Went to a wild show last night

at the Tiger Lily - an

Elizabethan sort of

burlesque-vaudeville to raise

money for a summer presentation of

"Taming of the Shrew," which was

written by a guy named

Willy the Shake, I think.

Many of my favorite photo subjects

featured here on this stream

and in my Vaudeville-Burlesque

collection were there-

Crystal (pictured here),

Amy O'Neill,

Eliza Bane,

Victoria Vengeance

and others.

I have many photos I have

yet to work on of this event-

including the bizarre and

macabre spectacle of

Victoria bathing in an

antique bathtub of blood.

But it started with

Crystal

up onstage

and here she is.

way of life~

The bridge over the tracks at Dorridge Railway station

Removing some loose render from the top of a four-storey building in Kennington Road.

This is Snow Hill Train station just after 7.00am and the Daily Commute is starting.

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Nikon FM2n, Nikkor 28mm f2.8 AI, Fuji Acros 100

University Metro Station, Sunderland.

Reflection on painted metal shelter, platform 2.

This is the road to my work. From April to October I go to my work by bike, here are some pictures I took on this 16km long route

Construction continues at the Markham Moor roundabout on the A1

A Class 2200 DMU drifts down the gradient from Carragh to Sallins on a Sunday afternoon service.

326/365

The big excitement in my life over the last 36 hours or so was the sighting of a bear at my workplace. And not just a generic word-of-mouth "there's a bear around!" sighting. An actual sighting by me, with my own eyes of an actual bear. By the way, have I mentioned yet that I saw a bear at work yesterday? Because I did.

Anyway, I've known for a few years that there are the odd bear sightings around here, but there's a big difference, fear-wise, between confronting a solo walk through terrain populated by hypothetical bears and confronting one through terrain populated by a real bear you've seen yourself. So I was a bit anxious about whether I should be walking to work today, knowing that there was a godless killing machine roaming the countryside. See, I'm a big fan of alpha predators; when I was a kid I was mesmerized by a picture in a shark book that showed a bunch of shredded rags, pieces of flipper, and a diving belt -- it was what was supposedly left after a great white shark ate some ill-fated skin diver. Sharks remain my favorite predator to this day (although Siberian tiger is number two with a bullet. Damn, Siberian tiger. Damn), but I can't help but admire bears. I mean, I've done some extensive research, watching movies and doing a lot of reading about them. These are the things I know about bears:

-- They like Wellies. (Oh shit, I have Wellies!)

-- They like red shirts. (Oh shit, I have a red shirt!)

-- They wear fedoras. (Oh shit, I have a fedora!)

-- They have a friend named Tigger. (Oh shit, Rollie's name before we adopted her was Tigger!)

-- Once they've tasted human flesh, they won't stop eating it. (Oh shit! I'm made of human flesh!)

The more I thought about this bear, the more I realized that there was literally no way it wasn't coming to kill me. I have all the things it wants -- the clothes, the boots, the cat... And more than that, when I showed Boomer a picture a colleague had gotten of the bear near one of the other buildings on campus, she said, "He looks like an interview candidate who's trying to get back into the building to get his briefcase that he left behind." Which -- oh shit! I have a security badge with access to that building! The bear is going to kill me for my boots, my shirt, my cat, and my work ID badge! It's OBVIOUS.

After consulting some literature about bears provided online by our county, though, I decided I was looking like an idiot being outwardly afraid of the bear. The county says bears are nice. They're mostly vegetarians. They're people-averse. Only 100 people have been killed by bears in the United States over the last 100 years. Don't worry at all, county resident -- bears won't hurt you! (Of course, the pamphlet continued on the back page, there are rogue bears that might kill you. But they're rogues, so don't worry about it.) Fine. On average, one person being eaten by bears a year? I could live with those odds. So I walked to work this morning, flaunting my wellies, wearing a red shirt, with Rollie/Tigger hair shedded all over my pants. And I brought our most versatile lens, because when that bear showed up, licking its chops and sizing me up as prey, I was going to get some awesome pictures of it.

Stupid bear. I was ready. Where was he?

--Schn.

Lucerne's main train station was built between 1984 and 1989. The entrance hall is one of the early works of Santiago Calatrava.

The old station building burnt out in 1971 though the building envelope remained intact and was only removed in 1984. Two parts of the old station building have been preserved:

the old entrance gate has been shifted to the station square serving as an envelope for vent stacks and a wall painting has been moved to the new west facade.

The main station is used daily by thousands of commuters both coming from the region to Lucerne and going from Lucerne and its suburbs to Zurich, Basel, Bern and Olten. It's especially crowded from 6:30 a.m to 8:00 a.m and 17:00 p.m. to 19:00 p.m.

