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Many Spanish festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “Giants and Big-Heads”, or, in Catalan, gegants i capgrossos. The main feature of these figures is typically their papier maché head; bodies are covered in clothing matching the costume's theme. These figures are particularly omnipresent in festivals of Catalonia, where many cities and towns have their own gegants i capgrossos, used in the cercavila and in conjunction with other local dances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_y_cabezudos).
This is a photograph from the finish of the 7th annual Kinnegad 5KM Road Race and Fun Run 2016 which was held in the town of Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 13th July 2016 at 20:00. This race has firmly established itself on the local race calendar and yet again the race got wonderful support from local clubs and runners. The race was first run in 2010 and has used the same route for each o the seven runnings of the race. The race is flat and fast and takes runners on traffic free route which includes 3KM on the local road 'Boreen Bradach'. The boreen is a flat and sheltered by hedgerow is a well used local walking and running route. The boreen emerges onto the main street with the finish is on this famous main street of Kinnegad in front of Harry's Hotel. This streetscape will be well known to many many people who travelled between the east and west of Ireland before the arrival of the motorway system which we have today. Over 230 people took part and the results by Premier Timing Systems are available here [www.premiertimingsystems.ie/]. A very heavy shower of rain before the race cleared off and the race was ran in calm mild conditions. Overall the race was very well organised and there was Garda help with traffic control in the town for the start and finish of the race.
The location of the START (goo.gl/maps/JWpnK) and FINISH (goo.gl/maps/es2Up) of the race are shown on Google Maps. Prize giving, refreshments, parking and registration is at Kinnegad GAA club just off the old Mullingar Road about 500m from the start (goo.gl/Ia9cIR)
Our full set of photographs from tonight's race is available here www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157671016784465
The race is organised by Coralstown Kinnegad GAA Club with proceeds from the race going towards the development of the club.
Photographs from Previous Kinnegad 5km Road Races
2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157653300652864
2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157645584938282
2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157634580196967/
2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157630534171096/
2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627186893850/
2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157624580703513
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In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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The marshals at Molecomb corner were kept busy during the Festival of Speed. The tricky corner seemed to be where all the accidents happened - two on Friday, including this Mercedes. Also, where Sir Chris Hoy had his prang www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/motor-sports/video-sir-chris-...
On March 9, 2018, more than 300 attendees gathered to celebrate a kickoff fundraising event for the National Archives' Rightfully Hers initiative. This initiative, opening in 2019, will include an exhibit in Washington, DC, free public programming, a national traveling exhibition, classroom displays (distributed to nearly 2,000 schools and libraries), educational offerings (for teachers and students, both off and on-line) and digitization of women's records.
Photo by Imagine Photography
We the Women is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Ford Motor Company and our event host committee:
Janet Blanchard; Mayor Muriel Bowser; A'Lelia Bundles; Suzanne Clark; Denise Ferguson; Amb. Fay Hartog-Levin; Fruzsina Harsanyi; Marilynn Wood Hill; Kitty Kelley; Marcy Klevorn; Mary Lynn Kotz; Jodie McLean; Molly Moynihan; Melissa Newman; Soledad O'Brien; Lucinda Robb; Cokie Roberts; Deborah Ratner Salzberg; Jennifer Warren
The view includes the ships "David", "Henry Porcher", "Goshawk", "Eden" and "Emerald".
Date of original: 1839
Photographer : William Light, artist
The Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station includes five Mid-Century Modern resources, located on
two separate land parcels, in the same section of the Bald Mountain Recreation Area in Orion Township. The Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station was designed in the mid-1960s by internationally renowned Michigan
architect Gunnar Birkerts. The larger of the two parcels of land contains a bathhouse complex of four closely spaced circular buildings – Men’s and Women’s Bathhouses, a Concession Stand, and a Pump House – all grouped within a large
circular pad of concrete pavement set back from the beach at Lower Trout Lake. The nomination also includes a small round Contact Station or “control booth” located about 4,600 feet away on the entrance road into this southern section of
the Bald Mountain Recreation Area. The buildings are closely related by their circular forms, concrete construction, and,
before vandals stripped them, copper roofs.
The Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station is significant under criteria A and C. It is a set of Park
Service Modern buildings inspired by the nationwide Mission 66 program. The buildings were designed by world renowned architect Gunnar Birkerts who is known for his high-style modern structures. The Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station’s structures are examples of two complimentary forms of mid-century modern design; one, a style of park building known as Park Service Modern, made popular by the National Park Service and the Mission 66 program architects; the other, the distinctive architectural style produced by Gunnar Birkerts at the time, during the beginning of the busiest point in his career. The buildings are less than fifty years old, yet because of their unique design, association with a
nation-wide program, and were designed by a master architect; they are eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places at the National level.
The Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and
Contact Station was listed in the National Register of HIstoric Places on September 3, 2013.
The portrait includes the saint's severely broken nose, which healed asymmetrically
The "most realistic" portrait of the saint who became Santa Claus has been produced at a Liverpool university.
Saint Nicholas was a 4th Century bishop who liked to give gifts secretly. His relics lie in Bari Cathedral in Italy.
The image of him has been created using a facial reconstruction system and 3D interactive technology by Liverpool John Moores University's Face Lab.
Professor Caroline Wilkinson said it was based on "all the skeletal and historical material" available.
The saint, who died in 343, was the Greek bishop of Myra. The town, now known as Demre, lies on the southern coast of Turkey.
He was said to have left secret gifts, such as putting coins in shoes that were left out for him, leading him to be the model for Father Christmas.
A spokeswoman for the university said the new depiction uses "the most up-to-date anatomical standards, Turkish tissue depth data and CGI techniques".
It also includes Saint Nicholas' severely broken nose, which she said had "healed asymmetrically, giving him a characteristic nose and rugged facial appearance".
Revealing the portrait on the saint's feast day, 6 December, Prof Wilkinson said it was "thrilling to be able to show the face of this famous bishop".
The Bluebells are out - from an enjoyable wander around the woods at Patching with the South East Gang
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Chilling out on the patio fo I Deal Coffee on Nassau
What is your most favourite place in the city? The patio at I Deal Coffee on Nassau.
What is it that you like about this location? It's one of the nicest, friendliest, meeting places I've ever seen. It's a nice mix of unemployed layabouts, artists, students and market regulars. It also has killer coffee.
Where is the best place to eat in the city? I haven't had much money to eat out but those Chilean Empanadas from Kensington Market are AMAZING.
What do you like about living in Toronto? Just how many great neighbourhoods there are in this city. Kensington Market, the Annex, Little Italy, Parkdale, Queen West, Leslieville, the Beaches, Little Portugal.
What do you hate about living in Toronto? The Gardiner and Lakeshore. Have you tried to cross that thing to get to the water?
Where would I find you on a lazy Sunday afternoon in the city? Probably at I Deal Coffee having my fourth Americano just chatting with the regulars.
Who is your favourite Local Celebrity? Jane Jacobs, god bless her soul. I wish I had gotten to meet her. But now that she's gone probably one of those amazing indie rockers like the boys and girls from Broken Social Scene.
Car, Bike or Transit? Bike unless it's really cold, or too far.
There are so many but riding in Critical Mass the Friday before the pride parade and being cheered on by the throngs of people all over Church Street was pretty awesome.
My Toronto includes more bike lanes, better air and lots more love.
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an air museum in England on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield. The museum was founded, and first opened to the public, in the early 1980s.
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is the largest independent air museum in Britain and is the most original Second World War RAF Bomber Command station open to the public. It is also the only Allied Air Forces Memorial in Europe. The museum has a good international reputation and profile with established branches in Canada and France and is supported by over 4,000 registered "friends" across the world. It is a Corporate Member of Friends of the Few (Battle of Britain Memorial) and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
The President of the Museum/Memorial is Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton and Vice Presidents include; the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Andrew Pulford; Chief of the French Air Force, General Andre Lanata; Supreme Allied Commander NATO, General Denis Mercier; Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu; and TV Presenter, Jan Leeming.
The Museum's principal activity is in education and the history of flight, through which it is involved with aerospace manufacturers and organisations via its long term "Reach for the Sky" project which delivered the first KS2 History of Aviation educational resource book to all 26,000 primary schools in UK, supported by RAeS and the Ministry of Transport.
