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Coltsfoot / tussilago farfara. Nottingham Canal, Cossall, Nottinghamshire. 30/03/21.
Part of a more extensive group of Coltsfoot growing on the bank of a disused canal. The bright yellow flowers were newly opened, so in prime condition.
Little did I know they would be heralding such a cold, wet Spring!
A walk around my local park in Balloch last week found the diverse naturalised and native trees in peak autumn condition. One of my favourites are the Japanese maples which can be found in abundance around the walled garden in the centre of the park.
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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."
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.
DE-ICING
At time of taking photos there was either freezing rain or heavy snow. If you have any hints how to take better photos in these condition, please let me know.
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Stephen
Astana - Capital City of Kazakhstan
The city was renamed into Nursultan in honor of the former President Nursultan Nasarbajew.
View into the specialized studio where the maintenance works for the Brunelleschi cathedral complex are done. The cathedral was erected between 1296 - 1436. Continous maintenance service is necessary to keep such a historic building in a good condition.
Florence, Italy
Some call the genre of photography I am involved with "street photography" because much of it occurs on streets, and other public places. A more accurate name for my genre of photography would be "life as it happens", or the "human condition".
Meeting a stranger is something I usually enjoy immensely and having the opportunity to make a photograph of them is certainly a privilege. Sometimes I wind up in discussions that last a while and sometimes we only exchange a word or two. And at times there are no words spoken -- only the eyes and expression do the talking. As I carry my camera -- this wonderful, tiny time machine -- I am always trying to be an ambassador of hope, joy, opportunity, kindness, acceptance, and understanding. I have come to realize that every human being, despite their lot in life -- whether they are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, healthy or sick, famous or unknown -- all of them, all of us, need a moment of validation that verifies in our souls we are someone, and we are on this planet for a reason. More important than these moments in time I am freezing with this tiny time machine I carry around with me, are the simple validations, an exchange of hope, a reason to live, that I can give away freely with no fear of running out of inventory. And whenever I share a gift of hope with someone, I find a deposit has been made in my account, in my soul, that is better than in my bank account. For this is the reason we all exist on this planet.
NYC
2023
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in condition of move hiding to the black fluffy clouds, the image is very minimal processing in needed only.
The Moon today is in a Full Moon phase. During a Full Moon the moon is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth and is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon will be visible throughout the night sky rising at sunset in the east and setting with the sunrise the next morning. The point at which a Full Moon occurs can be measured down to a fraction of a second. The time it takes between full moons is known as a Synodic month and is 29.530587981 days long.
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Red Dead Nettle / lamium purpureum. Stanton Canal, Derbyshire. 10/04/20.
‘EVERYDAY COMMON.’
Travel restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have helped me focus on and appreciate the everyday common. There are many wildflower treasures to be found close to home, like this exquisite Red Dead Nettle flower.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Tracey I hope you love her new look. :)
After I got her scalp back on straight and conditioned her hair it was obvious that her fringe has been cut quite short. I neatened it up as much as I could without taking any more length off. The rest of her hair turned out lovely and soft.
I think she is adorable!
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
- Rene Magritte
My tribute to the famous painting by Rene Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) with the title “The Human Condition” oil on canvas, painted in 1933
The hard part is not to achieve something, is free from the condition in which it - Marguerite Duras
Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è - Marguerite Duras
Sanders Volvo B8R MCV Evora BV21 00D arrives at Sheringham Railway station with the Coasthopper service from Wells to Cromer. I am not sure How long they will remain in such pristine condition,at Webourne a branch from a overhanging tree knocked the wing mirror round and at serveral places the bodyside was being scratched by roadside vegetation.
1956 Pontiac Chieftain
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Petoskey, Michigan.
Sunday, September 2, 2012.
The 11 km of walls, most of them in good condition, delimit the perimeter of the city's historic district.
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The Cartagena de Indias Wall was built for the defense of the city, it began at the end of the 16th century after the attack of the legendary Sir Francis Drake. The fortification is the most complete on the South American continent and one of the best and well-preserved walls of the walled cities in the world and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Since the founding of Cartagena de Indias in 1533, and throughout the Spanish colonial era, it was one of the most important ports in America. From there came the greatest riches that the Spanish Crown sent to its ports in Spain, for this reason it was necessary to build a wall with all the forts such as El Castillo de San Felipe and Bocachica to prevent them from being invaded by the English or French or saqueros by the pirates, thus the port of Cartagena was gaining importance thanks to its bay protected by the Spanish military, the construction of forts and walls and its proximity to the city of Panama, another important Spanish port.
The city of Cartagena was attacked numerous times by pirates and English, French and Dutch troops. For this reason, King Felipe II entrusted the mission to field marshal Luis de Tejada and the Italian engineer Bautista Antonelli to build 11 km of walls and forts that would serve as a defense to the city.
The construction was carried out in stages. The first of them began in 1586 by Bautista Antonelli, who was an Italian engineer who was at the service of the Spanish crown, later in 1609 Cristóbal Roda would come to intervene in the construction, achieving the fortification of the entire part of the city that faces the open sea.
Francisco de Murga strengthened the entire part of the Getsemaní neighborhood from 1631 to 1633, later Juan Betín repaired the walls destroyed by the sea in 1669. After serious damage by the sea and the attack on the city by Baron de Pointis , Juan de Herrera y Sotomayor restarted the repairs of the walls. At this time, the viceroy of Villalonga ordered Herrera to build underwater caissons in order to form a breakwater in front of the walls destroyed in 1721.
It was necessary to build another breakwater on the way between Punta Icacos (near the current Hotel Caribe) and Tierrabomba by Antonio de Arévalo, who was the most important engineer in the city. In the year 1796 the works in the center of the city would be finished.
The enclosures of the wall also had the function of separating rich people and poor people who could only enter to come to work in the city. The walls are complemented by fortresses on the coast such as the San Sebastian del Pastelillo Fort and the San Fernando de Bocachica Fort.
Visit this wonder especially at sunset where you can watch the sunset and take a pleasant romantic walk along the wall. The people of Cartagena usually visit it in the afternoons and with their partners they watch the sunset and fall in love!
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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
Hannah Arendt
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Berlin, November 2014