First PMT

Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban S\Decker bus

Fleet number 66843

MX 05 CGK

25 Gold Service bus

Service 25

Seen in Hanley

Saturday 1st December 2012

Whilst doing the backs of the pumps, I mean to put AJ on the left shoes, and 09 on the right, except I did them on the opposite feet :P

First Cymru 49301 (YJ13 HLR) at High Street, Glynneath, on 29-07-2017.

First PMT

Dennis Dart Plaxton

Fleet number 40134

P 976 MBF

Seen leaving First PMT Chester Depot

Picture was taken in 2006

first 47447 at bristol

First Eastern Counties 34113 W433CWX seen at the rear of Caister Road Depot in Great Yarmouth on 16th August 2011

449th First Muster ceremony at the St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, Fla., Sept. 12, 2014. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Brownfield

First time attempting a twilight shot

Multiple Exposures: Sky, Base Exposure, Flash Side Garage, 2 Flash Pops on Garage, Flash Column, Flash Front Window, Flash Second Tier, Flash Third Tier, and Window Exposure. Blended in Photoshop.

When we arrived to the Magic Kingdom we had to rush down Main Street to get to the Crytal Palace for our first Character meal. My wife thought it would be nice to start off our Disney memories with a nice meal. She was right of course. Once we finished stuffing ourselves with some wonderful food this was our real "First Look" at Cinderellas Castle.

On a more personal note to all of my Flickr friends. A while back when I started planning this past trip to Disney with my wife I used this wonderful tool known as Flickr. I remember thinking that there must be some pictures of Disney here on Flickr and I found some Disney groups which I started looking into. I realized quickly that was a core group of devoted Disney photographers in those groups. One of them (Matt) had made me a contact even though I had yet to have any Disney images posted. He seemed to like my landscape stuff and I enjoyed his Disney stuff (duh- obviously).

The week came for our trip and I had found out that he was going to be there with a few other of the core group. I got a chance on Friday to say 'Hi' to them/you at Epcot. I really wanted to hang out with 'y'all', but being it was my last day there it was more important to make some more memories with my family.

Since that time way back a whole month ago now I have been posting a quite a bit from my trip. And I have gotten to know everyone a bit since then with the wonderful comments left on my images and a few messages here and there. Everyone is so nice and real and your images and dedication to the art and appreciation of photography is wonderful. Everyone is VERY talented and the one thing I really like is that everyone constantly pushes that talent to become even better photographers. I say that truthfully because after being there (again looking through different eyes) it is not easy to capture all of these wonderful images and find different ways to make the same scene even more magical.

I say this because I want everyone to get to know me a little better. I have been bothered by something all week. It seems that I may have upset someone by a comment or two I have left on an image or two of theirs. I want the air to be clear that if I leave any sort of critique it is meant to be constructive.

When I was taking photography courses at college we had assignements that we had to shoot, develop, print, mount, and show for assignment. The class then would critique each of the 10 images as would the professor. So this was a great way to be judged and learn from our peers as well from the professional. If we weren't critiqued how could we ever get any better? How could we learn? How would we ever know if we were on the right track?

I always try to 'keep it real' when I leave comments, even if I just say 'Nice or Great Image'. I know that trying to keep up with everyone is tough during the week and on the weekends we want to be out shooting and so short comments are needed.

But if I do leave more, a critique or something else I just want everyone to know that it is just my opinion and it is meant to hopefully inspire you. It may just be something that I've seen that maybe you didn't. I am very open to having my images critiqued and I may steer in the wrong direction at times. Even though I ran my own wedding photography business and shot close to 250 weddings I still don't think I'm great or perfect. I would like to think even Ansel Adams needed his peers to push him sometimes.

I just needed to get that off of my chest and hopefully everyone gets a little more insight to who I am. I really enjoy everyone here and hopefully one day we get to meet and shoot together.

God Bless and I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!

French postcard by Erpé, no. 30. Photo: Paramount.

