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Posed street portrait taken for my 100 Strangers project in Glasgow, Scotland.
This picture is #38 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
As you may know by now, while I can happily grab a candid shot of someone close-up, I struggle with the confidence to ask people and this was the reason for starting the 100 Strangers project in the first place - and the reason why I am still only on number 38.
I recognised Naziyah from the work of another Glasgow street photographer and knowing that she has been photographed before gave me the courage to ask if she would pose for a brief shoot in the city. Naz, which she told me to call her, was very happy to pose for some shots and knew the 'drill' of being taken to one side for a more pleasing shot out of the hustle of the street.
Naziyah is an Astrophysicist, Aerospace Engineer and Space Mission Analyst. Born and raised in Glasgow to a Glaswegian mother and a half Saudi father, Naziyah is also a practising martial artist specialising in weaponry and, despite being visually impaired, can swing swords around with impressive precision from the images that I have seen on her website.
In our immediate vicinity was this black hoarding while a building was being renovated and I figured it would be a perfect uncluttered and contrasting backdrop for Naziyah. Captured with natural light only and Naz posing without any direction, the resulting shots are proud additions to my collection.
Naz was deeply encouraging towards me to ask more people for their portraits, I guess she could sense that I find it a little unnerving, and the brief encounter with her was an absolute pleasure. Naziyah radiated a warmth and friendliness that would have put any budding photographer at ease and I offer my sincere thanks to her for taking part in my 100 Strangers project. Naziyah and I swapped email addresses and she intends to post a link to my shot on her Wordpress site: naziyahmahmood.wordpress.com/ and I offer a reciprocal link here.
I hope that Naziyah is pleased with the resulting images and it is great to make another step closer to my 100 Strangers portrait goal. Enjoy!
A bold and simple composition for this post. These sort of woodland images are deceptively simple. In reality, finding simple, uncluttered compositions can be a frustrating task. I spent a couple of hours wandering around this part of the Longshaw Estate, feeling soothed by all the colour and the wildlife busy preparing for the onset of winter. Photographically, however, I felt as though I had barely scratched the surface.
York station is an extremely busy place and to get this shot, without people, meant waiting for ages for a suitable gap and then quickly firing off a shot or two.
I know that street photographers would probably prefer to have people in the shot, which I also captured. But I preferred this uncluttered view.
This side of the clock is stuck at 12, whilst the opposite side shows the correct time. I was particularly attracted to this viewpoint by all the leading lines pointing to the clock and then the clock hands pointing straight up.
A male Barred Owl (Strix varia) photographed on a St. John's River Eco Tours boat near DeBary, Florida on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
I have been admiring the Barred Owl photos of David Burt here on flickr over the past couple of weeks. When we came upon a pair of them on the boat tour, I kept his images in mind as I moved around the boat to try and get an uncluttered photo. I did manage to get this one.
If you live in central Florida or will be visiting, you can reserve a tour with St. Johns River Eco Tours from their website. They do two tours a day at 10am and 1pm.
Beach walking is one of the best ways I know to relax and this day was one of the best: sunshine, blue skies and very few people. I was totally relaxed when the sands started to fill up later in the morning.
My previous photo of Sidmouth and the East Devon coast to the east of the town featured a young lady with bright green hair. This obviously proved to be a distraction, so this is an uncluttered view from the Connaught Gardens. I find it irresistable and always call in when I am in the area. The bonus is the wonderful Clocktower Cafe at the opposite end of the gardens where we have the view along the coast to the west. This can be seen in the adjacent picture.
I loved the sense of clean open space on Lindisfarne Causeway. It's a hard thing to find on our increasingly crowded island. With more and more housing estates being built and the very real possibility of England just becoming one big conurbation, open space will become ever more valuable. This image might not be to everyone's taste, because in order to create an airiness and cleanliness, I have purposely avoided using deep blacks and shadowed areas. The high key effect is a deliberate choice, but I am also aware that those high key areas also need detail. The central post acts as an anchor for the rest of the image.
Like most Type 57s, the Stelvio (4 seat cabriolet) was the imperious Ettore Bugatti's very gifted son, Jean Bugatti's design and was named after the Passo dello Stelvio pass in the Eastern Alps. Although some Stelvios were completely finished in house, most of the Stelvio bodies were manufactured to Jean's design, by Gangloff of Colmar who modified the design in detail from car to car. Some of the bodies used faired-in headlights where the majority had external units. The rear seat in the Stelvio had too little legroom, it could only be used as an occasional 2+1 with the passenger seat fully forward.
It used the twin-overhead camshaft 3.3-litre inline-8 which was good for 135 bhp in standard form, though considerably boosted by the supercharger. Chassis arrangements included Rudge Witworth wire wheels, fifteen inch drum brakes and an uncluttered chassis having good strength. As with most Bugatti designs the Type 57 was relatively simple in design, but the result of complicated craftsmanship. Bugatti and Gangloff produced around 80 Stelvios, each slightly different from the rest.
