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Night after night... floating in warm waves of expectation. He always ends up here... with me
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I first saw a picture of this scene from Michael Ryan, who photographed it a long time ago (flic.kr/p/DZLEpj).
I came across this place by accident last year and found out it looks familiar.
Hopefully I can go back with a better condition!
In pristine condition, probably It just emerged from its Pupa,
Please see this video of Monarch emerging.
New York City, USA.
November 2013.
This perspective revealing the Woolworth Building is lost with the Four Seasons hotel obstructing this view now. At least the gentleman with the luggage has a place to go to now.
322/365....I'm grateful for air conditioning on a hot day (we arrived in Palm Springs today and I remembered what hot is!)....
...for my 30 days of gratitude project....
For my art exam on The Human Condition. This is development work. It is all seperate works, i have just merged them together in photoshop.
All images are inspired by Francis Picabia : www.askart.com/AskART/photos/COL20080204_5647/153.jpg
Image 3 also has influences from Edvard Munch: 1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qfmy1iBc5N8/SKdlxixVZJI/AAAAAAAAAxw/yF...
Images 4 and 5 have influences from Arnulf Rainer: www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&w...
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Image 1 and 2: watercolours
Image 3: colour photocopy of img2 with oil paint on top
Image 4: colour photocopy of img2 with added photos and chalk pastels
Image 5: chalk pastels
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
This photo is a tribute to those people who volunteer their time to restore and maintain these old steam locomotives in working condition. In this photo, two men are performing minor maintenance tasks while waiting the two hours or more that it takes to fire this engine up. This engine runs a tourist loop at New Hope Pa. and was out of service in 2014. Hopefully it will be back this year. Parts have to be hand made and there are not many people that know how to repair or operate them anymore.
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"I will get back into the car under one condition: you allow me to listen to my music, meaning the one song I listen to, however long or however many times I feel like. After that you can have a turn and can listen to songs and or music on my short approved list."
My Christmas 2024 photo essay is about the United Kingdom's west coast route which links the cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow.
The natural starting point for my essay is London Euston, the southern terminus of the route. Opened in July 1837 by the London and Birmingham Railway, it was rebuilt by British Railways in 1968 when the southern end of the route was electrified.
This image captures how I remember Euston from my first visit: long rows of air conditioned coaches topped by class 86s or 87s. Euston was also the scene of of my first cab-ride: 87007 from one end of a platform to the other!
This image was taken one evening in the mid-1970s: the train on the left is for Manchester and 1P36 is for Blackpool. The others are probably for Birmingham, Liverpool and possibly Glasgow.
Photograph by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.
The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt is a slightly over-lifesize marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana with a deer. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The statue is also known as Diana with a Doe , Diana Huntress, and Diana of Ephesus. It is a partially restored Roman copy (1st or 2nd century CE) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, c. 325 BCE.
Diana is represented at the hunt, hastening forward, as if in pursuit of game. She looks toward the right and with raised right arm is about to draw an arrow from her quiver. Her left arm has been restored, and a deer has been added at her feet, although one might have expected a dog, Her left hand is holding a small cylindrical fragment, which may be part of what was once a bow. She wears a short Dorian chiton, a himation around her waist, and sandals. Her second toes are longer than her big toes, a condition known as Morton's toe.
The statue was given by Pope Paul IV to Henry II of France in 1556 with a subtle but inescapable allusion to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. It was probably discovered in Italy. One source suggests the Temple of Diana (Nemi), an ancient sanctuary; another posits Hadrian's Villa at Tibur.
"Alone amongst the statues exported from Italy before the second half of the seventeenth century the Diane Chasseresse acquired a reputation outside Italy equivalent to the masterpieces in the Belvedere or the Villa Borghese", though its admirers generally confused it with the Artemis at the temple of Ephesus. It was installed as the central feature of the Jardin de la Reine (today's Jardin de Diane) laid out west of the Galerie des Cerfs at the Château de Fontainebleau; there it was the most prominently displayed and among the first Roman sculptures to be seen in France.
In 1602, Henri IV removed it to the Palais du Louvre, where the Diana was installed in a gallery specially designed to receive it, the Salle des Antiques (now the Salle des Caryatides). At the time, its restorations were revised by Barthélemy Prieur. In 1696 it was installed in the Grande Galerie (Hall of Mirrors) of Versailles by Louis XIV. As one of France's greatest treasures, the Diane Chasseresse returned to the Louvre in An VI (1798) of the French Republican calendar (Haskell and Penny 1981:196). It was restored once more, in 1802, by Bernard Lange.
Basic air conditioning! Hotrod truck seen at a recent car show in Weil-am-Rhein DE. In my set: Dan's Miscellany (Dan Daniels)
As you can plainly see, I don't try very hard to keep my MacBook Pro in mint condition. The bevels are unglued, the fans aren't as quiet, and as for the onions: I'm just lucky they haven't set the thing on fire.
I was lucky enough to be able to shoot in a 1974 Lotus Eclat in great condition. I'd been planning to use my car, but jumped at the chance to use this due to it's classic nature, but mostly because my car is a heap!
Lighting Info: Elinchrom Quadra head (A Channel) in Wescott Apollo softbox pressed against window camera left, Quadra head (B Channel) with reflector, plus 20 grid spot, plus warming gel behind rear window, white reflector camera right for fill. Fired by built in Quadra Skyport.
Explored at #35 on Jan 27th 2011.
Thanks for all the positive comments and favourites. In one day this single shot has become my most viewed. The usual average per day (according to the Stats) is 30 views. In the two days after posting this image I've had over 14,000 views!
White Saddle (Helvella crispa) in prime condition though it appears distorted and damaged - this is its normal appearance. Edge of grassy area near short grass path. Derbyshire Peak District.