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* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
What the heck happened yesterday? Three times my usual views, and on old photographs at that. Sunspots? Crop circles? What's the interest in four year old images?
If you like the pictures of the Austin-Healey 3000 MkII, you should also check out the later ones of a 3000 MkIII. :-)
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Pasting from Wikipedia: Austin-Healey 3000:
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The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 to 1967, and is the best known of the 'big' Healey models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors, and the vehicles were assembled at the BMC Abingdon works.
The 3000 was a successful car which won its class in many European rallies in its heyday - and is still used in competition by enthusiasts today.
[...]
Introduced in March 1961, the 3000 Mk II came with three SU HS4 carburettors and an improved camshaft, designated the BT7 MkII (4 seat version) and BN7 MkII (2 Seat version). However, upon the introduction of the BJ7 (2+2 seats) model in January 1962, the number of carburettors was reduced to two, (SU type HS6) due to the problems experienced with balancing three carburettors. As a result of the introduction of the BJ7, the BN7 MkII was discontinued in March 1962, and the BT7 MkII followed in June 1962. Externally, the main changes introduced with the BJ7 were a vertical barred front grille, wind up windows rather than side curtains, an improved hood, and a wrap-around windscreen. Optional extras were similar to the MkI, although the option of a factory hardtop was not available from the BJ7's introduction. From August 1961 a brake servo was also available as an optional extra, which greatly improved braking performance. The BJ7 was discontinued in October 1963 with the introduction of the 3000 MkIII.
A 3000 MkII BT7 with hardtop and overdrive tested by the British The Motor magazine in 1961 had a top speed of 112.9 mph (181.7 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 10.9 seconds. A fuel consumption of 23.5 miles per imperial gallon (12.0 L/100 km; 19.6 mpg-US) was recorded. The test car cost £1362 including taxes.[3]
11,564 were made (355 BN7 MkII, 5,096 BT7 MkII, and 6,113 BJ7).[2]
Isaac was having an unbelievable amount of fun at this house, and in particular, with this window.
He'd look outside, crack up, then the park ranger would look around the corner at him, and Isaac would laugh his head off.
Then he'd run around and make me wait for him by the window. Then he'd come back in and make me run out to look inside at him. Then he'd go outside again, and when he came back in, I'd gone to hide in the kitchen, so he'd come yelling around the house looking for me, and I'd come up behind him & yell "boo!"
This went on for a good half hour or more. Thankfully the park ranger -- I feel bad that I didn't catch his name, he was a nice guy -- seemed to enjoy playing along, too.
I'm not really sure where this was. It was taken on a flight from Boston to Miami, and this was the first view of the ocean after coming over Boston Harbor.
We were flying south, or maybe west-by-southwest, but looking sideways out the window would make this a view looking either east or west -- I forget what side of the plane I was on.
That would seem to make this a photo of the coastline somewhere along the southern edge of Massachusetts or maybe Rhode Island, but from skimming over some maps & satellite views, I'm not able to match this up with any of the features I see here, including:
* a round-ish island close to a peninsula at the top-right
* another peninsula (?) at the top-left
* what looks like a river/harbor to the right
* the area near the river/harbor seems to be pretty built up, as does the peninsula next to it, but the interior area in the middle looks more undeveloped
My guess at the time was that we were flying over New Bedford or Fall River, but now I can't make them line up with this view. I was thinking it might be the bottom edge of Newport, RI, but that doesn't look right either. While I do still think it's somewhere along Buzzard's Bay, Narragansett Bay, etc, I've about given up on identifying it, at least for now.
There's a tool out there that can take a photo of the night sky, identify the stars, and plot a map of what constellations its looking at. Is there a similar tool available for looking at land features? If so, that would be awesome.
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Update, 11 Sep 2009: I change my mind. It's New Bedford after all:
* The island at the top is West Island, seen from the north -- note the two north-end peninsulas pointing toward the camerathe west-end harbor on the left, and the bridge to the peninsula at the right.
* The peninsula next to the island seems to be called Silver Shell Beach or Winsegansett Heights.
* The round-ish peninsula at the top-middle is Antassawamock or Shell Beach, with Mattapoisett Harbor to the left of it, and the Mattapoisett town center hugging the inside of the harbor there.
