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For Jules' Photo Challenge, Feb 2018, a pic a day....2/21/18
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Captured in Sept. 2012 in Blaubeuren Germany with a Panasonic DMC-ZS20.
It was edited in Alien Skin Exposure 5, with two variations of Old Kodachrome faded options and the layers blended with a blend mode.
This mill wheel used the water power to drive a hammer that forged iron.
This pond was really green in color, yet very clear.
There is a very busy hiking path that goes up the hill behind the wheel.
There is also very deep blue pond here. Its gets its color from its depth. At one point they thought it was bottomless. But divers finally reached the bottom and discovered the its greatest depth 20.6 m, volume approx 5,500 m³. with a constant temp in the depths of 9.4 °C.
I seem to remember that there were also some prehistoric settlements and artifacts associated with that hill.
Blaubeuren is located west of Ulm. There is an Abbey and some castle ruins nearby. It is considered a Town District, and I was told that they keep the area its serves historic records there. I am guessing it is kind of like the Market town in the UK.
It has some really nice old architecture with great details.
Here is an excerpt from my Journal entry on this day in 2018, for those who would share my travel adventures. Sometimes a picture doesn't tell the whole story ....
This morning we took a Shinkansen train from Tokyo west to Toyama. Here we changed to a local train to Takayama and then changed to a bus for a one hour ride to our hotel in Ryokan. We are staying at the Ryokan Hodakaso Sanganoyu hot springs hotel. Nishi San (our Japanese guide) gave us a long talk on the etiquette of naked bathing in the hot springs, and how to conduct ourselves in a traditional Japanese hotel.
We were greeted when we arrived at this most traditional of Japanese hotels tucked away in the snow capped hills of rural Japan. Being a traditional Japanese hotel, we took off our shoes in an anti-room when we entered the building. The anti-room had two floor levels, on the lower of these we removed our shoes which staff took the instant they left our feet. Only then could we step the 4 or 5 cm up to the higher level. On this level we walked in our socks through to the reception area where dozens of pairs of identical slippers were laid out in rows, women to the left, men to the right.
The slippers ranged in size from rather small to enormous. I couldn't be bothered looking for a suitable sized pair, I slipped my feet into the first medium sized pair I saw. These slippers were to be worn when walking anywhere in the hotel. I soon discovered all the slippers are left footed, and even the best fitting of them do not fit. They are uncomfortable to wear, I must concentrate just to keep them on my feet, walking is therefore both deliberate and slow. They are also a trip hazard.
Togged up in our new footwear we discovered the hotel hadn’t prepared for our arrival. There were no straight answers to the simplest of questions. We stood around like cows waiting to be milked, but the milking machine seemed to be broken. Eventually a time for dinner was agreed, and our room numbers were read out; there we would find our room keys. Mine was room 506.
The protocol upon entering our room is to remove the killer slippers in a small anti-room just inside the door. As with the anti-room at the entrance to the hotel, the floor had two levels. Slippers had to be removed and left on the lower level. From there we proceed in our socks, or bare foot, on the raised level. There were also slippers in the toilet, these were to be worn while sitting on the toilet, but must remain in the toilet and were not to be worn anywhere else in the hotel room.
I arrived at my room in time to see a man and woman from our tour group entering room 506. The man, Joe, a big guy with a bulbous alcoholic nose and personality to match, was quite put out at seeing me. He protested and returned to reception in a huff, leaving the room to me.
An aged and stooping Japanese woman in a kimono came to the room. She didn’t speak much English, but she had two problems with me, first I hadn’t removed my slippers on entering the room, and secondly I seemed to be alone. The slipper faux pas resolved, she disappeared, leaving me to settle into an essentially empty couple of rooms.
Barely had I surveyed my stark surrounds when there came a heavy banging at the door. Expecting the Slipper Police, I was relieved to see Bulbous nose and his timid little wife filling the door frame. We had been double booked, there would be no ménage à trois, I was to report to room 507 where my futon and green tea were waiting.
Room 507 was a smaller suite, and just as starkly furnished. In the middle of a room was a low table and a chair with the cushion at floor level. Nishi San had instructed that the first thing we were to do was prepare green tea and drink it at the low table while seated on the impossibly low chair. It was never going to happen.
