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Frame #4 of the aforementioned 24(220). One day I decided to be patient and two months later this is what showed up.
One of the three on the roll that I took a second shot of to be sure.
The period between the First World War and WWII is so distant that it's doubtful many people think about passenger air travel during those decades. If they do, what comes to mind are scary-looking wooden and canvas biplanes held together by a maze of guy wires.
If my father was dreading many noisy, bumpy and nerve-wracking hours on one of those all the way to Miami while on his way to the airfield at Rio in early 1943, he would have been delighted to see one of Pan Am's Boeing S-307 Strato-Clippers waiting on the apron for its lucky passengers.
Above, Pan American's three Boeing S-307s are parked together for an undated publicity shot. The one that carried my father is in the center, bearing registration number NC19910. There's some confusion as to whether it was Clipper Flying Cloud or Clipper Comet. Wikipedia isn't sure.
The Boeing S-307 story is too long to fit here but it doesn't need to, since Wikipedia has all the facts a person could possibly want about this pioneering airliner. Simply saying that it was pressurized with four engines mounted on a wing that was below the body doesn't begin to do it justice.
It's a shame Father wasn't as interested in aircraft as I am, because I would have loved to hear his impressions.
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The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing tailwheel monoplane airliner derived from the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, which entered commercial service in July 1940.
It was the first airliner in revenue service with a pressurized cabin, which with supercharged engines, allowed it to cruise above the weather.
As such it represented a major advance over contemporaries, with a cruising speed of 220 mph (350 km/h) at 20,000 ft (6,100 m) compared to the Douglas DC-3s 160 mph (260 km/h), at 8,000 ft (2,400 m) then in service.
When it entered commercial service it had had a crew of five to six, including two pilots, a flight engineer, two flight attendants and an optional navigator, and had a capacity for 33 passengers, which later modifications increased, first to 38, and eventually to 60.
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The noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy designed the passenger cabin, with furnishings provided by Marshall Field's.
It was divided into four compartments, each with six deep comfortable reclining chairs which could be converted into 16 sleeping berths.
Each compartment was provided with adjustable air conditioning vents, reading lights, and a call button.
Nine additional seats were provided along the port side of the aircraft, while washrooms which doubled as dressing rooms were provided at both ends of the cabin.
The rear washroom was for women and was named the "ladies charm room", which aside from the walls being covered in heavy plate glass mirrors, in its 34 sq ft (3.2 m2) it two dressing tables, each with a sink, plush upholstered stools, soft indirect lighting provided by fluorescent lamps, ashtrays, hot and cold running water, shelves with towels, and a separate cubicle was provided for the toilet.
The men's washroom was in front as the "Men's Lounge", and also had a separate cubicle for the toilet, and two sinks, along with outlets to run an electric razor.
A somewhat cramped galley of 28 sq ft (2.6 m2) provided hot food was situated at the rear of the cabin, behind which was positioned the rear hemispherical pressure bulkhead.
Up to 412 cu ft (11.7 m3) or 6,590 lb (2,990 kg) of baggage could be stowed under the floor of the cabin, between the wing spars, and behind the rear spar, which was accessible in flight through a hatch in the cabin floor, or on the ground through three hatches on the underside of the fuselage.
Extensive use was made of the latest in sound proofing, and the Dynafocal engine shock mounts were designed to reduce vibrations from being felt by the passengers.
The air conditioning system used both electrical and mechanical systems, which drew air in through vents in leading edge of each wing near the roots to bring outside air to two engine driven superchargers that compressed the air, which was then passed through radiator condensers to cool the air, and it was then run through channels to the vents in the cabin.
External hookups allowed ground air conditioner units to cool the cabin air when the engines were off.
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In 1937 Pan American Airways placed their first order for two Stratoliners, which they soon increased to six. Deliveries to Pan Am started in March 1940, and they had received their first three before war intervened and civil aircraft production halted. The other three would not be built. All three were named for historically notable Clipper ships. Pan Am carried out their first revenue flight on July 4, 1940, with service between Miami, Brownsville, Texas and Los Angeles. Unlike TWA, Pan Am did not exclusively assign their aircraft to specific routes, and instead they were used for their Latin American routes and ranged from Miami and Los Angeles to Brazil.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_307_Stratoliner#Pan_American...(Pan_Am)
St Mary's Chambers started life in 1856 when it was a United Methodist Church.
In the 1930's attendances were falling, and this Church was no exception. After the second world war the premises, now no longer a Methodist Church, was used as a social centre by groups for the local elderly residents. By the early 1990s its condition had deteriorated so badly that it became unusable.
