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Great show by The Social Disaster at Grandma's Sports Garden, part of the Duluth Homegrown Music Fesitval 2016.
I love seeing and photographing shows by this band - great energy and music. Definitely check them out if they come to your town!
The 1911 mine fire, which started in Pancoast Mine's wooden engine house, killed 72 miners, mostly Polish, Slovak and Hungarian immigrants. Here is a compilation of contemporary reports from a Scranton newspaper. Police had to be called in to control undertakers, who were eager to claim unclaimed bodies, because the mining company would pay good money for their services.
The next day, April 8th, 1911, an explosion at the Banner Mine near Birmingham, Alabama killed 128 workers.
Iv'e been having crazy mood swings - stay away from me.
all the photos are of me when i was a youngin, for realss
this isn't even that nice aha.....
All hands abandon ship!!! This is not a drill. Captain's first, and to hell with the children!
My soon to be deadlovely girlfriend had to move this slightly today, causing some damage. I then tried to repair the damage and she (the ship)ended up doing what can only be described as a "Barrel Roll" which resulted in this, the spread of parts goes off for another 6 feet out of shot, SHIT!
Something like this hasn't happened to me for a while. It's 14:01 and I'm considering hitting the bottle......
The entrance to a bumblebee nest. The bumblebees return to the nest with leg bags full of pollen. But it is pointless, the wax moth, (Aphomia sociella) catarpillars have hatched and have ravaged the nest eating all the bee larvae. The bees still enter their nest oblivious to the parasitic invasion. Unfortunately it is game over for the bees and the nest. Photo here flic.kr/p/2maPeeG Larger format video flic.kr/p/2mb13BJ
My computer suffered a complete disaster this weekend. A spyware virus apparently snuck past the software and firewall stuff and completely knocked out the laptop. I was not able to run any software of any importance and ended up taking it to a guy that managed to clean it up for me. UNFORTUNATELY - he had to wipe the hard drive clean and start over. FORTUNATELY - I have all of my files and photos backed up, so I hopefully lost very little other than ALL OF MY FREAKING SOFTWARE!!!!. Time will tell. I am going to spend the next day or two reloading all of my stuff.
Life can suck, but it would suck way worse without a very thorough backup plan.
Bluebird pair at the nest.
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On October 29, 2022, on Halloween Day, a disaster occurred in Itaewon.
Many people died or were injured.
In South Korea, there is still no punishment for those responsible for this disaster.
Most Koreans are still dissatisfied with the government.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
Photos from Portland's innagural Disaster Relief Trials.
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Scene of destruction after a forest fire on Cloudy Hill in 1995. The Way of the Shoestring Outdoor Photographer, the book associated with this photo can be found at:
365.2.236 - 8 October
I just married a man with more than 50 handkerchiefs. That is some serious ironing that my OCD won't let me ignore.
The worst railway disaster ever in British history occurred at a place called Quintinshill, near Gretna Green in Scotland on 22 May 1915.
More than 200 people lost their lives when a packed troop train taking Soldiers of the Royal Scots Regiment from Leith, near Edinburgh, to the war collided with a stationery train at high speed. The crushed wooden coaches caught fire and to compound the tragedy an express train going the other way was unable to stop in time and ploughed into the survivors and debris. Many died trapped in the coaches unable to escape the fire.
214 of the 226 who died were soldiers and their remains were taken back to Edinburgh where they were buried in a mass grave at Rosebank Cemetery. A large memorial was erected at that point within the cemetery and my picture shows that location.
For many years the disaster was mostly forgotten but interest was rekindled on the 100th anniversary of the event.
However only a few Edinburgh citizens are aware of this memorial. Despite that, every year a remembrance service takes place here attended by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and members of the Royal Scots association.
Loch Ness on a day of disasters!
It was cold last night, with a good bit of snow... so much so that our chicken enclosure collapsed under the weight build up (it is now propped up with a set of step ladders!). Then I discovered that one of my back tyres was a little deflated, the air line at the garage did nothing but their compressor in the workshop got it up to pressure for a trip to Inverness for a bit of an image change on my behalf and then a business meeting which turned out to succomb to the weather and is being rescheduled.
Home now and getting used to the new look ;-) It is a very, very severe change!!! And also buying a full set of tyres on 6 month interest free because it's almost a grand for a new set of boots!
Yes... I could have just changed the one rear, but the two fronts are half worn and terrible in bad weather anyway and only yesterday I was saying it needs something better... so a full set of Michelin Cross Climates it is, booked in for Monday and tomorrows job rescheduled to next week.
Amazingly, this TWA Boeing 707-131B on it's departure roll at Newark, was involved in an incident with another aircraft over upstate New York, and made an emergency landing at JFK in 1965, some fifteen years before I took this photo.
What started out as a cupcake disaster (the cake shrunk from the sides of the paper) turned into a whole new "cup"cake. I sliced the still amazingly delicious triple vanilla brown butter cakes, and layered with spiced cider apple filling and topped it with my cider buttercream. It was amazingly good. And technically it's still in a cup! You can get the recipes on my blog
On October 29, 2022, on Halloween Day, a disaster occurred in Itaewon.
Many people died or were injured.
In South Korea, there is still no punishment for those responsible for this disaster.
Most Koreans are still dissatisfied with the government.
this shot was taken while i was taking a walk on the beach near my place...i still have no idea what set the crows off :S
Crushing fact 1 is the age of some of the victims, crushing fact 2 is how many of the victims came from the same family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Colliery_disaster
My neighbour two doors up the road is have their garden worked on.
This driver arrived to collect a skip full of earth.
When he tried to lift it the bottom fell out of the skip.
He and another chap stood around for about 20mins looking baffled at what to do. They then made some phone calls. I had to go out then but by the time I got back the skip was gone and there was a big pile of earth on the front drive.
Never seen this happen before.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Explorers and fire fighters from all over Southern California come to LACOFDs annual Disaster Drill at Del Valle.
Centralia, PA
This is one of the roads affected by the ongoing underground coal fires in Centralia, PA. These happless victims from the Philadelphia photobloggers group have succumbed to the fumes. They hammed it up. Check out the guy on the upper left with his head in the crack.
Mon. the 1st Bad start 10mins out taking picture of old tree trunk. Didn't see the "Hole of Death" behind me. And backed into hole next image. And started to go down camera first. Had to twist the body. Sacrificing body bang to save the camera. Embracing Pain to save my baby.
Canon 5D III ISO 100 1/160 f8 33mm (24-70mm f2.8L II USM)
Elinchrom BRX500, Rotalux 135 Octa above and side.