Chassis arrangements included Rudge Witworth wire wheels, fifteen inch drum brakes and an uncluttered chassis having good strength.
The Type 57 Bugatti, introduced in 1934, marked Jean Bugatti's emergence as Bugatti's leader and creative force. It was the first new model built under his direction and it incorporated many features that were new to Bugatti. Its dual overhead camshaft eight-cylinder engine had dimensions of 72x100mm, offering 3,257cc displacement. The crankshaft ran in five main bearings
The Type 57 also marked Bugatti's first use of a transmission fixed to the engine crankcase and a single plate clutch. Jean created a novel independent front suspension system using transverse leaf springs for the first two examples of the Type 57 before Le Patron spied it and insisted it be replaced by a proper Bugatti hollow tubular live axle. Thenceforth suspension was traditional Bugatti semi-elliptical front and reversed quarter-elliptical rear leaf springs with cable-operated mechanical drum brakes.
Much of the Type 57's commercial success may be attributed to Jean Bugatti's sensitive, flowing coachwork, which graced the most famous of the chassis' examples. Atalante two-seat coupé, Ventoux four-seat coupé, Stelvio cabriolet and the Galibier sedan vied with the best of France's and Europe's formidable coachbuilders' creations and comprised the bulk of Type 57 production. Bugatti's wealthy clients could have the very best, but overwhelmingly they chose Jean Bugatti's designs on the Type 57.
Despite financial travail, development of the Type 57 continued with the introduction of a stiffened frame and rubber-mounted engine along with the supercharged 160hp (later increased to above 170hp) Type 57C in 1936. In 1938 the nearly unthinkable happened in Molsheim, when Bugatti finally adopted Lockheed hydraulically actuated brakes and replaced the beautiful and lightweight but expensive aluminum-spoked wheels and brake drums with Rudge-Whitworth center-lock wire wheels and separate brake drums.
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One of the most consistent photographers on Flickr and 500px is Stuart Allen. His simple uncluttered photographs are executed to perfection. Hope he forgives me my plagiarism, as it is meant as my poor attempt for a compliment.
SIM is the place, where all the sim cards come from ;-). Port Lands area east of Toronto is undergoing tremendous development. Almost all buildings like this are gone.
408. TMR Toronto 2020- June -13, P1390778; (2020 June) Uploaded 14. June 2020, Lmx -ZS100)
Continuing my Christmas theme, I walked by this cozy front yard display last night during my cold and snowy walk.
Santa's helpers are usually depicted as younger than this one, but maybe this seasoned elf has been around for eons and he's tasked with training the newbies in Santa's workshop :)
I processed the image into a Christmas Card style that I may end up printing and using in the future for my friends and family.
Sometimes the commonest bird can produce a lovely pic. Not often have I had the chance to photograph two robins together and with a nice uncluttered background.
Heinz Wildlife Refuge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Look carefully and you will see the juvenile with its wings spread perched below the adult. (Normally I'd not be inclined to post such a cluttered image, but I thought the pair were worth seeing. Besides, seeing an uncluttered Least Bittern (much less photographing one) is not easy. : )
Bohemian Waxwing / bombycilla garrulus. Hassop, Derbyshire. 17/01/24.
'IMMATURE PLUMAGE WING DETAILS.'
Definitely my best visit to Hassop Station whilst a 350+ flock of Waxwings favoured the many mature Hawthorn trees beside the Monsal Trail.
This time less people, decent light and several opportunities to photograph individual birds against uncluttered backgrounds. A case of trial and error, plus lots of patience finally rewarded!
The 1st winter bird here, (a female I think), showed her white wing markings and the paucity of red 'wax' tips very clearly when she perched like this. After a short rest and look around, she flew down into the adjacent field, to drink from a puddle.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This is the upper Falls on Whitfield Beck and it was a real struggle to get to this point. The gorge is wooded, narrow and full of fallen trees. It was also very wet so the water levels were very high too, making headway up to this point difficult. Anyway, having made it here to see these majestic falls, there were very few uncluttered vantage points to take an image of them. Plus as you can probably make out the spray was pretty widespread and keeping the lens clean was an issue.
In the end I settled with this view and decided to cut my losses and head back down. This meant slithering down this steep leaf covered slope to the beck and retracing my obstacle course back down to the middle falls were the route became easier again.
These birds are very common in the park and most guides refer to them as LBR's.
An overcast day always produces good light and an uncluttered backdrop.
Satara area (S41)
Kruger National Park
Limpopo
South Africa
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Most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen. BUT in trying to get a pic uncluttered by highlines the search led me to the worst possible angle to capture the rich color of the rainbow. And so goes life.
