Maintainance mechanic ng PCL

Open Skiff regatta, Sopot, Poland

The Volden Brothers and me went up to the last bit of winter to get som shots before it's too late. I think it went rather well, we had good fun !

The large houses in the lower part of the village, with well conserved decorative motifs, are regularly maintained. The construction materials used still remain earth and wood. The inclination to introduce cement has so far been unsuccessful, thanks to the continued monitoring of the (Rural Community, Town Planning Division, Urban Agency, CERKAS). Only a few lintels and reinforced concrete escaped its vigilance, but they have been hidden by earthen rendering. Particular attention is also paid to doors and windows giving on to the lanes, to ensure that the wood is not replaced by metal

Taken @Ait-Ben-Haddou, Morocco, North Africa.

Maintaining social distancing while visiting the same cluster of flowers on Swamp Milkweed.

(Sorry, just wanted to use some current phrasing for something completely unrelated.)

I've maintained this account since 2009 and it's been great, but all good things must end. With my blog and Instagram, keeping up with this account doesn't make much sense, especially because it costs money. So it will be lapsing into free account status in August. Not sure what changes will happen to it then. We'll see.

I will be keeping the account. I know some people find my older photos and it helps them ID items, so I'd never delete everything unless I had to. I'm always around for questions, too. I'll still get message/comment notifications from here. But as for new content, this will be my last photo. Just a quick snap of part of my coffee table crew.

My reviews, in stock/pre-order posts, news posts, etc. will be in my blog:

venivididolli.blogspot.com/

Some things will be on Instagram, too, but the blog is my primary thing. www.instagram.com/venivididolli/

If you like my bear pics, I have a blog that keeps track of my collection here:

vvdcharliebears.blogspot.com/

I don't plan on taking as many photos of new arrivals, but I may change my mind and post my bears in more detail in the regular VVD blog.

I think that's about it. It's been fun!

ETA: So apparently, a free account only gets 1000 photos. UGGGHHHH. I'm in the process of deleting the photos from the years since I've had my blog, so everything from now back to 2016. Everything before that I may let sit for a little bit. If anyone wants any photos for their wishlists or whatever, grab them soon. I'll slowly be going through the pics and weeding out 1000 to keep. No idea which ones will be the most important!

Not John Goodman, maintaining his cool on a hot and humid late September day, at the...

East Atlanta Strut

Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA.

28 September 2019.

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▶ "The East Atlanta Strut is East Atlanta's free annual one-day neighborhood festival, always on the third Saturday in September featuring a parade, food, live music, art, and events. The festival is held to highlight the businesses in East Atlanta Village as well as raise funds for schools, senior programs, and Neighbor In Need East Atlanta. The festival is run completely with volunteers."

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Maintaining the old steam locomotive Rekolok DR 52 8079 in Gdynia, Poland

Doolin (Irish: Dúlainn) is a coastal village in County Clare, Ireland, on the Atlantic coast. The area was officially classified as part of the West Clare Gaeltacht (an Irish-speaking community) until 1956, and, due to trade with the Aran Islands, maintained a strong connection to it until the 1990s. Wikipedia: ift.tt/1CxEzHD via 500px ift.tt/2jUabJ1

The Beeston Canal, in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.

Although the River Trent had been used for navigation for centuries it was not until the late 18th century that improvements were made.

The Trent Navigation Company was formed by an Act of 1783 with the responsibility of maintaining and improving the river from Shardlow in Derbyshire to Gainsborough (Lincolnshire). William Jessop was appointed as permanent engineer.

An Act of 1794 authorised the construction of the Beeston Canal (also known as the Beeston Cut), a cut 2¼ miles (3.2 km) in length, which ran from the Nottingham Canal at Lenton to the River Trent at Beeston. It opened in 1796 and allowed boats to travel through the town and thereby avoid hazardous conditions on the River Trent between Beeston Lock and West Bridgford.

With increased prosperity, the canals became the transport of choice in its day and people soon arrived to capitalise on its obvious benefits. But with the advent of the railway, the canal system went into decline, until the Inland Waterways Association championed the use of canals as leisure facilities in the 1960s. This led to a clean up and canal side improvements that feature today.

The Valley Grove Preservation Society seeks to maintain two historic churches listed on the National Register of Historic Sites, both in the Valley Grove Cemetery grounds, as well as taking responsibility for managing the surrounding 50-acre oak savanna restoration.

Two historic Norwegian immigrant churches sit on a hill in the farm valley south of Northfield, Minnesota near Big Woods State Park in a panorama of prairie and oak savanna.

The Valley Grove Preservation Society members are stewards for the two Valley Grove churches, the 1862 stone church and the white clapboard church built in 1894 and also for the surrounding 50 acres of rolling prairie grasses and trees.

