, carried in modular eight-pack cannisters. An evolution of the venerable PATRIOT missile, the MSE increases the system's range and lethality over the baseline PAC-2 & PAC-3 variants of the PATRIOT misile that have been in service since 1990. This interceptor's capability gives NATO's MEADS batteries game against both aircraft and ballistic missile targets.
The TEL vehicle itself is also one of the key features of MEADS' "Plug-and-Fight" design. Since most of the electronics and combat systems reside on the missile pack itself, it can be loaded on almost any vehicle which is equipped with a standardized Load Handling System (LHS). In US Army service, MEADS TELs are almost always an M1120A4 HEMTT LHS. This can vary in other NATO member nations, such as the German or Dutch contingents in ZEUS, which utilize heavy-duty RMMV HX trucks.
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Shoutout to Corvin for designing the missile pack component. A multinational system in real life as well as in Lego!
Buklod Festival street dance contingent from Parang, Maguindanao.
Characterized by exotic and colorful Islamic décor, Buklod is Parang, Maguindanao’s version of the Kalilang, or traditional festivity for any reason to rejoice – be it marriage, baptism, rites of passage, or even remembering the dead.
Aliwan Fiesta 2009
Cultural Center Complex
Malate, Manila, Philippines
The British contingent will get this straight away but an explanation might be in order for those less familiar with the UK.
MOD = Ministry of Defence.
Mod = Originating in Britain in the 1960s, a mod is a young person of a subculture characterized by a smart stylish appearance, the riding of motor scooters, and a liking for r&b, soul and ska dance music. The mods can still be seen on our roads today, usually riding together for visits to the seaside.
This is a perfect opportunity to feature a couple of my old dance floor but also mod favourites from way back when.
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The Tribu Kalimudan of Sultan Kudarat, at the Sinulog 2008 grand parade, Cebu City, the Philippines gives the energetic exuberance of youth. It appears that they must be high school students. Filipinos are known for their love for music and dance so I suppose it was not difficult to get enough graceful dancers for the contingent.
in the search for the black Sto Niño de Cebu at www.colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
A participating contingent and their adaptation of the Bagobo Rice Cycle Dance of the Bagobo Tribe of Davao del Sur. This dance is about the planting and harvesting of rice.
"The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting "Madayaw", from the Dabawenyo word "dayaw", meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living.
Today, Kadayawan has transformed into a festival of festivals, with a number of spin-off festivals in the region. The festival honors Davao’s artistic, cultural and historical heritage, its past personified by the ancestral “lumads”, its people as they celebrate on the streets, and its floral industry as its representatives parade in full regalia in thanksgiving for the blessings granted on the city. A celebration that interfaces the three aspects: tribal; industrial and; arts and entertainment. The festivities are highlighted with floral floats, street-dancing competitions and exhibits that showcases the island's tourism products and services." - Wikipedia.
Photos taken during the Kadayawan Festival 2009 in Davao City, Philippines.
The contingent from Carmen was one of eight groups which derived inspiration from the Yakan tribe of Basilan who sports distinctive face painting. They won big: 2nd in the Free Interpretation Category, Best in Costume (Free Interpretation) and third in the Streetdancing Category.
Pictured is Micah Amor, lead dancer of the contingent from the Municipality of Carmen, at the Sinulog 2008 Grand Parade, Cebu City, the Philippines
more of the final batch of Sinulog 2008 photos in Surviving Sinulog 2008 at www.colloidfarl.blogspot.com/