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Smile for peace
Smile for joy
Let me see you smile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz3ZbP0IF7A
I'd walk a hundred million miles to see you smile for life
© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission
For the 12 months for dogs toy challenge (& no, the puppy is not the toy :-) The big pig has always been Sibley's favorite toy, ever since her first Christmas with us. And Nancy (SantaFeFCRs) made sure that her daughter Dart would have her own little pig, & left it on the front porch, keeping a proper social distance for this challenging time---
This E9 was built for the Union Pacific railroad back in September 1955 as their UP 957 and served them well, until it's sale to Amtrak, where it would become their AMTK 430. Amtrak retired the classic streamliner in 1982 and it found it's way to Alaska working for the Alaska Railroad where it became their ARR 2401. ARR shed the locomotive and William Gardner of Northern Railcar Corporation picked it up along with ARR 2402 which was former Milwaukee Road 32A. The 2401 was patched and renumbered 10A to pinch hit for Mr. Gardner's Scenic Rail Dining train out of Brown Deer. After the Scenic Rail Dining venture went south, or west through divorce proceedings, Gardner was able to keep the 10A and 10C and they were painted into the beautiful crimson and gray scheme. A few years later, Mr Gardner added a E9 B unit to the consist, making it the finest looking executive set of locomotives around. After WATCO took control of the WSOR, they had no desire or need for the beautiful units and shed them. The 101 would go to the Friends of 261 where it wears a handsome pseudo Milwaukee Road scheme for their passenger operation. 102 ended up at the Illinois Railroad Museum where it remains in it's crimson and gray scheme. 103, former UP, AMTK, ARR 2401, WSOR 103, ended up as SLRG 103 on the Iowa Pacific. The 103 is now up for auction and the Friends of 261 would really like to add it to their collection to match the 32A. I can't get the link to work for donations there, but if interested go to friends of 261, so they can hopefully add this well maintained locomotive to their roster.
ARR 2401,2402 Northern Rail car Corporation,
Cudahy, WI. April 1987
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
CREATIVE RF gty.im/925773952 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
For all the times I have been in Ullapool I have never walked by the river. It is a really nice walk even when it is damp.
Looe, the Cornish for which is ‘Logh’, meaning deep water inlet, is a small coastal town and fishing port in south-east Cornwall.
In medieval times there were two towns on opposite banks of the River Looe. East Looe includes the fishing harbour, the main shopping centre and the sandiest beach. West Looe is quieter, but also has shops, restaurants and hotels, and leads to Hannafore with its fine views of Looe Island. The two towns are now one, joined by a bridge across the Looe river.
Looe is the second largest fishing port in Cornwall, supporting a fleet of trawlers, potters and netters together with an expanding number of hand-line fishermen.
The majority of the Looe fleet consists of day boats, meaning they go to sea and return each day, ensuring that their fish is fresh and of the highest quality (slush-ice bins are carried on board even the smallest boats).
Fish are landed at the market throughout the day and are stored in refrigerators until the next auction, beginning at 6.00am on weekdays.
Dictated for ☆ Susyfox ☆
Thank you Dear friend, for all the work for my new group
Carolina's farm friends
you are a star
Big Thank you and a Big Kissssss
greetings caroline and all the farm animals
Please don't use my photos on websites, blogs, other media or any other purpose without my permission.
Two "classics" for the price one one.
Recorded at the ATHS Convention and Truck Show, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL
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Don’t know much about John Deere tractors. All I know is; The John Deere model 430 was available in row-crop , high-crop, standard, utility, and crawler versions.
They were manufactured by the John Deere Company out of Dubuque, Iowa from 1958 to 1960. The 430 model was powered by a two-cylinder 30 Series engine available as a 1.9L 2-cyl gasoline and as a 1.9L “all-fuel” model and as a 1.9L LP gas model. The engine was liquid-cooled with a total displacement of 113 ci with a Bore/Stroke of 4.25x4.00 inches with total HP of 31.5hp for the 430 model.
…………..and oh yeah, one more thing. They were painted green with yellow trim. How this particular John Deere tractor that’s shown in the picture was painted all yellow is anyone’s guess………… (don’t ask me any more questions - I don’t know).
Hope ya'all enjoy..................
- thanks for all visits and comments
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Following the funeral on February 5 for fellow railfan and friend Tony Kimmel, a number of us gathered on the bridge at Summerhill, PA to photograph trains and reminisce about Tony. Fittingly, NS ran a train with one of his favorite heritage units on the point. NS 1073 leads empty hopper train 539 under the PRR signal bridge at Summerhill.
For 'MacroMondays' theme of 'superstition'.
Isn't it a superstition, an irrational belief, that you must have flowers for a funeral. And the idea must go back a very long time. There is a Neanderthal grave in Iraq, within the Shanidar Caves where a group of ancient corpses had been surrounded in plant and floral remains.
We tend to remember the life and death of those we love and the final memory of them is set at a funeral service. Seeing our loved one surrounded by beautiful and heartfelt arrangements of plants and flowers can help create a lasting final impression that can bring smiles or tears.
For many of us the death of a faithful animal probably needs to be marked in some way. What to do with the remains - bury or cremate? A very dear friend of mine has taken her cat's ashes from house to house when she has moved. Reminded of this I have Joe's ashes in a decorated box - decorated of course with a plant tribute.