Blue-eyed American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Oscar for Best Actor in 1982. Notably he also played against character as the villain 'Frank' in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Western Once upon a time in the West (1968). Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and his lifelong career spanned almost 50 years.

Henry Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1905. His parents were Elma Herberta (Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who worked in advertising and printing and was the owner of the W. B. Fonda Printing Company in Omaha, Nebraska. His distant ancestors were Italians who had fled their country around 1400 and moved to Holland, presumably because of political or religious persecution. In the early1600's, they crossed the Atlantic and were among the early Dutch settlers in America. They established a still-thriving small town in upstate New York named Fonda, named after patriarch Douw Fonda, who was later killed by Indians. In 1919, young Henry was a first-hand witness to the Omaha race riots and the brutal lynching of Will Brown. This enraged the 14 years old Fonda and he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for the rest of his life. Following graduation from high school in 1923, Henry got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota. In 1925, having returned to Omaha, Henry reevaluated his options and came to the conclusion that journalism was not his forte, after all. For a while, he tried his hand at several temporary jobs, including as a mechanic and a window dresser. At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky. Then he received the lead in Merton of the Movies and realized the beauty of acting as a profession. It allowed him to deflect attention from his own tongue-tied personality and create stage characters relying on someone else's scripted words. The play and its star received fairly good notices in the local press. It ran for a week, and for the rest of the repertory season, Henry advanced to assistant director which enabled him to design and paint sets as well as act. A casual trip to New York, however, had already made him set his sights on Broadway. In 1926, he moved to the Cape Cod University Players, where he met his future wife Margaret Sullavan. His first professional role was in The Jest, by Sem Benelli. James Stewart joined the Players a few months after Fonda left, but he would become his closest lifelong friend. In 1928, Fonda went east to New York to be with Margaret Sullavan, and to expand his theatrical career on Broadway. His first Broadway role was a small one in A Game of Love and Death with Alice Brady and Claude Rains. Henry played leads opposite Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives in 1931. They broke up in 1933. In 1934, he got a break of sorts, when he was given the chance to present a comedy sketch with Imogene Coca in the Broadway revue New Faces. That year, he also hired Leland Hayward as his personal management agent and this was to pay off handsomely. Major Broadway roles followed, including New Faces of America and The Farmer Takes a Wife. The following year he married Frances Seymour Brokaw with whom he had two children: Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, also to become screen stars.

The 29-year old Henry Fonda was persuaded by Leland Hayward to become a Hollywood actor, despite initial misgivings and reluctance on Henry's part. Independent producer Walter Wanger, whose growing stock company was birthed at United Artists, needed a star for The Farmer Takes a Wife (Victor Fleming, 1935) opposite Janet Gaynor. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: “With both first choice actors Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea otherwise engaged, Henry was the next available option. After all, he had just completed a successful run on Broadway in the stage version. The cheesy publicity tag line for the picture was "you'll be fonder of Fonda", but the film was an undeniable hit.” Wanger, realizing he had a good thing going, next cast Henry in a succession of A-grade pictures which capitalized on his image as the sincere, unaffected country boy. Pick of the bunch were the Technicolor outdoor Western The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Henry Hathaway, 1936) with Sylvia Sidney, and the gritty Depression-era drama You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) with Henry as a back-to-the-wall good guy forced into becoming a fugitive from the law by circumstance). Then followed the screwball comedy The Moon's Our Home (William A. Seiter, 1936) with ex-wife Margaret Sullavan, the excellent pre-civil war-era romantic drama Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) featuring Bette Davis, and the Western Jesse James ( Henry King, 1939) starring Tyrone Power. Fonda rarely featured in comedy, except for a couple of good turns opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Tierney - with both he shared an excellent on-screen chemistry - in The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason, 1938), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) and the successful Rings on Her Fingers (Rouben Mamoulian, 1942). Henry gave his best screen performance to date in Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939), a fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. Henry made two more films with director John Ford: the pioneering drama Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) with Claudette Colbert, and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. In his career-defining role as Tom Joad, Fonda played the archetypal grassroots American trying to stand up against oppression. His relationship with Ford would end on the set of Mister Roberts (John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, 1955) when he objected to Ford's direction of the film. Ford punched Fonda and had to be replaced.

