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The second shot in this little introduction before the new series proper. Taken once everything was out of our old flat and I was waiting for the end of lease cleaners one Friday morning. The windows you see projected on the wall were those that sat above my desk where I've talked to you all from since my very first day on flickr.
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Since I'm bereft of musical knowledge I have no concept of what an 'adjusto-matic' bridge might be. Same goes for hydromatic ( see Grease, the Musical). However, I can draw a treble clef, forwards and backwards as well as simultaneously with both hands...one can get extremely bored when working 12 hour night shifts. 😃
Since today marks the 55th anniversary of the Burlington Northern merger, I figured today would be the perfect day to post today's find. BN 12395, a cupola caboose built in April 1981, sits at BNSF Saint Joseph Yard on a nice March afternoon. Being that this yard was once served by the BN, and before that the CB&Q, seeing this almost completely untouched caboose still wearing cascade green felt like I was stepping back in time. A true time capsule and reminder of better days being trackside.
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Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
March 2, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Since cutting ropes can be expensive, not to mention dangerous, for most pick-off training we set up a system to take the load off of the "victim's" ropes in a controlled manner and untie him after attaching him to our ropes.
Knives and ropes don't mix well.
I'm tying a french prussik knot to set up a pulley above him.
Don't know if this is an original porch milk box. I rather suspect not, but couldn't help notice. Sure brought back memories of the 1950's when we had an Alpenrose milkman deliver milk products to our front porch.
Since the county put in new sidewalks in some areas I guess they thought a new bench was called for as well.. Happy Bench Monday, Everybody!!!!!
It had cleared up a wee bit by the time I got to Kyle it was a grey day. The Lochalsh Hotel always looks so smart, I have to admit that I have never been inside it. The welcome sight of the Skye Bridge means I am just about there. It is hard to believe that it will be twenty years come October since the Skye bridge opened, 16th October 1995. It seems just yesterday there was so much fuss and opposition.
Ever since I tried my first cross processing experiment and ruined what would have otherwise been this cool shot of a dog galloping across the divide between these two rows of lockers down on the docks in Sausalito, I've wished I could get another chance to grab the shot. Today, I decided I'd just settle for a shot of the lockers and before I knew it, I heard that dog again. I got down on my belly and waited for him to come into frame and snapped my picture. Of course, once he noticed me, he decided I looked like prey and charged me....
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Hong Kong Walk
Last summer we visited the royal palace in Madrid. On of the highlights of that visit was this beautiful decorated dining-room. Since you weren't allowed to get actually inside the room, none of the many visitors were in the shot.
Enjoy!
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Since last summer, RhB is operating a new peak hours shuttle service between Zernez / Susch and Scuol-Tarasp, offering a connection to the RE trains Landquart - St. Moritz in Order to serve the touristic and administrative center of Scuol half-hourly. As the rail infrastructure is not ready for that half-hourly service, the new service is operated by postbuses under "EV" tag ("Ersatzverkehr" or "Rail replacement service") although there is no information about if and when the new service can be operated by trains actually. The first morning service on workdays arrives Susch at 5:27, the bus is seen here waiting for the connecting train just arrived before heading back for Scuol. The vehicle will serve as ski shuttle bus in Scoul later on that day.
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Operator: PostAuto / AutoDaPosta Betriebsstelle Scuol on behalf of RhB
Vehicle: 5493/GR 165'111, Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro Facelift, 2012
Route: EV / rail route 960 Susch - Scuol-Tarasp
Sozòpol (Bulgarian: Созопол, Greek: Sozopolis / Σωζόπολις) is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival (which takes place in early September) that is named after one of the town's ancient names.
Sozopol is one of the oldest towns on Bulgarian Thrace's Black Sea coast. The first settlement on the site dates back to the Bronze Age. Undersea explorations in the region of the port reveal relics of dwellings, ceramic pottery, stone and bone tools from that era. Many anchors from the second and first millennium BC have been discovered in the town's bay, a proof of active shipping since ancient times.
