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This has added interest to previously dull area.
Adjacent to a basketball court in Orchard Road Park Southsea, a stunning new art installation has been painted. The paintings titled 'Proper Faces' are by Dharma 77 who also has work on display in the alleyway between Palmerston Road and Tonbridge Street in Southsea. You can view much more work by Dharma 77 on his Instagram account.
Dharma 77’s mural depicts characters and archetypes all observed by the artist in Portsmouth. The colour scheme evokes the familiar changing coastal light as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west of the island, across the faces representing a diverse collection of idiosyncratic, lairy, real, colourful people who are, like this island, a microcosm of Britain yet distinctly ‘Pompey’.
Each has their own background and story as they and this historic city look towards the future.
Artist Bio:
Dharma 77 (Luke Storkey) is an artist focusing on portraiture, colour and light. Working primarily with spray paint and ink, he paints large scale public murals and produces smaller works for private collectors.
After clearing brush last summer for NECR’s CTC project reopened an old spot. After seeing everyone’s favorite 721 was in Brattleboro, once I got off work I dashed over to the MA/VT border just in time as the northbound 606 with 2 still looking decent C40-8Ws and a SD40-2. Photo taken Vernon, VT April 29, 2024
Quan et sembla que tot és gris, diria negre, quan et sents amb el cap cot s'obre una guspira, potser només un petit llumí que el fa percebre que hi ha o hi poden haver dies de sol, de lluminositat esplendorosa.
En no poder sortir, en no poder fer fotos. en no trobar a gent pels carrers fa que en tanquis en la teva clova i així passis els dies de manera més igual que mai. Vaja no sé si som dilluns o diumenge, tampoc és important.
Ahir vaig rebre un e-mail d'un amic d'aquest món fotogràfic que em va fer molt content, és la guspira que fa que ara sigui un petit moment una mica més optimista, per això la flor mira a munt, mira al cel, el dia de la foto lluminós i blau.
Saber d'un amic, recuperant-ne la comunicació m'ajuda a sentir-me una mica millor.
First proper attempt at the moon with my 800pf though I could do with a full size tripod. Using my compact job I had to find shelter from the wind beside the shed
Salzburg, Austria, in early summer 2023, taken from the rooftop bar of Hotel Stein. Panorama of 3 pictures.
While the IC black is a nice tribute to some locomotive heritage, POVA's proper scheme is pretty attractive, affording this uncoupled view at Albeni Falls, ID. September 2021.
BNSF 9738 and 9246 pull the C-NRMALM out of St. Paul for the 75 mile trip to Alma. This was a nocturnal run across the Wayzata Sub but fortunately there was not a crew ready until 0800, so I still had a chance to get a couple shots and amazingly the clouds cleared off just as he got lights out of St. Paul.
Flamborough and Bempton as seen from Filey Brigg.
As usually happens, clouds covered the sunrise proper but a short time thereafter, the sun blasted its light through the clouds and lit up the cliffs around the Flamborough peninsular. Quite a spectacular morning and well needed after two weeks of coughs and colds put me out of action. Surprising how my mood changes for a whole week if we don't get to have a run out somewhere.
During UP's roll-out of PSR, they decided to consolidate their Houston intermodal ramps to the former MP facility at Settegast Yard. However, for a time they still ran a transfer down to the ex-SP facility at Englewood prior to its closure.
It normally got whatever power Settegast had lying around, but on this particular afternoon we were treated to a 5-pack of EMDs on the intermodal transfer.
YHO29 01 (Yard Transfer- Settegast Yard to Englewood Yard)
UP GP38N #823
UP GP38N #651
UP GP60 #2019
UP GP40N #1364
UP SD40N #1734
Houston, TX
June 1st, 2020
British style bacon from Parkers which my son in law, who hails form Nottinghamshire, calls "proper bacon." I must admit compared to American supermarket bacon it is proper!
Happy Macro Monday!
Mandarin Duck male - (Aix Galericulata)
Highroyds Pond - Leeds
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I wonder what it saw when it was looking at me. Maybe it couldn't believe its eyes for some reason.
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"With connections and texture
loose thoughts are given sense."
collage - monoprint
image 15x21 cm, paper 21x27 cm
(c) drager meurtant, 2024
A proper snap-shot! I saw this little fellow washing on the flat roof and quickly grabbed the camera. Taken through a grubby window pane.
One of the things you got to give thought about in the highlands are the rivers .. usually out in the sticks there are no bridges and the catchments are large and flashy ... if you're caught unawares on the wrong side of one of these it's an awful long ways round usually on very rough terrain.
