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A little different from my normal genre. This is for the group, Flickr Friday, the subject this week of wheels.
Technicians work on a speaker hanging from the trellis of Chicago’s Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion as Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” reflects its environment in the background.
I just love walking around the back streets and alleyways of small towns. I enjoy old worn and weathered surfaces and things that are a little dilapidated or shabby. Towns like this often times don’t have the resources of larger more progressive towns to keep everything looking new. Some towns are absolutely anal about appearances and are far too boring because of that for photographers looking for photogenic subjects. Even big cities can display this contrast between new and old surfaces. The so called rust belt cities like Detroit and Cleveland are an absolute treasure trove for our hobby. I have often wondered why the city officials fail to see what an asset they really have on their hands and cash in on it with photo tourism. They could promote five day getaways with tours of the old abandoned mills and factories specifically oriented towards photography. Make it safe and provide amenities suitable for the comfort of the tourists and you would put other venues out of business. Preserve it as it is as a permanent historic theme park of our nation’s heritage. Oh my. I must be crazy.
A bit of maintenance on her feathers now that she has returned to her nest hole after raising to more young this year.
This picture was taken for the SPIRIT/ KITJA 2017 contest, I did not win BUT if u never enter u never will of known :)
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Amber Lyndhurst
Outfit
SPIRIT - Mele playsuit [KHAKI]
KITJA - Elephant necklace Gift
KITJA - Sunglasses Gift
Taxi - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spirit%20Kitja/133/120/102
Crews at Southern Appalachia Railway Museum work into the night shuffling cars around the Y-12 and K-25 complexes with ex CSX U23B 9553, appropriately nicknamed the "Maintenance of Wade", after Wade White.
Taken as part of an impromptu night photo session with the museum.
There is an army of workers employed to keep the temple sites at Ayutthaya maintained. If left to their own devices the tropical climate would soon be covered in vegetation
I really admire window cleaners.
This is a rather high building in Cape Town's city centre and watching him work made me dizzy.
Have a great Wednesday everyone!
HWW!
Helsted, Randers, Denmark, 2021. Burke & James 4x5 press camera with 150/6.3 Rodenstock Geronar; yellow filter. Front rise. Fomapan100 developed in Rodinal 1+50.
The rods from 30926 ‘Repton’ are the forefront of this scene during winter maintenance at Grosmont. To the left at 34072 ‘257 Squadron’ and 92134 whilst to the right is 45428 ‘Eric Treacy’
One year ago today, as I upload this. The fireman of 'JS' 2-8-2 No.8081 of the Sandaoling Mining Railway was attempting to plug a steam leak in the cylinder gland of his ailing locomotive at Xuanmeichang Washery on 20th January 2016. It really did seem like a 'make do and mend' operation, with no back-up heavy maintenance facilities to call upon, rather akin to the final days of steam on BR. The long journey back home after this day's photographic session had a great bearing on my calling it a day on photographing steam in China, even though sights such as this I imagine are still just possible as I write this.The thought of making a long return journey to north west China, only to find the steam railway operation no longer in operation is just too much of a risk to contemplate!
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Aunt's apartment in Split.
I remember coming here as a little girl. Nothing has been changed, nothing has been renovated, as you can see by this bathroom.
Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 Superveloce
A quick shot of this car, taken in May 2011, when she got fixed up before she entered the 2011 Gumball 3000 Rally.
We picked up the car and took her for a spin, she was returned first thing on monday so the mechanics could get back at her.
M9 872 approaches Colombo Maradana with a train from Kandy on the final full day of our Sri Lankan trip.
This really was a welcome sight as aside from a number of stored locomotives on Maradana depot we had seen absolutely no evidence of the M9 class for the previous 8 days of the trip, nor my previous visit in 2015 - so they do work sometimes!
10 of these Alstom locomotives were built in 2000 for Sri Lankan Railways at Belfort in France- unlike their more familiar cousins the EWS class 67, these locomotives are fitted with a Ruston power plan and certainly sound quite different as a result!
Since their introduction the class has been plagued by problems with maintenance and the cost and supply of spare parts leaving them as the least utilised fleet of locos in the country, often with only one or two machines in traffic.
My 2024 trip report from Sri Lanka is now online here.
Amtrak GP38-3 720 rests at Wilmington, still wearing Amtrak's grey livery. Originally a Clinchfield GP38, this engine is a world away from the Appalachian coal fields for which it was built. (Taken on railroad property during a guided tour.)
A "snake bird" or anhinga stretches out its wings to dry on the shores of the Venice Rookery, in Venice, Florida.
(21 March, 2020)