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年初完成了費時最久的生肖作品-龍自在
參加了pockyland舉辦的2024台北積木藝術節
後續協助 LEGO 家點樂高風~好友書擋-復古收音機
很開心兩個作品也進攝影棚拍攝
接續協助 LEGO 樂高星際探險樂高星際探險-變土龍
結合環保概念~廢棄土壤洗鍊後，轉換成有機土壤
還參加了Japan Brickfest 2024 -Kobe Fan Weekend
暑假第三次製作愛犬阿豆姆咬網球的作品-Fetch
與可愛的紅熊貓-Sleep is my super power
很榮幸的獲獎~也可以再次將作品放置 LEGO House 展出
也很高興被 玩具人 TOY PEOPLE 評為樂高MOC創作達人
參加了 Brickway樂高迷同樂會 聚會，也再次見到 Beyond the Brick
受 POCKYLAND 樂高LEGO同好會 邀請到 BRICK PAPA 與大師有約講座
這幾年的作品數量減少許多
但，每個作品都是最精心製作完成的
期待2025又能做出滿意的作品
#生肖蛇奮戰中 #黃金獵犬沒入選好桑心
OLYMPUS μ ILFORD XP2 super400
隙間が拾う光り
みとれてしまう
見上げるといつも虫食いの葉を探してしまう。
【Recollection】 1/1~2/15
アイランドギャラリー沖縄さんにて展示しております。http://sesoko.ti-da.net/
1896 photographic view of the Champion Manufacturing Company in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
This photograph is from an 1896 pictorial history of the city.¹ The 1896 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows this factory north of Union Passenger Depot and a C. St. L. & P. (Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh) Railroad freight depot. The factory was midway between North E and North F streets on the southeast side of Fort Wayne Avenue.
The photographer was on the northwest side of Fort Wayne Avenue and facing east-northeast.
Four men were posing in front of the business and another was sitting on a horse-drawn wagon loaded with plows or similar agricultural implements. A buggy was parked in front of the business as well. According to the 1896 map set, the single-story building at the left edge of this scene was a storage building associated with the company. The building at the right edge was the back (north) side of the C. St. L. & P. Railroad freight depot.
1. Ed F. Dalbey and Walter L. Dalbey, Dalbey’s Souvenir Pictorial History of the City of Richmond, Indiana (Richmond, IN: Nicholson Printing and Mfg. Co., 1896). Available online at archive.org/stream/dalbeyssouvenirp00rich#page/n7/mode/2up.
From Ron Branson's library.
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'Call me Dave the EU exit route' is back in government,
as foreign secretary. Is this meant as humour?
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Indiana History Prints
I began creating a series of Indiana History Prints in 2002. These fine art style prints are based on authentic original antique postcards, advertisements and other paper items from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was the era when the automobile began replacing the horse and buggy in spite of the lack of good roads. The railroads crisscrossed the state at the time and offered the best means of travel between cities and towns across the state. After the turn of the century, the interurban system began to spread rapidly and compete with the railroads in some respects. Together these two rail systems provided excellent service for passengers, freight and the mail.
The telephone was not yet widely available and postcards became a common method of communication around 1906, with delivery often taking no more than a day. Specially designed rail cars facilitated speedy delivery on many routes where Post Office Department employees worked as the trains traveled from one destination to the next. Several postcard scenes from that era show postal clerks standing on the railroad station platforms with mail pouches.
I am entirely responsible for the creation and production of the prints. They have been produced with care and each element used in the prints looks at least as good as the original. Each print is produced in very small quantities on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag®). The paper has a warm tone rather than being bright white, making it particularly suitable for printing historical objects. The prints will look good for decades, but need to be matted, framed and displayed behind glass to protect them from physical and environmental damage.
Print description
These Indianapolis railroad advertisements were published in the R. L. Polk Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1882-83.¹ They advertised the Vandalia Line, the Monon Route, and the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway.