Valley Grove Lutheran Church, the congregation that met for services in the white clapboard church structure– was de-commissioned after the congregation disbanded in April 1973. The decline in farming and the growth in other churches contributed to the loss of the old church community.

Valley Grove is on the National Register of Historic Sites. Under the oak tree in the southwest corner of the churchyard, Pastor Bernt Julius Muus from Norway baptized 52 children in 1859; he went on to help found St. Olaf College. Many of the memorial stones are in Norwegian , and the graveyard contains the family plot of the innovative Veblen family, whose son was economist Thorstein Veblen.

The Valley Grove Cemetery Association, which owns the limestone church then in use as a Guild Hall, became the owner of the clapboard church a year after the congregation disbanded.

to get this shot I had to lean out over the edge of the cliff on a very rickety viewing platform.

It was a coupla hundred metres to the bottom, and I was hoping that the person who made the platform wasn't the same person who maintained the appalling roads in Greece.

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Transdev maintains a pool of vehicles which can be used across all of its fleets, in a neutral grey and black livery with a 'Pride of the North' title prominently displayed. Examples of several types, both double- and single-deck, wear these colours. One of the oldest, having entered service with Travel West Midlands in December 1999, is this Volvo B7TL with Plaxton President body, proving its use as Team Pennine updates the fleet inherited from Arriva-owned Yorkshire Tiger. It was photographed in Market Street, Halifax, on the 1405 service 21 journey to Rye Lane at Pellon; this 20-minute run is a Halifax town service, currently running half-hourly. (Photo taken and posted 4 December 2021).

The legend maintains that many years ago, possibly at the end of the 18th century, some soldiers discovered an opening to a tunnel under the Keep of the Castle. As they were too large to crawl into it themselves, they selected one of the small regimental drummer boys to be lowered through a narrow crevice into a vault. He was told to continue along the passage beating his drum as he went. Guided by the sound of drumming, the soldiers were to follow his course above the ground and so plot the route.

The sound of the drum was heard clearly as he proceeded down the tunnel. It led them away from the Castle, across the Market Place in the direction of Frenchgate, and beside the River Swale towards Easby.

When the soldiers reached Easby Wood, half a mile from the Abbey, the drumming ceased. A stone stands today to mark the spot and is called the 'Drummer Boy Stone' by the local people. The drummer boy was never seen again. Perhaps the roof had fallen in? The mystery has never been solved.

Elephants are extremely sensitive to order, and the order shall be strictly followed. Always, the bigger and stronger first... the smaller and weaker next.

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Link to color versions of this and other photos from my 11-day trip to Kenya.

The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, near Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England.

Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls. The rooms and "doors" are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden. Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.

For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.

The site is ancient— "hurst" is the Saxon term for "an enclosed wood". A manorhouse with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. By 1305, Sissinghurst was impressive enough for King Edward I to spend the night. In 1490, Thomas Baker purchased Sissinghurst.The house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and hugely enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.

Members of the Trig Team make repairs the the tail wheel of G-P111

A group photo of the Coeur D’Alene dancers after their marvelous performances.

A BNSF maintainer watches as a former BN SD70MAC leads a westbound auto train through Lemont, IL.

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Cool how owls always seem to keep their eyes level even in a sharp bank.

Bundaberg region,Queensland Australia

A 200m paved surface leads from the entrance of the park to the boardwalk. The boardwalk is 400m in distance making a round trip from the park entrance and back about 1.4 km. The walking track varied from hard pressed dirt and grass, to quite soft sandy soil but in general was very well maintained and flat. Prams with pump-up tyres and bikes would both cope well on this track. The full circuit is 5.2km and takes about 2 hours to complete. The scenery was varied from large cabbage palms and ferns to forests of eucalypts and banksias.

Tune: EPMD - Da Joint

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Uh, EPMD, huh

Check it, uh

I make a million buck every six months and y'all

Hating my game, saying my name, they call

Me the E, wrong things, knowing I'm fly without wings

While some of y'all have to pull strings

In this era, I maintain the freak upon the beats

Master baselines of Raphael Saadiq

Lyrical mastermind, a genius so don't snooze

No missions impossible, ask Tom Cruise

I keep a joint lit when I have to spit

A rough paragraph, laugh when I'm busting your ass

Who want it? Come and see me like 112

And I'll rock that bell with Fox and L

E-Dub, Mr Excitement, right

The poltergeist of rap so come to the light

Yes, the recipient of this award goes to moi

The best qualified superstar

My squad stays on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

Yeah, my squad stay on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

New York, I'm in your area (over here)

DC, I'm in your area (over here)

New Jers, I'm in your area (over here)

