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The last British wooden first-rate three-decked ship of the line commissioned for sea service.
The world's largest warship until the introduction of HMS Warrior in 1861.
Seen in Malta when Flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet in the mid-1860s.
Built 1860 Portsmouth Dockyard
6,959t displ
121 guns, including 62 x 8"
National Maritime Museum Postcard in collection
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Dress: [SHOPLIFTER] - 'Cynthia' Babydoll Dress - @TRES CHIC -
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Heels: Essenz - San Jose - @Amsterdam Event - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Amsterdam%20Event/130/130/22
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A rare-quiet-empty-still moment in the bustling city of Mumbai. I imagine the suburbs might have been like this 50 years ago. Today, you have to wake up very early and be very lucky to find something like this.
This shot was taken during an early morning walk, one of the rare times that you'd find an empty BEST bus, or streets washed with blood.
Check out the whole set - Mumbai Mix.
Bombay, India
2008
| Arjun Purkayastha • travel & fine art photography • | Facebook page |
"Are you sure I haven't met you before, Tom?"
"No, I'm sure of it. I'd remember you, with all the guns and knives and hair."
"Hrrmmm."
Hey, are you two dripping ice cream on my desk?
"Maybe. Don't stress it. It wipes up."
Yeah, and which of you is going to clean it up?
"Probably you."
Oh, gee, thanks, guys. And I suppose you didn't even save me any, did you?
"No."
"Sorry.
Admiral Lord Nelson's famous flagship HMS Victory on which he was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
The world’s oldest commissioned warship and now a museum piece at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. There is an extensive article on Wikipedia describing her life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory
This photograph was taken from the deck of MV Voyager as she departed Portsmouth Harbour about to enter the Solent.
I think Hiddles is getting lonely. Maybe I should let him go play with the other guys soon. Except maybe Loki.
I really, really can't get enough of this little figure. I'll just be sitting here, and the light will hit his eyes just right and I'm awed. And I have to photograph him.
He allows me to gawp and take his picture. He's getting used to it and is gracious and patient.
Of course, I generally have to give him a cookie after, though. I can live with that.
Since I met Fabio I feel a happier woman, and much more narcissist too :)))
And plus, today TGIF!!!!!
Happy week end to you all out there :)))
"Nice to meet you, Doctor. Would you like some popcorn?"
"Don't mind if I do. Have I met you before, Tom?"
"No, sir, I don't believe so. I've only been here a few weeks. You're the only one I've met here so far, unless you count nearly getting my head taken off by some psycho. I never did see that guy's face."
"You look strangely familiar..."
Bacardi Building complex, Miami Florida
Ignacio Carrera-Justiz 1974.
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"There will never be a more perfect Miami monument than the original Bacardi headquarters on Biscayne Boulevard, a modernism-can-be-fun masterpiece designed by Cuban architect Enrique Gutierrez in 1963. Gutierrez had worked with Mies van der Rohe on the Bacardi headquarters in Mexico City. When Bacardi’s planned 1959 van der Rohe offices in Cuba fell apart with the onset of Fidel Castro’s leadership, the Gutierrez complex in Miami was the building that brought the best part of Cuba— joyful, colorful and elegant—to this city.
Like many other things in Miami, the Bacardi building, created in a still-nondescript stretch of Biscayne Boulevard, is also entirely improbable. It’s a flash of beauty in banal surroundings— a circumstance that only adds to its allure. It’s set on a raised plaza, and the tower floats over a recessed lobby like an eerie obelisk. As a kid growing up here in the 1970s, the Bacardi headquarters—along with the Marine Stadium on Key Biscayne, the Fontainebleau hotel and Vizcaya—served as one of the architectural landmarks that symbolized the tropical exoticism and romance of sweet home Miami.
The design is both beautiful and smart. Two exterior walls are adorned with fantastic blue and white renderings of a tropical paradise, handpainted by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand. To the rear of the plaza is a smaller 1974 annex, designed by Ignacio Carrera-Justiz, with mosaic walls based on the work of German artist Johannes Dietz. Together, the two structures serve as the totemic emblem of Miami’s possibilities for intelligent life—our very own design Mecca.
The building’s architectural features call to mind the Mexico City headquarters, and may be Gutierrez’s best work. Relatively small, it was once used by high-level executives and was for years a grand Mad Men-south rumba, equipped with tasting bars for Bacardi products, sleek midcentury furniture, a dining room and a firstrate art collection with gems such as Antonio Gattorno’s 1938 mural Waiting for the Coffee. It reflects an era when liquor companies used the power of modernism to escape the darker associations of Prohibition. This was an impulse that then-Bacardi president Jose “Pepin” Bosch understood perfectly; Mies van der Rohe had also designed the 1958 Seagram Building in New York with Philip Johnson, still one of the most exquisite corporate offices in Manhattan." By Tom Austin | August 31, 2011
My son Benjamin and I in front of the HMS Victory at Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth, England in the summer of 2005.
HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 100th commanding officer is Lt Cdr Rod Strathern Royal Navy, who assumed command in September 2011.
Are you enjoying the day, Hiddles?
"Yes, very much, thank you. I appreciate you taking me out today."
Gosh, I'm not used to such graciousness from my figs! You're going to spoil me, Hiddles!
"Is that such a bad thing?"
No, Hiddles. No it's not.
Little Hiddles finally has a body! It took a bit of doing, getting the bits to fit together right, and then getting the clothes to lay right, but he looks quite the dapper tiny plastic gentleman, wouldn't you say?
I was iffy about that head with its somber expression and lack of facial hair, but seeing him put together, well, I love him to bits.
addendum: this picture is often found in searches for marissa miller's perfect ten. If searches for marissa make it through to this picture, we can deduct how many marissa searches there are going on in general -- if a number of salmon are accidentally fighting their way to the headwaters of a mighty river on the other side of the planet, we can infer there are quite a lot of salmon out there.