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Vom Urgrossvater des Sekretärs gebautes Hilfsmittel zur Ermittlung der korrekten Belichtung mit drei feststehenden und zwei frei drehbaren Skalen.
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Aid for determining the correct exposure with three fixed and two freely rotatable scales, self-made by Secretary's great-grandfather.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in February 2025.
I am definitely not a dedicated follower of fashion and I am glad that some trends completely pass me by. Who would have imagined that the old WWII 'Mae West' would become de rigueur.
Stay safe my Flickr friends. Keep your heads above water and keep taking photos.
Kilkenny city, Ireland.
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Red-naped sapsucker hanging out at its home cavity, where it would fly into, bringing in food as it did. Contrary to what their name implies, the sapsuckers don't actually suck sap. Their tongues are shorter than other woodpeckers and at the tip of their tongues they possess tiny hair-like projections which aid them in acquiring the sap. I find that so interesting. There are 4 different sapsucker species in North America, including the yellow-bellied sapsucker, which the red-naped have been know geographically to interbreed with. I find them to be so beautiful and can't resist snapping off a few images when I encounter them. Hope that you enjoy!
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CP empty grain train no.331 is on the pull out of Toronto after making a two car setoff as well as fuelling up the engines and swapping crews. Apparently the leader here had multiple defects reported, one of which being a broken bell button which was being held together by a band-aid. Paraphrasing, but the conversation on the scanner went something along the lines of this:
Crew: "so you want us to just go ahead when there's literally a band-aid holding this button in place? It's kind of disgusting"
West Tower: "That is correct, I'm sure the band-aid is there specifically to hold that button in place, not like it came off someone, the planner said to just go ahead and leave because he's unable to fix it here on the spot".
Never a dull moment around these parts.
Polar Express Train in Winter Storm
Created with Midjourney
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
Further PP work in Luminar Neo GenErase, Clone filters. Hybrid creation.
polar express train travelling through winter landscape, long exposure with light steams beyond the train
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Just about anything looks good when it's illuminated in the morning by those first warm soft rays of light from the rising sun.
CLINIQUE DU PARC - CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIERES
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L’hommage au personnel soignant façon street art orne la façade de Clinéa, à Charleville-Mézières
Le collectif carolo Créative color a réalisé une fresque street art sur la façade ouest de la clinique du Parc. En hommage au personnel soignant, le visage à demi masqué d’une aide-soignante peut-être aperçu depuis le cours Briand.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
Endangered lemur photographed at night aided by a guide holding a spotlight.
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out.
From an ecological point of view the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.
The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN.
The aye-aye is an arboreal animal meaning that it spends most of its life high in the trees. Aye-ayes sleep, eat, travel and mate in the trees and are most commonly found close to the canopy where there is plenty of cover from the dense foliage. - Wikipedia
I'm not active here much anymore though I'd like to be? Shiny things!
I had to get away from some of the madness and things that were not promoting happiness. So now there's PAWS AID. Just a bit of RP that I am enjoying the heck out of.
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As the second lock down is eased, the streets in and around central London are returning to life and so with it, can the street photography :) Orange Aid, because of those glasses!!
Marley hiding out in the grass on a cold winter’s day (relatively speaking), his luscious Camo fur coat doing double duty...providing much needed warmth as well as natural camouflage.
A tabby pattern consists of two colors of hair, one lighter color and the other a darker color. All cats with a tabby pattern have a marking on their face that resembles the letter "M." Tabby patterns are excellent built-in camouflage...their colors and patterns break up the outlines of their bodies, helping to disguise them in tall grasses and woods...nature’s protection against predators as well as aiding them in hunting.
Un petit gâteau?
Ceux-ci ont été réalisés par une amie très chère,Tchèque , à l'aide de ses enfants. Dans son pays, la Tchéquie -ou République tchèque- faire ces petits gâteaux est une tradition. On les fait à l'avance, on les conserve dans des boîtes en fer, et on les offre pour Noël.
Moi je me suis contentée de faire une photo d'une petite partie de son cadeau, et...de jouer un peu avec la photo...
Bon Noël bientôt.
Kingsburg, Ca.
Rich and I had been out since six o'clock, and I needed to get to work. As we returned to the car, we passed the ruins of a building being demolished after it burned. I had said something to Rich about wishing I could get in there, and all of a sudden, we found a back entry that had been left open. No time to spend there. Damn!!!! Couple of quick shots and away we went.