The Vandalia Line was operated by the Terre Haute & Indianapolis (TH & I) Railroad that had originally been incorporated as the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad in 1847. In 1868, the TH & I arranged to lease the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute line from the much larger Pennsylvania Railroad and later changed the name to Vandalia Line. The TH & I became one part of the new Vandalia Railroad Company in 1905 and that company was merged into the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad in 1917. That group was later part of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Monon was considered Indiana’s railroad. The southern section of the Monon was actually organized in 1847. It was extended to northwest Indiana a few years later via the town of Monon in White County. The original name was the New Albany & Salem Railroad, but it became the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad in 1859. Reorganization in 1873 led to the name changing to Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. Another reorganization in 1897 involved the name changing to the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway. The long-standing nickname, Monon, was adopted as the company’s name in 1956. The line was later merged into the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and portions of the route were eventually abandoned.
The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway, via mergers, became part of the Wabash Railroad and ultimately part of the Norfolk Southern Railroad that operates today. In a landmark 1886 court case, between the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway and the State of Illinois, the Supreme Court decided that states didn’t have the authority to regulate commerce beyond the states’ boundaries. The Interstate Commerce Commission became the first federal regulatory commission the following year.
1. Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1882-83, Volume 2 (Indianapolis, IN: R. L. Polk & Co., 1882). Available online at archive.org/stream/polksindianastat18821883rlpo#page/16/m....
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Another shot of a print taken originally on 14th June 2008; this one is of a bus that pretty much is the definition of the perfect bus to me. Nice livery, fine looking design, with a great engine tone & character, but without being so old you have to push it up every hill! To top that it has the facility to get you wet on most days of the year. LOL.
Quantock Motor Services
Bishops Lydeard
UFX856S
1977 Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB
Eastern Coach Works PO74F
Minehead Seafront.
This is the perfect place to sit back, relax, & bury all the negative things that occurred throughout your day. Books + wine + hot bath=Nirvana.
1910 postmarked postcard view of the Wabash River Bridge looking west toward Pittsburg, Indiana. Pittsburg is an unincorporated community located across the river from Delphi in Carroll County.
A 1916 county history¹ says contracts for the 600-foot bridge were awarded in 1868. The bridge and Pittsburg’s street layout are shown in an 1876 Indiana atlas.² That atlas shows Washington Street running from the west end of the bridge westward through the community. Today, this street is identified as County Road W 310 N. A new concrete bridge replaced this 1868 bridge in 1934-1935 according to the bridgehunter.com web site. That initial concrete bridge has now been replaced by a newer bridge.
The sign on this end of the bridge may have been warning travelers of a $20.00 fine for driving too fast across the bridge.
Andrew W. Wolever, a Delphi photographer, took this and other photographs in the area. The quality of his work is spectacular as illustrated by the clarity of the bridge structure and the building details across the river. The man and two girls standing on the bridge are very clear as well for a postcard photograph from this era.
1. John C. Odell, History of Carroll County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen, 1916). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=QG03AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. A. T. Andreas, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Chicago, IL: Baskin, Forster & Co., 1876), page 77. Available online at www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~23087~....
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this collection outside a shop fascinated me, such an eclectic mix of memorabilia. Unlike the colour shot (a couple of postings back) where I just had to angle myself in the right position to capture the parked red car in the mirror, I had to will this woman to walk past the mirror. A couple of people had walked past the mirror and I'd seen the potential, but when I espied this particular woman I willed her not to cross the road, not to get into a parked car and then, I saw her profile in the mirror . . . and that was the closest I would get to a young Queen Vic!
During the summer of 2015, SLC 274 was the power for a lot of the Cape Cod Central tourist trains. 274 was one of seven F40PH leased by the MBTA in 2015 due to a power shortage. On this day, 274 is the trailing power on a scenic train out of Hyannis.
Late 2015, SLC 302 was the power for a lot of Cape Cod Central tourist trains. 302 was one of seven F40PH leased by the MBTA in 2015 due to a power shortage. On this day, 302 is the trailing power on a holiday-themed train in Wareham.
I'll stand where you once stood, I'll taste the air you breathed. I'll remember who I was when we were us. I'll wonder where you are, and if you ever think of me.
This is my cousin Grady.He's single, ladies ;)
This is the sister photo to this picture.
Missing someone is hard.
From my set, "Ectoplasm:"
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1909 postmarked postcard view of the Monon Route railroad trestle near Paoli, Indiana. This was on the French Lick Branch of the Monon. According to Bridgehunter.com, the trestle was constructed on the north side of Paoli in 1904 and demolished in 1982. It was 870 feet long. The 1957 USGS Paoli Topographic Map shows the trestle over an unnamed tributary to Lick Creek. The photographer was at the south end of the trestle and looking north when he took the photograph used in the production of this postcard.