The Museum has around 50 aircraft spanning the development of aviation from 1853 up to the latest GR4 Tornado. Several aircraft including Victor, Nimrod, Buccaneer, Sea Devon, SE5a, Eastchurch Kitten; DC3 Dakota; are kept live and operated on special "Thunder Days" during the year. Over 20 historic vehicles and a Registered Archive containing over 500,000 historic artefacts and documents are also preserved at the Museum, which is also the Official Archive for the National Aircrew Association and National Air Gunners Association. It is nationally registered and accredited through DCMS/Arts Council England and is a registered charity.
A permanent exhibition on RAF Bomber Command was opened at the museum by life member, Sir David Jason. In 2010 a new exhibition called "Pioneers of Aviation", and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, was opened featuring the lives and achievements of Sir George Cayley, Sir Barnes Wallis, Robert Blackburn, Nevil Shute and Amy Johnson.
Principal on-site businesses include: Restaurant, Publishing, Retail Shop, Fire Service, Events, Aircraft Operation Engineering Workshops, Archives and Corporate Business Suite. The museum produces its own films and publications and is also a popular location for TV and film companies.
It is operated by 149 staff, of which 130 are unpaid volunteers. A small operations team works closely together in a variety of specialist subjects from PR/marketing to Corporate Affairs and Museum Management.
The museum is expanding rapidly and has received over 100,000 visitors in a year. It has received many awards, such as: Top Specialist Attraction in UK - 2011 & 2015; Top Attraction in Yorkshire, Press Top Tourism Business; York Top Marketing Award and Winalot Top Dog Friendly Museum in UK.
The College of DuPage Office of Student Life hosts several engaging and fun activities to welcome students and open the upcoming fall semester during its annual Chaparral Days celebration. Events include mini golf, a Student Life Fair, inflatable games day, a student success fair and a picnic with free burgers and hot dogs.
Not everyday that you see a man flying about with a jetpack, but this is the Goodwood Festival of Speed
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Shapes include Christmas Tree, Doll, Star, Stocking, Snowman, Bell, Snowflake, and Candycane.
More info here: www.bestbuykitchenware.com/cookie-cutter-ring--christmas-...
Includes:
( 1 ) Atmos Bullet Max Vaporizer
( 1 ) Battery
( 1 ) Ceramic Heating Chamber
( 1 ) USB Charger
( 1 ) Packing Tool
( 1 ) User Manual
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I try to include as many details as possible when I create a miniature of someone's pet. This sculpture even has a bit of Lulu's real fur added to make this a cherished keepsake!
This is a faint but photogenic complex of nebulosity on the Cassiopeia-Cepheus border, that includes the NGC 7822 emission nebula (top) and the nebula Cederblad 214 at bottom and open clusters at right NGC 7762 (bottom) and King 11 (top). This stuff is tough to see through any telescope but shows up well in photos. It is one of the many nebulas in the outer spiral arms of our galaxy where new stars are forming and that are well-placed in the sky at this time of year (autumn). All these nebulas glow red because of hydrogen gas that makes them up emits light primarily in the deep red end of the spectrum. Additional emission lines in the blue end create the magenta and pink tones. © 2010 Alan Dyer
Technical:
Stack of 9 x 15 minute exposures at ISO 800 with Canon 5D MkII and 105mm A&M apo refractor at f/5.1 with Borg .85 reducer/flattener. Median combined to eliminate satellite trails in 2 images.
Mappers include Leif Percifeld, Hans and Eymund Diegel -
Gowanus Canal Conservancy: www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org
Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club: www.gowanuscanal.org/
Public Laboratory: publiclaboratory.org
Grassroots Mapping: grassrootsmapping.org
The Norooz holiday season includes several symbolic and meaningful celebrations and rituals begining with the last Wednesday of the year, called the Chahar Shanbe Soori (translation yields "Wednesday Fire").On Tuesday evening (the night before the last Wednesday) every family celebrates the Chahar Shanbe Soori.
