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Apparently 5 of my photos have been on Explore. I only knew about 1 of them. Wheeee :)
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EDIT: It would appear that my photo "Neutrality 1" has made it to #108 on Interestingness today!!
Auto Club Speedway October 2009
Pictures from our weekend activities at the Auto Club Speedway for the Pepsi 500, and Copart.com 300
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw.
thÃch lục lạc much much much xD
Lúc bá»±c mà nó kêu lên có lẽ hÆ¡i ồn à o mà lúc bt nge thì thÃch thÃch <3<3
Taken in and around Guildford in late May 2013 using an old Ricoh TF-900 35mm camera with Fuji Superia 400 film.
CN 5368 (SD40-2), CN 7022 & CN 7052 (both GP9RM's) head light through the St-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal in 2008. CN 5368 was originally built for Missouri Pacific and lacks dynamic brakes. It started life as MP 791, later MP 3091. When Union Pacific bought MP, it became UP 4091. It temporarily became CN 6091 before acquiring its current road number.
The Gentleman's Companion - Volume 1 - Being An Exotic Cookery Book, Or, Around The World With Knife Fork And Spoon (1946) - Charles H. Baker, Jr.
This magnificent book, the first of a two volume set covering exotic cooking and cocktails, is a compendium of material assembled by the author about food and drink during his time spent wandering the globe in a number of far flung locations in the 1940s as a writer for Esquire, Town and Country, Gourmet and other publications.
I would dearly love to add Vol II (the Exotic Drinking Book) to my collection.
The page opposite the title, which features a picture of the author hard at work on the book, is especially amusing.
Dedication:
"Contrary to current routine this volume is not dedicated
to Publisher, Wife, Friend, Mistress or Patron, but to
our own handsome digestive tract without which it
never could have seen the light of day."
More morsels here: http://books.google.com/books?id=q8U3AAAAIAAJ
Interesting concept for arranging vegetable---and flowers. Taken at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
11-18-2011
Freddie finds me very interesting on the early November morning. I am sure he usually doesn't get visitors this early in the morning but he came running as soon as he spotted me. Here it is the 2nd of December and we still have not gotten any snow. Winds are gusting over 30 mph this morning so no pictures outside today. The windchill is horrible. The Christmas parade is this evening and they line up on the street on the south side of the house, we will bundle up and brave the cold tonight. Freddie is probably thinking right now, "I am not dreaming of a white Christmas."
My wife and I took our dog for a walk in our neighborhood this evening. It was a very interesting sky with lots of colors and cloud formations.
This is the first time I am uploading such an image. I am not a great believer of Explore but .......... Just uploaded it to remind me of all the good people on flickr who took the time to comment. Thanks everyone.
1. Baluch II, 2. Railway Bridge, 3. Sunrise, 4. Determined (color), 5. That Look (B & W), 6. On Fire, 7. 30 sec (time travel), 8. Colors of sunset VIII
Interesting carvings on the two macrocarpa stumps at the playground by carver Pita Lagan.
To see more about the carvings. www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/290062/stunning-carving...
April 22, 2015 on our trip to the blipmeet at Wanaka, Central Otago in New Zealand.
Oamaru was our stop for lunch and we had it in the new Steampunk cafe. It was cold, damp and windy. After lunch I took a walk around the Steampunk playground before we headed down south.
For more Photos and Info on the Steampunk playground: oamarunz.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/playground/
according to Flickr's interestingness criteria. What's really interesting to me is how small the overlap seems to be between this and the design collection mosaic, which shows some of my own choices from my work.
From a set automatically created by dopiaza's set generator on 4 July 2009
1. memory fragments, 2. colour blending, 3. fabric snippets - oranges and yellows, 4. felt sample, 5. gathering samples, 6. "what will I be", 7. stitched resists, 8. Untitled, 9. machine stitch, 10. blooming sample, 11. shadow applique and felt hanging, 12. Tendril Bowl, 13. chair, 14. shibori experiment, 15. hand stitch, 16. french knots, 17. detail of applique, 18. sketchbook page, 19. mitred patchwork sample, 20. colour study, 21. hand stitch, 22. kantha quilting, 23. stitched resists, 24. mitred patchwork sample, 25. stitched resists, 26. twisting strands, 27. quilted patchwork sample, 28. detail of applique, 29. sketchbook pages, 30. fabric snippets - reds
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A standard photo of a lot of bread, not gonna lie. This is one of those photos you take not because it's part of a project, or it looks art-sy; i... I just took it because I could and I thought it looked alright. Anyway, I promised the description would be more inteeresting; so, how did I manage to get this much bread together? First of all, this bread, it isn't regular size loaves of bread. Those are tiny ones; but that just changes the question to: how did you get that much tiny bread together? In La Paz, it's quite easy, really. See, at the end of January, there's a fair called Alasitas, where they sell, mainly, little versions of everything; with the belief that those items (money, cars, houses, or even visas and college degrees) will come to you in the rest of the year. Inside that place, there's an entire aisle that's dedicated entirely to selling mini-cakes, bread, or deserts in general. That's how I found that bread.
See? Told you this'd be more entertaining.
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Cúchulainn's Stone, Knockbridge, Co.Louth.
Clochafarmore standing stone is an impressive monument standing at over 3m high and 1.3m wide. It is believed that standing stones may mark locations where great events took place and this stone is traditionally associated with the greatest hero of Irish folklore - Cúchulainn. He is the principal character of the epic Irish saga the Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley). In this tale Cúchulainn defends Ulster from the forces of Queen Maeve of Connacht. According to legend Cúchulainn, who was fatally wounded, tied himself to this standing stone so that he could stay upright and face the opposing army. Even after his death, Cúchulainn's enemies would not approach the stone for fear he was still alive. It was not until Morrigan (the Celtic goddess of War and Death) appeared in the form of a raven and landed on his shoulder that they were sure he was dead. A bronze statue of this scene by Oliver Sheppard stands in the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, Dublin. This monument is Bronze Age and pre-dates the Iron Age legend of Cúchulainn by many centuries and represents an attempt to interpret an existing, ancient landscape. The name Clochafarmore comes from the Irish Cloch an Fhir Mhóir meaning 'Stone of the Big Man'. The field where it is located is locally called 'The Field of Slaughter'.
1. The Tunnel, 2. Alien Encounter, 3. Balloon Glow, 4. Big Sky Country, 5. King of the Jungle, 6. Alien Cloud at Sunset, 7. Grizzly Grin, 8. Winter Sunset,
9. Upper Falls
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I'm not sure what happened here, I've never had more than 4 or 5 on interestingness at a time, and all of a sudden I have 9. Weird, but I'll save this for posterity (and now, after not logging in for 5 weeks, I have 14, go figure).