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The much photographed spiral stairs at Citizen M Hotel. Not as many from the top as it involves dangling your camera out into the void.
I prefer the view from the bottom up but I seem to be too incompetent to get an exposure that I'm happy with.
This shot was almost so completely dark as to be ruined, but after the exposure was lifted quite a few stops while processing, an interesting image with quite pleasing colours was revealed.
With a few obvious exceptions, all of my images involve automobiles, and reflections. None are AI or Photoshopped., etc.
The work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is inspiring. I regularly refer to her style in my image generation. On the Screenpunk website an article on Af Klint.
Not everyone wants "art" on their windows.
Graffiti is a visual art form that involves writing or drawing on a surface, usually without permission and in public view. It can range from simple tags to elaborate wall paintings.
Devon, UK.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named the Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
With a few obvious exceptions, all of my images involve automobiles, and reflections. None are AI or Photoshopped., etc. They are what the camera has seen....
A focus of my last two weekend trips to the Speedway was "tying up some loose ends" of locations that I had neglected or just wasn't happy with previous efforts. One of which was the famous Switch Tender in downtown Jackson, which somehow I had zero shots of a KCS train at even for as many trips to the area that had been made over the last 5 years. That was likely due to being one of the few places that works for eastbounds in the afternoon, and my usual plans would involve following westbounds over towards Vicksburg and Louisiana after lunch.
Anyway, to rectify that with about a month to go before the official takeover M-SHNS rolls through town on the half-mile of trackage rights over CN's former IC mainline to New Orleans. Of course in the background to the right is the famous Art Deco Standard Life building, now being renovated into loft apartments.
Going to shows involves transport, which many cats don't enjoy much. The Sandy Carrier Bag offers a good solution, as it opens on top, so I can have the cat on my lap during the ride. They can look out while at the same time being securely strapped in a harness.
Bastian (mixed breed), 06.11.2016.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
This photo art involves no AI
When adding some colour to this plain white ball light, I was struck by how a combination of them might be made to look like the planet Jupiter. That couldn't be done, but you can mentally piece them together from this arrangement to see what I mean.
The title comes from a very historic period in Australian rock and blues music in the late 60s and early 70s. At the time pubs were full of live music and provided new bands with an ideal launching point for their careers. Alas, no more. Pity the younger generation of musicians.
One of the legends of Australia blues rock was Lobby Loyde and his band the Coloured Balls.
Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls - Working Man's Boogie (1972) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPInO0ybDhs
Lobby Loyde was born John Barrie Lyde in Longreach, Queensland in 1941. His music style was heavy rhythm and blues and his influence on other Australian guitarists at the time was immense. He was also one to popularise the "Sharpie Movement". Sharps were one of the youth gangs that predominated in Melbourne (and to a lesser extent in Sydney). They were known for their hair styles and slick dressing with large boots. Unfortunately they were also known for their violent subculture (although to be fair it followed a strict code that wasn't the case when the more nihilistic, and to a large degree racist, Skinheads emerged).
Lobby Loyde later joined Angry Anderson and Rose Tattoo, but eventually moved into producing music. He died of lung cancer in 2007.
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A Journey to connect Heart-to-Heart takes buy a moment; it involves the risk of being Vulnerable... Quote Mrs Happy Face ..
With a few obvious exceptions, all of my images involve automobiles, and reflections. None are AI or Photoshopped., etc. They are what the camera has seen....
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Peggys Point Lighthouse (also known as Peggy's Cove Lighthouse) is in Peggys Cove and is an iconic Canadian image. It is one of the busiest tourist attractions in Nova Scotia and is a prime attraction on the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive. The lighthouse marks the eastern entrance of St. Margarets Bay and is officially known as the Peggys Point Lighthouse.
Peggys Cove is a classic red-and-white lighthouse still operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The light station is situated on an extensive granite outcrop at Peggys Point, immediately south of the village and its cove. This lighthouse is one of the most-photographed structures in Atlantic Canada and one of the most recognizable lighthouses in the world.
Visitors may explore the granite outcrop on Peggys Point around the lighthouse; despite numerous signs warning of unpredictable surf (including one on a bronze plaque on the lighthouse itself), several visitors each year are swept off the rocks by waves, sometimes drowning.
Peggys Cove is 43 kilometers (26 miles) southwest of downtown Halifax and comprises one of the numerous small fishing communities located around the perimeter of the Chebucto Peninsula. The community is named after the cove of the same name, a name also shared with Peggy's Point, immediately to the east of the cove. The village marks the eastern point of St. Margaret's Bay.(Wikipedia)
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Swissair Flight 111
Swissair Flight 111 (SR111, SWR111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines.
