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Whenever a lonely soul meets the vast sea, his loneliness seems insignificant.
Coxs Bazar,Chittagong.
These places are so old, so primordial, so anchient, it seemed these people were standing on top of the world. In this image I wanted to make the people insignificant and visitors to a strange land. The steam, light and lines in the ground mixed with the colors to form a very unique concoction of elements.
Modern cars can do over 100,000 miles without pausing for breath. If you really pile on the miles, you might have 200,000 or even 300,000 miles on the clock. If the car Gods are really shining on you, you might have managed more than half a million.
Prepare to feel insignificant. Irv Gordon from East Patchogue, New York, together with his Volvo P1800, a 1966 1800S, has completed over three million miles--a new world record for the highest number of miles driven by a single person in the same car. If you're after an arbitrary comparison to offer some perspective, that's around six round-trips to the moon, or 120 circumnavigations of Earth.
Gordon hit the three million miles mark on September 18 while driving near the village of Girdwood, on the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage, Alaska; one of the two remaining states where Irv and his famous car had not been together until now.
”It was all rather undramatic,” said Irv. ”We just cruised along and I kept an eye on the odometer in order not to miss the great moment”.
Gordon first bought his 1800S on a Friday back in 1966 and immediately fell in love. He simply couldn't stop driving the car and over the course of the weekend he had already covered 1,500 miles, causing him to return to the dealership he bought it the following Monday in order for its first service.
With a 125-mile round-trip daily commute, a fanatical dedication to vehicle maintenance and a passion for driving, Gordon logged 500,000 miles in 10 years. In 1987, he celebrated his one-millionth mile by driving a loop around the Tavern on the Green in Central Park, and in 2002 he drove the car's two-millionth mile down Times Square. Since then, Gordon has broken his record every time he gets behind the wheel of his beloved Volvo.
[Text from MotorAuthority]
www.motorauthority.com/news/1087353_irv-gordon-reaches-3-...
History
The project was started in 1957 because Volvo wanted a sports car, despite the fact that their previous attempt, the P1900, had been a disaster, with only 68 cars sold. The man behind the project was an engineering consultant to Volvo, Helmer Petterson, who in the 1940s was responsible for the Volvo PV444. The design work was done by Helmer's son Pelle Petterson, who worked at Pietro Frua at that time. Volvo insisted it was an Italian design by Frua and only officially recognized that Pelle Petterson designed it in 2009. The Italian Carrozzeria Pietro Frua design firm (then a recently acquired subsidiary of Ghia) built the first three prototypes between September 1957 and early 1958, later designated by Volvo in September 1958: P958-X1, P958-X2 and P958-X3 (P:Project 9:September 58:Year 1958 = P958).
In December 1957 Helmer Petterson drove X1, (the first hand-built P1800 prototype) to Osnabrück, West Germany, headquarters of Karmann. Petterson hoped that Karmann would be able to take on the tooling and building of the P1800. Karmann's engineers had already been preparing working drawings from the wooden styling buck at Frua. Petterson and Volvo chief engineer Thor Berthelius met there, tested the car and discussed the construction with Karmann. They were ready to build it and this meant that the first cars could hit the market as early as December 1958. But in February, Karmann's most important customer, Volkswagen VAG, forbade Karmann to take on the job.[citation needed] They feared that the P1800 would compete with the sales of their own cars, and threatened to cancel all their contracts with Karmann if they took on this car. This setback almost caused the project to be abandoned.
Other German firms, NSU, Drautz and Hanomag, were contacted but none was chosen because Volvo did not believe they met Volvo's manufacturing quality-control standards.
It began to appear that Volvo might never produce the P1800. This motivated Helmer Petterson to obtain financial backing from two financial firms with the intention of buying the components directly from Volvo and marketing the car himself. At this point Volvo had made no mention of the P1800 and the factory would not comment. Then a press release surfaced with a photo of the car, putting Volvo in a position where they had to acknowledge its existence. These events influenced the company to renew its efforts: the car was presented to the public for the first time at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1960 and Volvo turned to Jensen Motors, whose production lines were under-utilised, and they agreed a contract for 10,000 cars. The Linwood, Scotland, body plant of manufacturer Pressed Steel was in turn sub-contracted by Jensen to create the unibody shells, which were then taken by rail to be assembled at Jensen in West Bromwich, England. In September 1960, the first production P1800 (for the 1961 model year) left Jensen for an eager public.
