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This sign was seen after 20km from Jeli, Kelantan. My family and I took this East West Highway on our return trip to Shah Alam from our home town; Kota Bharu. This is the only place in Malaysia to have such sign to caution drivers....that elephant/s might be crossing the road.
Diverging and intersecting lines mark the paths of jets high, high in the sky.. They streak through the thin atmosphere, coming here and going there. Separated by time, mostly.. The trails start off sharp and clear, but soon become blurred and wavy as the winds tug at them until they are utterly erased.
Seen from below, they can seem laser straight, but in reality, they are never straight. They follow the curvature of the earth as they maintain their assigned altitudes.. Bowed like the arching flight of an arrow from one destination to the other..
Animal Crossing has been one of my most favourite game series for a few years now and in it's honour I've got the icon for furniture in the game tattooed on the inside of my right hand's wrist.
It's small and understated (unlike most of my tattoos) but I love it's simplicity and how it reminds me of the excitement of getting new furniture for your house in my town of Beppin.
Simple pleasures are indeed some of the best.
City of Westminster / London, England
July 1, 2015
©Dale Haussner
"It is certainly the most famous zebra crossing in Britain; it is probably the most famous zebra crossing in the world. People have come to walk, dance or skate over it, some from thousands of miles away; they have kissed its stripes, stripped on it, sung songs to it and written on it. It is on the cover of the current Rough Guide to England, and the subject of countless pastiche student posters. It is, of course, in Abbey Road, London NW8, and was made immortal on 8 August 1969, when the Beatles walked across it for the cover shot of the last album they recorded, Abbey Road, made at EMI's studios at No 3.
Nearly 25 years later, the Abbey Road zebra crossing has attained a status somewhere between Big Ben and the shrine at Lourdes. Every day, groups of devotees come to stand beside its orange beacons, staring at the stripes as if some of the moptops' genius might still be contained there.
'I feel awestruck,' says Richard Hession, a 23-year-old from Bristol. He begins to walk slowly over the crossing. Cars and taxis wait patiently for him; they know what this is all about. 'To actually be in the same place,' says Richard. 'It makes you think, wow] They were here. It makes you think about the past. It makes you realise that no one else will ever be that great.'
Nominally, the crossing only serves two mansion blocks on either side of the road; in reality, it is continually tramped over by Beatles impersonators. 'They come along in the middle of the night,' says Sgt Peter McGoay from St John's Wood police station. 'Two o'clock in the morning, you're driving down Abbey Road and there's groups of them walking across. Mostly Japanese, I don't know why.'
'I think that's something to do with Yoko Ono,' says Les, the porter at Neville Court, the red-brick block visible on the right-hand side of the album cover. 'I was opening up once at five in the morning and someone was on the crossing with nothing on. I suppose they wanted to do it when there was no traffic.
'There have been some very near misses. People cross over and forget about the traffic; and foreigners look the wrong way.'
Richard Porter, 33, president of the London Beatles Fan Club, brings scores of devotees twice weekly to the crossing on his 'Beatles London' walks. A 'second-generation' fan, Mr Porter relates with uncontained joy the moment he saw and was acknowledged by Paul McCartney on the crossing. 'We had a tip-off he was going up to the studios. We all shouted over. He couldn't believe we were there]'
According to Mr Porter, the crossing is the reason most people go on his three-hour tour. 'I did a survey and 95 per cent said this was the thing they most wanted to see.'
Armed with a clipboard, portable cassette recorder and permanent grin, Mr Porter leads his group out of St John's Wood tube station and down to Abbey Road. As they near the crossing, the excitement is palpable; the 45-strong group know this is a seminal moment in the life of a proper Beatles fan.
They walk over the crossing respectfully and gather in a throng to hear the story of the album cover, which they all know backwards already. Over the road, a Japanese-speaking tour is going through precisely the same details.
'The 'Paul is dead' rumour,' grins Mr Porter. His charges smile respectfully.
For those who don't know the myth, the 'Paul is dead' rumour was hatched in 1969 by a DJ in Detroit, a month after the release of Abbey Road. The tale, which was circulated widely, is that Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966 and the clues are all on the album cover.
Paul is barefoot, to symbolise a corpse; George, behind him, in a denim shirt, is the gravedigger; Ringo, in black, is the undertaker; and John, who leads the parade over the crossing in a white suit, is obviously a priest.
Behind the Fab Four is a Volkswagen 'Beetle' car, whose number- plate, LMW 28IF, has been interpreted to read 'Linda McCartney: Widow', and Paul would have been 28 IF he had lived (wrong - he was 27 at the time of the photograph).
Paul is pictured as being out-of- step with the other three Beatles. Turn the album over, and the flickering shadow over the tiled Abbey Road sign is said to look like his skull. In addition, 'The Beatles', written on the back of the cover, is cracked through - a clear premonition of their future collapse.
Though the myth was widely debunked, true devotees never mind hearing it again. As Mr Porter listed the clues, they nod knowingly; the tape recorder blasts out 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'.
Perhaps the crossing is important because it signifies the last album that the Beatles recorded, or perhaps because it is the only readily available site closely associated with them. Much of Sixties London and Liverpool has gone, yet Abbey Road has changed little.
'I feel like I've come to a shrine,' says Alison Wiley from New York.
'This means everything . . . everything,' says Steve Vaughan, from Massachusetts.
'Everything the Beatles ever did happened right here,' says his brother Alan, waving at the crossing. 'It's better than Graceland.'
Regardless of the freezing weather, Alan is taking his shoes and socks off. He grasps a cigarette in the correct hand and proceeds to organise a Beatles formation across the crossing. 'Right, you be John, you be Ringo and you can be George. I'm Paul,' he says, hopping up and down.