On Wednesday, 2 September 1998, the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash site was 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from shore, roughly equidistant from the tiny fishing and tourist communities of Peggys Cove and Bayswater. All 229 people on board died—the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and the second-highest of any air disaster to occur in Canada, after Arrow Air Flight 1285. This is one of only two hull losses of the passenger configured MD-11, along with China Airlines Flight 642.
The initial search and rescue response, crash recovery operation, and resulting investigation by the Government of Canada took over four years and cost CAD 57 million (at that time approximately US$38 million). The Transportation Safety Board of Canada's (TSB) official report of their investigation stated that flammable material used in the aircraft's structure allowed a fire to spread beyond the control of the crew, resulting in a loss of control and the crash of the aircraft.
Swissair Flight 111 was known as the "UN shuttle" due to its popularity with United Nations officials; the flight often carried business executives, scientists, and researchers
Aircraft
The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, serial number 48448 registered HB-IWF, was manufactured in 1991 and Swissair was its only operator. It bore the title of Vaud, in honor of the Swiss canton of the same name. The airframe had a total of 36,041 hours. The three engines were Pratt & Whitney 4462s. The cabin was configured with 241 seats (12 six-abreast first-, 49 seven-abreast business-, and 180 nine-abreast economy-class). First- and business-class seats were equipped with an in seat in-flight entertainment system, installed at some point after initial entry into service. (Wikipedia)
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Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
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I ran a 'Shoot with Me' session with my camera club, Offshoot, which a few of us had fun taking part in. The idea was to take funny photos involving fruit or vegetables. This was my selected shot.
These silos near the waterfront of San Francisco Bay are no longer used for storing cement. Previously owned by Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company, they received cement from near Santa Cruz and shipped it out from Alameda via train on the Southern Pacific Railroad, or by truck or ship. Now owned by a construction company, the property is underutilized due to an environmental cleanup issue involving an underground tank, per an online article. The cement company ceased operations in this location in 1966.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
I don't always shoot trains on weekends, but when I do, it often involves some "politicking" with the family. Earlier this afternoon, I was hiking over at Five Rivers in New Scotland with my wife and my son, knowing that later in the afternoon Amtrak 108 would be leading Train 449 within striking distance. Once our son seemed to be getting pretty tuckered out, rather than heading for home I convinced my wife that we could head back across the Hudson River to Chatham, grab some ice cream at Dairy Queen, I could get a couple shots of 449, and we still get home in time for our son's usual bedtime routine. Though 449 ran about 15 minutes late today, overall my plan went smoothly and resulted in a shot at State Line, as well as this shot at Chatham Center.
Amtrak Train 449
Chatham Center, NY
September 19, 2021
RX56DNF & RL03LFW Mercedes Sprinter Ambulances side by side at Horley Ambulance Station
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Salvation involves a change in the relationship between God and a person. Salvation includes God’s adoption of believers into his family, his acceptance of them as righteous and his forgiveness of their sins. It also includes personal renewal and transformation through the work of the Holy Spirit.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eph 2:19–22.
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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On Beautiful shores
The entire rainbow of radiation observable to the human eye only makes up a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum – about 0.0035 percent! This range of wavelengths is known as visible light. This literally means that we are seeing less than *half* a percent of what is out there. The night sky is extremely colourful due to star colour, nebula, the dust of the milky way and of course light pollution on the horizon for most of us.
Can you find the Constellations - Taurus, Auriga, (pleiades), Cassiopeia, Perseus in this one in the central milky way? What about the red patch centre right known as the California Nebula? If you find that, you can easily find the pleiades (the Seven Sisters) to the right of this, the well known blue star cluster. Okay how about an easier one, the Andromeda Galaxy? Hint - look at the top of the picture. So if you found Andromeda, stay with me a little longer, step down diagonally right from there to the next obvious bright star. That's Mirach. Then diagonally again. The very, very fainy object is another galaxy, called Triangulum, it is even further from us than Andromeda. The red around the milky way is from nebula which are essentially where stars explode into life. If you are on a desktop, mouse over the image for a helping hand.
This picture was aquired in early October 2021. It involves three, two minute tracked exposures of the sky with a 35mm f/1.4 lens in order to capture the stunning night sky details. This image is just over 116 megapixels, allowing for stunningly detailed prints and low noise. For some reason, this one has a Christmas feel to it? If you full screen this one on your phone you will see the full view, over 200 degrees of it by my rough guess.
Guarding nation's boundaries is a career which involves a great amount of sacrifice not the least of which is surviving intense cold and lack of basic amenities at these heights!
A shame I can't involve that glorious sounding V8 into this picture. You can listen to it in this video: click
While in Jim Thorpe for a long weekend I had one major photographic goal that did not involve the Reading and Northern. Norfolk Southern still has a limited presence in the area continuing to own their upper Lehigh Line from Allentown to Leighton then sharing the RofW and owning one of two mains from there to Jim Thorpe and on up through the Lehigh Gorge to Penn Haven. At that point the Lehigh Line continues north, under the sole ownership and operation of RBMN, while the NS' Ashmore Secondary climbs the grade to Weatherly and Hazleton.