P1800
The engine was the B18 (B for the Swedish word for gasoline: Bensin; 18 for 1800 cc displacement) with dual SU carburettors, producing 100 hp (75 kW). This variant (named B18B) had a higher compression ratio than the slightly less powerful twin-carb B18D used in the contemporary Amazon 122S, as well as a different camshaft. The 'new' B18 was actually developed from the existing B36 V8 engine used in Volvo trucks at the time. This cut production costs, as well as furnishing the P1800 with a strong engine boasting five main crankshaft bearings. The B18 was matched with the new and more robust M40 manual gearbox through 1963. From 1963 to 1972 the M41 gearbox with electrically actuated overdrive was a popular option. Two overdrive types were used, the D-Type through 1969, and the J-type through 1973. The J-type had a slightly shorter ratio of 0.797:1 as opposed to 0.756:1 for the D-type. The overdrive effectively gave the 1800 series a fifth gear, for improved fuel efficiency and decreased drivetrain wear. Cars without overdrive had a numerically lower-ratio differential, which had the interesting effect of giving them a somewhat higher top speed (just under 120 mph (193 km/h)) than the more popular overdrive models. This was because the non-overdrive cars could reach the engine's redline in top gear, while the overdrive-equipped cars could not, giving them a top speed of roughly 110 mph (177 km/h).
1800S
As time progressed, Jensen had problems with quality control, so the contract was ended early at 6,000 cars. In 1963 production was moved to Volvo's Lundby Plant in Gothenburg and the car's name was changed to 1800S (S standing for Sverige, or in English : Sweden). The engine was improved with an additional 8 hp (6 kW). In 1966 the four-cylinder engine was updated to 115 hp (86 kW). Top speed was 175 km/h (109 mph).[3] In 1969 the B18 engine was replaced with the 2-litre B20B variant of the B20 giving 118 bhp (89 kW), though it kept the designation 1800S.
[Text from Wikipedia]
This Lego miniland-scale Volvo P1800 Coupe has been created for Flickr LUGNut's 88th Build Challenge, - "Let's Break Some Records", - a challenge focused on creating vehicles that set some benchmark for biggness, fastness or other extreme of some specification. The Volvo model shown here claim, by far, the farthermost distance ever traveled by an automobile, at over 3,000,000 miles (4,800,00 kilometres).
Sometimes it just takes a little, seeming insignificant, thing to put everything into context. Just a idea for a shot around the idea that sometimes we need to put everything into context to ensure that we appreciecate what we have! These little things gave me just that last week.
Blooming hairclips!! At least they make rather nice bokeh! Happy Bokeh Wednesday
The little insignificant things that catch our small attention span. This is a decoration piece made of bamboo on the hotel bed in Huahin, Thailand.
Minute infront of the vastness of the sea
Insignificant compared to the importance of the ship
Overlooked due to the beauty of the sky.
A shipbreaking yard worker’s life isn’t an ideal one. The combination of harsh working conditions, amount of physical stress and low salary isn’t too lucrative an offer. While the yard owners are millionaires, the workers find themselves well below the poverty line.
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This is THE END to the shipbreaking yard series.
This was my first attempt at presenting a series of photographs.Have a look at the series and let me know what you think of it.
Modern cars can do over 100,000 miles without pausing for breath. If you really pile on the miles, you might have 200,000 or even 300,000 miles on the clock. If the car Gods are really shining on you, you might have managed more than half a million.
Prepare to feel insignificant. Irv Gordon from East Patchogue, New York, together with his Volvo P1800, a 1966 1800S, has completed over three million miles--a new world record for the highest number of miles driven by a single person in the same car. If you're after an arbitrary comparison to offer some perspective, that's around six round-trips to the moon, or 120 circumnavigations of Earth.
Gordon hit the three million miles mark on September 18 while driving near the village of Girdwood, on the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage, Alaska; one of the two remaining states where Irv and his famous car had not been together until now.