EPMD is a world premier

It's the joint, stay on point, plus I'm feeling it

Niggas killin' shit tryna duplicate the manuscript

That's impossible, pray like the gospel

Overcoming set backs, and jumping over obstacles

Like Evil Kenevil, on point like a needle

EPMDs' like the Beatles, back with another sequel

To hip hop, check, one-two and you don't stop

Rap with mainstream R&B and pop

Now the world's shocked, E-doubles back with Mic-Doc

Like it or not, we 'bout to turn it up another notch

Mach speed, put it down for my seeds

Raw breeds, acres with the deeds, it's the joint

My squad stays on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

Yeah, my squad stay on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

VA, I'm in your area (over here)

DA, I'm in your area (over here)

Chi-Town, I'm in your area (over here)

EPMD is a world premier

Uh, My styles digable, so I'm phat like that

I got a Benz too, and it's black like that

I got millions of chips, and they stack like that

A five year spread and now we back like that

How dandy, niggas sittin' in they room with Brandy

Way pissed off thinkin' how the can't stand me

He rhyme Shawn for his Penn, talking

Not lookin', shooken, a dead man walkin'

You know me, from rippin' shows wit my homie

The one and only, Ginuwine like Pony

You wanna ride? Then call me up when you're lonely

I'm Parish Smith the shit, Great like Tony

I'm hittin'-hittin' (where from?)

From Brentwood to San Quentin

I'ma keep rhymin', still representin' (for who?)

For my niggas up north and in the courts

And to the emcees takin' no shorts, in this blood sport

My squad stays on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

Yeah, my squad stay on point like

Den en den den de den, it's the joint

Detroit, I'm in your area (over here)

Cali, I'm in your area (over here)

Philly, I'm in your area (over here)

EPMD is a world premier

The Greenland locals rely on the traditional hunting and fishing has been difficult to maintain their live in

hood.

Maintaining a rather regal composure somewhere in the middle of Bangkok.

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...Is not always easy in stiletto pumps! But I was able to manage it here- at least for a couple of seconds!

Here's another pic from my 2014 archives!

This tight & shiny wet look tank style lycra spandex minidress is another fabulous creation from the folks at coquetryclothing.com! I've matched it up with my Platino Luxe 40 denier pantyhose over Hanes Alive Barely There pantyhose & my black Claudia crisscross platform sandals with the 5" heels from fredericks.com

To see more pix of me in other tight, sexy and revealing outfits click this link:www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157623668202157/

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Aircraft maintainers assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa conduct a post-flight inspection on a C-130 Super Hercules at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Oct. 30, 2015. Through unified action with U.S. and international partners in East Africa, CJTF-HOA conducts security force assistance, executes military engagement, provides force protection and military support to regional counter-violent extremist organization operations in order to support aligned regional efforts, and ensures regional access and freedom of movement, as well as protecting U.S. interests. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Barry Loo)

78 year old N45SK Beech 18 (C-45H)(MSN AF-645) Plane Fun Inc Trustee looking remarkably well maintained departing on runway 30 at Prestwick EGPK/PIK to Mainz Finthen EDFZ after arriving from Reykjavik BIRK/RKV for a night stop on 7th October 2020.

Pentax Espio 80 FP4 EcoPro 1+1 04/08/2023

route vers TYC ... Dordogne

Watermarking is tricky business and a rough territory. On one hand, you want your photos to be recognized as YOUR work and traceable back to your name and skill. On the other hand, and the reason I suspect not more photos are being watermarked, you want your photos to maintain its aesthetic look, because let's face it - nothing can be more distracting sometimes than a watermark on a fantastic photo. It's like going to prom with a giant zit on your face - you're dressed head to toe in the finest garments, you've gotten your hair professionally done... and blam! That blaring red pimple screams for everyone's attention. I might be digressing a bit, but sometimes that's how I feel about watermarked photos, especially watermarks that are just simply "So-and-so Photography" in big bold Times New Roman font. Even if the watermark is dressed up with a logo or presented in some kind of business-casual outfit, it's still a little distracting. Sometimes when I'm on Flickr, a watermark can nearly destroy the entire aesthetic or atmosphere of a photo that I don't want to favorite it. "I'd favorite that photo if only there wasn't that watermark... ." I say "sometimes" because very rarely, a watermark is so nicely designed and discreet that it actually fits in with the aesthetic of that particular photo. It's very rare. But I can't imagine someone designing a different watermark for every single photo solely for the sake of keeping aesthetics. That is not, and never will be, the point of a watermark.

I completely understand watermarking in various situations such as client proofing or for the intention of protecting your precious work, but when you watermark every single one of your photos that you post on facebook (like your hamster or that salad you just ate), doesn't that kind of give an air of pretentiousness? It's like saying, "I took this and it's so good that people might want to steal it so I have to watermark it..." What if (dun dun dun) you post a picture that everyone thinks is absolutely horrendous (that salad looks disgusting!) and it's got your name and reputation on it?

