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One of the sites we snorkeled in Maui was a pier that collapsed during a bad storm. You can see some of the twisted rebar that remains in part of the peer. This is in about 30 feet of water and when I shot this picture I was about 4ft from the bottom. Like much in photography the closer you can get to the subject the better.
Torniechelt Farm house the Cabrach Cairngorms Moray Scotland
Torniechelt "little hill of the concealment"
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Stoodley Pike is a 1319ft (402 metre) high point on the moors of the South Pennines above Hebden Bridge and Todmorden in Calderdale. It is best known for the Stoodley Pike Monument, an obelisk, built in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War and replacing a collapsed earlier monument built to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon. The monument is a well known Yorkshire landmark and is visible from many vantage points around West Yorkshire in particular.
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Another one of my frozen bubbles from last week. This one started collapsing even while it was freezing (I think there was a small hole down in the frozen section)
This quarry stopped activity, well, half a century ago ? what will be left of it in another 50 years ? Maybe just some photographs.
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This was on a farm where a friend of mine lives and grew up. She decided it was time to get rid of it so I got one last shot. Many years ago!
Scanned from an old film print.
I boogied all about in the newly fallen Valmont snow, first to the historic stage stop. Here, under the snowy blanket, lies an early Boulder area pioneer town. I buzzed around to shoot what I saw under the blanket of snow while eDDie slept in the vehicle as is normal for him. I caught several shots of the old stage stop in the snow in its state of collapse. Indeed, the dilapidated look is a re-siding of the original log structure. It was so early that the logs were hand squared by the efficient methods used at the time. I am shocked that it still exists; I bet boarding up the windows hasn't helped preservation much. Did the stop also lodge travelers? Valmont is the last stop on Boulder Creek of the wagon, stage then rail route to the budding Boulder gold fields. Certainly the area was a great spot for pasturing horses. The water table was 4-6 feet deep here. Boulder got it's start in 1858 but in 1865, the town of Valmont [contraction of “valley” and “mountain”] was platted. It grew directly to rival Boulder in size and commercial activity as the key valley transportation point. The place is a bit of a pinch point in the valley.
The rail line followed the early stage route through Valmont into Boulder. It was also the Boulder Valley branch of the Union Pacific. I still don't know if the old stage stop was refurbed into a rail station. Eastward in Erie, Colorado the coal fields must have supplied early Boulder City, four miles west of Valmont. An angry Longmont ponied up, starting their own rails into town as seen in one of the comments below. The lines delivered coal before daDDy Koch was even born to rip his slice from the environment. The disappearing agricultural town and travel stop was here. See some of my other Valmont images. This must have been a busy spot when the stage had to start competing with the new rail route. Sometimes rail companies bought the rights-of-way from stage companies. Roads and rails were extended up Boulder Canyon into the foothills to mining camps. The foothills created a bundle of railroading problems so railroaders switched from standard to narrow gauge construction to deal with the sharp curves..
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“The Father of Industrial Design”, "The Father of Streamlining”, “The man who made the 20th Century beautiful”, “The man who designed everything”, “The man who shaped America”, all these titles have been used to describe one man, Raymond Loewy.
He did indeed, design a bit of everything. Starting with illustrations for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, he went on to design appliances for Sears, streamliner locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, logos for Lucky Strike, Shell Oil, Exxon and even the paint scheme on Air Force One.
He also redesigned the Coke bottle in 1955 and worked on new designs for Coke machines and Soda dispensers.He gave us the iconic Greyhound logo and the design of the Scenicruiser Bus.
It is his work for Studebaker we celebrate here. In particular, we celebrate the design of the 1953 Studebaker Starliner Coupe. The car was a decade ahead of Detroit styling and looks more like a car of the 1960s. While the rest of American car makers were still building tubby cars, Loewy built a slick design that lasted for over a decade until Studebaker collapsed. Studebaker Starliners and Commanders still compete in the Mexican Road Race and win because of their excellent weight distribution and great aerodynamics.
These pictures show the evolution of the design as it became the Golden Hawk in 1957 and the Packard Hawk in 1958. The Packard variant looks like a catfish and many Packard owners do not consider the rebranded Studebakers that were sold as Packards in 1957 and 1958 to be real Packards. They did get a nice Paxton Supercharger in the engine bay though.
In 1963, Raymond Loewy pulled out one last great design for Studebaker, the Avanti. That car was still being made in the 1980s.
This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars in front of a real background.