In addition to the pair of Crimson-breasted Shrikes posted recently, I offer this bird on its own, uncluttered, without all the foliage in the other shot.
I miss my portraiture work with strangers; I also miss being out with friends and able to take their portraits. I don't complain as I am aware that Co-vid restrictions are necessary. Instead, I am indulging in a series of conversions into mono of existing colour portraits.
Sylv and I are used to having a pub lunch out together. On this occasion I asked her to change places with me so that I could get a photo of her with an uncluttered background.
We've known each other for nearly 20 years. Here's looking forward to that next pub lunch.
The beautiful location of Vestrahorn awakes to a rather apocalyptic sunrise.
Another curious and very dramatic weather day in Iceland, you never know quite what you're going to get... there was a lot of low cloud about this morning but even so there are endless possibilities at this location to create many different images from dramatic sweeping panoramas to tiny detail shots with lone blades of wispy grass poking out of the jet black sand.
With the colours of sunrise filling the sky I wanted a wide but uncluttered shot showing the vast area of terrain here.
I think out of all the locations we visited this would be my favourite as it just looks like nowhere I've ever been and has the 'other wordly' type of feel to it, I could spend an age here shooting and not get bored.
Birds to be seen at Horseshoe Lake, Illinois. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my travel photography blog at Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
With the signalman poking his head out of the window to get a better look, class 76 no. 76046 eases its train of coal-laden mineral wagons down the grade and into Hadfield station.
The train, for my tastes, was the best of all options - a front-end uncluttered with the connector cables used by those units modified for multiple working, and a rake of the 'old style' 16t mineral wagons with a guard's van - for sure a visual step up from the more economical (from BR's perspective) but more sterile Merry-Go-Round trains.
The third neg from the recently scanned strip of six, I was intrigued as to why I'd only captured the edge of the signal box and can only put it down to either sloppy composition or, in an unusually enlightened moment, deciding I wanted to incorporate more of the village in the frame. A greater probability it was the former but, while it's not the best frame I've ever taken, at least it gives a flavour of the Woodhead in the 70s at this particular spot.
Ilford FP4 rated at 160asa, developed in Acutol.
17th November 1977
Wood Warbler is by far the rarest of the three "leaf" warblers that breed in Britain, nearly 300 times rarer than Willow Warbler. They look very similar too, but Wood Warbler is also subtly more beautiful than Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler. Wood Warblers are also suffering a massive population decline but for reasons not fully understood, but something that seems to be affecting all summer migrants that winter in Africa. Their echoing, accelerating trill used to be a regular feature of Peak District woodlands in summer and now I have difficulty finding any. So I was overjoyed when I found this individual that also had the good grace to pose in full sunshine, which is something they are more famous for not doing.
Compared with Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler, Wood Warblers are slightly larger, greener on the back, and whiter underneath, with a variable lemon wash on the throat. They also have longer wings that appear too heavy for the bird as they often have them hanging down like this. I know this is just a boring portrait, a bird on a stick as some call it, but getting an uncluttered portrait in sunshine is so very difficult for Wood Warbler. This was taken in a Peak District woodland near Holmfirth in West Yorkshire.
June 2014
Forest in the Upper Derwent valley. Just right for this technique with the strong upright tree trunks and uncluttered ground beneath.
1Q47 (Network Rail’s 1055 Derby – Carlisle) Track Inspection train passes Nethertown on 1 September 2020 top and tailed by 37419 and 37423.
There are not too many overbridges like this with minimal road traffic and an uncluttered vista looking north or south and viewed from either side of the bridge. Indeed, there are worse places to be on a late summer afternoon with a clear sky and a locomotive hauled train in the viewfinder.
Thanks Richie for moving the car!
BVA Auctions
Uithoorn, the Netherlands.
This DKW comes from the first owner. The car was delivered new in Germany where the owner has stored it since 1978 when the car had done only 28.000 km. The car still has the first paint with the original Antik Weiss colour scheme with a graphite gray roof. It is a very good and original car for an uncluttered restoration. The original paper registration and a sales brochure are present.
Source: www.bva-auctions.com
Bearded Tit, Suffolk.
A challenge to get some clear shots of one of my favourites. Not only was there more of a breeze, the weight of the birds made the stems bend behind other reeds as soon as they climbed towards the top so clear uncluttered shots proved rather difficult but I did manage one or two
#92 in my 100 x challenge
This was the view from our room in Napier, New Zealand. I just loved the low cloud and the uncluttered view.
I'm afraid I'm still not spending much time on Flickr. We had to take Podge back to the vets yesterday and he was kept in to try to find what is causing his problems. We will pick him up later and hope he will improve now. I am just trying to post photos to keep up with challenges.
The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London. The building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior.
