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Hounslow have been receiving a few ADE’s lately, most new to Epsom Buses but ADE40401 here was of course new to LU (at Hounslow) for the 81, 222 and part of the 120, all since lost to Metroline!
I had a ride on it on the H98 today (among the SP’s) and it’s seen leaving the Craneswater stop heading for Hayes End. It was late & slow and about to be overtaken by SP40045 so I stepped back for the empty Scania and got to Hayes first! 10.11.22.
I have no idea what's going on here … and it's quite likely that there is really nothing going on.
I had been watching the guy in the middle for a while, mostly because he was staring intently at everyone who walked by. Or maybe not … maybe he was just listening to his music with great intensity.
But them the guy on the left strolled past, and the contrast between the two was so striking that I had to photograph it. I didn't even focus on the guy in the background, on the right hand side of the photo … but he seems to add to the overall mystery of the scene.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Sep 27, 2013.
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I had a brief business trip to Moscow in the fall of 2013 -- arriving in the city on a Saturday morning, relaxing for the rest of the weekend, then a day of intense business at a computer conference on Monday, and finally back to NYC on Tuesday morning -- and I was hoping that I could take advantage of my brief period of free time to get some photographs of the city. Ideally, I was hoping to visit Red Square at sunrise and sunset; and I even considered taking one of those garishly-colored tour buses around the city to see what might be interesting.
Alas, none of that happened, simply because of the weather: it was raining when I arrived on Saturday morning, it was raining harder when I left on Tuesday morning, and it drizzled and rained most of the time in between. Some people enjoy walking around in the rain, but I'm not one of them. I also don't really enjoy trying to photograph during rainy weather, though I know that it's sometimes possible to get some really interesting results. And I have to admit that I'm pretty paranoid about getting my digital cameras wet.
As it turned out, there was one brief break in the weather, late on the Sunday afternoon: the rain stopped, the clouds cleared, and the sun even came out. I grabbed my little Sony RX-100 MkII pocket camera, leaving my larger Sony A65 DSLR behind, and headed out of my hotel, walking a couple blocks up Neglinnaya Street to a shopping promenade on Kuznetskiy Most -- where there were throngs of people strolling, shopping, and enjoying various unrecognizable snacks and munchies from little food stalls along the street.
I walked around for a while, and then found a quiet bench where I could park myself and watch the ebb and flow of traffic in both directions on Kuznetskiy Most, snapping shots of anything (and anyone) that looked interesting. At the end of an hour, I had gotten some 375 shots … and then the clouds returned, and the rain commenced once again. I scampered back to my hotel before the rain got too heavy, uploaded the digital images to my laptop computer, and did most of the editing on the long 9-hour flight back to New York a couple days later.
A couple of these photos could have been taken anywhere: you can't really tell whether you're looking at something in the middle of New York City, or the middle of Moscow. But some of them -- indeed, most of them -- show us a mix of faces and dress styles and architecture that could only have been taken in Moscow...
'Blondes have bad hair days too': printed on basic cotton ultra by Spoonflower. 1980s bad hair in random colors & patterns on an off-white ground. Original: Chalk on paper.
© Su Schaefer 2016
Celebrating(?) that bad hair decade of the 1980s, this design is closely related to my '1980s bad hair days' - entry in Spoonflower's 80s Hairstyles Contest.
See 'Blondes have bad hair days too by Su_G' as fabric
See 'Blondes have bad hair days too by Su_G' as wallpaper
See more designs by Su_G on Spoonflower.
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This was shot last year in Glacier National park in Montana. This was one very wet week-end. I had my camera and lens wrapped in two towels to keep them dry. I managed to get to about 30/40ft to get this shot, moving through the small bushes. I was already wet so a couple of more minutes didn't make much difference. He just sat there and let me fire of a bundle of shots as well as video. In my video shot you can see the rain running down the antlers.
I hear people sayin'. We Don't need this war.
I say there's some things worth fightin' for.
What about our freedom, and this piece of ground?
We didn't get to keep 'em by backin' down.
They say we don't realize the mess we're gettin' in
Before you start preachin' let me ask you this my friend.
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin through a livin hell
And you say we shouldn't worry bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
You took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbin for you and me
It'll just breed anger is what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country just out lookin' for a fight
Well after 9/11 man I'd have to say right.