Then a Danish group arrives and spends the next 15 minutes crossing and re-crossing the road, much to the irritation of a Hoppa bus. In the meantime, a bunch of Japanese have appeared and are writing their names on the Belisha beacons. The walls surrounding the studios nearby are also covered with scrawled messages, although a man from EMI whitewashes them every three months.
Residents in this otherwise quiet, leafy street regard such behaviour with amused tolerance. The film columnist Peter Noble, an old friend of the Fab Four, whose home, number 46, is featured in a forthcoming guide to the Beatles' London, says: 'We used to have a Westminster Council Abbey Road sign up on our house; it was never there for more than a week. Japanese fans came along with screwdrivers in the middle of the night.'
'I quite enjoy it when they get the wrong crossing,' says Nick Kent, artistic director of north London's Tricycle Theatre and another local resident. 'The sad thing is that there are other zebra crossings on Abbey Road and you often see fans posing on the wrong one. Do I tell them their mistake? Of course not. It would spoil their pleasure.'
Beatles' London walks: Sundays, Tottenham Court Road station, 11am; Thursdays, Baker Street station, 11am. Japanese tours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, St John's Wood station, 2.30pm.
'Beatles London', by Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn and Adam Smith, published by Hamlyn, 28 April, pounds 6.99."
For more info, see:
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/forever-1969-in-abbey-ro...
the crossing keeper returns to his signal box after passing to the Turbostar driver the token required to allow the train to pass over the single track section of line between Poppleton & Hammerton
A very touching atmosphere at sunset, in the old cemetery in Bonifacio. Everything seemed so just perfect for a deep, silent, respectful thought.
Al di là delle croci
Una atmosfera molto toccante, al tramonto, nel vecchio cimitero di Bonifacio. Ogni cosa sembrava così perfetta per un pensiero profondo, rispettoso e in silenzio.
Littons Mill crossing box. One of three in a short distance along the Warrington 'low level'. The others being Monks Siding and Crosfields crossing. When the line was resignalled in summer 2012 the mechanical signalling was removed in favour of LED's and Crosfields box closed. Littons Mill was retained as the crossing gates are stil manually operated. The box is usually switched out in the evenings and Sundays as seen in this view on 26th June 2012.
Crossing The Stream. John Muir Wilderness, California. August 31, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Two backpackers (and their dog) negotiate a stream crossing in the John Muir Wilderness.
I was out photographing around the lower end of the lake above this stream when two backpackers passed by. I was fascinated by watching them as they came through here, and their progression to and across the stream reminded me of some aspects of backcountry travel that are important and quite different from how we live our typical day-to-say city lives. They were moving efficiently as they approached the obstacle of this stream at the trail crossing. At first glance the crossing seemed obvious, with the trail clearly arriving and departing from opposite sides of this wide spot in its course. But, as is frequently the case, the crossing wasn't as simple as it first looked — the water was unusually high for this time of year – and no ideal crossing was apparent. They stopped, looked around, tried a few options, finally settled on stepping across on slightly submerged rocks, and they crossed. The first hiker got across fine, and the dog followed, but the second hiker slipped into the water just a bit and then apparently lost a set of glasses. They pondered a bit, realized that they couldn't get them back, and then set off, once again moving with a purpose across the meadow and on toward a higher lake.
I now think of something else when I see such backpackers, younger (to me, anyway!) backcountry visitors who seem in many ways like me a few decades ago. I envy their ability to carry large loads and to move quickly. I can still carry what I need to, but it is harder and slower than it once was! I also think about how much they cannot yet know about their potential future in these places, including the prospect that their appreciation and connection to the wilderness will grow and mature in ways that they cannot yet foresee. Sometimes I want to stop and tell them... but I never do.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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St Nicholas, Dereham, Norfolk
A large and splendid urban medieval church, cruciform with a stubby central tower. The bells are hung in a separate bell tower. Inside, the overall feel is of a crisp 20th Century reordering, everything neat and tidy.
There are a few significant medieval survivals, including one of the 15th Century East Anglian Seven Sacrament fonts, and the contemporary roodscreen brought here from Oxborough when the tower collapsed there, destroying the nave. It is placed across the south transept. Most famously perhaps, the memorial window to the poet William Cowper, depicting him with his hares, is set in the north transept.
On a walk around the city on the Penguin Trail January 2021 Christchurch New Zealand.
This is Our Journey Back to Vibrancy created: by Asheley Elizabeth at the Crossings.
Design Inspiration
Everyone knows that Christchurch has seen its fair share of adversity, and resilience could be our middle name! The Crossing’s ‘Journey Back to Vibrancy’ symbolises the journey we have had over the last 10 years from a flattened central city to the beautiful, colourful, buzzing city we see today. The colours in the design start dark and dull before transcending into the bright, vibrant colours that light up The Crossing’s central ‘Bubble’ building at night. The feature ‘Bubbles’ from the building are reflected in gold leaf adding that little something extra our city so deserves.
Taken in 2012.
On a cold, figgy morning, a crossing guard in green waits at the corner for school kids to come by.
nurul (voyeurisma) www.flickr.com/photos/nacre/ came over to KL for a few days recently and we had a great time! :) . one of the places that i really wanted nurul to see was Chinatown (Petaling St) at night time. it remains one of my favourite places to photograph and it reminds me why i love to do it.
Athenry to Claremorris Railway Line - MP Tuam 15 1/2.
Lisduff Level Crossing (XE303) on the N17, Mayo 23rd August 2012.