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I wanted to shoot something during the day as I really wasn't expecting such a lovely sunset over the poppies (thank you all so much for all the lovely comments by the way!)
So when the clouds and light got a little bit more interesting we found ourselves here. Tin mines just say Cornwall to me and I'm sure I came here on a school trip, mind you it was 1976! Hopefully this mine does pre-date my childhood! I would love to come back here for a moody sunset or a stormy day.
This was followed by the obligatory cream tea but I am pleased to report that less food was consumed then my 2019 visit!
Connecticut Southern train CSO-3 rolls south along Van Dyke Avenue in Hartford with a cut of empty cars for Murphy Road. In the lead is Providence & Worcester "Super-7" 2215 which has been on the property for a while now. Connecticut's Capital city is know as the "Insurance Capital of the World" as many insurance companies are headquartered there.
no, i didn't hurt my self as this one was made in photoshop, but i thought i could deliver this feeling like someone is gonna get hurt...:) tell me what you think?
I just dispatched a Progressive agent to help aid you with your insurance claim. My name is the half-blood prince and if you were satisfied by our customer service, would you be so kind as to leave a testimonial on our About page to further improve customer service quality.
Pamphlet for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. (c) 1956. No artist mentioned.
UPDATE: Several people got in touch with me and have said that the illustrator is most likely JP Miller. Thanks for the help, guys!
Again, a shame that there is no credit given to who did the wonderful illustrations on this Metropolitan Life Insurance pamphlet. I'd like to think that the jolly illustrations made for lighter reading on serious issues like illnesses, hearing problems, bad eyesight, cancer. Anything to take your mind off, I guess.
As it was full moon I stayed local again and went to this house i've been meaning to go to for a while now.
Apparently an insurance scam gone wrong, a guy burnt down his own house for the insurance and they wouldn't pay out.
Now I believe it has been sold off at auction, bought by a developer, it will be knocked down and a few new houses to be built in its place, such a shame people get greedy.
Pacific Quality Insurance Services, North Azusa Avenue, Azusa, California
'Roid Week April 2025 - Day 6 #1
well a girl just doesn't know when trouble will come her in 1940s Europe better safe than sorry,
Having a mess around with my WW2 look even did my own hair do. Not totally happy with hair but the idea works and I really should stay blond.
I've done a few photos with look and I will be posting the best of a bad bunch over the next few days.
Would love to go to a 40s event dressed like this.
Another image from a damaged negative,not great quality,but interesting.
Here we have 37670 and 37671 stabled at Gloucester New Yard on the 19th January 1988.
670 appears to have been involved in some sort of incident.
Sometimes you find a location that is just your sort of thing and the Allianz Arena in Munich was one such place for me. As the sun goes down the lights on the outside of the stadium come on – ideal for a silhouette type shot. This is a black and white version of a shot from a while back, I’m on a bit of a black and white phase at the moment!
I went to the bank for my usual transactions and met Marianne, an insurance agent—a friendly girl with an easy smile. She doubled as receptionist and was more than willing to explain insurance and other investment opportunities the bank had to offer. She has been in the bank for 6 months. She's into sports and loves to watch the sunset.
Admiral Travel Insurance – is it worth it?
In June this year my wife (60) and I (65) embarked on a three-week road trip around Bulgaria.
One week into the trip my wife fell down some steps one morning and broke her wedding ring finger.
We were in central Bulgaria, in a small town called Kazanlak for the annual rose festival that is held there every year.
We walked to the only hospital in town to find it practically closed for the festival. There was no A&E department. We found an orderly on a cigarette break and using Google Translate asked for help. She took us to the duty doctor, the only one there. He cut my wife’s wedding ring off and then called in a radiologist from home to perform an X-ray. This confirmed a spiral break in her finger so, then he called in a surgeon from home to deal with it.
At this point I called the Admiral Emergency help line and started a claim, we had no way of knowing at this point what was going to happen. The person spoke to me and then my wife and then the surgeon arrived and we ended the call. I received a follow up email almost straight away.
The surgeon said that my wife needed surgery and the bone would need to be pinned. If we stayed in Bulgaria we would have to stay in that area until the treatment was completed. He was reluctant to operate and since the break was considered minor, recommended we go home. He couldn’t operate that day as there were no staff and the operation wouldn’t take place until the following week.
So we opted to come home. He immobilized her fingers for travel and we left.
The bill for all of this was less than the £50 excess on our policy and the woman on the desk could only take cash, so we duly paid and got receipts.
This all took place on a Saturday and by Tuesday morning we were in A&E at our local hospital.
When I logged into the Admiral Claims portal there was no sign of my claim so I started a new one.
They wanted information on all our bookings, car rental vouchers, airport parking, copies of credit card bills and a medical certificate from my wife’s GP. This cost us £50 and took ten days to get.
Once uploaded to the portal the obligatory ten working days wait started.
After twelve days I gave them a call to see what was happening and I was told that my information had been sent to the wrong place – really?
I received an email later that day requesting more information, original booking confirmation for ‘all’ parts of the trip and written confirmation addressed to me from the travel provider to show that we did not travel. So, I obtained this information and uploaded it to the Admiral portal.
Then started another ten working days wait.
After ten days I received another email, this time they wanted confirmation that no refund had been received from any of my travel providers.
So I wrote to the airport parking, the car rental company in Bulgaria and Wizz Air for supporting evidence. It took a while but they all did eventually reply.
I uploaded this to the Admiral Portal although at this point the frustration almost tempted me to hit the big “Cancel this Claim” button that sits at the bottom of the portal screen, almost as if that’s what they want.
Then started another ten working days wait.
The bone in my wife’s finger had healed and she had been discharged from care before we got to this point.