* The feature at the top-left is Nyes Cove & Holly Woods, with the village of Harbor Beach just visible on Aucoot Cove all the way at the left edge of the photo.
* The highly-developed town along the harbor at the right is New Bedford on the Acushnet River. You can see Popes Island in the middle of the river, and the towns of Fairhaven Oxford to the left of the river.
WIth those features in mind, I've pinned this on the map at a point a bit north of all of this, trying to approximate where the plane must have been when the photo was taken, though obviously everything visible in the photo -- this seems to be around 5 miles of coastline, give or take -- is well to the south of where the geotag was placed.
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Today 15/08/2022 is the eleventh anniversary of my joining flickr.
Here's the accumulated summary for that period:
Total aggregate of ....................... 4,781,126 views
All time daily average of .................... 1,190 views
Last year daily average of ................ 1,729 views
Highest all time day of ................... 35,330 views on 21/08/2018
Highest last year day of .................... 11,619 views on 08/04/2022
The image is of Margaret Bourke-White in 1934 taking a photo from one of the eagles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York. The photographer her darkroom assistant Oscar Gryubner.
From Wikipedia: Montreal Biosphère:
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The Biosphère of Environment Canada is a museum in Montreal dedicated to water and the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island in the building of the United States pavilion for the 1967 World Exhibition Expo 67.
Photos of the Biosphère are frequently included in science textbooks to explain the shape of fullerene molecules, which resemble geodesic domes and were so named in honor of Buckminster Fuller.
History
Expo 67
The architect of the geodesic dome was Richard Buckminster Fuller. The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 meters (250 ft) in diameter and 62 meters (200 ft) high. A complex system of shades was used to control the internal temperature.
The architects for the interior exhibition space were from Golden Metak Productions. Visitors had access to four large theme platforms divided into seven levels. The building included a 37-meter-long escalator, the longest ever built at the time.
1976 Fire
During structural renovations in May 1976, a fire burned away the building's transparent acrylic bubble, but the steel latticework remained. The site remained closed until 1990.
Biosphère Environment Museum
In August, 1990, Environment Canada purchased the site for $17.5 million to turn it into an interactive museum showcasing and exploring the water ecosystems of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River regions. The museum, inaugurated in 1995, is a set of enclosed buildings designed by Éric Gauthier, inside the original steel skeleton. The Biosphère offers interactive activities and presents exhibitions about the major environmental issues related to water, climate change and the sustainable development of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence ecosystem.
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
Via Collings Foundation: WINGS OF FREEDOM TOUR 2010 Schedule:
The B-17, B-24, and P-51 are on the 21st season of the Wings of Freedom Tour. Call 978-562-9182 to book your seat today!
The Wings of Freedom Tour brings historic aviation to your community! Tour through the authentically restored aircraft or take a flight aboard for the ultimate immersion in history!
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Via Collings Foundation: Aircraft Collection
For over twenty years The Collings Foundation has recovered and restored many of the true landmark aircraft that built world aviation history. Aircraft from the very roots of aviation up until the supersonic jets of modern day are represented in the collection which spans nearly 80 years of powered flight. Many of the aircraft are viewable to the public at airshows, events, and airports around the United States. For a schedule of these appearances, please visit our • schedules section. For groups interested in an appearance of these aircraft (with some exceptions) please visit our airshow & event booking section.
Early Aviation Collection
• 1909 Bleriot Type XI Stow, MA
• 1911 Wright Vin Fiz (Replica) Stow, MA (Static)
• 1917 Fokker DR-I Triplane (Replica) Stow, MA
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World War II Collection
• Boeing PT-17 Stearman Stow, MA
• Fiesler FI-156 Storch Stow, MA
• Grumman TBM Avenger Stow, MA
• Cessna UC-78 Bobcat Stow, MA
• North American A-36 Apache New Smyrna Beach , FL (Restoration)
• North American B-25J Mitchell"Tondelayo" New Smyrna Beach , FL
• Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress"Nine O Nine" New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Consolidated B-24J Liberator"Dragon and His Tail""All American""Witchcraft" New Smyrna Beach , FL
• North American TP-51C Mustang"Betty Jane" New Smyrna Beach , FL
• Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe "White 1" New Smyrna Beach , FL
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Korean War Collection
• North American AT-6F Texan Stow, MA
• Douglas A-26 Invader"My Mary Lou" Uvalde, TX (Restoration)
• Vought F4U-5NL Corsair New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Stow, MA (Static Only)
• Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Houston, TX (Restoration)
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Vietnam War Collection
• Bell UH-1E Huey Houston, TX
• Grumman S-2F Tracker Houston, TX
• McDonnell TA-4J Skyhawk Houston, TX
• McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom Houston, TX
First random image of my headphones at work after plugging new Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens onto the camera. Very happy that under room light setting, I am able to shoot at ISO 100, 1/90 seconds at f/1.4.
