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Some are ambling about, some are playing, some are content to sit in the sun and watch the park life...
Two dapper fellows in light-coloured suits and Panama hats posing with a Fiat on a dirt road in the countryside. The words "A halt to see the road up" are handwritten on the print. An arrow in the picture is pointing to a road leading up the mountainside in the distance.
The photo's origin
Although I purchased this intriguing photographic print from a German antiques dealer, the photo most likely originates from Italy, as the car is registered in the city of Naples (NA = Napoli).
The location
A barren plain, the distinctive silhouette of a mountain, and a road meandering up. Can anybody help identify the location in the photo, probably somewhere in Southern Italy?
Mystery solved – see below.
If you think it was a cushy number trying to shoot half decent action & candid stills - while ensuring you keep yourself well out of camera - on a musical movie location shoot - think again.
Fast & furious is an understatement.
(But so is exciting.)
Actors, dancers, singers, extras (adults & children), camera crew, sound crew, runners, onlookers, movie cameras, lights, reflectors, sound booms, electric cables, etc, etc.
Not to mention director and assistant, producer plus assistant, choreograher, press & TV reporters - nor the impatient cyclist and nut job on a Vespa who both decided to ride straight through the lot of us.
It also happened to be one of the longest shoots (almost 9 hours) on one of the the hottest days of the year.
Oops! I almost forgot to mention - take, after, take, after take after t.........
For TRP- White Space Wednesdays and 30 songs in 30 days
"It's not easy being white" - Joe Williams
Well somehow nothing seems to be the same
Sometimes I don't seem to be as cool as I was
Maybe it's the nature of the biz
Well I think I know the trouble, and I will tell you what it is....
It's not easy being white, it's a struggle just to get your rhythm right,
and these days when gettin' down is the thing to do
You can sing white 'til you're blue in the face & wake up in the morning just to find you've been replaced
It's not easy being white, feels so wrong it can't be right
Now I don't want you thinking I'd complain
'cos lord knows nothings ever going to stay the same
I can take the good things with the bad
But I have narrowed down the problem, and I think it's kinda sad
It's not easy being white, you don't sound good saying words like dynamite
and you try & be so hip the way you dress
first you try to be so hip & funky, then you overwind up with a hunky funky mess
It's not easy being white, feels so wrong it can't be right
Well talkin' all this weirdness makes me grin
There's so many categories that I don't fit in
One day on my tombstone they will scrawl
Why he was too tall for a midget & too short for basketball
It's not easy being white, they can pick you off too easy in the night
You can waste your summers lying in the sun
Still you don't look like each other & you're only called a brother by your mothers other son
It's not easy being white, feels so wrong it can't be right
It's not easy being white, feels so wrong it can't be right
EXPLORE Jun 5, 2009 #459
Seen in Paris, France.
This is a "natural" photograph, no edition, no color enhancement.
At Panama City's Plaza de Francia at the tip of Casco Viejo overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the ships awaiting entry to the Panama Canal.
On Monday I headed down the hill to run a couple of errands. On the way out of Bejuco I saw this old gent standing at the curb. I thought to myself he'd make a interesting subject.
Upon my return some 20-30 minutes he was still there. I pulled out my camera, lowered the passenger side window, circled the block and parked across the street pretending to stop to make a phone call. Got a number of shots as he moved only his head from side to side.
I've no idea how long he'd been standing there or how much longer he'll be waiting.
Today was a great day to just relax. #summer #sun #lake #roine #kangasala #panamahat #woobsfashion #wooden #sunglasses #shades #askettee #tshirt #menstyle #menswear #dapper #style #fashion #hat
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That's the look & feel I've tried to give to this still I shot during location filming for upcoming musical movie, "Perfectly Frank".
(Shot in Southport's Wesley Street, June 2018.)
This giantess is in the middle of a busy roundabout on the road between Manta and Montecristi and stands 15m, 49ft, high.
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The main Montecristi event, buying a Panama Hat at Modesto Hats. Mission accomplished.
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Ted modelling his Modesto Panama Hat and drinking wine on the Oosterdam.
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I have checked my notebook and iPhone several times since taking this picture last week and I simply cannot find where I noted down this gents name!
This dapper, well dressed man obviously stood out from many of the normal shoppers on a Saturday morning in Nottingham. He was out walking with a lady (friend/daughter/other - I did not ask) and he was pointing out different buildings and telling her about what they used to be many years ago when he lived in Nottingham. This guy aside from having a super dress sense was very, very knowledgeable. He was showing me a buildign across the street and telling me how it used to be a social club for Jessie Boot (who started Boots the Chemists).
A lovely person to meet, he walked down the street for a few shots then I asked him to stand in the middle of the road between the tramlines for a few shots and he happily obliged, even keeping an eye out over my shoulder to make sure I wasn't run over!
I did pass on my moo card so hopefully he will see this picture and even let me know his name!
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This week's #FlickrFriday theme is #Classic. Classic form, function, and symmetry are found in a panama hat. A simple black band, which is traditional, outlines the shape. P6095080.
A Panama hat or just Panama is a traditional brimmed hat of Ecuadorian origin and is constructed from the plaited leaves of the toquilla straw plant Carludovica palmata. These hats woven in Ecuador, like many other 19th and early 20th century South American goods, were shipped first to the Isthmus of Panama before sailing to their ultimate destinations in Asia, the rest of the Americas, and Europe. For some products, the name of their point of international sale rather than their place of domestic origin stuck, hence “Panama hats.”
The hats displayed in this image are drying after a bleach processing and prior to the ironing and shaping. Depending upon the tightness of the weave, the hats can demand prices ranging from USD5 to USD10,000.
10 Sep 1996, Gualaceo, Ecuador --- Women at a cooperative knit wool sweaters for export. --- Image by © Pablo Corral V/CORBIS
Printed on the back of this advertising postcard: "Feel the difference in a Mallory straw. We have a wide selection now on hand. Why not drop in soon and select your favorite?"
The month of May used to be the time when men traditionally traded their winter felt hats for summer straw hats. The Mallory Hat Company created this postcard so that dealers could inform customers that it was time for them to purchase a new cool-as-an-iceberg Mallory straw Panama hat for summertime wear.
For an earlier example of an exaggeratedly large Panama hat used in an advertisement, see the San Francisco 1915 postcard that's featured as part of the Michigan State University Museum's Tall Tale Postcards: Storytelling Through the Mail exhibit.
Originally posted on Ipernity: It's Mallory Straw Hat Time!
Time to draw this to a close. I was hoping to find the negative for this particular image, but it hasn't turned up. So, I've resorted to scanning the print, complete with fading, and scratches from having fallen off the wall several times over that last thirty years. Or maybe a vintage B&W look suits it better? Shot at Fingle Bridge on the River Teign in Devon in May 1989, when a selfie was a much more complicated exercise.
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Sunday 23 February, was carnival parade day in Centro Puebla de Zaragoza. So, too many parade photos from the 2 hour event.
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The carnival parade included a brass ensemble on a flatbed truck. Were they short one matching shirt?
Ecuador rather than Panama is where the Panama hat originated and has great cultural significance there. It was given its current name in the 1800's by the Europeans. Ecuador would ship all the hats they were sending overseas to Panama, which in turn would ship them to Europe, thus the confusion. In this little Ecuadorian market there are at least three hat shops. The tourists love them.