Block Island
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My 5 letters word is block.
I love shooting building blocks.
I had so many options for this but this is where I landed.
Happy Macro Mondays
Preparing two pieces of paper (20x20cm, glassine, grid 1:24) using square twists.
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Have a nice day!
A beaut of a butte, east of Lake Powell, on the far side of Antelope Island, which lies low in the foreground, shadowed just before sunset. Note the layering on the butte and the cliffs behind, indicating sandstones and shales laid down by sedimentary processes—completely different from the massive intrusive granite blocks in Monument Valley, which are remnants of volcanic activity.
The map location may not be accurate.
7 Jan 2022; 01:00 UTC
This was taken at Old Harbor in Block Island. Block Island is off the coast of Rhode Island and is a popular summer vacation spot for New Englanders. I got up early for sunrise, put my equipment in the basket of my bike are rode to the shore. The sunrise was a bust so I decided to look for other interesting spots to photograph.
Copyright 2016 Doreen Bequary
"Football is two things. It's blocking and tackling. I don't care about formations or new offenses or tricks on defense. You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win.”
-Vince Lombardi
That Lombardi quote came to mind when I was working on this image, created from a TV screen shot of a football game that I was watching that was played in a snowstorm on Saturday. The shot shows Michigan State running back Kenneth Walker III (number 9) in the grasp of a Penn State defender, as his teammates attempt to block for him. Walker was carrying the ball, though you can't see it here.
Just for fun, I grabbed a few shots of the screen during the game, and have dressed this one up with a painterly look for Sliders Sunday. I'm also submitting it for the Our Daily Challenge "Begins with F" theme (football).
HSS
A view of the southwest corner of Pulaski & Kickapoo St., catty-corner from Logan County Courthouse in downtown Lincoln. The two late-nineteenth century Italianate buildings are in the 400 block of Pulaski St.
The corner building at 429 Pulaski St. was constructed around 1885 and is a contributing building in the district. The two-part commercial building next to it at 425-427 Pulaski St. dates to 1890. With its cast iron front, second story windows with decorative hood molds and a heavy, metal cornice, the structure is identified as a significant building in the district.
On the left is the older part of the Lincoln Grand 8 Theatre on S. Kickapoo St. The Lincoln Theater opened in early-1923 with the Lon Chaney film “John Quincy Adams Sawyer”. In addition to cinema, the theater featured an organ and live stage shows well into the 1930’s. The architectural style of the original theater is Italian Villa, a design that is typically asymmetrical while the Italianate style emphasizes symmetry.
In 1985, the Lincoln Theater was twinned, and was turned into a quad in the mid-1990s. A $6M addition in 2016 (not shown in this photo) added four more screens, 775 seats, a new lobby and exterior streetscape. Rechristened as the Lincoln Grand 8, the theater closed in late 2018 after the owners defaulted on a $3.9M bank loan. Additionally, the city of Lincoln, which had bet on the theater project helping to attract more business and customers downtown, was out $2.3M in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) bond proceeds.
In the fall of 2020, the Lincoln Grand 8 Theater hit the market for $1.2M. The sale includes more than 42,000 square feet spread among three buildings - the original theater which opened in 1922, the 2016 addition, and a 1920s-built commercial building at the corner of S. Kickapoo and Clinton St. In 2021 it was taken over and reopened by VIP Cinemas.
Both of the 19th century Italianate buildings on Pulaski St., along with the Lincoln Theatre, are contributing properties in the Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
First settled in the 1830s, Lincoln is the only town in the United Stated that was named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president. Mr. Lincoln practiced law here from 1847 to 1859. Lincoln is the seat of Logan County, which is situated in central Illinois approximately 26 miles northeast of Springfield, the state capitol. The population of Lincoln at the 2020 census was 13,288.
The old stable block at Ightham Mote viewed from the tower on the manor house. It was converted into holiday let cottages which are currently being renovated. There is a small display of old photographs in the main entrance.
1968 Camaro. The 454 had to be an engine swap, I believe the largest big block motor available on the sixty eight's was the 396ci
Has this ever happened to you? I was all set to catch a nice view of the "City of Derailment" passenger train, pulling into Salt Lake City on the double track main. Unbeknownst to me, a ZLBDV intermodal was also on the approach, about about 10 cars ahead of the passenger train, blocking the view. I quickly repositioned myself in a desperate attempt to grab a photo as UP 4533's nose migrated into a patch of sun. See if you can spot the Rio Tinto copper mine . . .
Rotated Blocks of Cambrian limestones and shales in landslide deposits on the sides of Shell Canyon in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming are visible in roadcuts along US 14.
North Block is the Ministry of Home Affairs offices for the Government of India. The building has references of old Mughal and British architecture.
Clay Center, Nebraska
My heart is broken. These once substantial buildings on the town square across the street from Clay County Courthouse, have been demolished.
Two of the freshest KCS Shreveport repaints rest overnight on the railroad's isolated Gulfport terminal on a frigid December 2019 night. Pre-CPKC, Gulfport, Mississippi, was the big show for 6 axle 16-645 engine blocks on the system. Since the CPKC takeover in 2023 the typical power has been flung system wide, and oftentimes the power set runs with a Canadian Pacific interloper along for the ride.
Getting behind the scenes for these shots was an opportunity not taken for granted. It feels all the more sweet looking back now that this is almost all gone, and certainly the terms of shooting here aren't as friendly as they were on this frigid night 7 years ago.
Thanks for looking!
Cuxhaven 2021.06.07
AIS Name BLOCK ISLAND
Type Bulk carrier
Flag of Hong Kong
IMO 9614969
MMSI 477401700
Callsign VRTA6
Year Built 2012
Length 200 m
Width 32 m
Draught Avg 9.4 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max 9.9 kn / 17.8 kn
Deadweight 61442 tons
Gross Tonnage 34795
AIS Class A
Another shot of the road block we encountered during a drive around Pilanesberg Game Park. They were making their way to a waterhole to drink and after a few minutes, they wandered off into the bushes. You can see my previous video here:
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