Review of the lens
After spending most of my time shooting with L lenses, the lack of color vibration is fairly prominent to me. The sharpness difference is also fairly pronounced in detail, but not that you can see it on Flickr anyhow. (most people don't view large)
Review of the headphones (while I'm at it)
This pair of cans retail for around $249. I also have a pair of K701 at home, which I plopped $449 for. The difference is noticeable but very marginal.
Pasting from the website of the Collings Foundation:
The Collings Foundation Hosts:
Battle for the Airfield
WWII Reenactment and Living History Weekend
October 10th and 11th
Picture this:
….An undercover French Resistance Fighter met with the Allied Forces and showed the exact coordinates of the German encampment. The night before an elite German force over took a small grass airstrip just a few hundred feet away. The Allied Forces had to gain control of this airfield so they could fly in much-needed supplies. - It was going to be a tough fight.
How will the battle end? Will the Allied troops be able to gain control of the airfield and further their advancement? You will have to be here to find out. The Collings Foundation will host a Living History event you will never forget. You will be able to see original equipment from WWII in action. Everything from the cooking utensils to M1 rifles is original. The only event of this type - in the world. – Don’t miss it!
October 10th and 11th
Open Daily: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Entry Fee: $15 Adults / $10 Children
This is a public event and reservations are not required.
Two reenactments per day: 11:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
Display will include:
* Aircraft: TBM Avenger, Wright "Vin Fiz" replica, 1909 Bleriot, Fokker DR-I replica, PT-17 Stearman, Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, North American AT-6 Texan, Fiesler Fi-156 Storch, and many more!
* Automobiles: Entire Collings Foundation collection - see list for details.
* Collings Foundation Gift Shop
* Vetran's Roundtable Discussion: Hear amazing stories from WWII Veterans about thier experiences during the war. 1:00 PM on hangar floor - both 10/10 and 10/11.
* PT-17 Stearman Rides - Limited Availability
* $230 for 1/2 Hour
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* See PT-17 Info here
* T-6 Texan Rides - Limited Availability
* $450 for 45 minutes
* Call 978-562-9182 for reservations.
* The WWII Battle reenactment will take place twice each day on the grass landing strip in front of the hangar. It will take place at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
* There will be suprises each battle!
* The Collings Foundation grounds are very nice and make a great setting for such an event. Getting here is tricky! Click on the link above for directions.
* The Fiesler FI-156 Storch has an incredible history during WWII. This aircraft is well known for its versatility and easy flying characteristics. The plane that saved Mussolini! (temporarily). We will be flying as part of the battle reenactment.
* Our M-16 Half-Track has been beautifully restored. The quad mount 50cal machine guns fully rotate. The M-16 will be participating in the WWII battle reenactments.
* The German 88mm flak cannon was feared by all airmen. One of the first weapons to have "pre-programmed" ammunition. This cannon will also be a part of the battle reenactments.
* For a "birds eye" view of the event- we will be offering PT-17 Stearman and T-6 Texan flights. Flying in these aircraft is a lot of fun! Call to reserve your flight: 800-568-8924
* Post-war German ingenuity.. A Messerschmitt minicar! On display courtesy of the Gould Foundation collection.
* It will be the Allied vs. the Axis in a very memorable battle re-enactment! This living history perfomance will captivate and educate. It will take place each day at 11 AM and 3:30 PM.
Same truck:
I've seen this thing around once or twice before, but this is the first time I've managed to get photos of it.
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article.
Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | _details_pending_:
The total views on my photostream reached 7,000,000+ after 7 years and 4 months hard work and midnight oil burnt on August 1st 2014.
While I've tended to steer my photostream and descriptions in the last few years towards an encyclopaedic tone with referrals from the major internet search engines my main objective, the continuing support and comments from my contacts and other Flickr members is very much appreciated and makes all the hard work over the last 7.4 years very much worthwhile.