At the center of this traditional celebration is giving thanks for the fortune of having made it through another healthy year and to exchange any remaining paleness and evil with the life and warmth of the fire. Chahar Shanbe Soori is deeply rooted in Iranians' Zoroastrian past (Persian people's dominant religion prior to Islam). The part of this night especially popular with the youngsters is the bonfire. Every family gathers several piles of wood or brush to be lit shortly after the sunset.
All family members line up and take turns jumping safely along (and over) the burning piles, singing to the fire:
"Sorkheeyeh toe az man; zardeeyeh man az toe."
This translates to:
"Your redness (health) is mine; my paleness (pain) is yours."
Although a recent addition and generally against the law in the urban areas, the sights and sounds of fireworks are very common to this night.
Another routine of the Chahar Shanbe Soori festival is the Iranian version of Trick or Treating associated with the Western Halloween night. Flocks of often young trick or treaters, hidden under a traditional Chador (veil) go from door to door banging a spoon against a metal bowl asking for treats or money.
Another old and almost obsolete Chahar Shanbe Soori ritual is Falgoosh (fortune hearing!) This ritual was carried out usually by young women wanting to know their chances of finding the "Mr. Right" in the coming year. Falgoosh is the act of standing in a dark corner spot or behind a fence and listening to the conversations of the passers by and trying to interpret their statements or the subject of their dialogue as an answer to one's question(s)! This is analogous to calling a psychic reader to find out your fortune!!!
In the past several decades falgoosh has gradually become an almost unacceptable and "politically incorrect" ritual and is seldom practiced in the major urban areas.
City of London. Includes three of the seven tallest buildings in the UK at the time of the photo. Tower 42 (183m), 30 Mary Axe (180m) and Broadgate (161m)
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The giant sized effigy of a swashbuckling buccaneer guarding Shoreham's Crown & Anchor Pub
Taken on the phone - it did a much better job than attempts on my compact, due to the big aperture/low ISO combination
I just received recently an AF-Nikkor 1:2 f=35mm lens to complete a small kit around my Nikon F4 year 1989 (see below for details). The kit is now includes 3 very classical AF-Nikkor lenses of the same period of the Nikon F4 camera body, including the standard 1.4/50mm, the 1.8/85mm and now the 2/35mm. The choice of fixed-focal lenses instead of zooms was already in 1989 a bit old-fashioned. However many photographers preferred still the homogenous rendering of a photo series done with a single focal lens. Generally speaking, a 35mm focal is a charming moderate wide-angle, very easy to use and particularly adapted for architectural and street-photography.
The AF-Nikkor 1:2 f=35mm is not a rare lens. However, when looking on eBay there was not tens of them available. I bought a good one form a Belgian seller at a normal price (180€). The lens is in very good mechanical and optical condition and came with the rear and front caps. I sourced the dedicated Nikon HN-3 shade hood separately for 10€ but here I preferred (only for the look!) to use a rectangular Minolta D54KC designed for the MC-Rokkor 1:2.8 f=35mm.
For testing the lens, I loaded my Nikon F4 with a Rollei RPX 400 which is the former formula of the Agfa APX 400. The film cartridge is DX-coded and I did not modify the nominal DX-coded 400 ISO sensitivity.
The AF Nikkor lens 1:2 f=35mm was equipped for the whole session with a generic 52mm screw-on yellow filter. The light metering was done through tteh lens (TTL) either in the matrix or the spot metering of the Nikon F4 used in the "A" aperture-priority auto mode or the manual mode. The weather was very clear and a bit cold (-1°C outside).
La Part-Dieu, January 12, 2024
69003 Lyon
France
I did not use my Nikon SB-26 flashlight for any views in this session. After completion the film was rewound and processed using 350 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 12min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta Auto Bellows with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the camera :
Maybe it would have been better not to ask for this question: « what’s new do you have at the moment?» to my local photo store, because Christine grab underneath the counter, stating « I have that … » . What a beast ! A Nikon F4 in the exact state of the Nikon brochure year 1990, presented with the standard AF Nikkor 1:1.4 f=50mm. I was already hooked by the machine. After two days, I decided to buy it even with some little common issues found on early Nikon F4 (see below), fortunately not affecting the whole, numberous functions of this incredibly complex professional SLR of the year 1990’s.