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin' through a livin' hell
And we vow to get the ones behind Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
you can bet they remember just what they're fightin' for
Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?!
- Darryl Worley
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This is my tribute to all the brave firefighters and policemen who kept order in a panicked city, rescued people from the rubble a midst falling debris, and put out fires that could have threatened more than just the Two Towers. I cleary remember September 11, 2011. I was 4 years old, we did not have a TV at the time, but our neighbor called us up and told us that a plane had just crashed into one of the towers. We jogged down the road to our neighbors house, and we all sat in a stunned awe as we saw the second plane crash into the other tower. I remember very distinctly seeing the siding of the towers come rumbling off, one floor collasping after another, people jumping out of windows to escape the fire only to smash onto the pavement below.
I will never forget that day.
I have just gotten YouTube! Please take the time to subscribe to me, comment on my videos, and like my vids!
I'll be posting moc reviews on almost anything that I build.
Pictured in the screenshot is the Gun Sniper.
Feel free to note the crap out of this pic.
Happy Festivus!*
*If you understand the Festivus referance, then you know good television.
We simply HAVE TO!
There is no rationale. I can only speak for myself, but I am not gay, I have no desire to have intimate relations with another male. I do NOT want to change my sex!!
What do I want? I want do wear female clothing. I want to look pretty, at lease in my eyes. I would love to interact with GGs on a one-to-one basis.
I want to be perceived as a female, though I may not technically have that privilege.
and still i have the pain i have to carry, a past so deep, that even you could not bury if you tried.
lyrics from blind by lifehouse
more collages at my blog
on a lovely old wooden chair, In the weird and wonderful Nether Warburton Farm, in St Cyrus, Montrose, Scotland
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
A Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus in its wintering plumage) was faithfully moving along with our boat in anticipation for food. This was very close to frame properly in a windy day. Pics was taken from Nal Sarovar, Gujrat, India.
I have developed this fascination towards doors and windows ever since I went to Dakshin Chitra. The doors and windows are such great avenues for play of light and that is probably the reason why I would like to work on a theme of 'Doors & Windows' sometime....
I loved the way in which the main room of the Chettinad house was lighted and wanted to create a different feel to the whole place. This unique looking door knob and the angle it offered was something that I could not let pass.
Sorry I don't have much to do with the gay community as I don't see myself as being gay as such and I'm certainly not a 'gurly-gurly kissy-kissy frilly knickers' sort of girl am I. I prefer Beethoven to Lady Ga-Ga and I like a gentle but strong man who enjoys my cooking and humour and treats me like a normal girlfriend or lady, and now I've had plenty of lovely sexual experiences it's better for me too and I know I made a good decision to become Jojo. And why not, sex is just sex and not yet a crime. When I walk down the street I look at the girls not the guys but there is more to it than looks and I like men more as people and one of the perks is when they help me, as I am not very good at manly practical things like putting up shelves or repairing bicycles. The sexual side of my nature is more about freedom of choice and liberation than mere orientation. Being Jojo is very much my way to be free and I don't suppose I'm that much different to when I was Christopher. It's like a butterfly coming out so everything I stored up and dreamed I might be has unfurled. I have been exceptionally lucky as I seem to have a sixth-sense on how to dress and behave like a woman and people accept me without question as I am very natural and naturally feminine in a nice way. That of course is a very nice feeling and yes I feel I'm included especially in the female community. For my part I feel a bit too confident at times and as I will speak to anyone I find myself engaging with the wrong people as to be honest a hell of a lot of people don't like us but try not to think about it. It's just that they have been silenced and with the way sentiment is trending that to be honest is a worry. That kind of ignorance has always been there and is understandable I supposew as sadly within a lot of families we are everything youngsters were taught not to be and certainly not to like. Yes we are the enemy too as it's not just the sexual, for them it's betrayal as we have turned our backs on out tribe and as they say bat for the other team. Very childish stupid people I know but gurls be proud and keep your hair on it's not something we can do much about.
As I have posted before, these were my only shoes when I started in college. By a year later, holes developed in the soles. I wore them all that winter with snow leaking through the holes!