A special mention and thanks too for my friend, colleague, fellow railway enthusiast and photostream contributor David whose 2358 donated items so far on this date have made a huge difference to my photostream, stats and interest generated.
7,000,000 views ÷ 9136 items = 766.19 views average per item which is a significant improvement on the 703.64 average per item at 6,000,000 views in April 2014.
The most viewed item in my photostream continues to be this one flic.kr/p/6ky5vY with well over twice as many views as its nearest rival. I don't see that changing for the foreseeable future.
Flickr is a huge, time consuming and rewarding project for me personally and I genuinely believe all the effort has been worthwhile.
Thank you so much for all your clicks!
;-)
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
Snaking from lower left across to the back right is the Seine. Across it near the upper left is the Arc de Triomphe, and the bright road coming across from it is the Champs Elysses. The bright dome over on the right is the Invalides, and beyond it you can just barely make out the area of the Louvre and Notre Dame. The blue beam at the upper right corner is a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower's lighthouse beacon arcing across the horizon.
Chinese artist 李永斌 Li Yongbin’s “Face” paintings explore the concept of temporality and the ways and possibilities in which we perceive events unfolding. He records the reflection of his own face on a windowpane against a cityscape at the moment of sunset. As night falls, the reflection of his face gradually appears while the cityscape slowly fads into darkness.
The artist is self-taught, who started with paintings and progressively work towards using video as his medium. But in these photorealist / hyperrealist works he has infused the concept of time in an otherwise still image.
I am always amazed by paintings from the photorealist / hyperrealist genre, but often beyond the skills of the artists I see little to be desired from those works. But this painting allow me to see the artistry beyond just an amazing rendering of something photorealist, and it is that which I find most incredible of all.
Crazyisgood. SML Love.
李永斌 Li Yongbin (b. 1963 Beijing, China)
臉 Face
Acrylic on canvas
170x 195 cm
2006
# 李永斌 Li Yongbin
www.chengxindong.com/index.php?option=com_xdcsection&...
www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/Li_Yongbin_李永斌
# Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art 程昕東國際當代藝術空間 程昕東国际当代艺术空间
Jiu Xian Qiao Lu No. 4, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100015
China
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+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:39:41+0800
+ Dimensions: 3579 x 3108
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/4.0
+ Focal Length: 40 mm
+ ISO: 640
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E
+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13841
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
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Tracking the progression of the autumn foliage, from when the colors started to turn at the start of October, through when the leaves were all gone some time in November.
* October 2 (mostly green, boat, lens flare) (11th month of monthly photos here)
* October 9 (overcast, two boats)
* October 13 (raining)
* October 14 (sunny & crisp)
* October 15 (night mosiac)
* October 16 (colors fading, a boat)
* October 19 (still waters, lens flare)
* October 20 (still water, lens flare, boats)
* October 21 (rippled waters, no polarizer)
* October 22 (morning mist, boaters, sun)
* October 22 (evening headlights, fogged waters)
* October 26 (few clouds, colors blooming now)
* October 26 (evening, blue light, auto traffic)
* October 27 (grey skies, still waters)
* October 27 (evening, motion blur on waves)
* October 28 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 29 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 30 (lone boater on still water)
* November 2 (lone boater on cloud reflecting water)
* November 2 (evening view of clouds & traffic)
* November 3 (cloud-free sky over dappled waters) (12th month of monthly photos here)
* November 4 (cloud-free sky, dappled waters, lone boat)
* November 6 (grey skies, two boats, very brown trees)
* November 10 (grey skies, tree branches becoming visible)
* November 11 (blue skies, thin clouds, still waters)
* November 17 (bare trees, clear blue skies, still waters)
* November 18 (bare trees, dappled clouds in blue sky, rippled waters)
* November 20 (calm & partly cloudy, just after major morning rain)
* November 24 (light rain, grey skies)
* November 25 (fog & mist, like first photo a year ago)
* November 30 (crisp, grey, monochrome day, with boat)
* December 2 (no clouds & very, very still waters)
* December 3 (warm day after overnight storms, no clouds, rippled water, geese) (1st year / 13th month of photos here)
I thought this was a '57 Chevy, but looking again, there's definitely a Ford badge on the front of the hood, and a badge I can't make out on the back fender. "Corsair", maybe? Did Ford make a car called a Corsair? My Googawikapedia skills are failing me here.