The current town was founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Miletus as Antheia. The name was soon changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple dedicated to Apollo in the town, containing a famous colossal statue of the god Apollo by Calamis, 30 cubits high, transported later to Rome by Lucullus and placed in the Capitol.
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Even an allergy reaction and a short visit to the pharmacy might be a good subject for a photo:)
Since time immemorial, ´cairns´ have graced our landscape. They crop up as piled-up stones; small towers as handy anchor points for lost hikers. They have a spiritual significance in various cultures. Above all in Japan they are seen as ceremonial or sacred places for reflection. Standing before the balancing stones, the individual acknowledges being at the mercy of nature and quietly whispers his wishes to it. In Ostend Rosa Barba has anchored such an outsized cairn. She imitates the stones by casting concrete in textile: a technique that promises flexibility for the architects and designers of tomorrow. The textile makes one think of the form of sandbags, with which Barba creates a type of imaginary barrier against the future rise in the sea level.
Each stone symbolises a city whose fate is threatened by climate change. Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Jakarta en Chennai are represented by a stone whose size corresponds to the number of people who live there. The position of each city in the tower reflects the actual altitude of the place, and shows the relation to the steadily rising sea level. For example, Amsterdam already lies two metres below the current sea level. The title references the poetess Emily Dickinson. The sight of the sea struck her dumb, literally robbing her of her words. At the same time it calls up an impossible image of a plundering of the sea, which belongs to no one.
Over the years Pillage of the Sea will gradually be submerged by the water. The sculpture forms a visual yardstick for climate change, while the ebb and flow of the tides determine how much of the artwork is visible at any given moment. With this work Rosa Barba reminds us to acknowledge our vulnerability and to revere nature.
░ Porto Alegre / RS - Redenção - lago seco
▒ Pentax *ist D - Pentax-F FISH-EYE 1:3.5-4.5 17-28mm
▓ f/7.1 - 1/1320 - ISO 200 - 17mm
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25 anos bem vividos :)
My birthday today :)
Gostaria de agradecer aos que foram no bar comemorar comigo hoje: markos e isy, alan, fernando top, wagner e namorada, daniel e namorada e meu amor :)
Since day 1 of this project, my body and my head are fighting. From every photoshoot, I come back home exhausted, physically and mentally. Actually, photography always drained me. Even though I find it exciting and satisfying, it's really hard on me. This project is no exception, it might even be harder since there are no off-days. My fragile body stumbles at times and my head, full of ideas, makes me dizzy and blinds me. This fight occurs at the junction between heart and head.
Beauty is a reflection of divine bliss and, since God is Truth, the reflection of His bliss will be that mixture of happiness and truth which is to be found in all beauty.
Forms allow of a direct, 'plastic' assimilation of the truths - or of the realities - of the spirit. The geometry of the symbol is steeped in beauty, which in its turn and in its own way is also a symbol. The perfect form is that in which truth is incarnate in the rigour of the symbolical formulation and in the purity and intelligence of the style.
Beauty mirrors happiness and truth. Without the element of 'happiness' there remains only bare form - geometrical, rhythmical or other - and without the element of 'truth' there remains only a wholly subjective enjoyment or, it might be said, luxury. Beauty stands between abstract form and blind pleasure, or rather so combines them as to imbue veridical form with pleasure and veridical pleasure with form.
Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
Beauty is in one sense always more than it gives, but in another sense it always gives more than it is. In the first sense the essence shows as appearance; in the second the appearance communicates the essence.
Beauty is always beyond compare; no perfect beauty is more beautiful than another perfect beauty. One may prefer this beauty to that, but this is a matter of personal affinity or of complementary relationship and not of pure aesthetics. Human beauty, for instance, can be found in each of the major races, yet normally a man prefers some type of beauty in his own race rather than in another; inversely, sometimes affinities between qualitative and universal human types show themselves to be stronger than racial affinities.
Like every other kind of beauty artistic beauty is objective, and so can be discovered by intelligence, not by "taste". Taste is indeed legitimate, but only to the same extent as individual peculiarities are legitimate, that is, just in so far as these peculiarities translate positive aspects of some human norm.
