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Seemed to have pressed the button at exactly the right time with this one - just lucky really. Taken sat next to them using the flip screen on the camera to frame them.I think that they enjoyed the ice cream.Taken in Bowness Cumbria.
Taken as part of my rather conviluted Woking to Thurso 'freebie', 303006 pulls into Coatbridge Central station just east of Glasgow.
These units were first built in 1959 by Pressed Steel at Linwood and were the first trains to work the newly electrified lines in Scotland and like the AC locos out of Euston were initially painted blue to celebrate their form of power.
These trains, of which there were 91 sets, worked in Scotland until they were phased out at the end of 2002, but for a while some worked the lines around Manchester.
Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
24th June 1988
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19880624 32015 Coatbridge Cen clean
on the side of a shed in a back lane, Cabbagetown, Toronto
expired film 10/2006
konica vx200 super, shot at 100
Seaweeds are collected, pressed and fixed on archival paper. Size is 82x112cm / 32x 44 inches. That was one of my first creation (1999) with pressed kelp (Size almost 1 meter high)
~Paul Carvel
This framed pressed butterfly collection was hanging on the bathroom wall in the Delano Homestead Bed and Breakfast in Fairhaven, Ma where my husband and I spent the night after our spa retreat yesterday.
Textures by:
Today a level crossing, tomorrow an underpass. Time marches on, but the camera shutter keeps getting pressed all the same.
Swami (2016)
I have been waiting for this record for a very, very long time. My expectations were set so unrealistically high, it would not have been difficult for Mrs. Magician to let me down with Bermuda. Despite the fact that they were trying to follow up my favorite record of the past ten years, Mrs. Magician still knocked it out of the park and delivered an instant classic of a second album.
Sure, if pressed I'll say that I don't like this album as much as I like their prior, Strange Heaven. But I also don't like Scream Dracula Scream as much as I like Circa: Now. That doesn't mean Scream isn't a ridiculously amazing record, it just means Circa is one of those transcendent classics. I feel similarly with the two Mrs. Magician albums. I can't fathom a time in the future where I won't think Strange Heaven is one of the best album's I have ever heard in my entire life, but Bermuda is so, so great in its own right.
The album starts out with the blazing surfed up lead guitar of "Phantoms." It immediately draws you in and gets you ready for the ride ahead. After that it's just hit after hit of dark pop perfection. One of the things I love about Mrs. Magician is how incredible the lyrics are and their ability to paint a picture in my head. This ability is on display again on Bermuda. Just fire up my favorite song on the album, "Tear Drops." "Life sucks/Tough shit/You wanna get real/get used to it/whoa-whoa-oh-oh." And then that sets the stage for the biggest hook on the album and maybe one of the most powerful choruses in the band's entire catalog.
To list off all of the great songs on this album you would essentially just have to reprint the tracklist. I will give special mention to the closing three songs on the album as they are so unbelievably good it just makes me angry the album is over. Let's also point out another batch of killer lyrics on "No More Tears." "Gonna set my, my alarm clock/just to tell my boss to fuck off." Goddamn that's great stuff and Bermuda is just packed to the gills with genius like this.
Hands down, far and away, this is the best record I have heard so far in 2016. I cannot possibly recommend it highly enough. While I absolutely think Bermuda was worth the four year wait since Strange Heaven, these guys better not take that long again for album number three. Also, don't break up again. I'll freak out. Lastly, I just saw Mrs. Magician this past weekend when they came through town. They were beyond description and you are a fool if you don't see them if they play by you. Go buy this record now.
Mrs. Magician - Bermuda:
www.taihou-fuji.com/fuji.html (japanese only)
specially made rainbow trout sushi pressed in a box. The most popular item in the restaurant.
A few of the pressed flower block prints. In green (Graphic Chemical etching ink, with plate oil mixed in).
I have my gears turning for more to come with the sunprint/block print series...
I was looking in this large Bible hoping to find an illustration of Zion which I could use for the twenty-sixth day of February. I found these primrose flowers and leaves. This Bible was given to my father over sixty years ago, it is dated 1864 - I have no idea how old these pressed flowers are.
There is much debate as to whether the large proliferation of sand sculpture dogs appearing in UK towns are real or made from a mold. Nobody every appears to see them incomplete and many appear very similar to one another. Why all dogs? As far as I am concerned, the more interesting things to see in town the better. I am sure some, at least, are real.
Of course, is my black and white photo real or fake?
I simply took a digital shot, pressed some buttons and moved sliders in Lightroom!
In the late 1980s, a number of imported DMU sets were to be seen working NSE locals out of Paddington. The strangest arrivals were ex-Manchester Class 104s, one of which is seen here making up a hybrid set of BRC&W Class 104 DMBS 53540 and Pressed Steel Class 121 DTS 54289.
This shot accentuates the steep incline that the Greenford branch makes as it reaches the terminus.
Class 104 These were the first of three classes built by Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd. at Smethwick, in association with the Drewry Car Co. Ltd.
The first sets delivered were three-car sets delivered to Longsight (9A) in 1957. Within three years, there were 302 vehicles of six different car types allocated to many London Midland (188 vehicles) and North Eastern depots (114 vehicles).
Of the routes worked by the class, the one they became synonymous with is the Buxton to Manchester Piccadilly 'Spa Line', and also Blackpool services.
The final vehicle was withdrawn from passenger use in 1993, some seeing further departmental use as sandite and RTC vehicles. Thirteen vehicles were preserved.
Information courtesy of: railcar.co.uk/type/class-104/
Class 121 Pressed Steel Single / 2-car DMUs
Following the success of the Gloucester Singles the Western Region ordered a further batch of sixteen single cars and ten trailers, this time built by Pressed Steel in Linwood (Scotland).
The units took over services originally monopolised by GWR built railcars but as more and more cross country and branch lines closed that work became less and less. Consequently, the class was concentrated around the Reading, Bristol, Cardiff and Plymouth areas. They were used on the West London branch lines, the Severn Beach branch, lines in the Welsh valleys and the Cornish branch lines.
They were very popular for departmental use and preservation, and some vehicles returned to passenger traffic for Chiltern Railways and Arriva Trains Wales. They remained the last type of first generation DMU in mainline passenger use.
The DTS was the equivalant of an unpowered Class 117 DMS, with the same internal arrangement (in both un-gangwayed and gangwayed styles). Again it was all second class seating, the front two saloons were identical to the DMBS with 45 and 20 seats, although there was no door fitted to the dividing partition as both saloons were now smoking. There was a door into the 26 seat non-smoking section which was in the place of the guards van / cab on the DMBS, making a total of 91 seats for the vehicle. The rear seat was the full width seating six.
Only the DTS vehicles were gangwayed, they couldn't use the gangway working with a bubble car but could be used with other classes. The DTS vehicles were renumbered to 54280-9 circa 1983.
Information courtesy of: railcar.co.uk/type/class-121/
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR camera.
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