Following the anti-torture vigil, myself and others from Iowa stuck around for the Peaceable Assembly Campaign.
can be now viewed here: ruyschavatars.tumblr.com/
(There will be more episodes added to the 3 that seem to be more or less done at the moment.)
And you can read more about what this is all in aid of here:
syncretia.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-tales-of-ruysch/
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The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. Completed in 1889, the building is located on South Michigan Avenue, at the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1976. In addition, it is a historic district contributing property for the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
Since 1947, the Auditorium Building has been the home of Roosevelt University.
The Auditorium Theatre is part of the Auditorium Building and is located at 50 East Congress Parkway. The theater was the first home of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Location:430 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago
Illinois 60605
United States
Built:1889
Architect:Dankmar Adler; Louis Sullivan
Architectural style:Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:7000023
Photo taken in Villa Carmen, Pillcopata, Peru.
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A tiny hearing aid battery. It's 4-5mm in diameter.
Not a great photo, or I don't think so, but the best of a bad bunch. :(
Maybe view large, but thank you for your favourites. :)
Abandoned nursing home. Extremly trashed and this room was burnt as well. Swedish tour 2014 together with Juha and OlavXO. Total mileage on this trip was about 2500 km.
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Wild - at Pantanal - MS - The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest parrot in the world and easily one of the most spectacular. It is an enormous bird weighing on average 1.5 kilograms (3.5 pounds) and is completely blue save its dark bill and bare yellow orbital ring and stripe at base of its lower mandible. It is completely dependent on the fruits of a number of palm species and has a necessarily massive bill to aid in the cracking of the tough exterior. Due to its dependence on palm fruit its range is regulated by the presence and abundance of its preferred species and is distributed in north central and south central Brazil into extreme north west Paraguay where it can be found in palm savannas, Mauritia palm stands, open dry woodland, gallery forest and the edge of humid lowland forest.
This species was reduced to an estimated 3000 birds by massive illegal trade in the period 1970–1990, with possibly as many as 10,000 being taken from the wild in the 1980s alone. In 1987 the species was placed on Appendix I of CITES, but for a time this only stimulated greater demand. Now reduced to three isolated populations in E Amazonia, the Gerais and the Pantanal, Brazil, with marginal occurrence in Bolivia and perhaps Paraguay. Stronghold is the Pantanal, where its range has expanded and population has shown signs of recovery since 1990 (2), probably as a result of conservation projects. In contrast, those of E Amazonia and the Gerais have continued to decline, from an estimated 1500 individuals in 1986 to 1000 in 2003. No hard population data, but total population estimated at 6500 individuals (equivalent to 4300 mature birds) in 2003, of which 5000 were in the Pantanal and around 200 in Bolivia (3). In the 1990s several long-term studies of the species started, in part coupled with conservation initiatives, often involving ecotourism, environmental education and nest-box deployment, at certain ranches in the Pantanal. However, local trapping for feathers and food may persist, as well as destruction of nest-sites either for farming or to obtain birds, and indeed general habitat loss throughout the species's range continues to decrease its survival prospects. Uplisted to Endangered in 2000 because the population has decreased very rapidly in the recent past and the threats from habitat loss and illegal trapping for the cagebird trade remain (4); downlisted to Vulnerable in 2014 because population declines had not been as rapid as feared BirdLife International (2014) Species factsheet: Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus. Collar, N., P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. doi.org/10.2173/bow.hyamac1.01
Moreover, in the last 3 years, the species population has decreased even more due to the fires and environmental destruction. Thus, it is a real blessing to find them in the wild.
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The McDermott Motors Building (seen in the photograph above) was built in 1928, and designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by noted Waco architect Milton Scott. The building has served as an upscale automobile dealership, a National Guard Armory, and an assembly plant for warplanes during World War II. The building also embodies a method of construction and an architectural style that are distinctive of an era, reflecting the community, its economic climate and progress. As McDermott Motors (opened as a new building on November 1, 1928), Fort Fiske Wright (leased from McDermott in 1931 as the National Guard Armory until all units were activated for WWII in 1941 and named for a revered local officer who had died a hero's death on the battlefields of France during the Great War, and North American Aviation (leased in 1943 to aid in production of the B-24 "Liberator", sometimes known not so affectionately as the "Flying Boxcar", making it the site of one of Waco's most significant contributions to the country's industrial war machine), activities at this site contributed substantially to the commercial and military history of this area of Waco, Texas.