How to find: Bahnhofplatz Map Lat=47.0502 Lon=8.3103

Operator Action (ACT) - Tuggeranong Depot

Fleet Number 371

Chassis Scania L94UB

Body Custom Coaches CB60

The Driver of a First Great Western London Paddington - Penzance HST checks his watch at St Erth station Cornwall, England. The time is really now up for Cornwall's famous semaphore signals which will be replaced by modern signalling by 2018.

My first time witnessing a real burnout with my own eyes. Burning the tyres, creating clouds of tyresmoke! :)

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Last color shot for a while... a new b&w series coming on next week. This time with accompanying text! :)

Última foto en color hasta dentro de una semana... una nueva serie en blanco y negro a partir de mañana. ¡Esta vez con texto por capítulos! :)

(Flexaret VI, Fujichrome Velvia 50, ISO 50/18º)

Going home after work. Nice quiet street early in the morning.

'Speaking in Spokes'

Where I’m from, travel is by car and without one you’re staying home for the day. Besides small cul-de-sac’s and riding in back parking lots, bikes weren’t a popular image. When I first arrived in Savannah, I was greeted by herds of bikes traveling in every direction. After four years, I’ve come to realize that not only are bikes a primary source for transportation, but they also have their own colorful personalities - just like their owners. Whether a person rides their bike for fun or exercise or just to get to point B, each biker user is wonderfully unique and this series is meant to embrace that.

A Irish railcar crosses the loop line bridge over the river Liffey in central Dublin. The keen eyed local will note the now days there is a new bridge in the middle foreground "The Rosie Hackett' Bridge that carries the LUAS southbound across the river.

The present only is our own,

So Live, Love, toil with a will --

Place no faith in 'Tomorrow' --

For the clock may then be still.

Amber was born on the 6th of October at 16.04 pm. Her weight is 3350 gram. She's the child of my very best friend Astrid ( a friend from the earlier years) and she came to our world with a caesarian operation. She's so lovely and beautiful! (I use a grainy effect in PSCS to make the capture soft and older.)

(Province: Noord-Brabant/Place: Veldhoven/Hospital: Máxima Medisch Centrum/Country:The Netherlands.)

Not quiet sure about the result of my post-processing yet, but this is a first attempt.

Shot inspired by the following artists:

www.flickr.com/photos/dscene/1050733247/

www.flickr.com/photos/doctony/517966744/

I just had the time to turn on my DSLR as the train was coming in the Dupont Circle Metro station.

Presumably it got diverted because of all the road works round Lawrence Hill and was on it's way to the bus depot, but tried to cram itself under a bridge by school and got rather stuck.

It'd been there at least 15 minutes by the time I got there. No idea when or indeed if it's gone now, I want to know how it was moved, if it's gone by now.

I'm sure if Thomas had been about, he could've found a solution.

Shophouse in Teluk Intan Malaysia, a biscuit shop.

No 226, River Suir (Abhainn na Siuire) storms past on a Cork express to Dublin. If your wondering where the driver is, the loco is pushing the driving trailer at the other end!

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For once, the F train is screwed up going UPTOWN, during the crush home. So glad i wasn't effected...

Today's FGR 365 is "Flying Feet.".

Look at my poor Italian princess, still so scarred from my accident.

If she were running all of me would be flying, down the road at 100+ mph. Heh heh...

I shot this on my way out this morning and posted it from work so tonight I can continue playing LEGO Batman on Xbox360. It ROCKS OUT LOUD!

Let your thoughts playing in your head....

(Year: 2006/Object: Pilars of a school in the water/Place: Eindhoven/Province: Noord-Brabant/Country: The Netherlands.)

Only the foolestbravest dare pointing a pre-war uncoated lens to the sun.

Happy Flare Friday everyone! :)

Sólo los más insensatosvalienes se atreven a apuntar una lente sin recubrimiento de antes de la guerra hacia el sol.

Feliz Viernes de Flare! :)

Rolleiflex Old Standard 621

Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 75mm 1:3.8

Fujichrome Velvia 50, ISO 50/18º

'Speaking in Spokes'

Where I’m from, travel is by car and without one you’re staying home for the day. Besides small cul-de-sac’s and riding in back parking lots, bikes weren’t a popular image. When I first arrived in Savannah, I was greeted by herds of bikes traveling in every direction. After four years, I’ve come to realize that not only are bikes a primary source for transportation, but they also have their own colorful personalities - just like their owners. Whether a person rides their bike for fun or exercise or just to get to point B, each biker user is wonderfully unique and this series is meant to embrace that.

Title: Passenger traffic coming

Dated: June 1916

Digital ID: NRS4481_MS3990P

Series: NRS 4481 Government Printing Office glass plate negatives

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Going to work in Berlin.

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a new day, the same mode of transportation

the same hope, a new expectation...