Nikon F4 came to the market on September 1988 starting with the serial number 2.000.000. Fully manufactured in Japan (modules came from 3 different Nikon factories) the F4's were assembled in Mito, Ibaraki (North to Tokyo) Nikon plant (no more in the mother factory of Tokyo Oi like the Nikon’s F). When I lived in Tokyo in 1990-1991, Nikon F4 was the top-of-the-line of Nikon SLR camera’s. I saw it in particular in Shinjuku Bic Camera store when I bought there, in December 1990 my Nikonos V.
Nikon F4 incorporates many astonishing engineering features as the double vertical-travel curtain shutter capable of the 1/8000s. Compared to the Nikon F3, the F4 was an AF SLR operated by a CCD sensor (200 photo sites). The film is automatically loaded, advanced with to top speed of 5,7 frame/s !! With the MB-21 power grip (F4s version). The F4 is a very heavy camera (1.7kg with the AF Nikkor 1.4/50mm), incredibly tough and well constructed. This exemplary is devoid of any scratches or marks, and in a condition proving that it was not used for hard professional appliances, for those it was however intended. The camera has still it original Nikon neck strap, the original user manual in French. The lens is protected by a Cokin (Franc) Skylight 1A 52mm filter and the original Nikon front cap. The two small LCD displays (one on the F4 body, one in the DP-20 finder) are both affected by the classical syndrome of « bleeding ». Fortunately, all information could still be read. One says that 70% of the early Nikon F4 suffer from this problem but also found on other models.
According its serial number and the production rate of about 5000 units/month, this Nikon F4s was probably manufactured in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan in May 1989.
The camera was exported abroad thereafter attested by the presence of the golden oval little sticker("Passed" on the DP-20 viewfinder. In order to certify the quality production, two Japanese organizations, the Japan Camera Industry Institute (JCII) and the Japan Machinery Design Center (JMDC), joined forces to verify and mark the conformity of products for the foreign market. This is how, between the 1950s and 1980s, this famous little gold sticker was affixed, with the legendary "Passed", meaning that the device had been checked. Finally, when we say that the device had been checked, the production line had been checked because each device could not be checked individually.
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About the flash :
I received from a German seller for 50€ this Nikon Speedlight electronic flash SB-26 that was, at the time of Nikon F4, the most powerful dedicated Nikon flash (Guide Number 36 at full power and 100 ISO).
The SB-26 communicates with the Nikon F4 body (and many other Nikon camera's) and can be operated in many different modes including TTL real-time metering with automatic equilibration of the ambient light using the 5-zone matrix metering done by the DP-20 photometric viewer as well in the center-weighted mode. Other possibilities include the normal TTL mode, an Auto mode using the own sensor of the flash and a manual mode with 7 power levels.
The flash head can cover the optical field from super-wide angle lenses 18-20mm, wide-angle lenses 28mm and 35mm, normal lenses 50mm, and long-focal lenses at 70mm and 85mm. The head can be rotated according two axis for indirect lightening. In addition, the SB-26 has a special focusing aid for the Nikon F4 autofocus system, projecting in the the darkness a red focusing image. SB-23 flash can be also used as master or slave flash in a coordinated flash system.
The flash requires 4 AA alkaline cells for approximately 100 lights at full power and much more with energy recycling at lower power levels.
This is a photograph from the finish of the 6th annual Kinnegad 5KM Road Race and Fun Run 2015 which was held in the town of Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 20:00. This race has firmly estbalished itself on the local race calender and yet again the race got wonderful support from local clubs and runners. The race is flat and fast and takes runners on traffic free route which includes 3KM on the local road 'Boreen Bradach'. The finish is on the famous main street of Kinnegad in front of Harry's Hotel. Over 200 people took part and the results by Premier Timing Systems are available here [www.premiertimingsystems.ie/]. Our full set of photographs from tonight's race is available here www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157653300652864
The race is organised by Coralstown Kinnegad GAA Club with proceeds from the race going towards the development of the club.
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BUT..... Wait there a minute....