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940) set the tone for Henry Fonda’s subsequent career. In this vein, he gave a totally convincing, though historically inaccurate, portrayal in the titular role of The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang, 1940), a rare example of a sequel improving upon the original. He projected integrity and quiet authority whether he played lawman Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) or a reluctant posse member in The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943). In between these two films, Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, and served in the Navy for three years. He then starred in The Fugitive (John Ford, 1947), and Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948), as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role. The following years, he did not appear in many films. Fonda was one of the most active, and most vocal, liberal Democrats in Hollywood. During the 1930s, he had been a founding member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, formed in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. In 1947, in the middle of the McCarthy witch hunt, he moved to New York, not returning to Hollywood until 1955. His son Peter Fonda writes in his autobiography Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir (1999) that he believes that Henry's liberalism caused him to be gray-listed during the early 1950s. Fonda returned to Broadway to play the title role in Mister Roberts for which he won the Tony Award as best dramatic actor. In 1979, he won a second special Tony, and was nominated for a Tony Award Clarence Darrow (1975). Later he played a juror committed to the ideal of total justice in 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) which he also produced, and a nightclub musician wrongly accused of murder in The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956). During the next decade, he played in The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton a.o., 1962), How the West Was Won (John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, 1962) and as a poker-playing grifter in the Western comedy A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Fielder Cook, 1966) with Joanne Woodward. A big hit was the family comedy Yours, Mine and Ours (Melvillle Shavelson, 1968), in which he co-starred with Lucille Ball. The same year, just to confound those who would typecast him, he gave a chilling performance as one of the coldest, meanest stone killers ever to roam the West, in Sergio Leone's Western epic C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) opposite Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. With James Stewart, he teamed up in Firecreek (Vincent McEveety, 1968), where Fonda again played the heavy, and the Western omedy The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly, 1970). Despite his old feud with John Ford, Fonda spoke glowingly of the director in Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Directed by John Ford (1971). Fonda had refused to participate until he learned that Ford had insisted on casting Fonda as the lead in the film version of Mr. Roberts (1955), reviving Fonda's film career after concentrating on the stage for years. Illness curtailed Fonda’s work in the 1970s. In 1976, Fonda returned in the World War II blockbuster Midway (Jack Smight, 1976) with Charlton Heston. Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films wilth all-star casts: the Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli/Tentacles (Ovidio G. Assonitis, 1977), Rollercoaster (James Goldstone, 1977) with Richard Widmark, the killer bee action film The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978), the global disaster film Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979), with Sean Connery, and the Canadian production City on Fire (Alvin Rakoff, 1979), which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. His final screen role was as an octogenarian in On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981), in which he was joined by Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane. It finally won him an Oscar on the heels of an earlier Honorary Academy Award. Too ill to attend the ceremony, Henry Fonda died soon after at the age of 77, having left a lasting legacy matched by few of his peers. His later wives were Susan Blanchard (1950-1956), Leonarda Franchetti (1957-1961) and Shirlee Fonda (1965- till his death in 1982). With Blanchard he had a daughter, Amy Fishman (1953). His grandchildren are the actors Bridget Fonda, Justin Fonda, Vanessa Vadim and Troy Garity.

Sources: Laurence Dang (IMDb), I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

The first class interior of an emt class 222 meridian

I went out to Wilderness Park the afternoon after our first big snowfall of the season. Except for the occasional animal tracks, the trails were still undisturbed.

Sweet magnolias

The first hastings station was built by the s.e.r and was opened on feb 13th 1852, it was rebuilt in a neo-georgian style in 1931. The present building was built in 2004.

From the h.s.l.o c1915.

