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This is Lucky. She is a very demanding black cat, and no matter how much food I put into her little china bowl, she is always mewing for her next meal… loudly! However, I love her so much that with a face like hers, I can refuse her nothing!
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 2nd of June is "no real animal". I have no real animal pets of my own, which is too long a story to go into as to why, but I have always loved black cats. When the theme was announced, Lucky was amongst my first thoughts. Lucky is the lucky Royal Doulton black cat with a white face. She was designed by Charles Noke and was issued between 1932 and 1975. My Lucky is from the pre-war 1932 – 1936 period looking at her green backstamp. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Royal Doulton is an English ceramic manufacturing company dating from 1815. Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of English pottery. From the start the backbone of the business was a wide range of utilitarian wares, mostly stonewares including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later extending to pipes for drains, lavatories and other bathroom ceramics. From 1853 to 1902 its wares were marked Doulton & Co., then from 1902, when a royal warrant was given, Royal Doulton. It always made some more decorative wares, initially still mostly stoneware, and from the 1860s the firm made considerable efforts to get a reputation for design, in which it was largely successful, as one of the first British makers of art pottery. Initially this was done through artistic stonewares made in Lambeth, but in 1882 the firm bought a Burslem factory, which was mainly intended for making bone china tablewares and decorative items. It was a latecomer in this market compared to firms such as Royal Crown Derby, Royal Worcester, Wedgwood, Spode and Mintons, but made a place for itself in the later 19th century. Today Royal Doulton mainly produces tableware and figurines, but also cookware, glassware, and other home accessories such as linens, curtains and lighting. Three of its brands were Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and (after a post-WWII merger) Mintons. Royal Doulton is one of the last great British bone china manufacturers still in existence.
Photography is a great uniter of countries, cultures, neighborhoods, families and friends. I’ve started a group named Photo-Phactory. Please share your best images with me.
Noor is quite the Earthy being, and as such, she does not refuse the rain. She embraces it as the life giver it is, celebrating its role in the process of nature.
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Taken at the Seelie Queen´s garden, her favorite location
(maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Realm%20of%20Fae/224/73/21) in the Mystic Realms!
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Credits:
♡--Headdress: LODE Head Accessory - Hellebore Crown
♡--Horns: +Half-Deer+ Aventine Horns - Cosmology
♡--Rings: . PUKI . My Rings Set
♡--Ears: BentBox Sylvan Ears (Beta 1.0)
♡--Hair: DOUX - Sophie Hairstyle
♡-- Body Jewelry: ERSCH - Bellorica {Legacy} Set
♡--Clothes: Violent Seduction - Bathory Pencil Dress -
Violent Seduction - Tainaron Antique
♡--Umbrella: YOKAI - Lemon Garden Umbrella
♡-- Flowers: [Salem] Body Flowers
♡-- Bindi: Ysoral .: Luxe Piercing Bindi Sophie:.
shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark ii—720nm infrared converted—and the panasonic 20mm f/1.7 mark ii lens
Design and artwork using elements from the government 'Recycle now' iniative. These graphics fit into the councils new Agripa graphic system which is applied to their full fleet of refuse collectors. The graphics are inter-changeable, depending on the season or the promotion the council want to use.
Owned by: Florida Refuse of Lakeland, FL
Chassis: International 7400
Body manufacturer: Labrie Top-Select
Type of truck: Curb-sort recycling truck
Additional notes: Florida Refuse is a division of Republic Waste Services
Location of photo: Polk County, FL
Note:
This photo may be copied, used, or reposted as long as the website watermark (www.flickr.com/formerwmdriver) is visible or credit is given to FormerWMDriver for capturing this photo. As a courtesy, please let me know where it's been used, (I'd like to see it too). Thank you!
Copyright 2010 - Alan B.
Photo taken and edited with iphone4, apps: Hueless, Foolproof, Superimpose, Mextures, Afterlight & Stackables.
Twitter/IG/EyeEm/Tumblr: @adesantora
Every two weeks our local Council provides a collection service for household recyclable items.
Garden refuse and plastics are collected separately and this vehicle collects paper, card, glass and tins.
01. I read in another one of these lists that the person was amused by people who refuse to use Photoshop etc. I have to say that I'm totally in agreement. Photoshop and it's ilk are merely digital versions of old film techniques that photographers have used since forever. Just take a look at Man Ray's photos and tell me that they're not post-processed.
02. That being said... I dislike the whole process of editing my photos and I try to keep it to a bare minimum. I'd rather be out taking photos or looking at other's photos on flickr!
03. I also dislike getting up early for dawn photos. Even though I know it's going to be the best light, I dread doing it. I'm a night-owl actually and that's why I like to experiment with night photography.
04. After getting my first L Series lens I am now addicted to them. I can't bear to use my old lenses any more haha.
05. Some of the first people to show a real interest in my photos at flickr were stooblack, mags_Tag and nottooshabby. To them I will be eternally grateful and they have a special place in my heart. Now I have lots of great flickr friends just like you too!
06. I love going and taking photos with my friends. My host in Melbourne, Frank is a wonderful photography partner. I've also had the good fortune to meet and go on little photo excursions with Mouzhik, kierobau and nottooshabby.
07. My favourite photographic accessory is my Canon RC1 wireless remote. I would be lost without it. "Lost" is an appropriate word, because I have managed to lose this little beauty on several occasions, but fortunately have been able to find it eventually.
