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A page from the c1950 Franco Traffic Signs catalogue. The use of externally lit traffic and road signs was becoming more common in pst-war years and could still include gas as well as electrical lighting. This page shows the "Super Exlite" fitting that Franco Signs produced.
Changing OLD bad habits to NEW good habits in 2017?
...from Daily Guideposts 2016, 40th Anniversary Edition.
Here's for working on those new year's resolutions...from changing wrong to right!
I draw this one at least once or twice a year. It is a symbolic drawing that portrays that one thing that is most desirable above everything else in life for which all people strive to attain.
The most important things in life, to me, are those that are essentially simple, free, natural, delicious, nourishing, and attainable by following simple guideposts that lead to them.
But for everything good and desirable in life there is its opposite which is artificial, corruptible, deceptive and attainable by simply following the hoards and masses who seek its welcoming allure.
From the earliest recorded times, people have gravitated toward the rocky areas of what is now the Gettysburg Battlefield. Native Americans camped and hunted amidst its boulders. Local civilians had pleasure outings and political rallies among the rocks of Spangler’s Spring in the 1840s and 1850s. Escaping slaves are said to have used the boulders along Rock Creek for shelter. A young artist named David Forney climbed atop the tallest boulder in what would become the Slaughter Pen and carved his name into the rock in 1849. Another local man, Emanuel Bushman, who waxed philosophical about the origins of the rocks at Devil’s Den, wrote, “My own opinion is that they were a solid pyramid many hundred feet high … if they were pressed together every one would have its place to fit.” Still other local people used the rocks for more practical purposes, as is evidenced by the substantial quarrying remnants across the battlefield.
Historians have written countless words about the Battle of Gettysburg but one geologist’s take was “the Battle of Gettysburg, was essentially an effort by the Confederate army to drive the Union army” from the outcroppings of the Gettysburg Sill. According to geologists the Sill is a 200-million-year-old formation of York Haven diabase rock a mile wide and 1,800 feet deep. The Sill accounts for the boulder-strewn surface of Devil’s Den, Little Round Top, Culp’s Hill and other places. Ignorant of their mineral composition, Gettysburg citizens simply referred to the rocks as “Gettysburg Granite.”
The soldiers who fought at Gettysburg, however, had a more immediate concern — getting around, though, atop and indeed behind these unmovable objects. Confederates wrote about the boulders on Culp’s Hill and Big Round Top as obstacles to their advance whereas Union troops wrote even more about their defensive properties. As the troops settled in, both sides built stone walls and hid behind whatever rocks were near.
After the battle, many of Gettysburg’s boulders were frozen in time as backdrops for some of the Civil War’s most iconic photographs — dead Confederate soldiers at Devil’s Den and the Rose Farm, fortifications on Little Round Top and large, daunting boulders on Culp’s Hill. More than 100 years later, using their photographs and these diabase formations, historian William A. Frassanito precisely located the camera positions of dozens of views showing death, destruction and remnants of the fighting. By identifying when and where these images were recorded, Frassanito created a new field of study — photographs could now be used as a historical resource instead of as simply illustrations.
Rocks were also used as guideposts for interments and were major impediments to the burial crews — so much so that rocky areas were generally the last places cleared of the dead. Even for the living, the rocks could represent the worst of things. One visitor to the hospital of the Union Second Corps recalled a “black-haired handsome youth of an Alabama regiment.” In his delirium-induced “raving the prominent subject was those ‘awful, awful rocks.’”
Photographed using the JCPenney Electronic Strobe Pocket Camera, and Lomography's "Orca" 110 format film.
Taken in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.
eagles: illumination of spirit, healing and creation.
as you approach periods in your life where you will be able to make new leaps in higher consciousness and new expressions of your true essence, birds will become more prominent. they will become signs, guideposts, protectors, and teachers.
to accept the eagle as a totem is to accept a powerful new dimension to life, and a heightened responsibility for your spiritual growth. but only through doing so do you learn how to move between worlds, touch all life with healing, and become the mediator and the bearer of new creative force within the world.