First Hampshire & Dorset Volvo B10BLE-58/Wright Renown

Weymouth Sea Front

20th July 2012

First Aberdeen PSU629

Klara Söderberg

Brendan & Heath Fusco's first "Try SCUBA" exeperience at Diventures in Springfield, MO They loved it and signed up for the full Open Water Certification course.

First Manchester Limited 39214 BN61 MWO, a Volvo B5LH built 2011 with a Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini 2 H41/23F+27 body on Manchester Road in Castleton by the Abbott Street junction with a Rochdale bus station to Manchester Shudehill Interchange via Castleton, Middleton and Blackley 17 service. Friday 14th September 2012

Ref no Canon EOS60D 1st series - IMG_3102

Dennis Trident/Plaxton President

Penzance Bus Station

28th May 2016

First PMT

Scania L94UB Wright Floline S\Decker bus

Fleet number 60176

V 124 DND

Service 21 Bradeley

Seen in Tunstall

Friday 31st August 2012

Cake by Patisserie 44, The Calls Leeds

Excellent Cakes!!!

First PMT

Optare Solo

Fleet number 40017

W 476 SVT

Seen at Newcastle bus depot

Sunday 23rd September 2012

Sterling truck operated by Kroger subsidiary Ralphs, delivering groceries in San Diego.

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Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini.

Shudehill, Manchester

First PMT

Leyland Lynx Single Decker bus

Fleet number 60088

H 853 GRE

Colours:- Red \ Yellow

1 of a batch of 11

851 ~ 861 when new

Seen in Newcastle bus station

About 2002

First PMT

Scania L94UB Wright Floline S\Decker bus

Fleet number 60128

S 105 TNB

Service 20A Talke Pits ~ Hanley

Seen in Tunstall depot

Thursday 13th September 2012

First selfmade redscale, DM Paradies 400, Kodak Retina 1a

Seen here in Taunton where I got very wett

Our first rose of 2012! I picked this before the bad weather came so this pretty flower wouldn't get beaten up by the rain, high winds, and possible snows. Thank goodness, no snow, so I think our delicate flowers will be safe!

Macro shot. Taken with FujiFilm FinePix S1000fd.

first 69298 at glasgow

My first swoon block, woo hoo! Kona Ash, Amy Butler and Art Gallery fabrics

First PMT

Scania L113 Wright Ultralow S\ Decker bus

Fleet number 60010

S 358 MFP

Service 16 Chester ~ Saltney

OverGround 16 Purple Route Branding

Seen in CVhester bus station

10th November 2003

Tagged by various (BUT BUGGED BY LAURAS OUO <3

1. What sculpt is/was your first doll?

Volks Syo (HYBRID) but I did buy him around the same time as my old Abio Angel San. Jangy arrived first.

2. Do you still own this doll?

Yas =3= I sold the San though.

3. Was your first doll your grail?

I don't think I knew enough about the hobby to really consider him my grail X3

4. How long did you have to wait from the moment you decided on the doll to actually buying?

About 3 days 8D?

5. Did you buy it or was it a gift?

I bought it but it was with money I was given... so both? 8D

6. Why did you choose the doll you did as your first?

Impulse I suppose. I just loved his big squidgy head.

7. Did you have a character in mind as soon as you saw the doll or did it develop after arrival?

Oh man, IDEK anymore XD At the time I was really into pixel art and I was constantly pixelling a zillion characters. I guess his design was something I planned before but he didn't have much of a personality back then.

8. Do any of your friends own the same sculpt?

No, WHY GUYS? WHY? I think Syo/Shou is really unpopular in general ;_;

9. If you could go back and change your decision to buy the doll you did as your first, would you?

Not really

10. How did you learn about BJDs?

A friend of mine sent me a photo of Jun and Shiro Tachibana and some custom School A's and that was it. XD OBSESSING EVER SINCE

I'm not going to tag anyone cause I think Laura tagged erryones already.... ;_;

I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T CARE/THIS TOTALLY BORED YOU.ITS LAURA'S FAULT. AND AIN. AIN TAGGED ME TOO