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ZZ Top headlined KLBJ's 42 Anniversary party at the Cedar Park Center. ZZ Top and Jeff Beck played to a capacity crowd, April 30, 2015.
I seem to remember a few years ago that because of a territorial spat whereby Stagecoach spread south westwards from their traditional old Devon General area, First retaliated by moving into the Torbay open top market. Here in the summer of 2007 one of their converted ex Bristol Roe bodied Leyland Olympians A813 THW heads into Torquay with a less than impressive load.
Calella, Catalunya (Spain). I was on top of the Torretes hill for a sunrise session, absolutely alone - the very few people I had bumped into while walking along the quiet streets of Calella towards the hills were not early-risers but rather (half-drunken) late-stayers :-).
At some point I heard the faint noise of an approaching car winding up a gravel road - it is a distinctive noise, you know, growing and decreasing with the curves of the road. So I discovered that on the opposite side of the hill there was a dirt road leading almost to the towers.
The driver was a middle-aged tall, fair-haired man - a German, I suppose. Some silent greetings, not to disturb the peace of the place. He was there, just like me, to capture the magic of sunrise from that vantage point. He brought out his cell phone and took some shots ( I could hear the "click" at every shot, amplified by silence). Then he made himself comfortable leaning against the wooden structure of the observation point and, forgetting completely the growing fires of the sunrise and the glittering, rippled surface of the sea ... he begun chatting on his phone :-)) So I captured the scene to upload it as a memento: every moment in our life has its top priorities - let everyone determine her own :-)!
Walked all the way to the top of Berlin's Victory Column. Nice to have this view after the extremely claustrophobic spiral steps.
A scene shot from the top of a slickrock mesa in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
This shot is not hdr. It does allot to show what a solid histogram, luminosity masks and curve adjustments can do for a shot.
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Remember the Battle of Midway today. If the U.S. would have lost that battle we would have lost the war both in the Pacific theater and the European theater. Although unimaginable to some, and hardly a thought to others, this world would be a completely different place if Hitler would have triumphed in Europe.
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Laos is blessed with some of Asia’s nicest rivers, and many of them are mellow. Children spent the day at school, and by the afternoon they were doing the chores required of them…building a fire for the kitchen, sweeping the leaves into a pile, or caring for the young siblings strapped to their back …young boys and girls from the age of seven or eight attentive to the baby’s every need. Amongst this was the laughter of children playing in the river. But sometimes they skip their days at school, going fishing and collecting snails from the river, or using long bamboo poles to knock crickets from the trees. They eat the crickets live or drop them into bottles and take them home for lunch or dinner.
Photo taken nearby the Tad Lo waterfall near the little town Kieng Than Lei - Laos. These ragged little urchins spend most of their days not at school, but fishing and collecting snails from the river. School is important for ethnic minority kids, they should attend and complete primary education in order to overcome rural/urban, ethnic in the area of literacy and education. But it isn't that easy. The reason to skip school are the family economic considerations, involvement in family maintenance and subsistence tasks, the lack of perceived benefits from education. While poverty and lack of access are issues. In addition to these, ethnic minority kids have to face further barriers to education, including the distance from school facilities, their extreme poverty, and additional cultural barriers and the lack of fluency in the national language, Lao. The ethnic kids speak their own language. About 32% of all Laotians are related to Ethnic groups. Totally 160 ethnic groups and speak 82 distinct living languages.
...an old lady washing her clothes in the river gave us a beautiful smile; the Laos people are so friendly. Kids have a great time running on the rampart, swimming in the Sexet river at the Tad Lo waterfall, taking boat rides along the river and playing. A bit futher south men washing their elephants in the river. Lao seems a bit like heaven, the laughter is often & sincere, the rivers are cool and clean and not a speck of modern civilization in sight. In my perspective it is some of the best Laos can offer.
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Essa foto, a TOP 9 de 2018, foi feita em um dos últimos dias do ano. Passeando pela Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas vi esse biguá (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) bicho comum, pensei em não fotografar, depois de um tempo sentado perto, gostei da posse dele e fui até lá, me surpreendi com a plumagem com cores muito vivas e um percevejo andando em seu pescoço. Fotografei estourando o fundo para o foco ser total na ave e na sua elegância única e acabei adorando a foto. Um lembrete para quando eu pensar em esnobar uma oportunidade fotográfica novamente.
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This photo, the TOP 9 of 2018, was taken on one of the last days of the year. Walking by Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon I saw this quite common Neotropical Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), I thought not to photograph it, but after a while sitting near it, I liked the pose it was displaying and I went there, I was surprised by the plumage with very vivid colors and a bug walking in his neck. I photographed clipping the background aiming to shift the focus of the shot to the bird and its unique elegance.I ended up adoring the photo. A reminder for when I think of snubbing a photo opportunity again.
One of the first photos from my new Intrepid 5x4. Nearly had a disaster when the tripod with Intrepid mounted blew over. Just managed to catch it before it hit the ground. Made sure I weighed the tripod down with my camera bag after that.
Intrepid 5x4, Super Angulon 90mm, Ilford Delta 100, Hitech Firecrest 6 stop ND to smooth out the water a bit (it was very choppy in the wind), Lee 2 stop ND grad to darken the sky a bit
DD-X 1+4, 12 mins at 20C
Roadside on a seldom used backroad, the tiger and spicebush swallowtails were enjoying the thistle blooms.
Top Marks Coaches YD18WYF is a VDL Futura 2 C57FT new to Fastline of Walsall in 7/2018. It is one of a pair that passed to Astra of Andoversford in 2/2022 and then onto Top Marks in 10/2022.
A damascus steel top spinning on a glass and stainless steel spinning base.
Taken for Flickr's Our Daily Challenge: MADE OF STEEL
Reached the top of Heygate Bank which rises out of Rosedale Abbey in the North York Moors.
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Top Station is tourist destination in the Kannan Devan hills of Tamilnadu. It is part of Theni District in the state of Tamilnadu. Top Station is notable as the historic transshippment location for Kannan Devan tea delivered up here from Munnar and Madupatty by railway and then down by ropeway to Kottagudi.
Tezos NFT limited edition series (3/3)
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Ilford FP4 Plus 125 (expired)
Dad's pride and joy over the last forty years has been his wonderful 1952 built BSA B31. Given dad's age he hasn't been able to ride the bike for a good while so the moment has come where my brother Andrew has now taken over the responsibility for the bike.
The B31 was acquired as a run down chopper (I think from a student in Sheffield) around 1980. Dad did his magic and transformed the bike into a real head turner.
Andrew now has the bike in bits and is working towards an early return to the road.
I believe that I took this photo during the early 1980's at one of the annual Castleford and District British Bike Club gatherings at Top Farm Ackworth.