From a private collection.
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Spartanburg County, SC.
The texturing is unintentional, caused by a damaged batch of film; I have tried to include it as a pictorial element here. Shot near maximum aperture, which resulted in some vignetting and circumferential blur.
Minolta Autocord camera, Baader U2 filter, Shanghai GP3 film developed in D-23 10.5 minutes@20C; scanned in-house and worked up and tinted in Photoshop.
1909 postmarked postcard view of Milltown, Indiana. This bird’s-eye view was looking southeast toward Main and Mill streets. The covered bridge over Blue River is clearly visible near the right edge of the postcard. The photographer identified two of the buildings in the foreground. The one on the left appears to be F. & A. M (Masonic Hall) and the other was the K. P. HALL (Knights of Pythias). The 1915 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows two two-story buildings of wood frame construction at the intersection of Main and First streets. One was on the north corner of that intersection with a feed and hardware business on the first floor and a “Hall” on the second floor. The other building was on the west corner of the intersection with a grocery on the first floor and a “Lodge” on the second floor. The church just above the F. & A. M. building was probably the Christian Church on Mill Street. An older church building stands on the north corner at Mill and First streets today. The trees across the street from the lodge halls were shading businesses. The rooftops and houses above those trees belonged to houses along Mill Street, but they are all gone today. The covered bridge was just beyond the intersection of Mill and Water streets and had been replaced by an iron bridge by the time the 1915 map set was being published. (bridgehunter.com/in/crawford/ says the iron bridge was built in 1913.)
The Southern Railway track entered the scene at the left edge of the postcard, and the railway bridge over Blue River is visible near the center of the scene. Another church and several houses stood beyond the railroad. The Milltown Cemetery can be seen in the distance as well. The two-story house above the bridge appears to be the same house on that corner of East Main Street NW today. The other two-story house a little farther away (above the bridge) appears to be the first house on Spencer Street NW.
The photographer’s location was not identified. However, the 1915 map set shows the two-story public school on the south side of a street identified only as “LANE.” This was west of Church Street. The school had a 40-foot bell tower and it may have provided the elevation needed to obtain this view. The school is gone and “LANE” appears to have been vacated.
From the collection of Mary Pat Kroger.
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“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea”
Dylan Thomas
Circa 1910 postcard view of the two railroad depots in Union City, Indiana. This view was looking northeast from a point near the Howard Street railroad crossing. The sign on the large brick structure in the background at the left side of this postcard advertised the KNAPP SUPPLY COMPANY. This was a plumbing and gas fitting business that originated in 1874. The 1896 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Union City was the first to show this building, located on the south side of Pearl Street. The business moved to Muncie in 1926 and it is still doing business.
The 1901 and 1911 Sanborn™ map sets for Union City show both depots on the north side of the tracks. The nearest depot belonged to the P. C. C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway, commonly known as the Panhandle Route. The Panhandle depot stood roughly midway between Howard and Columbia streets. The stop sign in the foreground had a light mounted on top and CCC & ST L RR printed below the STOP.
That sign was for traffic on the C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railroad, commonly referred to as the Big Four. Their track was on the right-hand side of that sign and the depot, in the background near the right edge of the postcard, was about a block farther east between Columbia and Union streets. Broadway Street ended on the north side of their depot. The 1885, 1890 and 1896 map sets all show a somewhat smaller passenger depot at the same location.
The 1885, 1890, 1896 and 1901 map sets identified the three-story brick building beyond the Big Four Depot as a restaurant, but it was a hotel and restaurant. William Branham was proprietor when the 1883 fire destroyed the original wood frame building on this site along with many other structures in the area. Mr. Branham rebuilt on the same site. In 1911, the Sanborn™ Map Co. finally identified this business as a hotel and a restaurant, labeling it “Branham European Hotel & Restaurant.” The Old Hotel Museum is at that location today. The following was from an 1884 publication.¹
“Branham's Hotel and Restaurant offers to the traveling public extraordinary inducements in the way of first class accommodations for guests as well as in its convenient proximity to the depot…. This popular hotel was established in 1875 on its present site in an unpretentious wooden structure, which was swept away in the disastrous conflagration of May 4th, 1883, which destroyed more than $300,000 worth of valuable property in the business center of the city. In 90 days from the date of its destruction the ruins had been cleared away and an elegant three story brick structure had risen, Phoenix like, from the ashes of the unsightly frame building which, notwithstanding its inadequacy to modern requirements, had for many years enjoyed an enviable reputation for the first class accommodations it had afforded…. The upper stories of the hotel are elegantly furnished for sleeping apartments and are almost constantly filled with occupants comprising railroad officials and the better class of the traveling public.”
