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A proper trip down memory lane for me today, living in Bulwell and having lots of friends in Hucknall as a kid, I used Stagecoach's Sunday 141 a fair bit, which could throw out anything and everything from Volvo B6s to Volvo Olympians, the more common allocations tending to be Super Pointer Darts and Volvo B10 PS, all of which were in stripes at the time around 2001.
202 makes an appearance at NHVCs Volvo B10 event today, pictured leaving Hucknall Garage on the 1330 tour which consisted of all three of the type in attendance.
Canadian Pacific SD30C ECO 5030 leads a pair of lesser motors on a 686 ethanol load at Wood Dale under dreary skies. These neat rebuilds are few and far between on the rails around Chicagoland.
Only the wife and I could turn up at Liverpool RC Cathedral for me to take pictures just twenty minutes before a wedding was due to start! iPhone edit, may need to upload proper version later
A proper Scottish machine, 18020 arrives onto its stand at the very end of Dunfermline Bus Station, with a 3A service. This vehicle was new for the trunk 11 service from Ardrossan to Kilmarnock in Blue & Cream, that was acquired from A1 Service. It had a spell at Stagecoach West though in 2019 is living its life out in its home country
I absolutely love this photo I took of my friends forester. Took a different approach with post processing it and I think it's cleaner.
Car tuner "Techart" turned this Porsche Cayenne into a monster named the Techart Magnum. Spotted in the streets of Knokke.
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A painting of David Hockney’s quadriptych "Three trees near Thixendale, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter", exhibited in the museum Würth II, Gaisbach (Kuenzelsau), Franconia (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Some background information:
If you drive through the countryside of the rural district of Hohenlohe with its pastures and little villages in the northeast of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, you wouldn’t expect an art museum of international reputation being located in this area. However the museums Würth 1 and Würth 2 are and that has a particular reason: Both museums are attached to the headquarters of Würth Group, a multinational company and the biggest producer of screws in the world.
In 1954, the German billionaire Richard Würth took over a two-man business from his father at the age of 19 and made it a successful worldwide concern with almost 86,000 employees today. In the 70s, Würth began to collect art. Since then, he has collected roughly 18,500 works of art. His passion for collecting art even resulted in art becoming an important element of the Würth company culture. The most important works of art are made publicly available in altogether five museums of the Würth Group. All of them are freely accessible.
The newest of the five Würth museums is the museum Würth 2. It was attached to a forum, named after Reinhold Würth’s wife Carmen. The forum was opened in 2017, on occasion of the 80th birthday of Carmen Würth, while the extension building with the museum was opened in 2020. Both forum and museum were planned by the English architect David Chipperfield, who is based in Berlin. The extension building costed 39 million Euro, is dedicated to art from the late 19th to the 21st centuries and has a surface area of 5,500 square metres.
Beyond that, the Carmen Würth Forum is surrounded by an extensive sculpture garden. This sculpture garden features large sculptures of world-renowned sculptors, such as Georg Baselitz, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Anthony Caro, Alfred Hrdlicka, Eduardo Chillida and Jaume Plensa. However, the heart of the art collection is situated inside the museum.
On two floors, visitors can admire paintings and sculptures of modern painters and sculptors famous the world over. The collection comprises numerous artworks of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Legér, Rene Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Eugene Boudin, Joan Miró, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Max Liebermann, Anselm Kiefer, David Hockney, Jörg Immendorff, Jean Arp, Fernando Botero, Serge Poliakoff and Gerhard Richter, to name only the best known artists.
If you want to visit the museum, just follow the A6 motorway between Nuremberg and Heilbronn. Take the exit to Kupferzell then and follow the road about 9 km (5.6 miles) towards Kuenzelsau. After having arrived in Gailsbach, the museum is well-signposted. And if you are interested in art, you definitely won’t regret your visit.
About David Hockney:
David Hockney, who was born in 1937, is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Hockney grew up in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied at the Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. In 1964 he moved to Los Angeles, but returned to Europe in the 1990s.