”It was all rather undramatic,” said Irv. ”We just cruised along and I kept an eye on the odometer in order not to miss the great moment”.
Gordon first bought his 1800S on a Friday back in 1966 and immediately fell in love. He simply couldn't stop driving the car and over the course of the weekend he had already covered 1,500 miles, causing him to return to the dealership he bought it the following Monday in order for its first service.
With a 125-mile round-trip daily commute, a fanatical dedication to vehicle maintenance and a passion for driving, Gordon logged 500,000 miles in 10 years. In 1987, he celebrated his one-millionth mile by driving a loop around the Tavern on the Green in Central Park, and in 2002 he drove the car's two-millionth mile down Times Square. Since then, Gordon has broken his record every time he gets behind the wheel of his beloved Volvo.
[Text from MotorAuthority]
History
The project was started in 1957 because Volvo wanted a sports car, despite the fact that their previous attempt, the P1900, had been a disaster, with only 68 cars sold. The man behind the project was an engineering consultant to Volvo, Helmer Petterson, who in the 1940s was responsible for the Volvo PV444. The design work was done by Helmer's son Pelle Petterson, who worked at Pietro Frua at that time. Volvo insisted it was an Italian design by Frua and only officially recognized that Pelle Petterson designed it in 2009. The Italian Carrozzeria Pietro Frua design firm (then a recently acquired subsidiary of Ghia) built the first three prototypes between September 1957 and early 1958, later designated by Volvo in September 1958: P958-X1, P958-X2 and P958-X3 (P:Project 9:September 58:Year 1958 = P958).
In December 1957 Helmer Petterson drove X1, (the first hand-built P1800 prototype) to Osnabrück, West Germany, headquarters of Karmann. Petterson hoped that Karmann would be able to take on the tooling and building of the P1800. Karmann's engineers had already been preparing working drawings from the wooden styling buck at Frua. Petterson and Volvo chief engineer Thor Berthelius met there, tested the car and discussed the construction with Karmann. They were ready to build it and this meant that the first cars could hit the market as early as December 1958. But in February, Karmann's most important customer, Volkswagen VAG, forbade Karmann to take on the job.[citation needed] They feared that the P1800 would compete with the sales of their own cars, and threatened to cancel all their contracts with Karmann if they took on this car. This setback almost caused the project to be abandoned.
Other German firms, NSU, Drautz and Hanomag, were contacted but none was chosen because Volvo did not believe they met Volvo's manufacturing quality-control standards.
It began to appear that Volvo might never produce the P1800. This motivated Helmer Petterson to obtain financial backing from two financial firms with the intention of buying the components directly from Volvo and marketing the car himself. At this point Volvo had made no mention of the P1800 and the factory would not comment. Then a press release surfaced with a photo of the car, putting Volvo in a position where they had to acknowledge its existence. These events influenced the company to renew its efforts: the car was presented to the public for the first time at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1960 and Volvo turned to Jensen Motors, whose production lines were under-utilised, and they agreed a contract for 10,000 cars. The Linwood, Scotland, body plant of manufacturer Pressed Steel was in turn sub-contracted by Jensen to create the unibody shells, which were then taken by rail to be assembled at Jensen in West Bromwich, England. In September 1960, the first production P1800 (for the 1961 model year) left Jensen for an eager public.
P1800
The engine was the B18 (B for the Swedish word for gasoline: Bensin; 18 for 1800 cc displacement) with dual SU carburettors, producing 100 hp (75 kW). This variant (named B18B) had a higher compression ratio than the slightly less powerful twin-carb B18D used in the contemporary Amazon 122S, as well as a different camshaft. The 'new' B18 was actually developed from the existing B36 V8 engine used in Volvo trucks at the time. This cut production costs, as well as furnishing the P1800 with a strong engine boasting five main crankshaft bearings. The B18 was matched with the new and more robust M40 manual gearbox through 1963. From 1963 to 1972 the M41 gearbox with electrically actuated overdrive was a popular option. Two overdrive types were used, the D-Type through 1969, and the J-type through 1973. The J-type had a slightly shorter ratio of 0.797:1 as opposed to 0.756:1 for the D-type. The overdrive effectively gave the 1800 series a fifth gear, for improved fuel efficiency and decreased drivetrain wear. Cars without overdrive had a numerically lower-ratio differential, which had the interesting effect of giving them a somewhat higher top speed (just under 120 mph (193 km/h)) than the more popular overdrive models. This was because the non-overdrive cars could reach the engine's redline in top gear, while the overdrive-equipped cars could not, giving them a top speed of roughly 110 mph (177 km/h).
