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New Ram ProMaster delivery vans in San Diego. The US Postal Service has thousands of these on order to replace older vehicles.
Momma,
This is Knox, your son. Remember me? This is my sad face. My, missing you face.
I made you something this morning. I wrote you a letter and tied it to something that is suppose to help you remember me. Actually, I made Granny mail it. You should get it in a couple of days. I can't wait for you to get it in the mail. You're going to love it.
I know you look at Granny's pictures on Flickr, so I thought I would surprise you with a picture of me. Granny takes awesome blue heeler photos. I can't say much for her other pictures. I'm really tired of flowers and birds. She hurt my feelings when she posted some other dog's photos. (Please don't tell her I said that because she does feed me, okay?)
Momma, since I can't mail myself to you, I'm doing the next best thing. I'm mailing my heart.
I am waiting for you. Always will be.
I love you to the moon and back.
Your son,
Knox
Description: This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1900
Collection: U.S. Postal Employees
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194274
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-22
113/365. I'm staring at the asphalt wondering, what's burried underneath...
... where I am ~ Postal Service (The District sleeps alone tonight)
Apparently my announcement yesterday was a bit too subtle... almost nobody got it. So let me make it clear, I am resigning from Google, and joining Twitter! Yes yes, lots of excitement. Maybe one day I'll finally meet Oprah or Shaq.
Anyhow, this shot was taken near our home. Erin had this great idea for a self portrait and did that quite nicely. I was gonna do one too, but then decided... "can I just take a picture of your legs?"
K.... on with it.. strobist fools and junkies, here you go...
camera, setup, and strobist info: see here
Another final thing: I've received about a dozen comments and emails talking about my "style"... in requests for me to change-things-up so to speak. Let me remind me everyone that I really only have time to shoot at night (I have a day job), and I'm enjoying what I'm doing. If you're looking for something different, feel free to browse the other 11,000+ photos in my stream. It usually takes a good month or two to fully evolve to a new type of style, but I personally feel I'm trying new things every day — and hey, this isn't easy to find inspiration on a daily basis.
mP3000 Postal Service @ Rotterdam Central Station, 30 years ago when Rotterdam still had an attractive station (being a copy of Münster Hbf).
Boulder County, Colorado. Snow brings out the shutterfly in me. Yesterday we had snow and today we have sun. Yes, the mailbox is leaning. I suspect a car pushed it part way over when the car skidded off the road due to the snow.
Harris & Ewing,, photographer.
[Snow, Washington, D.C.]
1922 January.
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.41931
Call Number: LC-H234- A-3979
In the UK, you know you’re deep in the countryside when you come across a Royal Mail post box nestling in a dry stone wall like this.
This box is from the reign of King George V (1910-36) and I spotted it, with much pleasure, in the hamlet of Treen, not far from St Ives in Cornwall.
Lovely, isn't it? And by the way, for Royal Mail aficionados the post box number is TR26 40.
"Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
head when you're away when I am missing you to death"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI
Texture source:
I'll be the grapes fermented,
Bottled and served with the table set in my finest suit
Like a perfect gentlemen
I'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the ancient brick
Where you will sit and contemplate your day
I'll be the waterwings that save you if you start drowning
In an open tab when your judgement's on the brink
I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite
Albums back as your lying there drifting off to sleep...
I'll be the platform shoes and undo what heredity's done to you...
You won't have to strain to look into my eyes
I'll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped straight to the throat
With the collar up so you won't catch a cold
The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
Braintree MA - A Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail on a snow covered Sheppard Ave as the National Guard works in the background removing snow from roadways. 2/13/15
This began as a birthday card to an artist friend who loves to paint umbrellas! However, per usual, one thing led to another
and it totally transformed into a virtual piece of mail,
with no particular recipient in mind,
although I am working on one for my dear flickr friend, Paula!
"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~
" Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service.
Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook,
or Gmail with our private utterances."
~ John Battelle ~
"The perfect love affair
is one which is conducted entirely by post."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Oregon, Illinois 42.014805, -89.334187
August 26, 2022
Part of the Post Office Project
www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/albums/72057594072676123
To aficionados of post offices, you may notice an oddity about this post office. No RAMPS. I checked the third side and no ramp there either. There may be one in back, but I've never seen a post office (since I've been taking these pictures) that was above grade without a ramp in front or on the side. Very unusual. If anyone has a theory, please feel free to share. I COULD simply call them and ask, but that would be too easy. It's more fun to wildly speculate and come up with some tasty conspiracy theories.
COPYRIGHT 2022, 2023 by JimFrazier All Rights Reserved. This may NOT be used for ANY reason without written consent from Jim Frazier.
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Lemont, Illinois 41.676378, -87.999634
October 5, 2024
Part of the U.S. Post Office Project
COPYRIGHT 2024 by JimFrazier All Rights Reserved. This may NOT be used for ANY reason without written consent from Jim Frazier.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 1923 Railway Post Office
30th Annual Vintage Transport Extravaganza
Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois 42.229123, -88.526497
August 1, 2021
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162/365. This place is a prison ~ Postal Service
A few things... (deep breath)...
I was featured in an interview for Strobist.com. Thank you David Hobby — I am infitnitly honored.
This shot was taken after one of those longer kindof work days. This photo mostly explains it.
Now to talk about a few geeky things (this is where normal folks stop reading).
I thought a lot about the similarities between new age web design (I'm not calling it web 2.0) and location photography. It nearly mirrors a quote Doug Bowman mentioned on Twitter — "the challenge of designing around user-customization is the new 'designing around dynamic content'".
In the world of location & strobist photography, our dynamic content is each and every location. But as time goes on, we shoot similar locations, and they can become somewhat predictable. However the customizations that happen on-spot, is wind. It's always hard to tell what weather is going to do — but we use precaution...
Here are some precautions I take.
1) setup lights first (attach gels, pocketwizards) "without" umbrellas, softboxes, octaboxes, etc.
2) Secure stands with weight
3) Setup camera, adjust exposure appropriately.
4) attach light modifiers (umbrellas etc) — then raise lightstands to appropriate height.
5) shoot quickly, then immediately tear down.
all this stuff said, setup junkys read on...
setup, camera, strobist info: see here
There were quite a few people I saw getting upset about The Postal Service headlining Lolla on a reunion for one album that came out over a decade ago. Personally, the point is taken though both Ben Gibbard and Jenny Lewis have been in other bands as well and this shouldn't be overlooked. Personally, at around the time the album came out, I was experiencing the most turbulence in my life. I had moved to Chicago for my first real job from upstate NY. I was trying to get my bearings in a big and new city when 911 happened. I pretty much listened to Give Up and PJ Harvey's Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea nonstop for months.
There are albums that you listen to that calm and reassure you and those that actually save you.
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All photos are copyrighted. This band unfortunately has a photo contract where photos can only appear on Pfork and personal portfolio sites. This is my favorite photograph of Jenny Lewis that Pfork didn't publish. More photos of Postal Service can be viewed on Pfork's Facebook page:
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You can listen to the album on Youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GKwyV-LK14
On a walk through Balaclava and St Kilda last weekend, I happened to come across this interesting example of a mailbox right in the middle of a gate. Forget about chain mail, try gate mail!
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called “Freestyle On The Fifth”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, “mailbox” was chosen by Gary (Gazman_AU).
I’ve never seen a mailbox constructed quite like this before, so I thought it was a worth submission for the theme. I hope that you do too!