- from the book Animal Speak
LONELINESS
mystical and desolate
like creeping ground fog swallowing up guideposts
in the middle of the journey.
She bears the odor of musty, sentimental photographs
upon her breath.
Wild, wind wailing through the willows
makes your fingertips freeze in those thin, woolen gloves.
Hungry questions gnawing at the mind
leave nothing but the taste of stale bread upon the palate.
LONELINESS, ISOLATION, DISINTEGRATION
hurry quickly to the succor of your memories.
Hold on until the blanket of white silence covers the tomb.
by VMN
SONY, as guidepost of the sky (?)
approaching to Haneda (HND, Tokyo) along the headquarters building... It's one of my fav spot in Tokyo.
Taken w/ GR 28mm LTM on ME220 (6bit setting: E28Asph).
I am looking for something like this in the world today.
© 2016 Bong Manayon | FB: Bong Manayon Photography
Pentax K-3 + SMCP DA 14/2.8 ED IF
Rarely visited cross, which is on the ridge west of 'Young' Ralphs Cross.
It is thought to date back to around 1200AD.
The moorland crosses were often guideposts to help travellers find their route.
Old Ralph is set on one of the highest points of the moors, but is not that easy to see from the modern road.
Kur mēmais skandē kurlam dziesmu, rād' aklais aklam ceļabriesmu...
If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit. Mat.15
1/250, f/22, Fomapan 200 @ ISO 100, Canon FD 17mm f/4 on A-1. HC-110, 1:160, 40 min @ 17C semi stand.
Photographed using the Kodak KB10, and Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film.
Taken in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.
Photographed using the Zenit 35F, and Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film.
Taken in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.
A page from the c1950 Franco Traffic Signs catalogue. The company manufactured a range of safety railings and guard rails as shown here. They were designed to be part of a prefabricated 'Kee Klamp' system.
Photographed using the Spartus 35F Model 400, and Ilford Delta 100 film. This road I've photographed countless times.
Guide post at a junction between Grampound and Polmassick.
The directions have been removed, possibly during WW2.
More info at www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
Photographed using the Kodak EasyLoad 35 KE60, and Kodak Gold 200 film.
Taken in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia.
This was one of those mornings where the light and sky just got progressively better as sunrise approached. In addition to the cool sky, I was happy with the glow on the rocks. You could almost say I was tickled pink with this sunrise.
Single 2.5 sec exposure shot. This shot was taken exactly one minute before the comments shot.
Thanks to my buddy Brent for introducing me to this particular location and for the company on this day.
"Blackrock Summit Trail - A short loop hike to a rocky summit with a short boulder scramble at the top. The trail stops just short of the summit.To reach it, you must scramble a short distance over a jumble of boulders, but the view makes the climb worth it. Occasionally, hikers report seeing rattlesnakes sunning themselves on the rocks, so watch where you step! From the summit you can see Buzzard Rock and Trayfoot, Horsehead, and Furnace Mountains. On a very clear day, try to locate Hightop Mountain. From the summit you can take an easy trail to Trayfoot Summit, another 0.7 mile away, where there are the remains of an old fire tower, but you won’t get any good views. Blackrock Summit played an unusual role in Virginia history. During the Revolutionary War, Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson was reportedly concerned about the safety of the Great Seal of Virginia and the state archives. He gave them to a friend, who hid them in a cave at Blackrock until the war’s end." rei
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SuperHeadz Wide and Slim 35mm Film Camera
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The Aiggin Stone is a guidepost on the old pack horse road over the South Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Known locally as the Roman Road, but now thought to be early 18th century. Left to right Blackstone Edge, central Manchester with Saturn and Mars setting above, Rochdale with Winter Hill transmitter and Scout Moor Wind Farm on the skyline.