(For Joe - see Avatar above)
Olympus Zuiko OM Auto Macro 50mm ............................ less than 3"
sorry for the quick bad video xs ,,
al.3thb i now some time i became so tough with u >< ,,
i'm so so so sorry but i swear i LOVE you للآبــــد :* ,,
hope u like it ;$ ,,
PS; The video shows all CRAZYO photostream ;) ,,
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And a fuzzy romantic song to go with it? Well, that would have to be: I will follow you into the dark (YouTube), by Death Cab for Cutie.
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An action freeze shot of a Bull race , called ' MOICHARA ' , which is performed in various villages of West Bengal , during the Rainy season in the months of June to August . The main objective of this sport cum festival is to make the field ready for planting Rice , by ploughing them with the bulls .
For Gothic & Lolita Bible Vol34.
Editor: Toshie Mihashi
Photography: Zhang Jingna
Assistant: Chris Wolf
Hair&Makeup: Shunichi Kawada
Models (from left): Cay, Kazumi, Karina, Uri, Chikage, Runa
Outfits (from left): Black Peace Now, Angelic Pretty, Mille Noirs, elements, Putumayo, Mam Maxicimam
Have to say, this was one of my most fascinating shoots to date, with the most awesome behind-the-scenes photograph ever produced.
I love the coffin and hair and makeup to pieces.
Couldn't quite decide on the title for this set actually... If only I know what they titled it in the magazine. T_T
Hope you like it.
Day 170 of the 365 days of photography project.
The bird bath and orange poppies in our side garden
Discovered in Stacksteads, Lancashire
Panasonic FZ82
Thanks for all your visits, faves, and comments. Much appreciated.
Bis jetzt hat sich "Daisy noch nicht blicken lassen... mal sehen, was uns noch an Schnee erwartet :-)
For Rosy (rosy_outlook) who loves these lisianthus flowers. I hope you like it Rosy, the green ones come from Latin America apparently.
Rose - Morden Hall Park, London, England - Saturday May 24th 2008.
This is dedicated to my good friend Cally - www.flickr.com/photos/21592786@N06/ who recently lost her Father....Thinking of you during this difficult time...be strong my friend..:O)))
thankyou so much for the comments guys, you've convinced me to load it public, shucks.
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yes, the trees are real, they're in my next door neighbors yard. :)
For the Flickr Friday Group.
**Subject** Lucky Number.
Yes, my lucky number is #17.
This started many years ago, when I was about 14 years old. I used to have season passes to go to the Philadelphia Wings Lacrosse Team's home games.. *I attended almost every single one*.. and I was a huge fan. I used to LOVE Tom Ryan # 17... and Bergee # 66 ,, the goalie. They were my favorites.
So those # s are still my lucky numbers.. They haven't changed or waivered. My favorite numbers.
& That is the reason why!
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BTW: I'm sure you all have noticed that I have participated in A LOT of challenges recently. I think it's fun, if I have the time or I am able to participate for that week/subject.
I am solid with my two main challenges, 52 Week & 100x!
However, the other challenges, I will post when I can.. (there is no *you have to post every single week* demands.. so, if & when I can.. I will happily participate in these fun challenges.
- The more challenges I participate in, the more I learn and experience.. and I'm grateful for each one that I'm able to do.
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I do hope that you all have a beautiful day & a wonderful week!
:) (this is my 2nd photo I posted today, so if you get a chance.. check out the other photo I posted for my 100x (favorite locations to take photos in).
[for anyone interested in the reality of this abstraction, I believe that’s my little Kia Soul on the right, reflected on the side of the vehicle in the next lane over 😜] San Francisco, California
Trumpeting for Attention … this young African elephant belongs to the Herd of Hope, released by activist sculptors Gillie and Marc on Bishops Square.
Watch it properly @ Gallery Minimal.
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my gift for you, my dear friends!
Thank you very much for your attention and support!
I really appreciate every given token of attention ... in a few years someone has become a teacher for me, someone is a good friend. Thanks to you - I'm not alone :).I wish everyone happiness and good luck!.Excuse me, please, I do not always answer letters or with great delay. One of the characteristics of the character - I do not like to talk much and I like to write a lot :) Once again, forgive me :) But I always remember about you!
Created for the Art Museion challenge #5: "A TEA FOR ALICE ". (April 15 to May 14) www.flickr.com/groups/2525129@N20/
Thank you for your visit, comment, fave or invite, all are much appreciated.
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Photos and textures used are my own. Some of the elements are from a canal boat decorated for Easter.
The Hocking Valley Scenic Railway operates former C&O GP9 5833 as their regular power for trains throughout the year. It's no different today as it hauls a train load of happy kids on its Santa Train excursion from Nelsonville to Logan, OH and return. The engineer of C&O 5833 waives as he "speeds" through Haydenville, OH on a dreary, overcast day.
Jane (42leaves) is an incredibly talented artist friend of mine that Kay and I have hooked on photography...lol. She has a wonderful eye for seeing things differently especially the details and is helping me learn to see outside "the box". This is part of a fence post in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin. Nice viewed large
Surely not even the foolish dandy Himber would dare to sit in the Chair of Ultimate Power unsupervised?
[Built for my IronBuilder round with Guy. We have to use the tan arch pieces in each creation.]