Danbury Mint 1953 Studebaker Commander Starliner
Danbbury Mint 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk
Danbury Mint 1958 Packard Hawk Sport Coupe
Trees are by Marilyn Heath
My last shot of farm-ware was of the migrant housing in farming territory but here is another eastern plains barn on it's last studs. This swing was on Tuesday, a seldom scene cool-down day in our string of mid 90s. There is plenty ready to tip over out east of Loco, Colorado, including this barn, it's corrals and loading ramp for transfer stock to one of the -19 striken meat plants. Oh well. the St. Vrain River Valley is in the background and could support sand and gravel mining to pave the plains then it's gravel pits dumped upon Weld County taxpayers for mosquito maintenance but never agriculture again, forever? We can all eat questionable and dangerous foods from industrial plants. This is pretty-well abandoned some time back. Did it's productivity dry up and then left to die? At recent times, lights were attached to the front for working at all hours.
Don't stand under the shed or in the barn and sneeze your covid-19 inside without a hard hat and face mask. I am absolutely certain that I made NO positive contact with a right-wing carrier on my eastern swing yesterday although I now have to invest in some petroleum futures at the local gas-er-up.
The winter's load of snowfall and moisture is almost entirely tapped by now and irrigation from river runoff is the best bet now, using petroleum distillates to pump away. Here is a load of character and textures. Some grasses show up as green but are belied by the weeds drying out.. I expect the serious paying crops will get their water, even out here!!
This eastern part of the valley is loaded with sand and gravel extraction firms . They won't need to use water to grow crops... ever again. The toughest crop then is actually topsoil. Take the money, build prairie castles and run.
I found a coolihshly decent summerish day in late June in the Rockies at the end of this June while skies were building over the Rockies west of here. In late May, the San Juans were at 2% residual snow pack. Could be trouble for southwest Colorado. Maybe I will try more shots here on a premium sky and foliage day in the future. In the meantime, I will upload this edited Colorado plains farm shot and attack another.
I've seen many things everywhere along my paths on display in the Rockies. My day stretched out nicely as I travel back and found several hits on rural routes on my way home and some captures I really liked. The day is stretching on.
Another one of my frozen bubbles from last week. This one started collapsing even while it was freezing (I think there was a small hole down in the frozen section).
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For almost a week now, I've been suffering from extreme lower back pain. Particularly in the mornings, I've needed assistance getting out of bed.
This morning, my beautiful and incredbile wife went above and beyond her marital vows. In the mornings, I've had trouble getting out of bed. The pain that happens when I try to roll my body over is excrutiating. And then it takes a helping hand to get socks on.
This morning was far worse. Unbelievable pain to the point where I was glad I placed pillows on the floor just in case. I needed them. I collapsed to the floor in SO MUCH PAIN that I nearly vomited. I know that's not a pretty vision.
But she stayed by me, sacrificing leave time from work, as I lay there, prone, unable to muster up the energy and courage to face the pain that would come just trying to get to my feet.
And I was down like that for 90 minutes.
Yesterday, I was prescribed some of the strongest pain killers and muscle relaxers short of morphene, but since I had been taking another pain med to manage, I wasn't able to start them yet.
My dear wife went downstairs to get the pain pills with applesauce* and fed them to me. And still... I lay... hoping they would kick in and help me to get up.
I was pretty pathetic, but not ashamed to say so because the pain was that intense.
FINALLY, she motivated me and helped me to get up off the floor, despite my yelling and cursing in pain.
A little later on, we looked out the window onto the backyard. The back yard has been her labor all spring and summer. It isn't much... but it's ours. The breeze had blown so much of the peak leaves off overnight and becuase they are acidic, I said that we'd have to rake them up asap so they don't play havoc with the soil. She said "Yeah I know... But they actually look really pretty on the grass."
By the afternoon, the medications were really doing their job (Thank God) and I was able to walk... slowly... but surely. It wasn't raining yet. Passing by my 70-200mm, I couldn't resist stepping out for a little fresh air and to see if there were any leaves left. And I remembered how she said she liked the leaves contrasting against the green grass.
I took this shot for her.
And though it looks like a low angle shot, I was actually standing fully upright.
*I've never been able to take pills with just water, no matter how small it is. Others make fun of me for it. I just tell them I don't have the "deep throat" skills they have. And since I take vitamins and another med several times a day anyway, I'm never without crackers, cashews or something else small and portable. I chew, pop the pill in the middle and then I barely can tell I was swallowing a pill at all.
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scanned 120 Kodak Ektar 100 colour negative film
Lisa Bedard
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Played around with freezing some more bubbles on Saturday - this is one that was "poked", and started to slowly collapse.
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Pentax K-5 + Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM
40 mm, f 5.6, 1/200 sec. ISO 80
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