Before I had time to consider my options, the fearsome kimono granny burst into the room with three kimonos. Luckily for me, I was in my socks, she was one fearsome granny who I knew would have eaten the Big Bad Woolf and probably lay in wait for Little Red Ridinghood. She showed me the kimono sizes, 160, 170 and 180; I got the drift, which was my size? I settled on 170 and she left me in peace.
Unlike room 506, mine had a second small room with a low coffee table and two simple armchairs that were low by Western standards, but were at least above the floor. What a relief to actually have somewhere to sit, other than on the floor.
There was barely time to get settled into my room before I had to report to the dining room for dinner. Nishi San had already instructed us in the wearing of a kimono, so I togged up in the kimono the fearsome granny had brought earlier, and made my way to the dining room. Here Kimono Granny lay in wait, I had by now renamed her The Kimono Dragon. Nobody’s dress passed muster, Dragon Lady corrected and adjusted everybody’s dress. I had only passed the sash once around my waist, and that would never do, she wrapped it twice around me and pulled it in tight.
Fortunately she didn't notice, or ignored, that I was wearing a T-shirt, and she never inspected to see if I was wearing any underwear. On this occasion I'd taken the liberty of keeping mine on, but one never knows in a place where nude bathing is customary, if not de rigueur.
We were seated at individual tables, rather like kindergarten kids, and sat on chairs that were much too low at desks that were as low as they were small. There was a gas cooker sat in one corner of the table, on it was a metal bowl filled with simmering water. On the opposite corner a ceramic pot with lid, it sat above a small apparatus reminiscent of the cookers people once used in my childhood.
We were treated to dish after dish of appetisers that were never appetising. Plates of sliced meat and vegetables were brought to our tables, and we cooked our own unappetising steam boat dinner. Boiled rice was in the ceramic pot on the burning cooker.
(Continued on the following photo)
I visited Wembley for both the Sheffield Wednesday vs Barnsley League One Play Off Final in late May 2023 and again a week later for the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Manchester United. Both events produced around 250 coaches each so It proved a good haul to end the season!
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I seem to be favouring this wig for now, and it is probably closest to my natural colour and style (brown and straight), but it is nice to play about a bit.
Day 265
I absolutely cannot stand it when people feign ignorance about things rather than trying to repair them. Once you have seen something, you have to react to it in someway. Pretending you never saw it is not an option. Geez.
Hey, I'm all caught up now!
Apologies to those who commented on my last shot as now deleted as on the big screen looked OK, but not on Flickr.
Another from Glennifer Braes in Paisley on a lovely warm Autumn day. Originally a two exposure shot, but not required to use this option in the end.
I am drawn to trees almost as much as the sea and its always a safer option...and a good one when not much weather.
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After running the Wednesday only 888 service from Newton Abbot to Daccombe for the past few years Country Bus of Heathfield have handed the service over to Newton Abbot Community Transport.
Pictured at the end of this era of service in the rain appraoching Daccombe is Minibus Options bodied Mercedes 614D, FN05EFJ.
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"Sesiapa yang merentasi jalan demi menuntut ilmu, maka Allah akan mempermudah untuknya jalan menuju ke syurga."
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Seen in Hospental, a municipality in the Canton of Uri in Central Switzerland. The village is located in the Urseren Valley at the intersection of 2 important pass routes, Gotthard Pass and Furka Pass.
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Harrison ordered both colors so she could decide which she would keep, and which would go to the masses. Little does she know that Naomi gets first choice of everything around here
This image of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge connecting Charleston to Mt. Pleasant in South Carolina was created quite accidentally. My wife who happens to be my best friend and I were spending our anniversary in this charming southern community. I immediately fell in love with the design of the Ravenel Bridge.
One evening after dinner I decided to hike up to the diamond towers to photograph this magnificent structure. I was excited. The night was clear with excellent weather conditions. Except fifteen minutes after I arrived the decorative lights on the bridge went out leaving me in disbelief.
Not to be left with little to show for my effort, earlier that day we went to Patriots Point where there is a vista presenting a panoramic view of the bridge. This night time view was astonishing for me the next day. Additionally, this is the anchorage site for the carrier USS Yorktown, destroyer USS Laffey, and
submarine USS Clamagore all part of the Naval Maritime Museum.
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Much less cartoony than my effort and managed to maintain the vivid blue sky. Photoshop clearly has good noise cleaning options too!
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For this shoot with Jessica I hired an apartment, which turned out to be much smaller than expected, limiting our options. We managed to produce this nice set of portrait style pictures in the space available.
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