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I can now continue to reveal the competing images from the 2021 Sandwich Fair Competition.
These images continue the series from the Sandwich Fair, the biggest and the last county fair in the state of Illinois. Known simply as "The Fair" by locals, it was started in 1888 and is the oldest continually-operated county fair in Illinois as well.
Held the week after Labor Day, the Sandwich Fair can draw tens of thousands of visitors per day and is a photographer's delight.
It is the reason why my photography club, the Sandwich Photographic Society exists. Formed in 1986 to document every aspect of the 100th Sandwich Fair in 1987, SPS is now a Chicago Area Camera Club Association certified club.
SPS sponsors a "Sandwich Fair Challenge" every year a themed photographic competition open to all that consists of 10-15 categories with the only criteria being that all images need to be taken at the current year's Fair. Many of the images featured in this series were taken to fit these categories.
This image is the of the "Tornado" ride, a spinning ride that you couldn't pay me to go on. The rides are always fun to try with varying long exposures. Sometimes you get interesting results, like this as the arm goes from end to end.
2021 Category: Round & Round
For more information on the Sandwich Fair, visit their website at www.sandwichfair.com/.
This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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One of those sparrows tried to fly off with the piece of bread,but I guess it was too heavy.I've seen them do that,how selfish.
This car competed in the Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999. It's the 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione of German driver Gerhard Schwing and is chassis 1887GT. This is the competition version of the Ferrari 250 GT, one of 74 built by Scaglietti, with an aluminium alloy body and the Gioacchino Colombo designed 2,953cc V12 engine. The blue car number 57 beside it is the similar 1960 Ferrari 250GT SWB Competizione of Dutch driver Bart Rosman and is chassis 2179GT, which was originally campaigned by the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps.
Shoreline at Mountain View, Mountain View, CA. The water is reflecting the colors from the pedal boats.
Looking south from north Surrey, with the Milky Way competing with the light pollution from Gatwick airport (left) and Crawley.
Trish is competing in a contest with the magazine Max Muscle. At one time she was over 240 lbs and doctors told her the only way for her to lose the weight and be healthy again, was with surgery. Well, she did it on her own! The contest is a celebration of all the hard work put in to get her back to a healthy state of body and mind.
shes proof that hard work, dedication, and determination can all pay off.
you also may notice ive put my JT logo in the corner, with the new flickr changes i need to protect my work alittle
Strobist: EX 150 into softbox cam left high, EX 150 bare bulb far cam left, AB through a beautydish above back cam left for hair and spotlighting triggered via PW's
For under 40 years, South Korea had two major airlines competing against each other; Korean Air being the flag-carrier owned by the Hanjin Group following the predecessor Korean National Airlines subsequent privatisation in early-1969 to become today's Korean Air. The Hanjin Group is chaebol-owned and Korean Air had a monopoly of commercial flights in and out of South Korea for nearly 20 years until the establishment of Asiana Airlines in late-1988 by the chaebol-owned Kumho Group which would later be known as Kumho Asiana Group.
Now over 30 years later, Asiana Airlines is no longer part of Kumho Asiana Group, the carrier suffering heavy financial losses throughout the late-2010s, and by 2020 became part of the state-owned Korea Development Bank which in the same year the plan was to merge Asiana Airlines and Korean Air drawn up by the South Korean government.
Today, it is now a year since Asiana Airlines and Korean Air merged together; Korean Air now owns 63.9% of Asiana Airlines with full integration expected to take place by late-2026 with the low-cost subsidiaries amalgamated into Jin Air. Asiana Airlines former ownership by Kumho Asiana Group has since been removed with the red arrow and group ownership now removed from the legacy Asiana Airlines aircraft.
Now, we are in the final year of Asiana Airlines operations... From 29th March 2026, Virgin Atlantic will commence operating daily flights between London Heathrow and Seoul-Incheon, taking over the daily slot operated by Asiana Airlines. As stipulated by the UK Competition & Markets Authority, the approval of the Asiana Airlines and Korean Air merger was on condition that the combined carrier's relinquish a daily slot pair into London Heathrow from Seoul to a UK-based carrier, Virgin Atlantic being the chosen operator.