Union City was well connected. The Panhandle connected Chicago and Columbus, Ohio via Union City and Logansport, Indiana. The Big Four connected Indianapolis and Toledo (with connection to Detroit). The Dayton and Union (D. and U.) Railroad was a small company that connected Dayton, Ohio and Union City, Indiana. The D. and U. ran five trains daily between the two cities.² The predecessor to this smaller railroad was the Greenville and Miami Railroad. The line between Union City and Dayton was completed in 1854 and the name changed to Dayton and Union Railroad in 1863. A few decades later, the railroad was described by the general manager in this manner.³
“[T]he Dayton and Union Railroad, extending from Dayton, Ohio, to Union City, Ind., is owned jointly by the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad.”
1. Manufacturing and Mercantile Resources and Industries of the Principal Places in Wayne, Henry, Delaware and Randolph Counties, Indiana (Cincinnati, OH: Historical & Statistical Publishing Co., 1884), page 177. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=8c1NAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. W. F. Allen, editor, The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba (New York, NY: National Railway Publication Co., 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=BpQ1AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. The Committee on Interstate Commerce, Senate of the United States, Regulation of Railway Rates, Digest of Hearings (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1906), page 274. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=1bwpAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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In the early years of post NBC privatisation, many operations were not ideally placed to survive in the new modern minimalist and degraded world. Some operators rose to the challenge and attempted to make a success of things by expansion. In some cases, like PMT, this not only meant expanding their territory, but by making their large engineering sector a stand alone business.
PMT Engineering went on to not just perform mechanical services and re-paints, but to convert vans to minibuses and also build complete bodies. The range of complete bodies comprised 'The Bursley' (on such as the Freight Rover Sherpa, 'The Hanbridge' (on things like Mercedes 709 / Dodge S50/56), 'The Ami' (on Mercedes 811/814) and 'The Knype' (on Leyland Swifts . . . although the prototype was on a Merc). Most of the names derived from the novels of local author Arnold Bennett.
Allegedly, styling input was derived from students at a local college, though how many of them left qualified we can only wonder.
Here, descending Lichfield Street in Hanley, past the bus station, is Leyland Swift / Knype, E342 NFA. My recollection is that all were built with rectangular headlights and that these round 7 inch offerings are a later conversion. The 'parts bin' engineered Leyland Swift (Bristol LH replacement) didn't really acquit itself well either with regular complaints about inadequate and variable braking.
1911 postmarked postcard view of State Street in Hammond, Indiana. This view was looking west from just west of Hohman Avenue, but this section of State Street no longer exists today.
The first sign at the left was probably on the first building west of Hohman Avenue, but that building was outside the camera’s view. The BEER sign was on the second building west. The 1898 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows it as a two-story wood frame building and the 1915 map set shows a two-story brick building. Neither map set identifies business types in most cases, but the 1915 set shows a saloon at that location (100 State Street). The sign on the next building west was in the shape of a mortar and pestle, the common advertising symbol for pharmacists. This sign advertised WEIS 98. The 1915 map set happens to show a drugs business at that location and the “98” was the street address. When the 1898 map set was produced, a wood frame building housed a livery business at that location.
The sign above the nearest delivery wagon included the word INDEPENDENT, but the remainder of the sign was hidden by the wagon. The other wagon advertised BAKERY, but the name of the bakery wasn’t identified. The sign above the first wagon was on a single-story building and advertised LOUIS ____. The last name of the owner isn’t quite readable. The 1898 map set shows that single-story wood frame building, but the 1915 map set shows a brick building in its place (92 State Street).
An American flag hung from the next building to the west. That flag and a utility pole partially hid a sign that advertised UNITED STATES ARMY RECR____G _____. This must have been a recruiting center and was probably at 90 State Street.