Anyway, I have worn them fairly regularly, even after I had plenty of other shoes in my closet to choose from. They have always been especially comfortable. Now, even the holes are tin the right places and of the right size that make them fun to wear. Just enough of my sole is in contact with the pavement.
As I have detailed, parts of them have fallen apart over the years, and been glued back together. Some time in the last year the narrow end of the front part of the right sole came loose.
The question in my mind has been whether to glue it back (if possible, there isn't much left to glue, whether to leave it loose as it is, or whether to remove the whole piece, leaving my whole forefoot on the pavement.
I've worn them occasionally in the last year without doing anything. I noticed that, first, the piece was nor =t a problem when walking; it didn't drag or trip me up by catching on things. In fact you didn't even notice it was loose.
also noticed that the crepe was naturally sticky enough to stay stuck to the remains on the upper after I walked on it a little, but if I curled/doubled up my toes (usually when sitting down, but even occasionally when walking), the piece would pop free. So it really wasn't necessary to glue it back on.
When it fell apart many years ago, most of the glue I tried didn't hold. I think I ended up using hot glue. But so much more has worn away since then that there isn't enough to hot glue, and also I have no idea where the glue gun went!
So I had them on all day yesterday, and in the evening I walked a few blocks to the supermarket. I took a few pictures, but as usual, I didn't even notice that it was loose, And after a block or so, it would stick back together.
Just to try the removal option, I tucked the crepe on top of my toes for the walk home. This left my forefoot sole barefoot directly on the ground, as it would be if the crepe piece was not there.
Now I certainly found the shoe still wearable, I don't mind wearing various "barefoot" partly or completely soleless shoes. but my foot is not really toughened up enough to be exactly comfortable barefoot.
So I have decided to do nothing, at least for now. I'll wear them as I have, with no further repair. Most of the time the crepe piece of the sole will be under my forefoot, but if I really want the barefoot feel, I cn tuck the sole abofe my toes as I did this evening.
I do notice that the split in the left sole is almost all the way across, as the right one has been for years, so I suppose that the left shoe will sooner or later be missing as much as the right. Meanwhile, I'll be wearing them forever.
have YOU discovered [Utopia]?
-quotes from Traveller's Xchange at "The Beach" Website and comments from previous series
"I really believe Utopia is any place which you choose to see with your heart, and not with any stereotype image of what an ideal world is." -Ana Easson
"My Utopia is that one frame in time, when everything around you seems to slow down, and all that stands between you and the sky is the one you love most." -Trevor
"I believe that utopia, which i have not yet found, is spending time in the most amazing and stunning place imaginable with the person you love and admire the most in the world." -Adrian
"My utopia is just underneath sealevel, at an atol by the Togian islands in Indonesia. The beauty you experience there is overwelming and gives you respect and admiration for all living." -Stefk
"My utopia was in Sri Lanka. We went to this reef, four miles off the coast of Batticloa. We had to go through twenty three military checkpoints to get there. The waters were so clear, you could see to the bottom (about seventy feet) before you even jumped out of the boat. I was floating there, upside down forty feet below with a snorkel, fins and my jeans, deep blue in every direction, face to face with this huge garoupa. The boat was like a tiny little toy miles above. That was utopia for me. I didn't want to ever go back up." -Francis Lo
"paradise is by God in heaven.. the rest is what we make of it!" - d3usa
"I believe that Paradise is a gift from God and a ‘state of mind’ that is nourished through our senses. The sight of the first flowers of spring, the smell of a baby, the taste of our favorite food, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover’s hand. All of these transport us, even for a fleeting moment, to Paradise on earth. If you are having those sensations 24/7 (earth time) then you have crossed over and are now sitting with our Creator!" - deestea
"I think paradise is in our heart- mind, hirday, before being on a beach…" - elishams
"mmm utopia... i think it's the perfect place, the perfect moment and the perfect mood." - unlimited___/
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I have been in La Crosse, WI, and La Crosse, MO, but this motel sign in La Crosse, KS was really different!!! I am not sure if I would stay here if it had the last room available for a hundred miles! But look carefully as the word "NO" is nearly visible; but if I was a wandering dog or turtle I most certainly would be welcomed!!!
Have a wonderful day everyone.
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