For the last five years the upper Lehigh Line has seen nothing but local freights, and north of Lehighton they have operated almost exclusively at night. However a recent schedule change has seen NS running local H66 in daylight on Sundays making a late morning turn north from Allentown to Hazleton and back. After dropping off five tank cars in the yard the pair of SD60Es now have four covered hoppers as they start back east, seen again here on the Hazleton Running Track (the westward other than main track continuation of the Ashmore Secondary) at about MP 143.5 on rails of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad's Wyoming Divison. This area was once laced with a mind boggling maze of trackage and at one time this particular line which was built by the LV in 1871 was double tracked to support the flood of anthracite coal flowing out of area mines. While vastly diminished, there is still a limited market for anthracite and several mines remain active though today they are nearly all open pit strip mines with I believe only four active underground mines left operating.
The edge of one such open pit mine is seen in the background and has expanded such that the railroad used to run straight through where it is and had to be relocated creating the dog leg seen in this photo and the one posted earlier. This is the Atlantic Carbon Group's Stockton Mine located here on the eastern portion of the Hazleton Coal basin which primarily extracts coal from the Mammoth seam, which reaches thickness of over 20ft in the bottom of the basin, with additional reserves in the Primrose, Diamond, and Orchard seams. Atlantic Carbon is the second largest Ultra High Grade (UHG) anthracite producer in the United States. In June of this year the company was purchased by Delta Dunia, an Indonesian based holding company and you can learn more in this press release: deltadunia.com/post/737/delta-dunia-group-completes-acqui...
And here's a nice local news piece on the modern day market for anthracite coal: www.standardspeaker.com/2024/01/20/anthracite-and-coal-th...
And lastly, if the name Stockton Mine rings a bell you might be a history buff as the original underground mine located nearby was site of a freakish disaster in 1869 which you can learn a bit more about here: wynninghistory.com/2019/12/18/remembering-stockton/
Hazle Township, Pennsylvania
Sunday October 6, 2024
Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the most picturesque lighthouses on the Pacific coast. This pic really doesn't do it justice. The tower stands on a rocky promontory and has long been a landmark for ships approaching San Francisco Bay from the south. This headland, and hence the lighthouse, took its name from the ship Carrier Pigeon that wrecked here in 1853. It is the tallest lighthouse (tied with Point Arena Light) on the West Coast of the United States. And as an added bonus it is located right on route one so getting to it didn't involve any crazy detours!
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Redwing blackbirds perch momentarily on the branches of an old tree above wetland ponds.
This tree and I have a rather long history. I have photographed at this location for a long time, certainly longer than a decade. It is one of my favorite places to photograph in the winter, when migratory birds arrive in California. This normally involves driving very slowly along rural roads in wetlands while watching out for photographic opportunities. Way back when I started I used to stop frequently at this tree at the corner of a large pond. One winter the top half of the tree broke off, leaving a pretty ugly little snag.
Needless to say, I was quite disappointed. But fast forward a number of years and the broken snag has sprouted brand new branches which now almost mirror the shape of the original tree. It seems to be a favorite hangout for small blackbirds, the redwing and tricolor blackbirds that are so common in this area — birds that sing perhaps the most exuberant bird song I know of.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
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As you probably know, on 7 January 2015 occurred the deadliest act of terrorism in France of the last 50 years. 12 persons died in the offices of "Charlie Hebdo", a satirical newspaper, because they believed in an absolute form of freedom of expression. I must confess this tragedy hurt me deeply. A few days later, a gigantic march occurred in Paris as an historical act of protestation against terror, against censorship. At least everything is not lost, millions of people still believe in those values: it was somewhat heart-warming.
The day after that march, I decided to pay an homage to this reaction, by recreating another version of the famous painting "La liberté guidant le peuple" by Eugène Delacroix. In this version, I replaced all the weapons by pens, pencils, cameras or books, as a metaphor for the defense of freedom of expression.
Of course, that painting involves various characters, and I don't have access to lots of models. As a consequence, I brought my camera at work, and quickly improvised a shooting session. I had no lighting gear at all, so it was a bit challenging, but lots of people spontaneously accepted to pose for the project. Thank you so much everyone! From left to right:
- Olivier, the photographer, always keen for a good laugh
- Simon, the dead clown, and the most helpful guy you'll ever meet
- Ronan, the singer, that definitely does not need a microphone in real life
- Francesca, the social networker, unstoppable whatever the circumstances
- Marianne, la République, my dear wife who guides my life
- Yannick, the paperboy, whose brain is quicker that light
- Luc, the dead book-writer, as clever as Yoda, but much more handsome
It was an ambitious project, very challenging to achieve in a few days (there are 44 different photos assembled in the final image, and I shot around 1000 of them to get there), but I am happy of the result, and I hope others will enjoy it too.
