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Now that all our energy needs are provided by foreign oligarchs who can charge what the hell they like, so many individuals that live in the richest economy on the planet cannot afford to keep warm. Dave has advised us to wrap up warm this winter, wear a sweater, heat one room [preferably the toilet] or stay in bed until next April ....
floating in an endless languor-that pleasant state of being inactive
flowing with sentences that had neither beginnings nor endings
(either when talking or writing...or when silent)
On Friday 12th December 1969 I was up at 4:20am and, by 4:40, was waiting at the bus stop at the top of our road in Staple Hill, Bristol. I had a train to catch. My intended destination was St Helens in Lancashire. Why St Helens? Difficult to explain ...and I don't altogether understand the psychopathology myself. All I know is that ever since I had been old enough to see and feel I had loved fog, moist hazy light, shiny pavements after rain, soot, gloom and chimney-smoke. Photographs of collieries, factory chimneys, slag heaps and lines of terraced houses in gas-lit flagstoned streets fascinated me. I found all these things sublimely beautiful. How or why I could not and cannot tell, but I'm sure it had something to do with inadequacy and self-pity. Others seemed not to like this sort of thing. It was very much a minority taste.
I had also seen the films of the early 60s "kitchen sink" school, with their lovingly photographed backdrops of Stockport Viaduct or the Manchester Ship Canal. I was immediately in love. I looked to the industrial regions of the north as a devout catholic looks to Rome ...as a kind of spiritual home, the repository of his allegiances. I had been three times to the north during the previous year, in an angst-fuelled "race against time" to see Britain's last steam locomotives. Looking down from the train over the rain-washed slate roofs of Longsight, I knew what I would be doing once all the steam engines had gone.
So St Helens it was. I had arranged to take a week's holiday which I would spend on day trips to the north. Too shy to stay in a hotel on my own, I returned to my own bed at the conclusion of each outing. In those days I was earning about £7 per week and holiday entitlement was two weeks per annum. I had chosen December as the time of year most likely to produce the light I liked. The whole week was a great success and there has always been a little corner of the Bentos soul where an eternal flame burns to its memory. I was 19, which helped. All experience is heightened ...I suppose hormonally... in a way which never again returns.
Here we see a street corner in the town. The name plaque says Wilson Street. I had just walked, in Swinburnian ecstacies, through a drizzle-pervaded landscape of collieries, slag heaps, smoking factory chimneys and monstrous excavations. Unfortunately, the dim light I loved did not suit the camera I then owned and the photographs I took were mostly of abysmal quality. This view now meets its destiny as a scanned negative, properly visible for the first time. The largish windows suggest that the corner houses might once have been shops.
Marianna pushed me to do some double exposure work. After figuring out the technique and how to set it up in camera, here is my best so far.
No photoshopping, double exposure in camera, only cropped to square.
I will give this some more goes in the near future (clean shaven and darker clothes, preventing the reflection to my back and a few more notes to myself...)
Have a look at Marianna's work, it is diverse and inspiring.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
EF100mm f/2 USM
ƒ/10.0
100.0 mm
1/200s
ISO100
Flash (on, fired)
(EX90, to trigger a 420EX in a white reflective umbrella)
My lovely Converse Signature Pink Back to Back on Black
I seem to be getting used to my camera as I am really pleased with how I have captured the light, much better contrast on a darker background. Yummy!
spotted these little fellas mating the other week (above)
then the other day saw lots of pairs doing this (see below)
can anyone help with id’s? are the above green veined whites? and the below large whites?
- and do they mate differently? the above couple seemed to do it "back to back" where as these ones below seemed to just land on top of each other?
the bottom one (presumably the female) would raise her abdomen in the air, and the other would land on her then fly away – then do this a few times?
does anyone know? x
(PLEASE NO AWARDS OR PICTURES OR FLASHY BADGES)
S303-S313 race through Dysart with a fast running 8398 Steamrail "Spirit of Progress" special from Tocumwal - 9/3/2013
Prior to the triple-tracking of the West Belt in 2013-2014 (the new mains can be seen to the right), this track here was Main 2 and it was YL dark territory between Belt Jct and Tower 210 on the north side of Houston.
As with any dark territory, a distant signal is needed as a warning that a train is approaching a signaled control point. But due to the short stretch between CP's here, the HB&T opted for a unique setup where both distants were mounted on the same pole as if they were intermediates. The signal would be gone in less than a year.
Houston, TX
August 16th, 2013
Back-to-back houses are a form of terraced house in which two houses share a rear wall (or in which the rear wall of a house directly abuts a factory or other building).
Usually of low quality (sometimes with only two rooms, one on each floor) and high density, they were built for working class people and because three of the four walls of the house were shared with other buildings and therefore contained no doors or windows, back-to-back houses were notoriously ill-lit and poorly ventilated and sanitation was of a poor standard.
Above description taken from Wikipedia.
These are the last surviving Back-to-back houses in Inge Street, Birmingham, they are now preserved as a museum by the National Trust.
