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Smiths of Brenzett sourced no fewer than seven Plaxton Supreme bodied Leyland Leopards in the noughties, as well as four similarly bodied Tigers. First, and oldest, to arrive was former Mayne PSU5C/4R UTU 675V, new to the Manchester operator as HDB 357V, and seen here in Rye on a market day service on 27th April, 2005.
Madeleine Hamilton Smith was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Quoted from Wikipedia.
(the military contract ran 1967-70)
The review of the Timefactors version that got me interested here: www.watcharama.com/smiths-military-prs-29/
Smiths of Tring C24 KBH was a very late example of the Volvo B10M-56, delivered new in 1986 with Plaxton Paramount 3200 coachwork and a beauty to drive. It is seen here in Brighton on 19th May, 1992.
30 second exposure of Smith Tower in downtown Seattle.
Post-processing was limited to a little burning in a couple key places, dust removal (from scanning), and contrast tweaks.
Shot on my Hasselblad 501CM with a Zeiss CF 80mm lens and Fuji ACROS 100 film.
Developed by me in HC-110 C dilution for 6 minutes.
We had the pleasure of travelling to Smithers BC for a wedding this fall.
While Shauna was with the girls for their Getting Ready photos, I went for a bit of a photo-walk to see what kind of scenery and textures I could capture.
I took a walk down the hill from the Logpile Lodge and ended up in this amazing field. What a view!
You can view more photos from their beautiful Smithers BC Wedding on our Northern Pixel Photography Blog
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California
November 1, 2015
©Dale Haussner
"Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving old-growth redwoods along the Smith River. It is located along U.S. Route 199 approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of Crescent City. The park is named after explorer Jedediah Smith, and is one of four parks cooperatively managed as Redwood National and State Parks. The 10,430-acre (4,220 ha) park was established in 1939."
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“The Secret History of Smith Island Cake
March 13, 2020
Diving into the layers of Maryland’s official state dessert
Story by Kristina Gaddy
Photos by Jay Fleming
Along Route 50 from the Bay Bridge to the ocean, roadside stand after roadside stand proudly offers Smith Island Cake, as do restaurants from the D.C. suburbs to Annapolis to Baltimore to Cambridge. Today, it feels obvious that the dessert with eight to ten layers and equal parts cake and fudgy frosting should be the Maryland State Dessert. But before the 1990s, the cake was hardly anywhere other than Smith Island. Outside of the lower Eastern Shore, the cake most associated with Smith Island was the crab cake. With equal layers of lore and tradition, the cake’s greatness stems from the unique Smith Island community.
In 1981, Frances Kitching shone a spotlight on Smith Island cuisine with Mrs. Kitching’s Smith Island Cookbook, co-written with Susan Stiles Dowell. The book is full of recipes typical of Chesapeake Bay fishing communities: crab cakes, crab soup, clam chowder, crab imperial, and just about any other crab dish imaginable. Shockingly absent from the first edition is anything resembling Smith Island Cake. Reports of church camp meetings and other events on Smith Island mention the dessert of choice as pie, a dessert Mrs. Kitching enjoyed, too. In a profile of Mrs. Kitching in The Washington Post, she said, “Pies were my grandmother’s favorite, and I learned everything I know from her.”
One reason she didn’t include the cake might have been because Mrs. Kitching didn’t think it was unusual. In 1989, folklorist Elaine Eff traveled to Smith Island to interview Smith Islanders and help create the Smith Island Visitor’s Center. Everywhere she went, she found a cake with thin layers and equal parts icing and cake. When she asked, “What’s this?” she heard the answer, “It’s cake,” as if there wasn’t anything unique about it. She, however, knew that this was no ordinary cake; this was uniquely Smith Island. Although Kitching later took credit for possibly having made the first Smith Island Cake, others on the island don’t substantiate that claim. Well-known bakers like Mary Ada Marshall say they learned it from their grandmothers, who in turn learned it from their grandmothers. Eff tried to figure out if the cake originated with one woman, but she found it was truly ubiquitous on the island, and each matriarch had her own variation of the recipe and number of layers in her cake.
Frosting cakes at the Smith Island Baking Company
Equally mysterious is where the thin layers originated. Eff points out that before the 1950s and 60s, the island didn’t have electricity and making thin layers in a wood-fired oven was easier than thick layers. Another theory says that the thick, fudge-like icing between thinner layers helps keep the cake fresh when watermen are out on their boats. But as Kara Mae Harris of the Old Line Plate cooking blog points out, “The rising fame of the cake only serves to further confuse the cake’s true origin or ‘purpose’—as if a cake ever needed a purpose.” Can’t the purpose of the cake’s design just be eating the highest cake-to-icing ratio possible?