Across the street, above what appears to be a very tall wagon, the sign advertised FISH MARKET. This was probably in the vicinity of 67 or 69 State Street. The sign nearer that pair of parked wagons is unreadable, but a lower sign appears to advertise EDISON.
The CHUNG _EE LO CHOP SUEY RESTAURANT sign was hanging on the building at 93-95 State Street. The 1915 map set shows a “moving pictures” theater at 93 State Street and a stairway in the center of the building below that sign. That building had two bay windows on the second floor. The awning below the nearer bay window advertised SHOES. The restaurant may have been in the basement.
The sign and awning near the right edge of this scene advertised GIVEN THE TAILOR. This was the second building west of Hohman Avenue (103 State Street). This building and the adjacent wood frame building show up in the 1898 and 1915 map sets, but neither map set identified the business types in those buildings.
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The regular Hotsy Totsy Burlesque hosts are Cherry Pitz and Handsome Brad, gathering every month for their benefit shows in the basement of Home For Wayward Girls and Fallen Women - "We've fallen, we can't get up, and we like it that way" - who need the money to keep the place open and to stay stocked with G-strings and glitter. Inevitably, antics ensue.
A thorough appreciation of the Hotsy tribute shows really requires a certain gleeful embrace of the hokey. The shows are fantastic fun, and squeezing the various acts into each month's theme is a challenge. Once that's done, it's up to the hosts and writers to find some sort of vague pretense for the action to follow. The resulting plot is really a "plot," in that stretching the word to sheet this particular bed begs for wink-wink quotation marks.
Here Cherry and Brad are dressed for an October presentation of their Peanuts Halloween Pageant. Brad, appearing as Linus to Cherry's Charlie Brown, makes it through the Great Pumpkin Sincerity speech ("I've always wanted to do that!") when suddenly he freezes, paralyzed by an elusive, horrific memory. That time, that distant time, when he was a child, and he and his friends fought together against a nameless evil - he can almost remember, but something awful happened. Didn't it? Or did it?
Which is how the plunge into Hotsy's first ever Tribute to Stephen King begins.
On a side note, I shoot so often in dark spotlit rooms that I have a processing approach that generally serves me well for this kind of thing. Once in a while I'll work on a photo for an hour or two and end up with an image that is nearly exactly the same as it was at the start, except a bit brighter than it was at first pass. It doesn't happen much, and this is one of those.
c1910 postcard view of a Decoration Day ceremony at Oswego, Indiana. A large group had gathered at a cemetery to celebrate Decoration Day. Everyone had dressed for this occasion and the children were holding wreaths or flower bouquets.
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Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad, 1965. Oil on canvas (1922-1993) Private collection. Crocker Art Museum
Henschel diesel-electric Co-Co ME class locos date from the early 1980s. 1503 is hauling nine coaches into Roskilde. My recollection is that these coaches were extremely comfortable.
Pencil quickie recollection
I suspect that at some point before the building had been broken up into apartments, it had been merely a supply closet or maybe it had as I was told been a former servants quarters. Images of a maid from Dickens or Austen, curtseying good night, walking backwards all the way to her tiny room where she would now trip over my piles of books. Even during better moments it did not have the charm with which it had initially been described to me but it was inexpensive and little choice did I have. The small circle of friends I gathered around me, when I was not present, the way they described the place to others became akin to the fable of th seven blind men and the elephant, each zeroing in on what to them was the definitive aspect of the place and so the point of their story. It was not all bad though, my landlady minded her own business. She liked an after lunch schnaps which always made her a little tipsy for an hour or so. It was during what the tenants referred to as her "stagger hour" once that I ran into her on the stairs, she was cleaning the railing of the stairway, cheerily whistling to herself. When she saw me she went "Ahhhhhh" She licked her lips and held up her index finger indicating I should stop and not continue to slide on by her. Drink always made her forget her English. "I just want you to know it's OK, all right" then she sort of awkwardly clapped her hands together in a weird rhythm in what I assumed was a pantomime of doing something with dough. Was I being told or asked about dumplings for dinner again tonight even though we had just had them a day go? I nodded and said "OK OK." She smiled, then said "Any women, it's OK I know what artist life like, leave your shoes outside the door so that I will know and I will leave you an extra towel" then she pinched my cheek too hard. I continued down the stairs as she once again took up her little song. W.Wolfson
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