08. My favourite filter is my Cokin Graduated ND8 Filter. It's saved me from many a blown out sky in my landscape shots.
09. My favourite old school photographer is Man Ray. My favourite modern photographer is Peter Lik.
10. I love learning new photographic techniques and experimenting with them. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
11. My next big photographic adventure will be in March if all goes to plan. Den and I are planning to go to Japan for a couple of weeks and hopefully the cherry blossoms will be in bloom.
12. I'm eternally grateful to my partner Dennis for being my general packhorse when he comes taking photos with me. I've almost got him trained to know all the lenses haha. He's very patient too.
13. My current photographic obsession is portraiture. It's hard to find people to be your model as you go through the learning process though.
14. That's one of the reasons I started this 365 Project, so that I could practice on myself and try different techniques.
15. Phew, nearly there... Until photography took over my life, I used to be a real computer geek. I read all the magazines etc. Now all I read about is photography!
16. Finally... I'm going to use this opportunity to tag Mouzhik! Yay, I'm finished.
The current (2011) Northern Parishes Refuse Collection Board vehicle, about to be replaced. Replacement due soon don't know what it will be.
Some danced, some lept and twirled, and others didn't even tap their feet. Flock ballet interactive installation, Trafalgar Square, London
One of the last remaining P40s leads Amtrak 125 south toward Newport News. Since being bumped from Auto Train duties, these engines have dwindled to near-extinction with some cameo appearances on Virginia regional trains.
We have big changes in our lives coming up but thought I would drop in as today marks my last day as a waste manager at Adur and Worthing Councils after 20 years local government service. It's been an emotional week but new adventures await. I shall be back in the next few weeks to tell you all about them and hopefully I will be in a position to resume posting regularly once again
Photo by Liz Finlayson/Vervate
I cannot say this enough. Some folks just don't seem to be getting it. They gather in crowds to watch a hospital ship dock. They gather to worship. They gather to get drunk, party and get laid. Governments refuse to enact enforceable curfews, quarantines and closings out of greed self interest and fear. People laugh together in the laundromat and they ignore the danger in the big box stores. Stay at home. So many people, especially the young generation, whatever generation they are called today, purport to care about society. Here is the new reality we are in.
The overwhelming of hospitals in NYC will soon be the reality across our nation. Without nurses and doctors our hospitals will not only be overwhelmed, but health care, and hope itself will die with the workers sacrificing their lives inside. The ability to obtain ready food and basic goods for survival will die along with the truckers and grocery workers.
It needs to be said. If you leave home for any reason, cover your face and maintain social distancing. And if you leave for unnecessary purposes you are an ignorant ass, a scoundrel, and you should be held in the vilest contempt by your neighbor. You, YOU are putting everyone at risk when you make these stupid decisions. The ONLY way we have to fight this disease on a broad scale is by impeding it's ability to spread. And it's ability to spread is being found to be far more insidious than previously thought.
They call it the invisible enemy. They like to talk in metaphors because the reality is much to stark. We need to stop that. This virus is death. A personal death. A lonely death. And if you survive long enough, the death of everything around you. The death of our society and our civilization. It kills indiscriminately, and it does not care. It will not go away on it's own. Think mass graves and a total breakdown of the institutions that support civilization as we know it. This disease has the ability to become apocalyptic if we as a society make the wrong choices,.
And our way of staving that off and possibly arriving at a vaccine in a few months is so simple. Stay the fuck at home. If you must get out to get essential goods, maintain social distancing and hinder it's potential to spread. But think..... Every time, any time you leave your little isolated pod of safety you run the risk of introducing this pathogen into that pod. Through the food you eat, through the clothes you wear.
We are a large, complex and interconnected society. That fact has the potential to help us or kill us. It is not difficult to Skype and Zoom with your friends and watch television from your sofa. And the consequences are far to dire to ignore that.
Do you think you can survive alone?
When there is no more law enforcement there will be lawlessness.
When there are no more firefighters, you will burn.
When there are no more utility workers you will not have electricity or water or sanitary sewerage.
When there are no more funeral workers there will be mass graves and finally bodies left to rot in place.
And when there are no more health care workers, you will die.
Do you know how to effectively use a gun? Do you have ammunition? Can you stop a fire from consuming your home? Do you have the tools, skills and knowledge to maintain electric and water service on a large scale? Or even repair a pipe or patch a wire in your home? Just how independent are you? Have you ever grown a garden? Butchered and consumed a dog? Do you have the basic medical and scientific knowledge to repair your broken body and prevent it from becoming infected? Do you know how to run a ventilator? How to intubate the dying? Which drug to give for what symptom? And do you have the scientific knowledge and facilities to independently develop a vaccine?
No. You do not. No one person possesses all this knowledge and ability. When the people who do these things for you are dead, those talents and expertise die with them. Our society is far to interconnected for any of us to survive alone. But our interconnectivity is also our strength as we isolate and mitigate the spread of this pandemic that has the ability to destroy mankind. Our interconnectivity makes it easy to stay in touch, console our friends and ourselves, gain vital information, and fight this killer. True, factual and prompt information is key. Wars are not won on brute force. They are won by intelligence and tactics. And our society is at war. Make no mistake about it.
This virus does not care. It cannot be frightened. It is the perfect killer. And it will slowly kill us all if our society does not survive long enough to develop a vaccine. That is our reality.
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Louisiana
13,010 confirmed cases
477 deaths
Temp
97.3am
98.2pm
Taken during a Meetup with the Cincinnati Camera & Photography Club held at E-Town Landfill & Recycling's yard in the North Bend suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
From the web:
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