Ah, I see. So in the 60s they did make a Corsair, but only in Britain, and it looked totally different. This one appears to just be a 1952 Ford, in the "Crestline" model (premium version over mid-level "Customline" and base model "Mainline"), with the "Victoria" hardtop (as opposed to convertible or station wagon). And from the badge on the front fender, a V8 engine. instead of the standard V6.
My Googawikapedia skills came back. For a moment anyway.
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UPDATE 20 Apr 2010: I stand voted down -- the consensus is that it's a 1954 Ford, not a 1952. I'm not sure what the differences are, and the Wikipedia page for 1954 Ford redirects to the 1952 Ford page (hence me going for that year originally). But apparently its two years newer in the same series.
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
Doron Lachisch’s Cubitec Shelving (2008), also from DesignWithinReach. I did my calculations and bought the sets and assembled the white and orange panels to go zig-zag up the wall.
Related SML
Here we can see, among other things, the Genzyme company's "modernist cathedral" style factory along the Charles River stretching across much of the foreground, with I.M. Pei's glass John Hancock Tower on the middle horizon, and the smaller Old Hancock Tower to the left of it. These buildings are in Back Bay, but most of the rest of that neighborhood is shorter buildings that can't be seen from here.
To see this photo in a much broader context, take a look at this panorama (alternate split in half version, slightly sharper in the large view than the equivalent large version of the un-split panorama), which shows a full-circle panorama of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, Newton, Arlington, Belmont, Medford, etc. from the same vantage point atop Washington Tower in the middle of Mt Auburn Cemetery.
Shop selling miniature statues designed by Niki de Saint Phalle, who also did the gigantic "L'Ange Protecteur" or "Guardian Angel". statue hanging from the ceiling of the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) in Zurich.
A ballpark is nothing without its giant, gleaming billboards.
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Bostonist: Photo of the Day, March 19, 2009: Opening Day! (not) :-)
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
See the set index page for more general information, but in summary, this photo was from the "Wings of Freedom Tour", at Norwood (MA) Airport, sponsored by the Collings Foundation, featuring a B-17G Flying Fortress, "one of only fourteen B-17s still flying in the United States", a B-24J Liberator, "the only restored flying B-24J in the world", and a TP-51C Mustang, "the world’s only dual control P-51C Mustang".
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
I had an unexpected spike in views right after posting my few photos from Thanksgiving this year. Based on these spikes in views, apparently my most popular photo subjects are, in order, Go Play NW (geeks playing games), Fremont Solstice Parade (nude cyclists), and Thanksgiving (wholesome family dinners). Go figure.
I love this building.
Without quite realizing it or intending to, I apparently have taken a liking to the architects behind this & some other buildings, Machado and Silvetti Associates. They've designed:
• Honan-Allston Branch, Boston Public Library
• One Western Avenue (OWA), Harvard Business School
• Provincetown Art Association and Museum
• Dewey Square, near South Station in Boston
That means that, of the work they've done in Massachusetts, the only one I've never really noticed is South Boston Waterfront Park, and now that I think about it, I think I actually have noticed it before, but have never had a chance to walk around there, as it's kind of in a weird area -- not much around there, mostly only accessible by car at this point, yet nowhere to really park & walk around. It's a neighborhood that'll probably be really built up & nice in 10 or 20 years, but for now, it's kind of an island off by itself.
But the other four, though not all without controversy (a lot of people hate OWA), I generally like. Maybe I should start paying attention here...
As foreseen by prophesy, summer pretty much gave up trying this year, so by the time fall started at the end of September, we already had cooler weather and the leaves were starting to change color. They're still mostly green for now, but I'm thinking of getting weekly photos until the leaves are gone just to get a better sense of the flow of the colors this time of year, which of course seems to have more change than any othr time.
I tried something different with this one. For most of these, as for most of the photos I take in general, I just leave the settings on automatic and fire away. (Because, really, what's the point of having a big fancy camera if you're just going to booger up your pictures with oddball manual settings, right? *cough*)
In this case, instead of automatic exposure, I locked in a f/3.5 aperture (the widest my main lens can do), which in turn meant a 1/1600 sec exposure. I kind of like how this brought out the sparklies in the reflection at the lower right, and everything is far enough away that depth of field wasn't really a problem. On the other hand, the trees at the right are darker in this version than the automatic exposure ones I took today, but then on the other other hand the details look sharper. In the end, I can't quite decide if I like this version more or less than others in the series, but if it's a failed experiment then it's a small failure.
