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Krueger Park Pool. City Council is discussing closing this next summer to save money. It's never generated positive cash flow. The original facility was as a public works project during the Great Depression. The pool itself was rebuilt in the late '80's or early 90's, but the buildings, steps, and seating remain pretty much original.
I don't have many "good" or recent shots of the pool so I stopped to take a few photos of the pool on my days off this summer.
The problem with outdoor pool shots on sunny days is getting past the high contrast lighting, yielding a good exposure across the scene.
Another problem is outdoor pool shooting without getting park management (or even the police called) because people are uncomfortable with your camera. (Yes, that did happen on at least one occasion this summer. Fortunately, parks management know me and explained I was harmless. Advised me to not do this again unless scheduled in advance.)
The 77.5-acre Pool Wildlife Sanctuary, located along the banks of the Little Lehigh Creek in Emmaus, Pa., was entrusted to Wildlands Conservancy in 1975 by the late Leonard Parker Pool, founder of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
The Sanctuary features the Harry C. Trexler Environmental Educational Center, which houses the Lehigh River Watershed Exhibit. The Lehigh River Watershed Exhibit is a part of the Conservancy's environmental education outreach. School children from across the Lehigh Valley visit the Lehigh River Watershed Exhibit to learn about the wildlife in the Lehigh River Watershed. The Exhibit features a series of interactive displays presenting basic watershed concepts, a diorama of Pennsylvania mammals and birds, a live amphibian and reptile terrarium, a fresh-water stream aquarium, and a unique window seat that overlooks the ponds.
The Pool Wildlife Sanctuary is also the home of the Environmental Enrichment Center, which houses the Conservancy's Education Department offices and classrooms. The remainder of Wildlands Conservancy's offices can be found in the white farmhouse.
The grounds also feature a pavilion, a bird blind, an arboretum, ponds, nature trails, a collection of native Pennsylvania trees, deep woods and wildflower meadow. Open year-round to the public, seven days per week from dawn to dusk, the Sanctuary is known for its excellent nature education calendar and activities for children and adults.
This is seriously on the side of my pool...
I can not describe how many people have done a double take while climbing in.
Infinity pool with the length of three times Olympic size, on 57th floor of Marina Sands Bay Hotel, Singapore
Managua, Nicararagua.
This photo is from what is now the Nicaraguan National Police Academy's (ACAPOL) headquarter, but what used to be - before the revolution of 1979 - the place where the last ruling dictator from the Somoza clan, Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, housed his mistress/unofficial second wife, Dinorah Sampson. It is located on the Carretera Sur in Managua.
This late 1960s/early 1970s style house- which is part of much larger grounds where new police recruits are trained - still contains many original traces. It is a fascinating piece of Nicaraguan modern history and one of these places where you really do wish that the walls (and the swimmingpools!) could speak. The material layers of modern Nicaraguan history sit literally side by side - from Somoza's mistress and the high-life of the Managuan elite, to the Sandinista police in 1979 and now the PolicÃa Nacional de Nicaragua. All in less than 40 years.
Rolando was adorable, friendly and very competent. There are a LOT of electrical things to fix around here, and I will have to have him come back again, and again!