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I recently attended a black attire party ...it was awesome!....my best friend for over 25 yrs, Kathy on the far left along with Jovan her grand daughter ...then myself along with my daughter Afea
In many formal portrait settings the photographer has painted backdrops they can change that add a lot to a photograph.
I was happy to catch this deer framed by a broken down wooden fence this week and could not have done more even if I had a fake one.
Note how the coloring of his hide is changing.
(Photographed near Cambridge,MN)
Fashionably processed.
Iron Photographer 230
The elements:
1 - fruit
2 - a fashion accessory
3 - cross processed
C-FXXU, a Dassault Falcon 900EX, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
The late evening light worked well on this elegant paint scheme.
2023 appears to be the last year of existance for the De Wadden.
National Museums Merseyside plan to deconstruct this auxiliary vessel by the end of the year.
This will be the second preserved ship to be deconstructed (Why don't they use the word scrapped?) by the Merseyside Maritime Museum a decade or so ago the Weaver Packet WINCHAM was broken up.
The Museum appear to be planning a "contemplation space" which resembles a peculiar mausoleum in the bottom of the Graving Dock as part of a redevelopment of the area!!
Whilst there has been no money forthcoming for the restoration and maintenance of the DE WADDEN and also the WINCHAM millions of pounds have been poured into the Slavery Museum over the past two decades and the Museum of Liverpool was constructed a decade ago even though there was a perfectly adequate museum of Liverpool in William Brown Street.
More photographs of DE WADDEN can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/Historic-Ships/De-Wadden/
The following notes are from Historic Ships:
DE WADDEN is a three-masted auxiliary schooner built in the Netherlands in 1917. She was built by Gebr Van Diepen of Waterhuizan, Netherlands, for the Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Netherlands Steamship Company). This company commissioned DE WADDEN and her two sisters in order to take advantage of the very lucrative trading conditions created by Dutch neutrality in the First World War, and it is vessels like her which provided the foundation for the continuing Dutch strength in the European short-sea trades.
The world-wide shipping slump in the early 1920s forced her sale to Richard Hall of Arklow in the South of Ireland, and it is as an Irish Sea schooner that she is best remembered. From 1922 to 1961, DE WADDEN carried bulk cargoes such as grain, pit-props, china clay, mineral ores, and especially coal from the River Mersey to various Irish ports. Victor Hall, her longest serving Captain, commanded her from 1933 to 1954, and her finest hour was probably during the Second World War when she was one of a small handful of vessels which provided the vital lifeline of supplies to the Irish Republic, after many other ships had been taken up for the British war effort. Her crew consisted of only five men and a boy, and since she could sail, a qualified marine engineer was not required. She carried a motor winch in the forward deckhouse to allow the cargo to be handled without extensive shoreside facilities.
The motor was used almost all the time when she was under sail. This allowed the motor schooner to be built with a flat bottom and shallow draught for maximum cargo capacity together with the ability to enter small harbours. Without the push of the motor, this hull shape does not sail very well. Her original 125 hp 'SteyWal Dutch engine gave her a speed of five knots, but after a major failure was replaced by an 80hp Bolinder engine purchased from the Admiralty. In addition a 50 hp Kelvin engine was fitted on the port quarter to give additional power. These were both removed in January 1942 and replaced with a sic cylinder 150 hp Crossley DR diesel which was only replaced in turn by a 450 hp Caterpillar Diesel in 1980.
This combination of sail and motor remained economical up to the early 1960s when she finally had to retire in favour of a modern motor coaster. She was therefore sold in Dublin to Mr McSweeney who took her to Scotland for a new and varied career. Her tasks ranged from carrying sand to taking out fishing parties, and she even appeared in a number of films, including The Onedin Line for the BBC. She was eventually put up for sale by her last owner, Kenneth Kennedy of Dunoon, and purchased by the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1984. In 1987 she was drydocked to allow an extensive program of conservation and restoration. In the early 1990s the Museum briefly ran some onboard tours and education sessions, before this was withdrawn to allow further necessary conservation work to take place.
In 2022, options were reviewed for De Wadden's future and in November a declaration of intent to deconstruct was formally published by National Museums Liverpool in conjunction with NHS-UK. For further details visit www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/news/nhs/declaration-int...
Update, May 2023:
National Museums Liverpool’s Board of Trustees has approved the recording and disposal by deconstruction of DE WADDEN. A team is now reviewing the various options to record the vessel, from photogrammetry, to exploring what elements of DE WADDEN might be suitable to retain as part of the Maritime Museum’s collections or for other potential use. National Museums Liverpool is also committed to the recycling of as much of the vessel’s materials as possible. Deconstruction, which will follow a programme set out by National Historic Ships for the responsible disposal of ships, is due to take place towards the end of 2023. Full statement: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/de-wadden
Ahhhhh...so nice to be back around Flickr (Away from Flickr usually means too much work and responsibility for me).
Things are good in Central Florida and I look forward to making my way around.
The baby Eaglets just started to fly, so I will share more pictures soon.
Ashley / Ash~a~lee patiently waiting for a glass of champagne to be delivered to her at the old Packard plant.
Posed at Lost Eden
Poses by Image Essentials - Playmate
Dress by TIFFANY DESIGNS - Ruby Gown in Pink
Noya Make-Up with essences Blush
Garage Eye Lashes
Hope's Creation Shoes - Provoke Heels
GeWungo Jewelry - Jasmine Necklace and Earrings
Truth Hair - Bobbie (reds01Fade)
CSXT SD80MAC #4597 idles on the north end of four track at Benning yard in Washington, DC, April 16, 2009. 4597 was the last of CSX's 80MACs to lose it's Conrail blue in favor of CSX paint which it received a few months prior. 4597 began life in March 1996 for Conrail as that road's 4116. By late 2015, 4597 and it's 80MAC brethren would be sold to Norfolk Southern where this unit is now the 7223. Nikon F100, Kodachrome 64.
Sometimes I just like to dress up in a formal satin gown and hang around the living room pretending I dress this way at home all the time! Here in my David's Bridal strapless satin Mother of the bride gown !
The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden.
Bred by Alister Clarke in 1937, "Lady Mann" was cultivated from the Lorraine Lee rose, and is another typically old fashioned rose that people love. Lady Mann has large flowers of rosy salmon to mid pink on a tall bush.
The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's. The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden. The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected. By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery. Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932. In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.