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Regurgitadas horas tan a deshora...
Mientras el viento gélido roza el pómulo seco ausente de caricias y ahora que "el pingüino me baila entre los dientes",me subo al tobogán desde donde dirijo al mundo.
Efímera vivencia...
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(Fotografía "minorista")
Two weeks ago we had some absolutely gorgeous weather and I couldn't resist taking the drone out. This is at the Fairgrounds looking east towards Dyers Inlet.
This ''Duck Season'' stand was built as a part of Fairground theme display at the 22. KockeFest exhibition. It represent shooting games where you can win plush animals.
As the Mother Armenia statue shares the Victory Park with a lot of fairground rides, I captured this bizarre shot it juxtaposed against a big dipper!
The 51-metre-high Mother Armenia statue (Armenian: Մայր Հայաստան or Mayr Hayastan) is one of the dominating sights of Yerevan, occupying a prominent site on a hilltop overlooking the city centre from the Victory Park. On the surface, it is very much a typical Soviet war memorial, yet underneath there are distinctive Armenian nationalist aspects.
The current statue, dating to 1967, replaces a monumental statue of General Secretary Joseph Stalin that was created as a victory memorial for World War II in 1950, and removed in 1962. One soldier being killed and many injured during the process,
The prototype of "Mother Armenia" was a 17-year-old girl Genya Muradian. Ara Harutyunyan met her in a shop and persuaded her to pose for the sculpture.
"Mother Armenia" herself is 22 metres high, with the overall height of the monument being 51 metres including the pedestal. The statue is built of hammered copper.
The Mother Armenia statue is said to symbolise peace through strength, but brandishing a sword and looking westwards towards the historically Armenian inhabited regions of what is now western Turkey, there is a definite nationalist and irredentist aspect to the statue.
I love the sight, sound, colours, lights, speed and thrill of the fairground. It brings the boy out in me. There's a cocktail of smells, candy floss, diesel exhaust, hydraulic oil, a buzz of electricity and flashing lights, movement and speed, and delighted screams. And it is even better at night.
The best travelling fairground is the Goose Fair in Nottingham 4-8th October. I've never been, and in recent years have reminded myself to check out the dates only to find I'm away again this time. May be, just may be I can escape to catch it on it's last day on Sunday 8th. Otherwise I will have to get my thrills somewhere else.
I was interested to learn that, in the original 1882 story, Pinocchio kills Jiminy Cricket by throwing a hammer at his head!!
Simply Red - Fairground (Official Video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRyiVgWj6g&list=RDKiRyiVgWj6...
Note: Night photo using fairground light as illumination source, No flash and No tripod.
Nikon 28-50mm f/3.5 AI-s
Ghost train. I had been working on a group of images intermittently for a few weeks, not realising that they would form the basis for a series. Most of the subjects were brightly coloured as is usually the case in fairgrounds and amusement parks - obviously to first attract one's eye and then the money. I wanted to reduce the colour and experimented with a semi-documentary style with much of the colour reduced or removed, but still retaining a subtle impact. Removing the colour also reduced the distractions and allowed the detail and visual narrative to come forward in a clearer way. This technique set the pattern for most of the images although the emphasis of colour is slightly different in each. My intention and the general outcome has a sinister appearance, not the usual fun feeling associated with such places and subjects.
Part of Fairground Series www.flickr.com/photos/147896794@N05/albums/72157681424460535