1800S
As time progressed, Jensen had problems with quality control, so the contract was ended early at 6,000 cars. In 1963 production was moved to Volvo's Lundby Plant in Gothenburg and the car's name was changed to 1800S (S standing for Sverige, or in English : Sweden). The engine was improved with an additional 8 hp (6 kW). In 1966 the four-cylinder engine was updated to 115 hp (86 kW). Top speed was 175 km/h (109 mph).[3] In 1969 the B18 engine was replaced with the 2-litre B20B variant of the B20 giving 118 bhp (89 kW), though it kept the designation 1800S.
[Text from Wikipedia]
www.motorauthority.com/news/1087353_irv-gordon-reaches-3-...
This Lego miniland-scale Volvo P1800 Coupe has been created for Flickr LUGNut's 88th Build Challenge, - "Let's Break Some Records", - a challenge focused on creating vehicles that set some benchmark for biggness, fastness or other extreme of some specification. The Volvo model shown here claim, by far, the farthermost distance ever traveled by an automobile, at over 3,000,000 miles (4,800,00 kilometres).
A tour of the Non - Monuments of Green Lane.
An Essex agricultural landscape take on Robert Smithson's 'Tour of the Monuments of Passaic'
Small ponds doesnt mean dont have a meaning. Everyting even insignificant proved always have a meaning to some.
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Being social and ignoring what's in front of me will never give me happiness. I need to take the time to acknowledge and enjoy the influences in my life that gives me satisfaction. I think being there - walking through the grown-in pathways and searching in the thick brush for something insignificant... it made me realize that everything is "insignificant", and I need to accept that, no matter how unsettling that is. And yet, the sun on my back seemed so satisfying.
(c) Kayla Burton
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After 17 years, the 700 series finally gets a substantial refresh for the Taiwanese market, instead of some insignificant facelift.
Baron 1898 19/05/2020 15h00
Dive coaster De Baron 1898 on the test day for De Efteling subscribers. The measures related to corona are not insignificant, but every effort is made to maintain the experience. The queue seems very long here, but has stretched up to three times longer in the context of social distancing.
Efteling and the Corona Crisis
On March 11, 2020, the corona virus (COVID-19) was officially classified as a pandemic, a global epidemic. This led to the closure of Efteling from Saturday, March 14 to Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
Efteling appealed for government support through the Emergency Fund Bridging Employment scheme for 3,300 employees who are now at home, but who continue to be paid.
Based on a reservation system, the park was reopened with limited capacity from 20 May. The days before had already been tested with employees, residents of the reopened Bosrijk and subscription holders. The Efteling Hotel and holiday park Efteling Loonsche Land also opened again on that date.
The park has been modified in many ways; for example, plexiglass splash guards have been placed, the capacity of attractions is severely limited and shows such as Raveleijn are not running. In the Fairytale Forest a one-way route is indicated with signs and arrows on the pavement. [ Wikipedia ]
The Breynia is a small Australian tree with deep burgundy coloured leaves. It has small insignificant flowers followed by little red berries. I have been meaning to get some photos for a while now and when I finally got around to it today there were only two berries on the whole tree.
I have a shot of each one ... I didn't know which was best.
Even before Leipzig was first mentioned in a document in 1015, a Slavic settlement existed here. The city was founded in 1165 when Margrave Otto the Rich of Meissen granted city and market rights to the city at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii.
Leipzig was in the Margraviate of Meissen, which became part of the Electorate of Saxony in 1439. Leipzig then belonged to the Duchy of Saxony, whose capital was chosen to be Dresden, which had been insignificant compared to Leipzig or Meissen. Leipzig was often the place where the state parliament met, but Leipzig was never a residence city or a bishop's seat and has always been shaped by the urban bourgeoisie.