Same scene, through the year:
* May 2009
Tracking the progression of the autumn foliage, from when the colors started to turn at the start of October, through when the leaves were all gone some time in November.
* October 2 (mostly green, boat, lens flare) (11th month of monthly photos here)
* October 9 (overcast, two boats)
* October 13 (raining)
* October 14 (sunny & crisp)
* October 15 (night mosiac)
* October 16 (colors fading, a boat)
* October 19 (still waters, lens flare)
* October 20 (still water, lens flare, boats)
* October 21 (rippled waters, no polarizer)
* October 22 (morning mist, boaters, sun)
* October 22 (evening headlights, fogged waters)
* October 26 (few clouds, colors blooming now)
* October 26 (evening, blue light, auto traffic)
* October 27 (grey skies, still waters)
* October 27 (evening, motion blur on waves)
* October 28 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 29 (group of boaters being filmed)
* October 30 (lone boater on still water)
* November 2 (lone boater on cloud reflecting water)
* November 2 (evening view of clouds & traffic)
* November 3 (cloud-free sky over dappled waters) (12th month of monthly photos here)
* November 4 (cloud-free sky, dappled waters, lone boat)
* November 6 (grey skies, two boats, very brown trees)
* November 10 (grey skies, tree branches becoming visible)
* November 11 (blue skies, thin clouds, still waters)
* November 17 (bare trees, clear blue skies, still waters)
* November 18 (bare trees, dappled clouds in blue sky, rippled waters)
* November 20 (calm & partly cloudy, just after major morning rain)
* November 24 (light rain, grey skies)
* November 25 (fog & mist, like first photo a year ago)
* November 30 (crisp, grey, monochrome day, with boat)
* December 2 (no clouds & very, very still waters)
* December 3 (warm day after overnight storms, no clouds, rippled water, geese) (1st year / 13th month of photos here)
Fenway Park has had various configurations for the section high above home plate.
When the section was built in 1988, it was the 600 Club, named for the 600 seats enclosed behind the glass. As of the 2002 season, it was renamed the .406 Club in honor of Ted Williams and his 1941 batting average. That's the name the section had when Kaite & I got to attend a game in May, 2005. Later, the section was remodeled, the glass wall was removed, and it was renamed after local companies EMC and State Street Bank.
Anyway, as for this game, it was the Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles, who were in first place at the time, and won 8-1 that night. The Orioles ended up finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses, while the Red Sox, who had won their first World Series in 86 years the year before, ended up (per Wikipedia):
The Boston Red Sox' 2005 season included the Boston Red Sox attempting to win the American League East in the American League. The Red Sox finished 95-67 and with the same record as the New York Yankees, but although the Yankees had won more previous games, they won the American League East and the Red Sox had to settle for the American League Wild Card.
This one was pretty cool, and doesn't come across well in the photo.
The image is on a curved plastic strip that continually changes as you move from side to side. Moving from left to right, the woman raises her hand, blows you a kiss, drops her hand, then winks at you.
According to Boston.com's MIT Museum gallery, it's a piece titled "Kiss", by Lloyd G. Cross (1973).
I got a sequence of photos of it that I may do something with & upload later.
Pasting from Wikipedia about the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion:
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The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion, mainly by adding a third engine. Sailors and Marines commonly refer to the Super Stallion as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downwash the helicopter generates. It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Marine Corps. The less common MH-53E Sea Dragon fills the United States Navy's need for long range mine sweeping or Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) missions, and perform heavy-lift duties for the Navy. The CH-53E/MH-53E are designated "S-80" by Sikorsky.
Back seat inventory: one (1) robot toy, possibly late-model Transformers, didn't recognize it; one (1) "Cars" movie themed pull-up diaper, unused; zero (0) car seats.
In this way, it reminded me a lot of my own car, except that we don't currently have any Transformers toys, we keep more than one spare Cars diaper on hand, and we keep our diaper-wearing child in a car seat.
YMMV.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).