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There remain areas of Over The Rhine that have not been gentrified. Even the remains of a pay phone on the right. Cincinnati.
Disused storefront. Could be on the main street of any small town in the U.S. The advent of large chain retailers drove many small businesses into extinction. This one happens to be in Lawn, Texas.
Camera: Kodak Retina IIc, Xenon f2.8 50mm lens
Film: Fujicolor 200
Developing: C-41 home processing
The area of Pescadero Point known as Ghost Tree derives its name from the white and gnarly local cypress trees in the area which call to mind ghosts or witches. Foresters predict that the few still living cypress trees will soon join their ghostly brethren due to a blight of beetles that will kill much of the cypress and pine in California over the next 20 years.
Legend tells of a particular spooky tree in the bunches that graces the coastline of swanky Pebble Beach. Supposedly the image of a “Lady in Lace” has often been spotted on dark foggy nights near the famed Ghost Tree, upsetting the motorists who are said to have seen her walking down the center of the 17 Mile Drive.
America Black Bear of North Carolina
There are three species of bears in North America—the Polar Bear, Brown Bear (Grizzly), and Black Bear. The Black Bear is the only species found in North Carolina or anywhere in the eastern United States and is an important part of our cultural, historical and natural heritage.
In North Carolina, the Black Bear is usually black with a brown muzzle and sometimes a white patch on its chest. Bears have five toes on each foot, with sharp curved claws that help them climb trees and feed on insects and grubs in decaying logs. Black Bears rely mostly on their sense of smell and hearing due to their average (similar to humans’) eyesight, but are adept at climbing, running, swimming and digging. They can run as fast as 35 miles per hour!
Before Europeans came to the New World, Black Bears lived in all forested regions of North America and were abundant in North Carolina. However, Black Bears were often killed by early settlers to protect their families, crops and livestock. In time, bears across the state were also impacted by habitat loss from agricultural development and clear-cutting. By the mid-1900s, bears were only found in the most remote mountains and coastal swamps of our state. Then in the 1920s, the American chestnut blight (a tree-killing fungus) hit the Mountain Region, destroying the most important nut-producing tree for bears. As a result, bear populations suffered.
However, thanks to science-based management and bear sanctuaries, Black Bears have made a remarkable recovery in population and range. Black Bear expansion has occurred naturally as bears have moved into suitable habitats. As of 2012, there were approximately 17,000 bears in the state, occupying 61% of the state’s total land area.
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After waiting a while with my friends on this cold and gloomy afternoon for the UP dispatcher to give YBA55 the go-ahead to return west, we were rewarded with an ex-St. Louis Southwestern GP60 leading the way through the rougher areas of North Portland. Between the urban landscapes this job traverses and the regularity of cool power assignments, I never had a bad time chasing this job during my many visits to Portland. Portland, OR, 3/28/2023.
Getting harder to avoid hilltop wind turbines in landscape pictures. in my area all good hilltop views now contain them, with more forecast for the future. Langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.
blight noun. a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts.
this is from a long ass time ago and i never uploaded it because i don't really like it and i was planning on reshooting but i'm not sure if that's going to happen anymore so i figured that i'd just upload.
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One of the leaves on an agave in our garden is in the process of dying. The color transition is quite astounding to see.
Early autumn at Cors-y-Llyn, and this young birch tree is already in bud, yet still a single leaf is hanging on in there.
The Bradford & Bingley was once a proud Building Society with this HQ in the heart of Bingley. It was a mutual organisation looking after savings and mortgages for its members.
It was converted into a Bank in 2000 by greed, as were several others. The downfall came during the banking crisis of 2008 when its greedy policies and incompetent governance were brutally exposed, trapping thousands of people in misery - a dereliction of duty to its customers.
In fact, no Building Society that ever converted into a Bank survived, and the financial problems it caused are still being managed out at the cost of billions to UK taxpayers.
Meanwhile, this HQ building then stood empty for many years before demolition in 2015, a blight on Bingley.
Bye-bye, Bad Bank. Brutalist architecture by name, Brutalist by nature.
Update: the site is now a Lidl supermarket.