After the most noteable tenants as described above, this building was once again used as an automobile dealership selling Plymouths and DeSotos, Hill Printing and Stationery which kept arge printing presses and bookbinders upstairs while maintaining a showroom of
office supplies and commercial furniture downstairs, and a brief period as an outlet for unclaimed and damaged freight after the very destructive tornado of 1953. McDermott's building then languished vacant for nearly 20 years until it was finally sold to Homer Owen who soon opened "Rhema The Way", which manufactured and distributed 'inspirational gift items' for gift shops, department stores and religious bookstores. This business remained in the building through a couple of ownership's until 1988 when it became Caritas of Waco, a new local second-hand store. During the night of April 10, 2000, a very destructive fire engulfed the thrift shop and ended its time in the building. Since that time (2001), the building underwent renovation and today serves as the home of Hole in the Wall, a full-service printing, apparel and marketing company.
The McDermott Motors Building was nominated for and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 14, 2004 under criterion A in the areas of Commerce and Military, and under criterion C in the area of Architecture, at the local level of significance. All of the information above (and much more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40973007
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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I like these charity lighthouses and the messages they bring. This one was outside Peterhead Prison Museum when I visited in May 2023.
The artist is Nicola Boom Illustration.
As with her last Wild in Art illustration, Nicola is keen to take the opportunity by using the ongoing threat to the environment. Puffins and Kittiwakes remain on the red list which is the highest conservation priority. Other birds such as guillemots, razorbills and fulmars are on the amber list. With this in mind Nicola wished to create a piece that incorporate all these species. Nicola is inspired by the spectacular cliffs at Fowlsheugh near Stonehaven.
These lighthouses were sold in aid of Clan Cancer Centre and some of them sold very well.
the empty cargo deck of a derelict 1950s-era air force boeing KC-97G stratofreighter stretches away into the dark. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm, 20 second exposure. light painting with LED flashlight.
66601 6G67 Tunstead to Small Heath rounds the curve from Bordesley Junction with its destination in sight as 221121 1S39 Plymouth to Edinburgh descends towards the same junction with over 5 hours to go. Not sure what the clearance of the former yard was in aid of.
Buddhi Lal, 30 works before dawn collecting refuse to recycle and resell. Known as 'rag-picking' he can make perhaps Rs150-200 a day. New Delhi, India.
Until a few years ago, urban poverty, whilst being starkly visible to the policy makers in India, received far less attention from the Indian government than rural poverty, both in terms of range of intervention and the scale of financial outlay. Despite evidence of burgeoning urban population, fuelled by distress migration that followed the new economic policies during early Nineties, it remained an area of significant and persistent neglect from public policy.
In March of the year 2000, a group of young people and committed social workers, with support from ActionAid India, came together under the banner of ‘Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan (AAA)’ . The initiative is set to stop exploitation and marginalization of the homeless people in Delhi, with the aim to empower, mobilise and strengthen the capacity of the homeless so that they can assert their rights and live with honour and dignity.
Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan runs 12 regular shelters in buildings provided by the Delhi government. 7 of these shelters are run on ‘pay to use’ basis while 5 are being run without any user fee.
Other work done by AAA during 2010:
A free legal aid mechanism at Delhi Beggars Court was set up to provide legal aid to the inmates arrested under Bombay Prevention of Begging Act.
Education for homeless children:
Twelve homeless children completed their 6 years of formal education from MCD Schools (state supported school). This group of children is based at Fatehpuri shelter where they are supported with 24 hour shelter, food, tuition, counselling and recreation etc. The direct cost of education (e.g text books etc.) was covered by the State but the other expenses of education like school uniforms, clothing, food, and, healthcare etc. are being covered by donors recruited by AAA.
The Health Intervention Group for Homeless (HIGH)
This clinic has been providing health care to the homeless on every Monday and Thursday evening in Jama Masjid area. Through this clinic, more than 3000 homeless patients got free treatment, and 12 severely mentally ill homeless patients were referred to the exclusive Jama Masjijd clinic. Homeless people are also trained as health support workers to provide their services as care workers to patients at various hospitals.
The Chemical Dependents meeting.
This drug users meeting is organised at Urdu Park and Jama Masjid on every Wednesday evening, and at Fountain Chowk shelter on every Friday evening. From these sessions the patients get referred to the Health Intervention Group for Homeless clinic (HIGH). Continued attendance to these meetings is mandatory for those patients referred and treated at the HIGH clinic.
Photo: Stuart Freedman/ActionAid
©2011 Stuart Freedman
The one in my mind’s eye is a lot more lovely than this one, but this serves as a tickler for the real thing!
The older Akranes lighthouse … as seen from the top of the newer Akranes lighthouse. The person in the red parka in the foreground gives some sense of the scale.