He has experimented with painting, drawing, printmaking, watercolours, photography, and many other media including a fax machine, paper pulp, computer applications and iPad drawing programs. The subject matter of interest ranges from still lifes to landscapes, portraits of friends, his dogs, and stage designs for the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
His works are housed in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, to name just a few.
Hockney has always had a vivid interest in fashion too: In 1986, he was inducted into Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame. In 2005, Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey centred his entire spring/summer menswear collection around the artist. And in 2012, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, a close friend, named a checked jacket after Hockney. In 2011, British GQ named him one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in Britain and in March 2013, he was listed as one of the Fifty Best-dressed Over-50s by The Guardian.
Only about 100mm of snow today and quite misty. 15 Years ago there was a bit more snow and sunshine. Mam Tor would be a bit busier these days.
One of Cardiff Canton's Steel Sector Class 37/7 locomotives, 37886 (refurbished 37180) sits in the loop at Bromsgrove with 6E58, the late running 02:00 Cardiff Tidal to Wakefield. The load included steel rod and coils of steel wire from ASW's works with a couple of empty scrap wagons at the rear. The VDA vans I assume would be loaded with finished steel products, possibly from Ebbw Vale. The train was no doubt waiting for banking assistance up the Lickey Incline.
This is the area where it is proposed to build a new station for Bromsgrove. The fuel terminal, goods shed and associated structures have all gone and the Garrington's premises in the background was demolished some years back and the land is now a growing housing development. Where I was stood for this image is now overgrown and housing occupies the land behind me, where the wagon works was once located.
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This is the first 'proper' picture of a US train I snapped.
On the way back from NY to Sydney I once 'accidentally' asked for flights that would give me a 24hr layover at LAX.
Of course I immediately beetled north in the cheapest, nastiest rental car that I could find and made a beeline for Mojave. The next morning, after a sleepless night in a fleabag $19 a night motel, the Tehachapi Loop was reached for an hour, plus an hour or two at Cajon Pass on the way back to LAX.
The first train was this doozie waiting for a crossing near Lancaster, CA the previous evening. With seven locos in SP's 'soot' paint scheme only spoiled by an additional pair of yellow UP Dash 8s, I was hooked...
I knew little of the loco types (we used to buy US N gauge locos, throw away the tops and build NZ prototypes in 1:120 scale on them) , but somehow had the foresight to take a pic of the trailing 45T-2. Dat must be one of dem tunnel motors I've seen in the Model Railroader... A once-great loco in a once-great magazine; both now with their best years well behind them... April 1998.
Ready for another day in the life of the "Office Manager" I've been told My Look is that of a working girl and didn't really know how to take it but now I know I will always be the Office Manager not the other kind of working girl.
Proper office attire must be worn at work at all times, including undergarments.
Here I am submitting to my random slip and girdle check. ;-)
The Westin Bellevue Hotel Dresden (since has become Bilderberg Bellevue Hotel Dresden) is the best and most elegant hotel that I've ever stayed. And it wasn't expensive when I booked it. My room cost only EUR 84 per night including all fees and taxes.
Very spacious room by European standard, large bed, large bathroom, a proper desk and plenty of space for luggage and souvenir storage :D
" Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance " !
Alternative ~
"Proper Planning / Practice Prevents Painfully Poor Performance" !
The Boat, The ‘MST Rescue 1000’ Was Brought Into Service in 2008 ! Capable Of Speeds In Excess Of 40 Knots, the Boat Is 10.5 Meters In Length and Is Powered By Twin 370 hp Diesel Engines ! The Boat Is Kept Permanently On The Water and Is Continually Manned !
The Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (Marine Unit) Practice Every Day ~
My Practice Was ' Panning ' ~ Ideal For ' BIF ' Shots !
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Took some pics with couple of my customs today. I used the set I built some time ago for this shoot. I just really need a proper lamp to use for the pics. The pics are somewhat blurry due to the darkness, but I liked them much better than sharper, brighter ones I had. The mood was just right in these.