Cooking through Boylston a pair of good looking SD40-2's lead the Grand Rapids turn in the fast fading light.
Puerto de la Cruz / Tenerife / Canary Islands / Spain
Album of Spain (Canary Islands): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157719902...
Getting out of Woodstock, Ontario in a hurry is Via #75 for Windsor with an MLW A-B-A set lead by beat up paint FPA4 6768 way back on June 27, 1979 slightly over 39 years ago. Yikes that sounds horrible, but I remember this like it was yesterday scrambling up the embankment just in time on a crappy overcast day.
... I am providing this candid capture taken in Bar Harbor, Maine as a Public Service Message showing the proper stance that must be utilized when taking a selfie. Stable stance and posture is a must ;)
In a surprise encounter, Conrail JR-5 heads south down the Chemical Coast Secondary with SD45-2 1700 towing a K652 down to Tremley Point on March 6, 2021. I was heading down the Turnpike to Monmouth County when I noticed the hind end of an ethanol train going through CP Port. Without seeing the power, I continued south and made a quick U-turn at exit 13 and positioned myself at CP Ralph to snag a photo of them coming over the old CNJ Elizabeth River Lift Bridge. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's to always bring your camera wherever you go. You never know when you'll need it.
Thought I'd try and add some colour to a 45 year old B&W shot....
In the period when winter often meant heavy snow, 47187 awaits the 'off' in at Liverpool Lime Street with the late running 1005 to Newcastle on 9th December 1981. I took this train to Manchester Victoria to attend my BR medical prior to starting a few months later.
The loco was allocated to Bescot at the time and kept its BR number from 1974 through to its withdrawal for rebuilding as 57006 in 1999.
Following their display at 'AirBourne 2023', Team Raven with their six Vans RV8s provide a formation taxi after arriving at Shoreham Airport
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Pulling west out of the Topeka, KS yard, Union Pacific's westbound KSNP manifest rolls by one of the massive grain elevators on the northwest side of town. This particular one is just east of Brickyard Rd., and US 75.
I was happy to get the 8523 on the point here, as it was one of a handful of units to get repainted in 2022 without the flag on the side, but WITH the big wings on the nose. Come on, UP. It's not that hard!
Another interesting note about the 8523 is that the unit that's now the 1996 (SP Heritage) HAD been the 8523 originally, although it was never in UP paint as such; only primer.
Photo from the Butterflies Go Free 2017 exhibit at the Montreal Botanical Garden.
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Photo prise à l'événement Papillons en liberté 2017 du Jardin botanique de Montréal.
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash. Two-shot handheld focus stack.
UPDATE: Explored for February 26th, at #138 (and down to #183 by the next morning). Thanks for all the views, comments & favorites!
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I was profusely stirring creamy thick and delicious porchini risotto, partially drooling over the pot and partially listing to the storm Barney sending its greetings from the outside.
I couldn't resist the temptation and I had to cheekily peek out the window.
They there were. My favorite clouds kissing me with chunky warm hello.
I had to greet them with a proper welcome. I took out my fancy camera and got clicking.
Result - I burnt my porchini risotto.
However I felt thoroughly satisfied filling myself up through other senses.
From the contemplation of the little people - isn't life full of gifts, beauty, magic and miracles, if you are willing to "see" it?
I've been working to get this typewriter back into adjustment and so far it's been going well. When I got it this one had the escapement hanging by a spring, the RH platen knob was broken and the carriage height badly needed adjustment. As can be seen, the type doesn't fully set on the typebar rest.
I fixed the escapement, glued the platen knob back, adjusted the carriage height and cleaned the machine as best as I could without dismantling it (something I may do in the future). I think the very worn type bar rest felt is a major part of the problem with the uneven type bars at rest.
In spite of all the problems I did get this Silent Super for a song and now with a few adjustments and a good ribbon it types very well. If I can locate some felt of the proper dimensions I'll fix that issue too.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607186471302/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
Providence and Worcester crew WOGR is on board a unit ethanol train they brought down from Worcester destined for the Shell terminal at the Port of Providence. This is the second unit train of 2026, and they have 79 loads trailing one empty spacer powered by B40-8W 4005 and C40-8 4053.
This view looks compass east off the Broad Street overpass as they shove under Eddy Street and into the port paralleling busy Interstate 95 at about MP 1.4 on the two mile long Harbor Junction Running Track. This branch leaves the Amtrak Northeast Corridor main at Cranston Yard and along with it's connection, the South Harbor Track, is actually owned by the City of Providence and served exclusively by the P&W.
Providence, Rhode Island
Tuesday January 20, 2026