The clock is now ticking on Asiana Airlines last flight...
Currently, Asiana Airlines operates 15 Airbus A350s, all of which are Airbus A350-900s. Asiana Airlines have 15 Airbus A350-900s on-order.
Hotel Lima Eight Three Five Nine is one of 15 Airbus A350-900s operated by Asiana Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on lease from ICBC on 1st April 2019 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-84 engines.
Airbus A350-941 HL8359 on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on OZ521 from Seoul-Incheon (ICN).
Male sea lions competing for the biggest set of whiskers.
Judging from the battle scars on their chests the 'other' competition had already been sorted out.
We ventured on a trip out to a privately owned island (Estancia Harberton) in the Beagle Channel to see some penguin colonies. When we got there we were extremely lucky to find a sea lion colony there also. Apparently it was quite rare for them to be there. There were over a hundred of them and many of them took to the water and swam out to our boat to see what was going on.
Very inquisitive animals.
I was intrigued by there stumpy little tails, something I'd never noticed about sea lions before.
Darrell Griffin is a long standing centre who has now moved into the second row a role he has proved most effective at. He is seen here outpacing Craig Hall of Doncaster. Craig Hall used to play for Wakefield but as he is knocking on a bit now he has gone part time as he nears retirement. Griffin now also in his thirties seems to be holding back his body clock and fingers crossed will head into next season in good form.
The (Australian native-) Gymea lily is one of the tallest flowers in the world. It can reach up to 4 meters in height. Of course it is not as tall as the 'Tower of Power', that is just the PoV. Such lovely flowers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryanthes_excelsa. Gymea Lily
The Beewolf Wasp also known as bee-hunters or bee-killer wasps, are solitary, predatory wasps, preying mostly on Bees, hence the name.
The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the territorial males mark twigs and other objects with pheromones to claim the territory from competing males.
The Female shown here is carrying a Bee back to its previously excavated tunnel in the sand, the Bee has been paralyzed and will later serve as food for the Beewolfs larvae.
I spent most of yesterday observing a mixture of behaviors from both the Male and Female Wasp, amazing to watch these little creatures do their stuff and I can't wait to go back for more of the same! :)
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Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini
Nothing competes with the beauty of a rough mountain. I hope you enjoy this one as much as i did being there.
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You'd think that it would be almost impossible to upstage that incredible train/engine shed roof design wouldn't you?
I would have, and had fully intended to get a clear shot of it.
I patiently waited for the last train to discharge its latest cargo of passengers, shoving the empty space ahead of them forwards, onwards to the exit, the rest of their lives and, (I hoped) smartly OUT of the shot I wanted to take.
I had already raised my camera, and was about to frame it without too much platform foreground and then these two passed carefully by; making their way along the platform in the wake of human detritis and the eddies of air settling around & about them.
At that point I couldn't imagine the shot without them in it. :)
Competing interest with a second look. I've used this photo before, but in color. I certainly like it better in black & white, and the curved row of corn stalks adds some visual appeal. The dirty stack looks cool, but in reality, the clean stack would have been what was seen in regular use. The sky isn't as interesting as the clean stack version, either. From a Lerro Productions charter.
. . . I was treated to four or five fireworks shows at once the other night! These two private individual displays were across the lake from me, and kept drawing me away from the large professional Twin Lake show. Competition is good!
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Competing for berries, these twin fawns wouldn’t get far enough away from one another to give me a good shot of both. :-)
This car competed in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992. It's Kerry Manola's 1960 Ferrari 196S Dino, chassis 0776S, that was driven in the race by Spencer Martin. The car is similar to the Ferrari TR59/60 but has a 1,984cc V6 engine instead of the TR59/60's 2,953cc V12 unit.
This car competed in the Allcomers Scratch Race for Vintage and Historic Racing cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1965. It’s the 1947 Talbot Lago T26C of Anthony Brooke which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,485cc unsupercharged engine. The Talbot Lagos took part in the 1948 (pre-World Championship) Grand Prix races but were generally outnumbered and outclassed by the Ferraris and Maseratis, although Louis Rosier won the Belgian Grand Prix and Louis Chiron the French Grand Prix in one of these cars.