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
There was a "closure" on part of the Kirkstone pass today due to a "bike race". Turned out to be the Helvellyn Triathlon - one of the world's toughest, a swim in Ullswater, the cycle part included the ascent of the "struggle" and finally the run up Helvellyn itself
Um texto em Português:
Gralha-de-Topete ou Gralha-do-Cerrado (Cyanocorax cristatellus)
Características físicas: asas longas e cauda curta. Tem um característico topete frontal alongado. Plumagem azul-escura; parte interior do pescoço e garganta preta; barriga e ponta da cauda brancas. Alcança até 33 cm de comprimento.
Alimentação: onívora, sua ampla dieta inclui frutos, insetos, sementes, bagas e ovos de outras espécies de pássaros.
Biologia e comportamento social: vive em bandos e voa alternando o ritmo das batidas com vôos planados. Arborícola, locomove-se facilmente entre os galhos fechados de uma árvore, dando pulos e fazendo vôos curtos.
Reprodução: o ninho é feito com gravetos apoiados em galhos mais grossos. A postura costuma ser de três a quatro ovos azul-claros salpicados de manchas pardas. A incubação varia de 16 a 18 dias. Habitam matas de galeria, campos e cerrados.
A text in english, from Wikipedia:
Thank you very much to Marcus Mello (okbmarcus) for the identification of this bird.
The Curl-crested Jay (Cyanocorax cristatellus) is a South American jay, a beautiful and large (35cm) bird with predominantly dark blue back, almost black head and neck and snow white chest and underparts. The male has a pronounced curled crest rising from just behind his beak.
Curl-crested Jays are native to the cerrados of central and southern, and the caatinga of north eastern Brazil. They can also be found in extreme northern Paraguay. They are at present expanding their range.
The bird is a generalist, eating almost anything, including eggs and nestlings of other birds, insects, arthropods and small vertebrates like geckos. It also likes palm nuts and is particularly fond of the fruit of the Inga laurina (ice cream bean) and Schefflera actinophylla (Umbrella tree) (personal observations).
They live in groups of from 6 to 12 individuals, moving from food source to food source during the day. They always leave a lookout nearby to keep watch for predators.
The voice is loud, gray, graa, gray-gray-gray, sometimes repeated 8-10 times (Helmut Sick). They are often mistaken for crows because their calls are similar.
According to Sick, the Curl-crested Jay is Endemic to Brazil but Ridgely & Tudor include NE Paraguay in its range.
Its normal habitat is cerrado where it can be fairly common.
Curl-crested Jay, most jays it will eat almost anything that is either animal or vegetable.
Fotografada em Brasília, Brasil.
Photographed in Brasília, Brazil.
From Supercar Sunday - the theme of May's Goodwood Breakfast Club. The nose of a Ferrari 458 Speciale
Cold and clear for the Ricardo Fireworks Party. Traditional foreground rides for the kids, a bar, food, an impressive display and a chance to catch up with current and former colleagues.
Pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cable-socks-3#
Yarn: Rowan felted Tweed
Changed the pattern to include lots of 2-stitch running cables.
My first pair of socks!
$112 BASE PRICE [INCLUDES WRIST STRAP]
$15 ADD MESSENGER STRAP
APPROXIMATE SIZE:
7.5" WIDE BY 4.5" TALL BY 1.25" DEEP
INCLUDES:
3 slip pockets
6 credit card slots
2 Clear ID Slots
1 zippered coin pocket
1 pen loop
1 lip gloss loop
TWO EXTERIOR ZIPPER POUCHES - GREAT FOR PHONE AND/OR OTHER FLAT/SMALL ITEMS
WHAT JJB ITEM CAN BE USED TO MAKE THIS ITEM?
ONE CHANGE PAD IS GREAT FOR THIS ITEM
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Crystal Brook.
Kupsch family owned and run bakery was established in 1963 and is especially known for its pasties. These days their range includes kranskies, chicken and leek pies, sausage rolls and sweet pastries, cakes and Kitchener buns. A possible relative was August Kupsch who took up land at Tarcowie in 1879. Other relatives lived at Laura and at Stone Hut for decades. A member of the family took over the aerated water and cordial factory in Gladstone in 1939 and from 1940 a grocery and confectionary business in Gladstone.