The community origins made it a perfect candidate for a state food. In the mid-2000s, Smith Island’s economy was already dealing with a loss of population and jobs for watermen. Marylanders on the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council and those involved in the tourism industry thought that designating the cake as the Maryland State Dessert would not only provide an economic opportunity for women to sell the cakes, but help to make Smith Island a place that people cared about. They approached then-Delegate D. Page Elmore, who drafted legislation and introduced it in the 2008 session. Eff remembers people saying a bill like this would never pass the first time around. As with almost anything that gets designated representative of the state, people always seem to take issue with it. One 2008 article in the Baltimore Sun mentions Berger cookies, Hutzler’s fudge cake, or Haussner’s strawberry pie as alternatives. When you read through those options now, Smith Island Cake seems like the natural winner. Set aside the fact that Hutzler’s department store and Haussner’s Restaurant are now gone, those three desserts were born to be commercial, while the people of Smith Island baked theirs for weddings, picnics, funerals, church events, or just everyday consumption—it was a cake of the people. The Smith Islanders had more than argument, though; they also had cakes. Eff says they delivered a slice of cake to every member of the general assembly that session. The bill passed.
National news outlets picked up the story, and before the year was out, people knew the name Smith Island. Brian Murphy, an entrepreneur with a commodities-trading background, immediately recognized what was special about the cake: the story. Within a year of the legislation passing, he opened Smith Island Baking Company in Ewell, and began delivering cakes across the country. The bakery employed local women, and the notoriety of the cake allowed women like Mary Ada Marshall to sell their cakes by mail too. Murphy moved his operation to Crisfield in 2015, after years of dealing with the logistics of shipping cakes from an island in the middle of the Chesapeake, accessible only by boat.
Smith Island
Smith Island residents felt the loss of the move. Women employed by the company lost their jobs and tourism suffered. “A lot of people come [to the island] just to come to the bakery,” says islander Darren Jones. In 2018, he and his wife Kathey decided to do something about that. They opened the Smith Island Bakery in Ewell, with the goal of helping the island economy and giving visitors a taste of authentic Smith Island, baked on-site. Today, they send cakes across the country and offer classes in cake baking. Darren says that the cake and its status as state dessert has “drawn a lot more attention over here,” and he hopes that attention will keep up Smith Island’s economy and population. So far, it’s been a sweet success.
A beautiful sunrise at Smith Rock State Park this past June. The sun rose creating some some spectacular reflections and colors.
Britt Smith Photography, vintage photoshoot with NolaChick and a 1960 Cadillac in Old Algiers, Algiers Point New Orleans Women's photographer, New Orleans Portrait photographer
Smiths of Ledbury Plaxton Profile B7R YN09DXO seen outside Malvern Theatres in Great Malvern.
Seen 27/11/18
Smith Hatchery Road in Boone County, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/200-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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CALGARY, AB : AUGUST 28, 2014 -- Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith meets with members of the Ismaili Community in NE Calgary, Alberta on Wednesday, August 28, 2014.
Jaclyn Smith as Kelly of Charlie's Angels in the Angels Office by Regent Miniatures. Ready for their Christmas Assignment!
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A tree by Smiths Lake near Forster NSW taken on a weekend away with my family. Ive spent about 20 minutes post processing this image and am happy with the result, I would appreciate your feedback.
Image is © Michael N Sutton and cannot be used or displayed without permission.
KEN PEPLOWSKI QUARTET con BUCKY PIZZARELLI
Ken Peplowski – clarinetto
Bucky Pizzarelli – chitarra
Derek Smith – piano
David Finck – basso
Charles Redd – batteria
Matty doing a fs smith at Ings in Hull. I've finally got myself a working 35mm camera. And it's the cheapest one yet haha. Only paid £4.26 for it.
This is a skyscraper in Pioneer Square in Seattle, WA., completed in 1914. The 38-storey, 148m tower is the oldest skyscraper in the city, and was among the tallest skyscrapers outside New York City at the time of its completion. It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the completion of the Kansas City Power & Light Building in 1931. It remained the tallest building on the West Coast for nearly half a century until the Space Needle overtook it in 1962.
Smith Tower is named after its builder, firearm and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith, and is a designated Seattle landmark.
The building is an example of neo-classical architecture. Its outer skin is granite on the first and second floors (just visible behind the street lights) and terracotta on the rest. The exterior has been washed only once, in 1976, because it remains remarkably clean without regular washing!
The building is one of the last on the West Coast to employ elevator operators. The Otis Elevator Company provided the elevators, which have brass surfaces. The doors are latticed, so a rider can see into each hallway and through the glass walls in front of each office.
After restoration in the early 1990s, workers removed the 10,000-US-gallon water tank in the top of the tower. The resulting space along with a former maintenance man's apartment became a three-storey penthouse, the only residence in the building. It was occupied in 2010 by artist/investor Petra Franklin, husband David Lahaie, and their two daughters.
The building is crowned by a 2.4m-wide glass dome illuminated by blue light, except during December when it is changed to green.
The triangular structure in front of the Smith Tower is a parking garage whose floors are horizontal. It really helps show the steepness of the streets.
The road which disappears up the hill into the distance is Yesler Way. In the 1850s, when freshly-cut logs were sent down it, the street was referred to as Skid Road, which became genericised as Skid Row in other cities.
This image was taken in 1996 and is scanned from a negative.