The University of Leipzig was founded in 1409 as "Alma Mater Lipsiensis" and was thus one of the three oldest universities in Germany. After being elevated to the status of "Reichsmessestadt" (imperial trade fair city) in 1497 and an extension of the staple right by the future Emperor Maximilian I, Leipzig became a trade fair city of European standing. It developed into the most important German trading center for the exchange of goods between Eastern and Western Europe. Alongside London, the Leipziger Brühl became the international trade center for the fur industry, and the important role played by the Leipzig Jewish community was closely linked to it.
In 1539, the Reformation was finally introduced in Leipzig by Luther and Justus Jonas. Over decades, the development of Leipzig was characterized above all by the constantly improving living conditions. As a trading and trade fair city of increasing importance, Leipzig benefited from the wealthy Leipzig merchant class.
The Thirty Years' War was a severe cut in the prosperous development of the city. Between 1631 and 1642 the city was besieged five times, from 1642 to 1650 it was occupied by the Swedes.
The "Völkerschlacht" (Battle of Leipzig) near Leipzig took place in 1813. In this battle, the allied armies of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Sweden defeated Napoleon's troops and their allies which ultimately led to Napoleon's banishment to the island of Elba.
The Nikolaikirche is the oldest and largest church in downtown Leipzig. The church was built in Romanesque style from 1165 on after Leipzig was granted city and market rights. In the 15th and 16th centuries, after Leipzig became extremely prosperous thanks to silver discoveries in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), it was expanded and completely converted into a three-aisled, late Gothic hall church.
The Reformation began in Leipzig in 1539 with the sermons of the reformers Justus Jonas the Elder and Martin Luther.
German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was baptized here in 1646. Johann Sebastian Bach performed numerous of his cantatas and oratorios for the first time with the Thomanerchor here, including the St. John Passion, his most extensive work up to that point, on Good Friday, April 7, 1724.
Despite the policy of state atheism in East Germany, a Christian pastor regularly met with his congregation at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig for prayer from 1982 onward.
In Leipzig, the demonstrations began on 4 September 1989 after the weekly "Friedensgebet" (prayer for peace) in the Nikolaikirche and eventually filled the nearby Karl Marx Square (today known again as Augustusplatz). Safe in the knowledge that the Lutheran Church supported their resistance, many dissatisfied East German citizens gathered in the court of the church, and non-violent demonstrations began in order to demand rights such as the freedom to travel and to elect a democratic government. Over the next seven years, the crowd grew, despite authorities barricading the streets leading to it, and after church services, peaceful candlelit marches took place. The secret police issued death threats and even attacked some of the marchers, but the crowd still continued to gather.
On 9 October 1989, the police and army units were given permission to use force against those assembled, but this did not deter the church service and march from taking place along the inner city ring road, which gathered 70,000 people. On 16 October 1989, 120,000 demonstrators turned up, with military units again being held on stand-by in the vicinity. The week after, the number more than doubled to 320,000. This pressure and other key events eventually led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, marking the imminent end of the socialist GDR regime.
As a boy I’m insignificant , but as his Secretary I feel his eyes on me all the time, like now, I turn and there he is the boss, the CEO , admiring my feminine ass , the thing is he knows in a boy , that’s what attracts him , I’m about to go on my knees and get very personal with his sexual needs , it’s a perk that comes with the job , for both of us , I adore this middle aged gentleman , he adores me too , his sexy Secretary , it’s a win , win situation !
Cockleroy (hat of the kings) is an insignificant hill by most standards at 912ft, but by Central Belt standards it happens to be one of the highest points. The summit offers outstanding and wide-ranging views over the Ochil Hills, Campsie Fells, West Highlands, Linlithgow and the Pentland Hills. On its top there are faint remains of an Iron Age's hill fort.
A tour of the Non - Monuments of Green Lane.
An Essex agricultural landscape take on Robert Smithson's 'Tour of the Monuments of Passaic'
A pretty plant with an insignificant <5mm white flowers with a hint of blue on a plant growing in sand. I like the buds on these plants.
