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Always for you, a bouquet so fair,
Roses, lilies, and daisies with care.
Their petals soft, their scent so sweet,
A gift for you, a treat to greet.
Their colors bright, their beauty rare,
A symbol of love, beyond compare.
So here's to you, dear one, a flower so fine,
A token of affection, all the time.
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.
Wide open shot, good sun, and rods down; a tried-and-true wedge gets the job done here.
At track speed, CPKC's Final Spike Steam Tour races west into Crosby, Texas on UP's Houston Sub, the former SP Sunset Route main, in the far eastern outskirts of the Houston area.
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.
I couldn't believe my luck this is the first time I have ever had siskin at my little reserve since I set it up in 2009 so was proper chuffed when 2 pairs turned up gutted not to get decent shot of one of the males but this female decided to do some modelling for me
Proper lead and clean flags, perhaps even some CNW color if you look close enough. All is right in the world.
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
Class50 50037 'Illustrious' in Large Logo livery heads through Withington in April 1986.
The working is the Sundays only 16.15 Hereford to London Paddington service.
The scene at Withington has changed and not for the better. I haven't visited for a few years but it was incredibly overgrown on my last visit. I will have to check it out again. Please see my album 'Withington Comparisons'. I did remove a couple of shots but will put them back at some point. I also have a black and white shot of 50004 I think.
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the song which inspired this image:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttkDYE33aU
Eric Prydz VS Pink Floyd - 'Proper Education' (Official Video)
Outfit:
DOUX - Peach Hairstyle
GENUS Project - Genus Head - Baby Face W002 -
[Glam Affair] Josie Layer [Genus]
Enfer Sombre*) Genus Lipstick - Daisy {Dark} (19)
Mossu - Youth.Choker - Pink
::{u.f.o}::shasha homewear - pink - top – legacy
::{u.f.o}::shasha homewear - pink - pants – legacy
. PUKI . My Short Round Nails . Legacy BENTO
UniCult + .TeaBunny. - Scribble
Scene:
K&S - // High love chemistry class. Backdrop w.lights
[PR] Floating Runes - Gold
MVT - Bullet jornal and love pills
TENTACIO - magic creativity
TENTACIO - magic gamer
TENTACIO - tie pink
thank you so much for all the fav's comments , group invites and for just taking time to see my image xxx
(so good to be back )
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.
Cooking through Boylston a pair of good looking SD40-2's lead the Grand Rapids turn in the fast fading light.
Svartifoss in Skaftafell is not a big waterfall but it's one of the most scenery waterfalls in Iceland, with it's spectacular basaltic columns.
One of my first shots with the new Carl Zeiss 21mm lens, and I'm falling in love with this baby.
It's very hard to shoot this location with the proper colored sky in the back, as the facade of the wall is very dark against the sky, so the facede needs much longer exposure, in this case I did an exception of one of my rules in photography and shot two exposures, and manually blended the two images together to have the sky blue instead of white. Yes, it's a litle cheating!
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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.
Gisteren, 10 januari, wilde ik eindelijk een bediening op de foto, aangezien het jaar tot nu toe nog leeg was op dat vlak. Een eerdere poging in de haven van Antwerpen, die mislukte doordat de politie me wegstuurde, was mijn enige poging tot nu toe. Gelukkig had ik op 3 en 9 januari wel wat mooie foto's kunnen maken van reizigersvervoer: Breaks en PCC's in de sneeuw en een propere HLE27 op L125, maar een leuke bediening bleef tot nu toe uit.
Mijn plan voor gisteren was om naar Köln te gaan. Wie mij al langer volgt, weet vast dat ik groot fan ben van de bruinkoolproductentrein, die vanaf Köln Niehl via Frechen naar Niederraussem rijdt. Helaas moet ik melden dat dit vervoer vanaf eind maart voorgoed stopt. Gelukkig rijdt de zandtrein door het Stadtwald nog wel, maar de bruinkooltrein gaan we voor altijd missen. Vanaf midden februari rijdt deze trein nog in het daglicht door het Stadtwald, dus raad ik iedereen aan om hun laatste foto's te maken voordat het te laat is.
Het nieuws wordt echter nog somberder: het goederenverkeer in Niehl 2 gaat bijna helemaal stoppen. Sinds december rijdt er zo goed als geen trein meer naar Ford, en de eerste twee aansluitingvan de lijn richting Merkenich worden niet langer bediend. Aan de overkant van de straat is het al net zo stil: daar rijdt soms nog een platte wagen met een speciale lading, maar dat gebeurt hooguit tien keer per jaar en is extreem onregelmatig. Het is dus onwaarschijnlijk dat je daar nog een foto zult kunnen maken.
Gisteren wilde ik echter koste wat het kost een foto maken van de Bruinkoolproductentrein. De bruinkoolproductentrein vertrekt rond 07:30 vanuit het Stadtwald naar Köln Niehl en dan naar het Heizkraftwerk, daar kan je de trein rond 10u30 zien. Soms keert de locomotief daarna los terug naar Niehl, soms met wagons – het blijft een kwestie van geluk. Tegen 15:00 rijdt de loc weer naar het Heizkraftwerk om daar wagons op te halen en mee terug te nemen naar Niehl. Daar wordt alles opnieuw gekoppeld, en rond 17:00 vertrekt de trein naar Frechen. De aankomst in Frechen is rond 17:30. Hier neemt een andere locomotief het over: een blauwe DE18, een grijze DE18 of een G1000 van RheinCargo voor RWE. De route naar Niederraussem via de keerlus bij Hürth Knapsack is prachtig, maar helaas bijna altijd 's nachts, de laatste rijdagen kan dit misschien nog overdag zijn.