But what about when you just want some credit when you know people don't care as much as you do? Let's say you're at a small party or gathering. You take a bunch of photos, post them online, and get people using your photos as their profile pictures. They get tons of comments on it, saying "Sweet picture!" "Looks so professional!" Yada yada yada.. how do you feel? Do you feel like you should have stuck a "Your Photography" on the picture so that people would say "You took that picture, nice job!" and perhaps a bit of a stretch, maybe "Hey I need some professional photos done too!" Honestly, sometimes I do feel that way.

I was once hired to be a photographer for an event. I gave them the CD full of pictures, full-resolution and un-watermarked, explaining to them that I'd like to credited on whatever website they'd be posting the images on because I didn't want "Annie Hall Photography" invading John and Jane's gorgeous pose together. I saw the album on Facebook. I had to contact them again because they didn't put my name anywhere.

But hey, let's look at the dynamics of facebook or whatever popular social networking site:

1. Most people will crop the photos so that their face is dead center in the newly formed 4x3 composition. Because facebook gave us that option. Your original composition is dead. Whatever watermark you put there might have, and probably will have, been cropped out too.

2. I will safely say that a LOT people think that photos are photos. Nobody cares who took the picture. People will admire the actor but will hardly pay attention to the cinematographer, and that's why you want that watermark there, to claim your existence in the picture, quite literally.

3. Someone saw your magnificent photo floating around in cyberspace, but it had no collar on it to lead it back to its owner. Bummer, you just lost a potential client.

4. "Relax, it's just Facebook."

However bit of a stretch I could be making with the "potential client" or "grotesque scratch on that beautiful car," I'm just trying to make a point that it's a tough call, and it's extremely tricky to find some common ground between aesthetics and credits. I myself am still trying to decide - when do I watermark an image? Do I want to imply that these photos are "sooo awesome" that people might want to steal it? It's tough stuff. And with the onset of all these social networking sites and photo sharing sites, it doesn't get easier.

(c) Annie Hall! AHHH!!!!!

Maintaining the purple theme!

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This beautiful, multicolored songbird can be found year-round in Florida either as a migrant, a winter resident or as a scarce local breeder. In winter they are often found at well-maintained feeding stations, predominantly in southern counties. Northeast Florida’s coastal areas are home to the state’s largest breeding population, where singing males can be found between April and August. During spring and fall migration, Painted Buntings have been found at many coastal and inland trail sites. This species has been declining for decades due to habitat loss and capture for the caged bird trade.

I found this one in my backyard this morning. (I know it is at a feeder) but I will take it! (smile).

Made me a happy camper!

Lake Wales, Florida.

On a bitterly cold Winter morning, a Wisconsin Central signal maintainer is making sure everything is working properly at the Main street grade crossing in the small town of Lomira, Wisconsin. – February 10th, 2001 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

Inland, Maintainance Craft Holland Diving 1 passeert hier ter hoogte van Maassluis.

ENI: 2320111

Name: Holland Diving 1

Ship type: Inland, Maintainance Craft

Flag: Netherlands

Gross Tonnage: - - - t

Deadweight: - - - t

Size: 29 x 6.8 m

Year Built: 1954

Status: Active

Port of Rotterdam

A heavy train and only 3 motors running has this M447 down to 21mph as heard on the detector at MP108. A quick call to the RTC gives the 676 axle train permission to put the 4th motor online and do all that is needed to maintain track speed. Had they been running normal, an over-under shot would have been nabbed as a UP freight went through on the Adams line above them minutes prior to their arrival.

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BOB BARKER CREW SIGHT A RARE POD OF ORCAS !!!

Yesterday, while maintaining pursuit of the "Thunder", the crew of The MV Bob Barker was visited by a pod of the very rare, very playful Orcas.

First identified in 1955 after a stranding in New Zealand, this species known as ‘‘Type D” Killer whales was not seen again for almost 50 years! Still today, there remain only a handful of sightings.

The pod of about 12, which included a small juvenile and large male, stayed with the Bob Barker for almost 1 hour, surfing the 6-metre swell.

As the crew of the The MV Sam Simon enters its 3rd day of retrieving the illegal gillnet left behind by the Thunder, this special moment is a poignant reminder of the delicate beauty of Antarctica, and why it’s so important that we continue to Defend * Conserve * Protect this last, great wilderness.

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After a day maintaining the permanent way, veteran motordraisine #9 return back to its base and crosses av. Santa Rosa in Callao. September 15th 2022

Outside the maintainance area of Arriva Scotland West's Johnstone Garage including N122DWM, N129DWM & P820GMS. Soon to disapear from Scotlands bus scene. Arriva Scotland West was the groups sole operation in Scotland and was sold in December 2011 to McGills Bus Service of Greenock..More info here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva_Scotland_West

Barn maintained and in use though no animals in sight.

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