Different tastes should be derived from pure aesthetic and should be of equal validity, just as are the different ways in which the eye sees things. Myopia and blindness are certainly not different ways of seeing - they are merely defects of vision.
In beauty man ’realizes’, passively in his perception and externally in his production of it, that which he should himself 'be' after an active or inward fashion.
When man surrounds himself with the ineptitudes of an art that has gone astray how can he still 'see' what he should 'be'? He runs the risk of 'being' what he 'sees' and assimilating the errors suggested by the erroneous forms among which he lives.
Modern satanism is manifested, no doubt in a very external way but in the most directly tangible way and in the way which makes the greatest inroads, in the unintelligible ugliness of forms. 'Abstracted' people, who never 'see' things, none the less allow themselves to be influenced in their general mental outlook by the forms around them to which they sometimes, with astonishing superficiality, deny all importance, just as though traditional civilizations did not unanimously proclaim the contrary. In this connection the spiritual aesthetics of some of the great contemplatives will be recalled as evidence that, even in a world of normal forms, the sense of the beautiful may acquire a special spiritual importance.
Since the train would be re-crewed in Hagerstown we figured we could skip ahead for another shot. Here a low horsepower observer checks out the high horsepower hot shot just north of Sharpsburg, MD. After a slight case of "stick-in -mud" we we're on our way to our next shot.
Since in lockdown mode at my house I have decided to shoot couple still-life pictures of my old 1950’s Coke Machine at my house. I used a Fujifilm XH1 with 18x55mm in Velvia Vivid film simulation. I inherited the machine from my Dad who work for the Coca-Cola Company for 27 years.
Ever since I got interested in bird photography three years ago it seems like everyone I talked to about Bald Eagles inevitably asked "Have you been to Conowingo Dam?" My answer has always been "not yet." That changed on 31 October 2018, and now I see why everyone asked that question. In late autumn and winter Conowingo Dam commonly plays host to a large congregation of Bald Eagles, sometimes more than 100. The day I was there (a weekday) there were more photographers than eagles, and I'm sure that is often the case (I cannot imagine how many go there to see the eagles on a weekend). And though it was supposedly a "slow day," it was still spectacular. I'd estimate there were between 25 - 40 eagles there that day.
Multiple spillway gates on the far side of the dam were opened during my visit, that kept several rock outcrops where eagles often perch inundated, and also lured most of the eagles very far away from where photographers have access. There were only 3-4 times when an eagle made a hunting pass on the near side of the dam, so most of my shots were more of a scenic nature than close-up action. The cascading water and spray from the spillway did provide a dramatic background for those distant shots. FYI, the dam is 94-ft tall and almost 4,700 feet long.
I did manage a pretty good result for one of the hunting passes; this series begins with the Bald Eagle heading right toward my position with its target identified. And it kept focused on the target the entire time right up to the catch.
Note: Photo - 5 in this series was EXPLORED on 19 Nov 2018
The river Klarälven that runs through our county Värmland in Sweden is almost completely frozen since we had a very cold period.
Since my shot last week was taken late at night, and I couldn't really show off the loveliness of the old vintage, manula-focus lens I was shooting with, I figured I'd take it and the girl out to the back deck.
She is such a posey poser.
Since the chrome had been partially polished of by the previous owner of this lens (see here: flic.kr/p/2oeJozY), I decided to strip the chromium completely and to regalvanize the entire lens with Palladium. Looks pretty much like nickel, which had been used for some of the early Hektor lenses, alternatively to chromium. The coated post war had only been produced in chrome. So this is most likely the only palladium coated sample in the world.
Call me mad, but I like the result :-)
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Since Flickr is an useful tool for organising photos and it's easier seeing which vehicles I do an don't have pictures of on here than on Windows, I'm in the process of uploading photos of buses that haven't appeared on my photostream yet, along with extra or better shots of ones that have. I've started with the midi fleet and this time around it's Enviro 200s I'm focusing on.
388 is here on Parliament Street on 28.1.17