Inge Street, Birmingham, UK
Back to Back HST power cars 43134 and 43053 "University of Worcester" head through Twyford with a Laira to Old Oak Common move.
Wedding Place of my late Uncle Stanley Briggs to Doreen Dean (later Greenwood)
Now a church serving an influx of people from The Phillipines
Nikko at right with her Bro, Bro just twisted head otherwise it was a mirror pose.
--(2010) Sadly both are no more ;(
From Lecture on the Sanitary Condition of Chorlton upon Medlock, by John Hatton, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., 12 Jan 1854.
This item forms part of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association collection.
Holbeck Top Moorside
Photographed by a kite lifted by a kite
Part of my regeneration collection www.flickr.com/photos/meerstone/collections/7215762355958...
The wigeon is a medium-sized duck with a round head and small bill. The head and neck of the male are chestnut, with a yellow forehead, pink breast and grey body. In flight birds show white bellies and males have a large white wing patch. Birds breed in central and northern Scotland and also in northern England. Many birds visit the UK in winter from Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia. With large numbers of wintering birds at a few UK sites it is an Amber List species.
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S303-S313 sit in Tocumwal Platform preparing to run back to Melbourne with 8398 Steamrail "Spirit of Progress" special - 9/3/2013
My daughter, Jessica, at a street corner of legal graffiti during a photographic ramble we took looking at graffiti and street art in downtown Toronto, Canada.
Thanks to my wife, Chrys Antaya, for technical help with the photo editing and colour balance.
S303 and S313 battle Glenroy Bank as 8395 Fowles Winery Charter to Seymour.
Saturday 16th March 2013
A second orchid bloom has appeared in the hospital greenhouse. The new one refuses to face the first one. This was shot right into the sun. The dots are on the back of the petals and are from my misting them earlier. This shows the true lemony color.
2 Ford Railcars back to back provide a local passenger service at Foston Mills.
Based on the North Eastern Railway modelling the possible branch from North Frodingham to Foston On The Wolds.
1:43 Scale, O Gauge, 7mm model railway.
Seen at Lincoln Model Railway Exhibition 2019.
Kurt designed and built this back-to-back tandem recumbent, nicknamed the Beast. The design allows either rider to idle or pedal, unlike other tandem designs which require riders to pedal in sync.
After the Beast was idle awaiting repairs for several months, the Kurt and Turner were able to get a few more rides in before Turner graduates high school and moves away to a summer job and college.
Back-to-back tandem recumbents can sometimes be seen at races because they can be aerodynamic and efficient. (You might even find one to buy).
The Beast is quite spry itself, despite it's novel look and comfortable seats. I've seen these guys easily exceed 20 mph on flat ground. The open middle has a "floor" and could be packed for cargo hauling or touring.
Now that the Beast is repaired, I hope we continue to see it out on the road!
Carved from a flat section of amber, the pendant represents two figures standing back to back. Their facial features and garments identify them as females. Both wear a long chiton and fitted veil, which covers their heads and extends down to the hem of the chiton; over it is a long cloak. The women hold one hand on the chest and the other pulls the left edge of the garment. The hand gestures may emphasize fertility, and if the pair are divinities, the image could represent two deities or dual aspects (names, cult identities, or natures) of a single deity.
Etruscan or South Italian, Italy, ca. 600-550 BCE. Amber.
100.4 × 39.9 × 13 mm, 39.3 g (3 15/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/2 in., 0.0866 lb.)
Getty Villa Museum (77.AO.81.1)
Although most of the later series Birmingham Electric dustcarts were Morrison Electricars the last 6 were not, they were by Brush of Loughborough. The model was the Brush 50cwt, they were 1.5 tons lighter than the 4 ton DV4, the Brush vehicles were quite fast being lighter, but had teething troubles with their Metrovick contollers, these were replaced with the standard controller from the DV4 range. The external condition shows the large semaphore indicators attatched to the cab and a grab handle each side of the front windscreen pillar so that the dustmen could hang on outside the cart rather than getting in. Number 258 was put into service at Montague Street depot on 21st Jan 1947 and lasted until 09/09/1966 when it was broken up at Sansoms.
The picture is in an unknown inner-city location (Probably Aston/Saltey/Bordesley) and shows GOX 943 in a street of back to back houses, to the right the metal fence suggests a school, this style of barrier was used all over Birmingham outside schools to stop children running out of the gates into the roadway, the brick pillar looks like a school gate. Behind the vehicle a lad in a rather strange hat looks to be tormenting his little sister, probably trying to snatch her beloved soft toy!
Peter Shoesmith
HGR_625ra
"I wonder if posing like this will attract someone who'll give us a ride..."
5 minutes before this shot, we actually did say "It'd be nice if we had a golf cart out here to get around?"
Two FedEx Ground trucks are parked back-to-back in the parking lot of the Pike Center shopping center in Rockville, Maryland, presumably to facilitate the transfer of packages between the two vehicles.
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