The building was designed by the architect company Richard Rogers & Partners and built between 1978 and 1986. Like the Pompidou Centre in Paris (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, ductwork, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the United Kingdom. Like the Pompidou Centre, the building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2011, twenty-five years after its completion in 1986 the building received Grade I listing; at this time it was the youngest structure ever to obtain this status. It is said by Historic England to be "universally recognised as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch".
The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors. On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes, increasing the overall height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered by addition or removal of partitions and walls.
Lloyds considered vacating the building in 2014. Lloyd's former chief executive Richard Ward stated: "There is a fundamental problem with this building. Everything is exposed to the elements, and that makes it very costly."
We have a colony of these very rare butterflies at Fen Bog [near Fylingdales early warning station, on the North York Moors] before this year I've only seen one and have struggled to get tidy shots with an uncluttered background.
Hope everyone is doing well. Just returned from a great trip to Utah where I focused on avoiding the tourist and national park areas. Even though the peak season has passed and we were arguably late for autumn colors. It was nice to have the landscapes to ourselves for reflection, enjoyment, and uncluttered photography. The landscapes, skies, and light did not disappoint.
The open uncluttered space of a beach is almost like a spiritual experience sometimes.
Blanca is walking well. We are almost 2 months out since the last setback. She is walking briskly now and confidently and wanting to run, but I'm not letting her yet. Healing is progressing well, but we're only about halfway there.
Day 6 of the October challenge and I've finally managed to create an uncluttered image. These are handmade lampwork glass beads. I love the finish the artist has achieved, which makes them look as if they've been buried somewhere for a long time. The beads are designed to be made into earrings, but I couldn't imagine ever wearing them. Too heavy! They're perfect for photographing, though, because they have a flat base. :)
Interesting workings are something of a rarity on the Tyne Valley line these days, so the visit of Bulleid Battle of Britain class 34067 'Tangmere' on the 'Great Britain XVII' railtour was worth heading out for. Even more rarely the weather gods were kind with warmth and some sunshine! - I decided to head up to the foot crossing near Dilston where a reasonable uncluttered view to the south of the line was possible from behind the crossing fence.
Anyway it all worked out reasonable well with the service even running a few minutes early at this point, although that was undone north of Newcastle with a points failure at Benton Junction disrupting the progress north to Edinburgh.
29th April 2025.
Wildflowers of the West 34: If you've been paying attention, for the past 20 years (or, if you've been paying attention for the past 20 years...), I have said - over and over and over - that wildflowers are difficult to photograph in their natural settings because wildflowers are living contradictions, beautiful and (literally) soiled, organized with a certain number of petals and notches in the leaves, tangled and tortured as they gain and maintain their footholds on life. For me, they have been difficult because I'm uncluttered and organized ... or at least I used to be or tried to be or was periodically.
I'm trudging up a hill at Coyote Hills on the east side of the Bay when I noticed a few poppies and in one corner of the plot a California Poppy trying to crowd out a Musk Mallow. I swear I heard it grunting with each shove of a root or lash of a tendril. After years and years of photographing California poppies - Eschscholzia californica just sends chills doesn't it - and only able to capture two or ten, never three, I thought I should let the mallow take center stage in the California wildflower series.
Malva alcea (greater musk-mallow, cut-leaved mallow, vervain mallow or hollyhock mallow) is a plant in the mallow family native to southwestern, central and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to southern Sweden, and west to the western flanks of the Diablo Range in California. Oh, hell, it's wild because it isn't a cultivar and I found it struggling for recognition.
Before I've finished with archives, other than salvia, you'll probably see more mallows - including the Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis - you think I just make this stuff up?) - than any other family of fine flowers.
The poppy and mallow you see here is just as I found them. I didn't move any stems or petals out of the way. I didn't sweep any leaves or remove any beer cans (sometimes plants are neater than people). But I decided to crop this so that you would still know that there is a California Poppy in the frame, but the real star is a wild Musk mallow.
You would think that the Musk mallow would have a scent ... and would melt and get sticky when put on a stick, then over a fire. Neither is true.
Btw, the flower resembles an hibiscus, and the hibiscus resembles the hollyhock, and the hollyhock resembles the fireweed. Well, perhaps they're all related. Tune in tomorrow...
Beautiful, but messy. flic.kr/p/Z7mvKS
Better on B l a c k M a g i c
I saw this building from a few angles but didn't get any shots I really like that much, but decided to post these two as it is such a unique building.
Some info on it from Wikipedia
Llyods of London Building
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme.[1] Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK.
The building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal point is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room (often simply known as 'the Room') is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60 metres (197 ft) high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts.
So many very scenic and uncluttered views along this railroad that one can get to and get some neat pix. ATW 109 a GP10 heads back to Sanford. Click to enlarge, country railroading in the pines.