Finally I receive this: -
“We have reviewed your reason to claim, along with the information provided and unfortunately, we are unable to process your claim on this occasion.
This is because as per the policy wording, we are only able to provide cover for cutting your trip short if authorised by our emergency assistance service. We can see that our emergency assistance service was not contacted, therefore we would not have authorised the early return home.
Your claim has now been reviewed by our medical team, who has advised that the policy covers for the medical treatment which you had whilst abroad. Due to the nature of the injury, the surgery could have waited until you had returned to the UK. It has also been noted that you have not provided any medical evidence to confirm the severity of the injury, and whilst you have uploaded the medical certificate that advises the reason that you returned home, it does not confirm that curtailing your trip was necessary.
If you have any documentation from your treatment abroad that confirms returning early from your trip was necessary, please upload this to the portal so that we can review.”
So I obtained all the information that they previously hadn’t asked for, X-rays, emails from their emergency assistance service and also the fact that surgery was carried out in the UK and NOT Bulgaria and logged into the Admiral Portal to upload it.
It was gone, case closed, no upload portal.
So that’s that, they have spoken.
If you’ve made it this far you have done well, but if you’re thinking of taking out Admiral travel insurance take out the basic package.
We had the Platinum package; they are all worthless but at least you’ll have saved yourself some money when they don’t honour their part of the deal.
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Lloyd's London Architecture
One of the most futuristic buildings with the Inside-Out design, Lloyd's of London looks like something out of a Blade Runner movie...The building transforms itself at night when the lights illuminate the striking lifts and staircases...
The Lloyd's building (also sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building)[1] is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located at 1, Lime Street, in the City of London, England.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme.[2] Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK. It is important to note that (like the Pompidou Centre) this building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s (see Plug-in City by Archigram for an example).
The building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal point is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room (often simply known as the Room) is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60 metres (197 ft) high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts.
The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors.[3] On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes pushing the height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered with the addition or removal of partitions and walls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's_building
Lloyd's London Architecture
Uses: Anything relating to insurance.
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Went down a side street I'd not been down before and found this building just round the corner from 'Love Lane'.
It's the Insurance Hall, and this building was the office of the Chartered Insurance Institute from 1933 to 2018. Now it provides rentable office space.
Quite a cool building though ...
Uses: Anything relating to insurance.
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Pamphlet for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. (c) 1956. No artist mentioned.
UPDATE: Several people got in touch with me and have said that the illustrator is most likely JP Miller. Thanks for the help, guys!
I love how Westerns always seem to be the thing that is on TV back in the 50's.
This platter goes out today for an insurance company having an open house. They wanted a variety of houses and cars, so hopefully they'll like these!
Star Insurance Motofest
Hampon Downs
New Zealand
www.hamptondowns.com/events/star-insure-motofest#/
Mamiya Sekor C 500mm f5.6 lens
I happen to notice this building as I was going into the driveway of my Site Shop office so had to get a shot of it ... I processed it in a new Plugin by Redfield called Elementary... It is an interesting plugin and more my style than some of the others I have ... Happy Window Wednesday, Everybody!!
In the beginning, the idea of paying for insurance to cover my photography gear was at the bottom of my priority list. After all, there are so many other pieces of equipment that I wanted to get my hands on. But through the years, my equipment list grew to an amount that is worth more than my car and the simple act of lugging that much gear around started to make me nervous. On an average shooting day, I would have two 5D Mark IIs, two 580EX IIs, 85mm f/1.2L, 35mm f/1.4L, 17-40mm f/4L, a 70-200mm f/2.8L IS and three pocket wizards (not to mention a Macbook Pro when I'm on the road), plus accessories. It's much more than a sack of electronics - thats my future career on the line. It would only take one brief moment for a thief to take it all away from me.
So i decided to get my equipment insured… Initially, I didn't really know where to go and I ended up on a photography website which offers a discount on insurance for any member of their website. Other than that, I couldn't find much information on photography insurance, so I had no choice but to sign up.
Signing up was easy. You login, send in your credit card information and a list of equipment and you would receive an email notification that you were "covered" by some obscure insurance company that you've never heard of. And even though I was "technically" insured, I still didn't have the confidence that I would be safe in case anything happened. It was that sense of uneasiness that got me.
About a year passed by and I finally decided that I was going to switch my automotive insurance over to State Farm because I wanted an insurance company that could cover both my car and my new motorcycle at the same time. Thats when I met my current insurance agent, ThuyVu. The thing that struck me about ThuyVu is that she wasn't anything like the other insurance agents I've dealt with in the past. For one thing, she is one of the top agents in the country.. and on the other hand, she is also an underground house DJ, a classically trained musician, a Tae Kwon Do black belt and does voice-over for video games. FINALLY, I had the chance to work with someone that understood art and how important photography is to me. It didn't feel l like I was talking to an Insurance Agent as much as it felt like I was talking to a friend. And best of all, she was able to explain my insurance policies with crystal clarity, and fully insure all of my photography gear too.
So if you are thinking about insuring your gear, I highly recommend ThuyVu. Not only did she beat the rates of her competitors, her service was leaps and bounds above them.
Check her out (and mention you found her n Flickr!)
ThuyVu Ho
thuyvu.ho.mv2e@statefarm.com
Phone: (408) 998-4821
If you have any questions regarding photography insurance, feel free to post it as a comment and I will have her answer directly in the comments section
And while you're at it, download one of her mixes:
Technology arrives in the world of the insurance claim. One small bump in a car park, and a few photos later the repair is approved.
Most of it would polish out, and a bit of coloured tape makes the rear light legal, but the bent and cracked plastic bumper means a trip to the body shop. And that means an insurance claim.
This abstract is made up of just two photos, the rear light, and my reflection whilst photographing the VIN , buried under the wipers and windscreen.