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The boundary ĥedge at the end of our neighbours's garden.
Mostly dead or dieing Leylandii trees, OK when small, awful when mature and messy.
“The STS-46 crewmembers used a 70mm handheld camera to capture this image of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) as it shared the scene with a half-moon. Five NASA astronauts were joined by two Europeans for eight days aboard the Atlantis in Earth orbit.”
Based on the digital(?) camera date/data “stamp” of the following linked image, and what I assume to be its correct/natural/original orientation, I’ve commensurately oriented my photo:
garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/amp/media/s46-73-067-st...
Credit: picryl website
Good reading:
www.americaspace.com/2022/07/31/weird-science-remembering...
Credit: AmericaSpace website
Shitty & cursory reading:
Excruciatingly, but interestingly (to me) detailed reading:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19930016042/downloads/1993001...
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway (on Broadway)
They say there's always magic in the air (on Broadway)
But when you're walkin' down that street
And you ain't had enough to eat
The glitter rubs right off and you're nowhere (on Broadway) ~The Drifters
Scene from Lucerne, Switzerland. Taken early in the morning a few weekends ago, preparing for a meeting - on a Sunday.
This scene was a consolation prize for working all day on what turned out to be last really nice warm day of Autumn :-(
Artistic license taken with colour tone on this one, obviously.
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The National Monument Against Violence and Aggression, Knife Angel, is a touring sculpture made from over 100,000 seized knives surrendered and collected in nationwide amnesties during 2015/2016. It stands at 27 feet tall and weighs over 3 tonnes. It was specifically created by the artist Alfie Bradley to highlight the negative effects of violent behaviour whilst addressing our need for social change.
Industral warehouse, mid construction, Corona CA 2005, scaned film
This looks good, when its bigger.
i'm really into close ups lately and thought an almost skewed vision of the center of this rose with the spiral effect highlighted makes it feel more like a strange descent than of flower petals.
Leica 111f, 90mm apo lanthar mounted on a visoflex 1, apx100 at 200asa in rodinal 1-50 21mins. sepia toned in photoscape.
A neat paper products mill in the erm 'interesting' town of Leslie, the place is well protected by 'Heavy Breathing in the Valley*' and once in we spent half the time dodging workers stripping the remaining assets of the paper mill, ready to be shipped abroad most likely.
Film shots to follow!
*Heavy Breathing in the valley was fromt the night before, Speed & Myself arrived late one winters evening, looking for somewhere to bed down for the night, thoguht it worthwwhile checking the papermill out, so we sauntered down the workers path to be greeted with a large camera following us, the tannoy crackled into life (theres a tannoy attached to every camera in the place).
At almost concert loud'ness surely waking most of the village of leslie....
"Your on private property, yes you two, your on private property, can you please leave, yes, the other wya, turn around, back up that path please"
the tannoy crackled back off.
as we turned we just laughed that our complelty obvious approach of walking into a site had not worked (though it often does!).
The tannoy crackled back online, but there was no voice, only the sound of the operator breathing.
the breathing became louder, and deeper, and more frequent, and more excited...
it both hit us at the same time just what it sounded like, a lone security guard, suddenly awoken by two young fellas patrolling HIS site, it must hav ebeen exciting for him.
the breathing was so loud on the tannoys MOST of th village could surely hear, we were both in Hysterics, I mean so bad we could hardly walk up the muddy track without falling in it. Thank you Mr Sec Unit, you made our day :D
We slept overnight in a smaler abandoned mill then set out early in the morning via a slgihtly less obvious route, and had relative sucess :P