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Not one of my greatest, but topical in view of the interest generated by another trouser-themed photograph I posted a few days ago. The impressively capacious thunderbags entering left were captured at Stockport on Monday 6th February 1978. We must allow Youth its errors ...and what would Youth be without them? ...but, ignoring the cut of his strides, the young man has taken considerable care to dress presentably and does not conceive his costume as an affront to others or as the emblem of his indifference to their opinion. It is not an egotistical, anti-social statement of the kind so familiar today. Today, as I sometimes reflect when waiting at the checkout queue behind a fifty year-old man with a tattooed neck and a stringy, pepper-and-salt pony tail, everyone ...including many who are old enough to have more sense... flatters himself that he is an outsider or bohemian: but what can a universal bohemianism be but another form of orthodoxy?
The bus, a Leyland Titan PD3/14 with East Lancs body, had been new to Stockport Corporation in 1969 ...just pre-SELNEC I think... but had now been swallowed into the fleet of the Greater Manchester PTE and had, alas, succumbed to that operator's lamentable colour scheme. "Livery" seems too elevated a term to be applied to this dirt-emphasising orangeade and off-white get-up. I would imagine that the Low Cost Apex Fares to Australia, U. S. A. and Canada, advertised in the travel agent's window, would be quite expensive relative to contemporary incomes. Travel agents would soon find themselves exposed to cut-throat competition from "bucket shops" and ahead-of-their-time budget airlines such as Laker and Dan Air. I believe I saw a travel agency in Bury St Edmunds the other day, but with the growth of online booking it is surprising that they survive at all.
5 shot HDR image, Lakeside, Essex. 2014.
Please note I am not the artist of this work, merely the photographer.
An upclose picture I originally took of some piano music, I photoshopped it to make it look more dramatic.
This moment..I feel sad... and lost, though I hate to admit it.
But I know that I have to keep on going, this will not break me, it only makes me stronger.
Note : I know this pic is almost bad... but thats how I feel right now :-)
Hey there friends and fellow photographers and writers,
I just wanted to be in touch to let you know I have a new photo book, published just last week in Tokyo by Neutral Colors.
It's called Middle Life Notes, and it comprises 26 images with 12 waka poems and an essay, about how I came to be me, here, now, at this point in my life. It's a bit more personal than Sunlanders, as the poems and images alike reveal somewhat autobiographical elements of my life. The images are all of Japan, shot with a Diana f+ and were made into darkroom color prints before being scanned. The waka (which are similar to haiku, but have a 5/7/5/7/7 scheme) were printed with a Risograph. Both the waka and the essay include Japanese translations.
It was published by Neutral Colors, by an editor who has an enormous number of contacts in Tokyo, but among all the talented photographers he could have chosen to launch his new line, it was my honor to be his first selection. I really am happy with the way the book turned out and I hope to share it with you.
The published edition is 333 copies, and I will be personally sell 111 of them. So before announcing on Instagram and Twitter I wanted to reach out to you first. It costs just ¥3200 with a small postage handling fee (¥250 in Japan to ¥500 further abroad), which is $30, with a $2-$5 post fee. I'll make almost no profit on sales-- making books is a labor of love, and I am in love!
If you are keen, I'd be happy to mail out a signed copy once I hear back from you. Please send me a DM and let me know your physical address. For those of you who bought Sunlanders, and will buy this new book, I am so grateful for your support.
This is dedicated to my friend BossBob50. Check out his CD cover set: www.flickr.com/photos/bossbob50/sets/72157607782882854/
AND don't miss this take off on my pic above:
www.flickr.com/photos/bossbob50/5997870813/
I suppose this could be the cover of a Blue Note issue, one of those classic jazz albums produced by the creative people at Blue Note Records back in the hard bop days. At least that's what it reminded me of when I was getting into this. Perhaps something by their main tenor man Hank Mobley or their brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan ... ?
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!~ Philip James Bailey
Sunday muzak anyone?
OR...........
Little Wing =)
After some interest in my previous, black and white version I decided to show off this girls true colours. Note the much smaller male (OOF) above her, and her golden web which shone in the sunlight. No need to comment again folks unless you would like to :)
This is a large female black legged golden orb weaver (Nephila pilipes fenestrata) seen at Boulders Beach, South Africa.
