I was early in Almere Centrum and decided to take the train to Hilversum and make a switch at Almere Poort. Had to wait for my train after making "the stairs" shot.

[blinding summer sun series, picture #1]

Sometimes the summer sun blinds you... I'm going to try to show you what I mean with this week's series...

All pictures were made with the same camera (Flexaret VI), on the same roll of film (Velvia 50), on the same day (August 18th).

A veces el sol de verano te ciega... Voy a intentar mostraros a lo que me refiero con esta serie semanal...

Todas las fotos fueron hechas con la misma cámara (Flexaret VI), en el mismo rollo de película (Velvia 50), en el mismo día (18 de agosto).

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

Just a cut from a scene of my daily bike.

still missing brakes. the shifter is a temp measure until i find something suitable.

Washington DC Subway. Beautiful and functional

An unusual fence for a typical Friday... HFF! :)

Una valla inusual para un viernes típico... HFF! :)

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

you tell them, you've found yours.....

Did Someone Pee on my Car?

I got off work yesterday, and found this. Did someone really piss on my car?

If it is piss, they

a) didn't have a very full bladder

b) stood on top of their car

I wonder what I did to piss them off. I piss people off left and right. My every breath is blasphemy. I have Anti-Bush stickers and I work in God's Country. Wall to wall right wing morons. It's not really a question of IF, just What.

It is also possible they threw a warm soda on my car. All their ice had melted.

2009 Jamis Aurora - the Christmas/Graduation Present (47cm because I'm short like that, yo.)

My daily commute is from the coffee pot over to the homeschool books ;)

I woke up a bit late this morning and ended up walking to work about 15 minutes after when I normally set out. That meant the sun was all up and in the sky already and crazy shit like that. It was a lovely crisp morning, and I even got to walk through a bizarre mist cloud at the first farm field, the kind of cloud that would, in a horror movie, be murderous. In real life, it just seemed to be a preliminary indicator that everyone in my household would have a thoroughly pleasant Friday.

--Schn.

The Slottsparken surround the Royal Palace and this is the scene that I pass everyday on the way to the Wintershall office. It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

When we arrived in Oslo late April the season seemed about a month behind the UK but now it's probably a month ahead. Today was forecast at 29 degrees C and it's been 25+ for the last week warmer than places in Greece or Spain!

Two Sydney Ferries "First Fleet" catamarans waiting for a berth at Circular Quay

Here's my new old friend

Claudia Rose

dancing as friends jam on old

songs after her recent performance

at Kulak's Woodshed

in North Hollywood

with the Bilgewater Brothers.

She & I are kindred souls,

both drawn like Hollywood magnets

to the spirit of the jazz age. She's

a young woman

with an old soul

and an amazing singing voice-

haunting, enchanting.

I love this photo

because it captures her spirit -

the happy way she floats and

dances through life. She is

an exultant spirit.

Ran into a guy last night

at a club in Sierra Madre

where I was performing -

and i won't quote him exactly

as it's too vulgar even for me -

but he informed me that

these photos of

Claudia Rose

excited him in a big way.

Dedicada a raul gonza|ez, porque sé que le gustan tanto las vespas como las bicis. ¡A ver si vemos algo más de lo que le sacas a tu Rokkor! ;)

Dedicated to raul gonza|ez, because I know he likes both vespas and bicycles. How nice would it be to see more of the pictures you take out of your Rokkor! ;)

Praktica BMS

Prakticar 28mm 1:2.8

Fomapan Action 400, ISO 400/27º

[explored on Jun 8th 2012] Many thanks everyone! :)

Northbound train leaving Sheppard station in Toronto

When I have my Voigtländer Vito with me and I wear this T-shirt, the music in my head urges me to make self-portraits...

Happy weekend everyone! :)

Cuando llevo mi Voigtländer Vito conmigo y llevo puesta esta camiseta, la música que suena en mi cabeza me obliga a hacerme autoretratos...

¡Feliz fin de semana! :)

Voigtländer Vito I

Voigtländer Skopar 50mm 1:3.5

Kodak Portra 400, ISO 400/27º

Three windows, three reflections.

Arrrived into Birmingham early to be greeted by this fire near to the City Centre. No one hurt thankfully.

1983 Honda Civic 1300 w/stock 4speed

This car is so much more comfortable now with the '98 civic seats we swapped in.

Update 12/12: now has a 1500 engine and a 5 speed :D

painted by a local bicycle guru! very cool work, even cooler dude!

thanks Sulaiman!

Sulaiman owns and runs reboundcentre here in Singapore

Central Station Sydney

Not the fastest or most comfortable way to get around Hong Kong, but the historic trams are really cool

Taken from the car, with a cameraphone. The quality is poor, but that's not really the point.

The earrings shown in these 4 pics were made by the sweet, talented "Gita Rau"....this pair is called "Cone Spiral" & she makes them under the name ~Beguiled~...here is a link to her stream

www.flickr.com/photos/gitarau/

While everyone's rushing home on a Tuesday night, I'm here bs-ing around snapping pics of them mid-commute, I never really stopped to look around GCT and I must say it's really a marvel of modern construction.

Painted on my iPhone 3g using Vellum, SBM, TypeDrawing, NPtR, Brushes, Photo fx; Copyright © 2010 Matthew Seydel Connors.

Took this vertical perspective from the Chong Nonsi BTS station about a year ago. I've been going through all of my files and importing RAW images into Lightroom 3 and from time to time run across one that is interesting in some way. I thought this one had a nice perspective to it and figured I'd share.

I had often wondered why they, the government people, were building such a long catwalk down this stretch of road. I got the answer not too long ago. It was for that special bus line that gets its very own dedicated lane running down Thanon Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra. Jeez, that sure narrowed that big ass road down to traffic jam size. IMHO... what a screw up. I guess they couldn't add another train that direction, so the bus was the next logical choice. I hope it helps some commuters out who can't afford to take cars cause it will likely create a bunch of new ones who no longer want the hassle of added traffic down their old beat, or maybe that was the point.

Pear County Chopper Trike creeps into Henry Ford Goes Surfing, with Bounce For Glory,

(with orange pennant flag waving above) pausing behind, waiting to sprint past in the Ventura KSR road race segment. Bounce For Glory lapped the field again, repeating 2006's victorious road segment. Remember: These are people-powered machines!!

Photo by Barefootsnowgoddess

here's a closeup of how the front end is lowered.... nuts are covered with "nut caps" that i made on my home lathe.

Sometimes I get this situation when I need to decide if I get the crowded bus or I wait a bit more.

Lotta Whatta Notta: Best viewed LARGE Please do not copy, transmit or use this image without first obtaining express written permission from me.

Knowledge is power.

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