Photo: Jean
Hong Kong, Central
among all those massive skyscrapers people look so insignificant... blurred and faded tiny creatures
Wandering through the forest, one can’t help but look up at the towering trees and feel so small in comparison.
66 004, with two coaches in tow on 5Z46 06.58 Eastleigh Arlington to Burton-on-Trent Whetmore Siding, cuts a lonely figure as it approaches Washwood Heath Yard. Tree growth has now obscured the sidings and unloading facility at RMC, the BT Tower and Aston Gas Holders are visible on the Birmingham skyline.
When you're out in the outback, you're really quite 'insignificant...
'TAMBO - AUGATHELLA' (DJI Phantom4)
26 by 26 Challenge 14:
Photograph something you consider insignificant.
– Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth
Long considered an insignificant clan by the mighty cat clans of the Imperial Council in Europe, the Mistwanderers thrived in the gritty warehouse districts and wharves of North American cities, the barns of the rugged rural areas of the great heartland of America and the cellars of houses in small towns from Belfast, Maine to Whitefish, South Dakota. Recently their archives have been made available to me, and I am able to bring their story to my enormous literary following for the first time. That's right. For the first time all five of you will be able to follow the Mistwanderers on their epic journey from afterthought to influential player in the world of cat politics. This snapshot recently obtained from the Mistwanderer archives shows the Mistwanderer queen Felicity in front of her fortress in a small town in Illinois. She is protected by three human agents whose loyalty to the clan includes a solemn oath to fight to the death to protect the queen. Out of sight, are the famed Mistwanderer guards who are recruited by the Imperial Council to guard the headquarters in Hamburg, Germany because of their well-known tenacity to defend any occupied position to the death.
In the grand scheme of things.......how big are we? Taken on a mesa in Oklahoma, near the Texas border.
A foggy day on Crescent Beach at low tide. Not a very exciting shot, but I think it expresses how insignificant a person can feel when surrounded by nothing but sea and sky.
the person you consider ignorant and insignificant
is the one who came from God,
that he might learn bliss from grief
and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran
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The three wine glasses are filled with the "evidence" of all the sorrows drowned. The rose is the reminder of love found and love lost.
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II with 110mm f/2.8 shot @ f/8 on HP5+ rated at box speed (EI 400). Developed in Ilford DD-X at 68 degrees for 9 minutes (standard development).
Scanned at 3200dpi on an Epson V750 with very neutral setting to pull maximum information from the film.
The rough idea behind the series is to portray, in still life, the perspective and thoughts of an old, broken man looking back at hollow "triumphs" and seeing failures that seemed insignificant at the time loom large in his final days.
Although that seems a bit dark or macabre, I felt that the incredible detail contained in the large 6x7 negatives somehow mimics the saying "hindsight is 20/20"...and some memories become indelibly burned into our souls...certainly the fictional 'old man' has scars that are expressed here.
This is very sharp glass on a fairly large negative, focused critically with a magnifier...the scanner just can't do it justice, but it's what I have access to and therefore what I use. The image had some mild capture sharpening, adjustments to color temp, contrast, clarity, and -1/4 stop exposure. Not quite a final piece that's ready for print, but this was the first roll through my (new to me) RZ67 Pro II and I thought I'd share it with you.
Cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should have been my name
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'm there!
A veces, sin motivo, te sientes transparente....
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Sometimes, with no reason, you can feel like that...
This fellow’s name was Jeroen Offermann (if I remember his name rightly) he was one of the bizarre In-significat’s troupe of artist from different countries like Iceland, Germany and the Netherlands…
…they were a weird lot with strange art videos and happenings, they were all rather strange and evasive, so except for Stefan Saffer this fellow was the only one I ever really became friendly with, he had imaginary pet flies that no-one could see :)
Peace and Noise!
MushroomBrain once in an artistic mental institution
Two men standing on a log appear insignificant. The 14,000+ ft Maroon Peaks are in the grey background; hidden behind thick clouds. South of Aspen, Colorado.
The white bracts are the visible 'flowers' now doing their magic transformation into pink ones. The actual flowers are insignificantly small and green in the centre of the bracts.