The largest and most impressive genus in the Nephilidae is Nephila. Females are large, measuring 15 - 40 mm in length, with a leg span of 100 - 120 mm, while the male is only about 5 - 9 mm, with leg span of up to 25 mm, and it is only about one thousandth of the female's weight. Nephila komaci, found in Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa and Madagascar, is the largest orb-web spider known.
Special thanks to Peter Nederlof for the ID, thanks Peter.
The cardinal is the one bright note in our late-winter landscape here in New York. He is a very welcome sight at the busy bird feeder. Here, he is patientoy waitng his turn, perched in a large bush.
A digitally-painted photograph.
My favorite old cameras have notes on them left by the photographers who used them as tools, not talismans and fetishes.
Strobist: AB800 with HOBD-W with 15 degree grid camera right. Reflector camera left. AB800 open behind backdrop of white faux suede. Triggered by Cybersync.
HA! I finally figured I how to use simpose. FEAR ME PATHETIC MORTALS DDD:
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Anyways. O_____o
A product of my recent obsession with Death Note... Tis L
*savethisbitch*
At the end of the trip as far as we get on the Gunbarrel, the next day we walked ahead about four miles to where we found the tracks in the mud made by the vehicle we heard revving in the distance today. We had met him before, John Walters, see trip notes by Mary for 8th July. He had camped about 3 miles from us, the fire was still warm.
We walked up the track to see how bad the mud was and reached the point where the Land Rover ahead had been winching along in the wheel rusts dragging his diff and axle.
He had had pulled small trees sideways in the wet off to the side and laid a corduroy of sticks in the wheel ruts to progress…
We got a gallon of water from a puddle and walked back to the others. We had been away for three hours!
We could not get John's Land Cruiser close enough to pull us out, so we used our small 7 to one hand pulley with about seven people pulling.
As we got the Kombi spinning and reversing out the people pulling had to run 7 times faster than the Kombi until they fell over backward in the mud.
The cable tied across the front on the roo bar was a stay from a yacht given to us by Bob and Anne Crowe's dad for the trip. We later wrapped it around the bumper on #Smoky60Series where it travelled #roundaustraliawithspelio for the next twenty years…
But we were out and managed to find some firm ground off the track to camp and have dinner and a rest.
The end of our trip North of Giles to Alice Springs..
shortcut #roundAustraliawithSpelio
Scratching his head....
National Coal Board The Hunslet Engine Company Limited 18” x 26” 0-6-0ST ‘Austerity’ class locomotive number 63.000.326 hauls eight loaded merry-go-round coal hopper wagons from Bickershaw Colliery at Plank Lane in Leigh to the exchange sidings with British Railways. Thursday 29th September 1983
Note, No7 was built by The Hunslet Engine Company Limited (works number 3776) at Hunslet in Leeds in September 1952 to a Ministry of Supply design for the National Coal Board, being delivered to the West Midlands Division, Number 3 (South Staffordshire & Shropshire) Area’s Baggeridge Colliery as No.8. By February 1968 it had moved to Hilton Main Colliery, it moved to Granville Colliery in September 1968 and by July 1970 it had moved to Cannock Wood Colliery. It was moved to West Cannock Colliery in January 1971 and was moved to Bickershaw Colliery in February 1977 where it was painted as No7 for a BBC Television film The Hill Of Heaven
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Note by Dido Haaas - Nitroglobus Gallery
"Forbidden Fruit by Monique (Moni) Beebe,
the December 2019/January 2020 exhibition @ Nitroglobus.
I am really happy to present for the 4th time an exhibition by my SL and RL friend Monique (Moni) Beebe.
Next to images in her more 'usual' sensuous, evocative style which present studies of the female body (her own), Moni got inspired by a RL exhibition of famous Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, which she visited last Spring in the Gemeente Museum The Hague. Especially the mood of the early series 'Squares' and 'Chessmen' by Mr Olaf you will notice are reflected in some of the images of this present exhibition 'Forbidden Fruit'.
For those not familiar with the works of Erwin Olaf, here's a link to his work: www.erwinolaf.com/art
Moreover, Kai Kohime created an awesome mesh vulptuous female sculpture, that fits perfectly with the exhibition.
I hope you will enjoy this end of the year exhibition as much as I do.
Dido Haas, owner/curator
Nitroglobus
Opening party: Sunday 29 December, 12 pm SLT (= 21 hrs Amsterdam time)
Music by DJ Ferdy"
Visit this location at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery in Second Life