Vanavond kreeg ik toestemming om foto's te maken op het terrein in Köln Niehl. Tegen 15:35 stond de DH706, een loc die regelmatig voor deze trein zit, in een besneeuwd Niehl, waar het zonnetje doorbrak onder een dreigende lucht.
Let op: voor deze foto is toestemming vereist!
Part of a set "Proper Off" comprising characters observed on North Quay, Weymouth Harbour.
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... 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.
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.
....not one of yer Japanese built "Green Things"!
The eight o'clock First Great Western (FGW) service from Cardiff Central passes through a well trimmed Cowley Bridge Junction in Exeter behind an EWS branded #67022 on Tuesday the 9th March 2010.
Today, the jungle in the foreground has returned and the Cowley Bridge Inn is a pub no more!
Oh well, life changes sometimes not for the better!!!!!!
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Aquest és el Celler Cooperatiu de Gandesa, una preciosa obra de modernisme industrial. Construit per Cèsar Martinell el 1920, és una de les "Catedrals del Vi". Per desgracia, també fou escenari de combats durant la batalla. De fet, fins als seus murs arribaren els soldats republicans que provaven de conquerir Gandesa. Però no passaren d'aquÃ,
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celler_Cooperatiu_de_Gandesa
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
This beautiful industrial building is the Celler Cooperatiu de Gandesa, an art nouveau winery, built in 1920 by Cèsar Martinell. It's one of the so called "Wine Cathedrals" of southern Catalonia.
But it also was a combat scenery for the high watermark of the early Republican ofensive in the Ebro. This was the furthest the Republican soldiers reached, during the siege of Gandesa, specially on the 31th of July.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQZ_gKCHtk
Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48393 hides in the gloom at the back of Burnley Rose Grove mpd with a few other unidentified Stanier engines.
This was my first visit to a steam shed and I was naive enough to think I could take a decent photograph inside. I had just bought my first "proper" 35mm camera - a second hand Halina 35X for £5 - but it was a bad example and I really had no idea how to use it. Plus I didn't understand what film speed meant so using Agfa 64 ISO slide film was not going to help.
I have posted very poor black & white & "colour" versions of this underexposed & scratched negative but the magic of AI has (IMO) enabled much better colours to be retrieved.
Ancoats, Manchester
A first proper outing with me ol’ mucker – Eddie ‘Rainman’ Coulson of 2021 and the chance to post something not from the last decade. We’ve both been dabbling in Etsy in recent months and decided to go and shoot some of Manchester’s historic landmarks with the view to printing some of them. I must confess I’ve never been to this part of town and initially made straight for Anita Street, which has an interesting history going back to the Industrial Revolution, but I’ll write about that in another posting. Sankey’s is further afield and quite a well-known landmark, but if you didn’t know where it was you could spend hours walking around this part of town and never spot it.
Luckily, Eddie knows the area well and pointed me in the right direction. The weather on Friday was glorious and sunny, but not a cloud in sight, so you’ll have to forgive me with this subtle replacement sky. So good to be out and about again and shooting some new material.
It has quite an history as a nightclub… here’s a condensed summary
Sankeys first opened in Manchester as "Sankeys Soap" in June 1994. It was so called due to its residence inside Beehive Mill, Ancoats, which once was used to manufacture soap. The basement of the mill was transformed into a club and live music venue by Andy Spiro and Rupert Campell. After nearly going bankrupt only six months after opening, the venue managed to keep thriving. However, in 1998, due to financial problems, Sankeys Soap closed its doors to the public.
In 2000, the club was revived by business partners David Vincent and Sacha Lord-Marchionne. This time the club was more successful than before, tackling the problems that had crippled its previous owners. In 2006, the club was forced to close once more, much to the dismay of clubbers. David Vincent announced that this time Sankeys Soap would be closed for good.
Later that summer, it was announced that the club was to re-open under the shorter name Sankeys. It would be under the direction of David Vincent who invited Andy Spiro to get involved once again. During its closure the club underwent a major refit involving a brand new LED lighting system and featured the "hatongue" who took over from the legendary "Mad Graham" after the PAR cans were removed. The main DJ booth was also replaced by a new circular box.
In 2009, owing to the success of the new club, 15 further changes were made to celebrate 15 years of the Sankeys dynasty. These included dynamic ceiling lighting in the Spektrum (the upstairs part of the club) as well as a beach constructed with 50 tonnes of Bahamas Sand and the introduction of a state-of-the-art barcoded entry system. In 2010, Sankeys was voted the number one club in the world in a DJ Mag reader poll.
Following the success of 2010, David Vincent announced plans to create "Seven Sankeys" of the World in the seven cities that inspired the original Sankeys.
The music policy at Sankeys was varied but focused on underground electronic music, mainly House & Techno. The club also hosted one-off nights from outside promoters.
Resident DJs over the years included Greg Vickers, Bushwacka!, Jozef K, Darius Syrossian, Ellesse, Ryan Croft, Adam Chappell, OD Muzique, Pete Zorba, and Luke Welsh.
On 11 April 2013, Sankeys announced they would be closing the doors again on 6 May 2013.
On 12 November 2013, Sankeys announced on their Ibiza Twitter feed that they would be re-opening Manchester in January 2014.
On 12 January 2017, Sankeys announced that they were permanently closing with immediate effect, after the building they occupied had been sold to be turned into apartments.