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I popped down to Tower Bridge on Sunday night to capture some blue hour city scape shots and to my complete excitement, an alarm went off as we were ushered to the end of the bridge so it could open up to let a tall boat (you can see its lights at the bottom of the shot) pass through.
I would have liked to have a shot with more of the boat in but there were loads of people in front of me also trying to get a good shot of it so I had to tilt the camera upwards to cut them out of the frame.
I've only seen it open up once before this so it was a rare treat to have been in the right place at the right time this time around.
There are a few other shots which in my opinion are compositionally better than this one but I need to do some serious cloning out of people's heads first.
Hannah Grubb, Pole Vault, 2012 Midlands Open Indoor Athletics, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, UK.
Picture Fall/Open Heart, Open Mind
Can you imagine lilacs blooming in October only days before a snow storm? But they did bloom, and the snow took us all off guard. Just goes to show, you never know what possibilities lie in the moments ahead, both the good and the bad. Let's open ourselves up to all the good that can come our way. It just might surprise us. Happy Bokeh Wednesday everyone!
I used an overlay of [ HalaH ]'s free nescafe action : )
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Rent: Cheap!
I live in a neighborhood that was laid out about 100 years ago. Most of the houses were built in the 20's and 30's, and most of them are bungalos. The lots are small, and a grid of alleys run along the backs of most properties. Along those alleys, many secondary structures were built: Garages, sheds, workshops, Mother-in-Law apartments, etc.
This is a garage apartment facing the alley at the back of a property around the corner and across the street from my house. There are a total of three rental units on the property, this one plus the two in the main house. Only one of them is even remotely close to habitable, and it's rented. The roof has catastrophically failed to the point where it is mostly a distant memory. There is no door. This building must be torn down, and that is what I reported to code enforcement.
P.S. I hung out in this apartment circa 1993-1995, when one of my high school friends rented it. Trippy.
Open Lab Mag
www.openlabmagazine.com/post/10164267951
dress: Dreamandawake
model: Nastasja @ Al Models
Open Air Philadelphia was an interactive public art project. Robotic searchlights positioned on buildings overlooking the Benjamin Franklin Parkway moved in response to the frequency and volume of human voices recorded on messages.
A Facebook post told us that a Routemaster bus would be visiting Old Coulsdon today, and giving free rides on a short section of the old 190 route that used to serve our village. Imagine our delight when not one RM turned up but two, RM1214 (214CLT) dating from 1962 and RM2213 (CUV213C) from 1965, one of the last batch of standard length RMs. RM1214 was giving the rides, while RM2213 was there in support because, as is well known, London buses don’t like to be alone. Here’s the conductor complete with Gibson ticket machine, and weighed down by innumerable badges!
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