This is a 1903 Elgin pocket watch that belonged to my Grandfather...

its looks beautiful, but too bad its broken and need to be repaired

Fergus Falls, Minnesota. 2016

Taken in late August on Oregon's Broken Top, an old volcano in the Central Oregon Cascades.

Macro of broken glass at a subway station

Just in case you ever wondered what a broken lens looks like. The favorite one.

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I was totally.. pissed. Yep, that's it. Sorry, no other words for it.

At least I don't have to clean it now. I was really ashamed of how dirty it was.

I'm taking it to the lens doctor tomorrow, maybe there is any treatmend we could try, even on experimental base. We're not giving up yet!

update: the lens doctor declared terminal illness. I could get it fixed if I wanted to, but it'd be like 80€.. so yeah, no thanks. What should I do now?

I've been thinking about getting a 35mm/2.0 or a 28mm/1.8 before this one broke. Now I don't know - I am planning on getting a 5D someday so I'd like my lenses to be usable with the full frame. But now I really need something, should I get the 50/1.8 again? Or the faster 1.4 one?

I need to win the lottery.. haha.

explooored! ;) #470

Plumb - Beautifully Broken

(Official Lyric Video)

youtu.be/ce6PT-3sQGg

I created Abstract: Beautifully Broken

using Photoshop Elements 8.

Please receive my deep gratitude

for sharing your wonderful photographs

and for stopping by to appreciate mine.

2 Corinthians 13:14

"May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

and the love of God, and the fellowship

of the Holy Spirit be with you all"

Abandoned place - France

© Pascal Rouen. All rights reserved

Please don't use this shot on websites, blogs or other media.

Taken in Ilulissat, Greenland.

In the United Kingdom we use this type of Manhole Cover two triangles in a square hole. This is a common failure and at some point this will fall to the bottom. In most other countries they use round ones as a circle can't fall through another circle.

Street portrait, summer 2026.

please press L!

curiosity, wonder, confusion, and the thirst to find something.

this is victoria on a wall of broken mirrors. she's helped me out so much with my portfolio and I AM INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL!

these were one of the few photos that came out how i imagined within my parallel universe series.

end of year blogpost

so there we go, an entire year has passed be again. damn. this 52 weeks project wasn't anything particularly amazing to me or as great as my 365 was, but i'm glad i have it never the less.

Philip and I pulled into another cool town along the BNSF Sand Hills Subdivision: Broken Bow. The railroad runs a couple blocks east of the downtown, beyond where the old brick-lined streets end.

Up at the crossing is Phil, grabbing a different angle and a Broken Bow police officer, who drove by and wasn't bothered by me standing on top of a six-foot ladder in the street.

49. Gear

I wanted you to know that

I love the way you laugh

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away...

I keep your photograph and

I know it serves me well

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Heart-shaped Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. It was cracked when I opened it. Broke my heart.

The old adage goes: if you don't like the weather in New England just wait a few minutes. This year has proved that to be true. We've gone from temps in the negative teens to the high 50's and back to freezing again over the span of a few weeks. Rivers have frozen, broken and frozen again. This shot was taken along the Charles River at first light. Large ice flows were floating down the center of the river grinding along the hard frozen edges ... an eerie, primal sound.

Once Broken can never be repaired again...

NO IMAGES IN COMMENTS PLS.

and railway track works

Mosaic Montage Monday: Industrial Backdrop

The Odd Fellows complex in Liberty,MO. served members and the public till the '70s.It included a hospital,retirement home,asylum,and orphanage at one time.Since abandonment,it has become a popular location for paranormal investigators because of the supposed large number of patients(10000!) that died there.This is a shot of the façade of the old hospital with the sign outside nearly buried in the foliage...

During my half hour wondering thru the hallways of the badly decayed structures,I felt nothing paranormal,just bewilderment and sadness over why such a grand old place that served so many,can be left to rot away like this...

This location was showcased this week on the popular paranormal show "Ghost Adventures ". I guess I need to check it out and see what I missed? ?

I've driven by this old homestead many times without stopping but on this occasion, it struck me how broken down everything was - the home, barn, even the tree. Hopefully, the people that occupied it at one time, lived a good life there.

iPad, ar, pro

For 'Window Wednesdays'

Another from the archives, but why not?

Taken on a morning walk in the valley. The window is a rather recent addition to an old farm building now with a preservation order.

To my flickr friends, I've been feeling a little broken down lately. Hope to be back in the saddle soon and see all of your great photos. :)

The broken window of a disused building.

Broken Buddha statues at a temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Larger image available at dean-harte.pixels.com/collections/broken+buddha

An image I made while standing near the top of the hill at the broken gate that market the top of the "Triangle Field" at Gettysburg, just across the road from Houck's Ridge and Devil's Den. The triangle is about a three acre area of field containing large stones bordered on the top and bottom of the hill by this stone wall and on the western edge by woods. On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle, a portion of Union Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward’s Brigade met the Confederate brigades of Brigadier Generals J. B. Robertson, Henry L. Bennin, George T. Anderson and Evander M. Law in battle. After many assaults, retreats and re-assaults the Confederate forces were able to cause Ward's forces to retreat across the valley to Cemetery Ridge north of Little Round Top. This left Devil's Den secured for the Confederates who could then continue onward to Little Round Top.

For those with an interest in battlefield ghosts, "The Triangle" is generally regarded to be the area noted by Gettysburg ghost hunters as being one of the most spiritually active on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The last two times I have visited the triangle field since I made this image the gate was noticeably missing. I'm hoping they were just restoring it and that someone hadn't broken it further or worse.

Technical details:

Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera with a Bronica Zenzanon 50mm F3.5 S lens.

Yellow # 8 filter on lens.

Arista EDU Ultra 400 (Re-branded Fomapan 400) shot at ISO 400.

Semi-stand development using Kodak HC-110 1+100 dilution for 1 hour with 30 seconds initial agitation with swizzle stick and three turns @ 30 minute mark. Paterson 3 reel tank.

Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders with ANR glass.

Resulting image cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio.

Broken Social Scene at Auckland's Kings Arms.

A most awesome gig.

Colon Cemetery. Havana, Cuba.

115 Pictures in 2015 theme - Bare Branches

A storm damaged winter tree.

This is the second of my images for the black and white challenge. Two down, three more to go! I would now like to nominate my contact Bruce (Bruce82) to take up the challenge.

© 2015 Nicola Riley

4502 and 4528 sit idle in Broken Hill yard.

These locomotives were moved out here to become Silverton 45s Class which never eventuated. I believe the locomotives are now owned by Lachlan Valley Railway.

Broken Hill, NSW.

Friday, 30 August 2024.

Unterwegs mit www.flickr.com/photos/75064650@N00/ und Ole

I always feel that there's something slightly magical about a stone wall.

It has history, a sense of past and of all the things humans build, it's probably the most in tune with the landscape and nature - that and willow fences and hedging! :-)

It's not a pyramid or a stone crafted palace by any means, but it is someone's art, someone's vision and their sweat and toil that makes it so unique.

I always wonder who it was that built it and perhaps when. And too, who has repaired it over the years.

Derbyshire is very fortunate to have a glut of stone walling and to a very large extent, it "styles" much of our landscape and shows off it's history too. Back to the days when land was divided and more people worked the land or farmed.

Here's to the tradition of Stone Walling and may it long continue!