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Single, nonstacked image using Sony RX100 MK2, ISO 1600 at F1.8, for about 20 seconds at 28mm. Taken at about 3am, when the sky finally cleared.
For residents of Taquile island, off the coast of Puno in Peru, spinning, weaving and knitting yarn is extremely commonplace. In fact, it dates back thousands of years and it’s as important to everyday life as farming and cooking. The knitting is traditionally done by men, so everywhere you go on the island, you will see men knitting.
Their knitting is very intricate and detailed, and the clothing they produce tells a lot about whom a person is. Men knit themselves red hats if they are married and half red & half white hats if they are single. If a husband’s wife dies, he will wear a completely white hat. If a man was once the leader of the island, there will be a special pattern on his hat.
When a young couple is ready to get married, the man will knit the traditional red cap and will present it to the prospective father-in-law. The in-laws test the young man’s skill by filling the toque with water, and if the fluid drips through it he fails and must start again. If the threads are tight enough to contain the liquid, he gets the tick of approval and can marry the girl. The women, on the other hand, will weave a belt for men to wear, and offer it to them when they marry. They make it very colourful, with lots of patterns, and will also weave in a lock of hair inside the belt in order to stay close to their husbands, and remind them of their “matrimonial duties”. Each year the woman makes her husband a new belt, and each year it has a different symbol added to it. They do that to tell the family history, births, deaths, good harvests etc.
Nice to see my single Camelia in bloom on a dull afternoon & not too much damage by the Muntjac Deer
Beer, warm beer, or at least warmer temperature for drinking beer, waiting line in front of a beer tent. No one sitting out side in the attached beer garden.
Few days ago I saw PleaseYesPlease's fantastic VW T1 Single Cab and loved it. I always wanted to build one, but this last weekend got me really motivated when I saw this Volkswide by Robert Design.
I tried to capture the overall shape and with my limited teal parts I like how it turned out. Will definitely modify it more in future, once I got the right parts. Usually all my car build attempts fail, but this one I'll keep :)
Class 150 diesel multiple unit No. 150242 (coupled to Class 153 No. 153303) waits at Pembroke Dock station with the 17:09 service to Swansea on Wednesday 15th February 2012.
I needed the track between Pembroke Dock and Tenby so I devised a little trip to do it. Starting from Haverfordwest I caught a bus to Pembroke Dock, then boarded the train shown above, alighting at Narberth. From there I mounted my Brompton and cycled the last few miles to the place we were staying on holiday.
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Finally finished :) Denyse Schmidt's pattern, made from a selection of Heather Ross FFA1 and FFA2, Hope Valley, and others. Klona natural background and Hope Valley binding. Hand quilted in hot pink perle cotton.
ODC - A Single Colour
ODT - Things used to communicate (these are from a phone and have a microphone too)
ODC Interesting. Many things are interesting to me, but Gwennie is near the top of the list.
Single in September 07 Tamron 70-200/2.8
Single - Flickr Friday
Single, just fledged, Anna's Hummingbird - Looking for another outgoing, attractive Anna's Hummingbird!
Mum studied to become a nurse, with radiology as her speciality. This must be from very late 1950's or very early 1960's.
My mum as a photo model in the X-ray archives at the University Hospital of Linköping, Sweden :-).
Must have been for some kind of publication which I don't know anything about.
Scanned 18x24 cm print on single weight FB of unknown origin/brand.
The circle was closed when I, her firstborn, became a radiologist in the mid 1990's. How strange.
A dull and grey Wednesday afternoon at Klanxbüll Rob and I are waiting for our train back to Westerland when Cindy crested the grade at the head, of what we know now, the thrice weekly mixed freight to Niebüll yard. Conveying three empty tanks from the islands fuel terminal and a trio from Gehlsen Building Materials R.D.C. loco 2700-07 will have to wait for the passage of our train prior to entering the single line section ahead, we missed our train back but at least we got the chance to record Cindy at the level crossing and another brace of shuttles headed by Rabbits. A win - win situation in my book.