Thanks for watching, et Vive la Liberté !
The Sauschwänzlebahn from Weizen to Blumberg, involves approximately 250 meter gain in height, and the military authorities specified that the line must not have a gradient of more than 1:100 since there was a need to move heavy military equipment. Accordingly, the line proceeds in a series of curves (including one complete circle), taking 26.5 km of track to travel a beeline distance of 9.5 km, with spectacular large viaducts, tunnels and bridges including the only spiral railway tunnel in Germany. The track is of standard gauge and is mainly single track; the bridges and tunnels were built on a scale to allow eventual doubling of the track, though this was never carried out.
Public Transport in Mumbai involves the transport of millions of its citizens by train, road and water. Over 88% of the commuters in Mumbai use public transport (suburban trains or buses). It is the most convenient, efficient and cheap form of transport to a population largely without sufficient income to afford cars. Mumbai has the largest organised bus transport network among major Indian cities.
Day 200...is this real? The progress I've made since I started this project is truly astounding. I never believed I could grow so much in as little as six months.
I had a concept involving balloons planned for this. I went to Vons and asked for 12 rainbow balloons only to be informed there is a "nation wide helium shortage." Not sure if I believe this since there were THOUSANDS of balloons at pride.
This looked awesome in black in white too, but I'm a sucker for blue. I stepped on a dead jellyfish...ew. And yes, I did buy roses for myself.
I have to go take my picture for today before I lose the light. See ya later. :)
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I know that I've posted several photos involving this Carolina First building. But, I promise, each is for a different reason. Truth is, one could sit here and shoot at this building on the hour, every hour and get subtleties of change in the window reflections. I am all about subtleties. Nuance.
Heck, I take thousands of shots of the moon. How boring could that be?
Never boring.
Always different.
She shows us the same face every night, but that face is held slightly differently.
This building always faces the same way and shows the same stone and glass. But that stone and glass shows more than itself.
Aren't we the same way? Aren't we seen according to our contexts? I'm fortunate enough that my contexts actually reflect parts of me. But though those contexts and expressions are all closely related, I am more than any one of them can express. Their connections aren't evidenced by any single manifestation.
I love to sit and watch this building reflect it's context. I love to watch it sit there, stone solid, unwavering, and yet express empathy to everything around.
It knows what is going on and it shows on its face. If the building across the street is feeling organized, symmetrical, and ordered, it can look into this building and see itself.
If the building feels jagged, chaotic, unsettled, squiggly, it can look across and see its own situation reflected, felt and expressed by a neighbor.
I want to be like that building. Strong, unmoving, solid, and beautiful. But I want my beauty to depend greatly on the reflections of those around me.
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Finally got to capture this old favourite from a different angle, even if it did involve some precarious ground maneuvering
This Canadian built Sea Hurricane first flew in January 1941. Originally built as a Hurricane Mk.I, it was shipped to the UK and converted to Sea Hurricane IB standard, involving the fitting of catapult spools and an arrester hook.
Restored to flight in 1995, it is owned by the Shuttleworth Trust based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire. Seen here at Shuttleworth Military Air Show 2024.
This composite image contains the aftermath of a giant collision involving four separate galaxy clusters at a distance of about 3.5 billion light years. Officially known as Abell 2744, this system is also referred to by astronomers as "Pandora's Cluster" because all of the different structures found within it. This view of Abell 2744 contains X-ray data from Chandra (blue) showing hot gas, optical data from Subaru and the VLT (red, green and blue), and radio data from the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (red).
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ITA/INAF/J.Merten et al, Lensing: NASA/STScI, NAOJ/Subaru, ESO/VLT; Optical: NASA/STScI/R.Dupke
GBRf Charter involving newly named 66774 'Sue Coles' tnt 66768 'Yvonne Bradley' - both named at Cardiff Central earlier in the day.
66774 tnt 66768 are seen at Besford with the 1Z68 Birmingham New St - Cardiff Central GBRf Staff Charter.
After we finished our bike tour with “Portugal Best Cycling” a.k.a. “Turaventur,” we had a couple of days at a quiet beach community of Salema, Portugal. A short bus ride takes you to Sagres - the Southwest corner of Europe.
Bicycling in Portugal
"Castles and Wine" - Van Guided Tour May 2017
“Portugal Best Cycling” a.k.a. “Turaventur” - this week long trip involves (mostly) easy cycling from village to village with plenty of interesting stops, with a focus on food, wine, and, of course, castles. We stayed at a different place nearly every night and had an excellent guide - Jorge.