Surveying of the land known as the Crystal Brook run for agriculture began in 1872 but it was March 1873 before the Hundred of Crystal Brook was declared. So high was the optimism that some land sold for £2 or £3 per acre instead of the usual £1 per acre. This was a good windfall for the government. The government began work on the Port Pirie to Crystal Brook railway in early 1874 so it would reach the district by harvest time in late 1874. The cost of this railway was over £28,000 which included a bridge across the Crystal Brook : the bridge was being shipped from England. By mid 1874 local farmers were calling for a town to be surveyed. The Crystal Brook township blocks were sold at auction on 14 January 1875. They sold for between £4 and £52 a block for the 337 town allotments which all sold. The town grew phenomenally fast in the first few years. The railway from Port Pirie did not arrive in time for the 1874 harvest as it took another two years to reach the town. It opened in December 1875 north of Crystal Brook town beside the creek and it crossed the new bridge into the town in April 1876. Its arrival in 1876 sealed a prosperous future of the town. The line was then continued on to Gladstone and to Peterborough by 1880. Many public buildings were erected in the years between 1877 and 1880. Construction work on the first hotel began in February 1875. A general store opened in February 1875. A stone government school was completed in 1877 as was the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Adelaide Square. The square is located at the end of Bowman Street, named after the owners of the Crystal Brook run until 1872 when the government resumed it. Like Adelaide, Crystal Brook is also surrounded by parklands, although these have been used for development in places. In the 1870s SA government towns were surveyed with north, south, east and west terraces and a grid street pattern like Adelaide but only one or two were ever surveyed with a central park like Victoria Square in Adelaide. Crystal Brook, however was an exception as the government had such high hopes for the expansion and growth of Crystal Brook. The railway line divided the town into two parts with the western housing beyond the parkland belt.
The old bakery in Crystal Brook is now the National Trust Museum. It has unique underground baking ovens which were built behind the two storey building in 1881. The fine two storey house and shop in front was erected for Mr Hewett in 1875, the first year of the town’s existence. Initially it was a butcher’s shop but also a bakers from 1881. In 1900 it changed hands and was only a bakery and tea rooms as Mr Hewett opened a butcher’s shop in Port Wakefield. From 1911 to 1974 it was a grocer’s shop. It was saved from demolition by the local National Trust group in 1977. Some sources say it was built in 1870 but this is impossible as the town was not surveyed with town blocks until January 1875 and in 1870 this was part of the Bowman’s sheep run.
Growth of the town was based on its industrial development and the employment opportunities this provided. The first blacksmith was started by John & Robert Forgan who had learnt their trades with James Martin of Gawler. Their Crystal Brook foundry and implement works began operations in 1878. In 1884 the business expanded following the death of Robert. John also opened a branch in Port Pirie in 1902. The firm was still operating in 1973 when the town centenary history was written. The first flour mill was built on the corner of Railway Terrace and Cunningham Street in 1880. The flour mill burnt down in 1905 but the chaff mill part of the operations continued until the 1920s when it too burnt down. It was replaced by a motor vehicle dealership and garage. But the biggest employer in the town was the SA government. In 1885 construction of the Beetaloo Dam, upstream on the Rocky River commenced. The government based its headquarters for the construction team in Crystal Brook. Once this project was completed work began on the Bundaleer reservoir in 1898. This was connected to the Beetaloo system. All the engineers and other workers for water in the mid north were based in Crystal Brook. Next the Baroota Reservoir was started in 1921. The Engineering and Water Supply (E & W S) office has thus been in Crystal Brook since 1892. Since the 1950s Crystal Brook has been the regional head office for E & W S with over 100 employed in the department’s workshops and offices. They are still located on the edge of Adelaide Square. The Highways Department has also had regional headquarters in Crystal Brook since 1943. In the 1970s this department employed 110 people in Crystal Brook. The railways were the other major government employer in the town before the rail standardisation of 1970 which saw the old station complex demolished. Today Crystal Brook has a population of 1,300.