The building has now been extensively renovated with support from English Heritage and is home to several businesses as well as being promoted as a conference and banqueting centre.
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A Korean fortune teller in Seoul. One can find all types of fortune tellers in South Korea. And they run the gamut from the very profitable ones, as the one picutured here, to the more common ones working out of far smaller quarters in old buildings. I took this shot on the run, not wanting to get hit by any airborne demons--incoming or outbound!
I have queried my adult students here about whether they have ever visited a fortune teller. The majority of them have but only once or twice. Many said they had gone with friends after having a few drinks. Just my opinion, but I think that one would have to look far and wide to find any fortune teller who is going to give a person any bad news.
Olympus Trip 35 with Zuiko 40mm f/2.8 lens on Fuji 200.
Seoul, ROK
2010
This is another shot of the abandoned Towitta homestead (closer and later in the morning) I have not decided which works better, so I add this image so you can compare and contrast it to the other image.
See comments below for other image.
Continuing the theme of every Carlsson I've seen being off the road or in poor condition! On SORN with no MOT history, current owner since 2002.
c/n AW.5562
Built in 1953 as a Meteor NF.11 for the RAF with the serial WM395. Delivered to the Royal Danish Air Force in January 1953 as 51-512 but was later converted to a TT.20 target tug and renumbered as H-512. It was sold off Svensk Flygtjanst AB in August 1962 and civil registered in Sweden as SE-DCF. Retired in 1964, it was moved by road to Bulltofta in 1967 and was restored to flying condition. Sold to Flugzeug Handelsgesellschaft Karlsruhe in October 1969, it had the Germany civil identity D-CAKY reserved for it and a ferry flight was planned to allow the aircraft to become part of operations in Biafra. Impounded at Gosselies in Belguim, it remained there from November 1969 until 1984 when it became part of the Musee Royal de l'Armee in Brussels.
It joined the collection here during 1988.
Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune, France
12th May 2022
On pristine condition at the very wet Railfest at the National Railway Museum, York, is EWS owned 56006. The beautiful looking was offered to the NRM as part of the National collection. But as is the way with the chaps at York it was deemed not to fit in with the museums plans and so was rejected. Luckily the loco did enter preservation.
News Anchor: Well, it's been a very tense and serious past two months for fans the hottest band in the world, after a serious motorcycle accident left one of the band's members in a coma for two weeks and in critical condition for more than a month...but today it seems the fears and apprehension concerning the future of their heroes has been alleviated for fans of FIFTY SHADES OF PINK as the man they were most concerned about, lead singer Pinkus Pinkston the Third, released just two days ago from a Los Angeles Hospital held a press conference in Tokyo and it was just filled with good news for those same fans.....and our correspondent Brandon Kobayashi was there, so we are gonna take you now live to Tokyo and hear all the details folks...Brandon?!!!
Brandon: Yes Steve Hello hi, can you hear me?
Steve: Yes Brandon Loud and Clear.
Brandon: Well Steve what an exciting and uplifting surprise, with surprises within the surprise it was for the fans who call themselves ONE PINK NATION.
Now you set the stage for today perfectly as far as today's happening, but before I give all of you watching at home these details, I wanna take it back Steve, let's take it back...
25 Months Steve..twenty-five months. Twenty-Five months ago if I had asked almost any person on this planet what they thought of FIFTY SHADES OF PINK..no one and I mean almost no one at all would have had the slightest clue what I was talking about and that is almost unimaginable just two years later. Yes twenty-five months ago, no one ever heard of the band and then twenty-four months ago the band released their debut album PARK THE PINK. The first week or so, there were critics bashing the band without even hearing their music, calling them a joke that would soon evaporate, much of that due to the fact that the band's album and tour were being funded by the massive wealth of who? Yes our man, Pinkus Pinkston the Third, who is sole heir to PINKSTON PINK CHIP STAMP FORTUNE.
Well the common person was not paying attention to the haters Steve, because they were tapping their feet, stomping them, dancing and singing along as the band themselves hit the road on an incredibly grueling touring schedule that would soon give them reputations as legendary Road Warriors in their own right and very quickly FIFTY SHADES OF PINK were being played on every radio station in the world and blaring from the windows, vehicles and headsets of millions around the world.
Then six months later in the midst of that never ending tour incredibly the band released their second and perhaps most controversial album SEEING PINK SPIDERS.....on which the band strayed far onto the proverbial outer limits of their already incredibly unique and patented formula of influences, and once again some naysayers were loudly marking this the end of a flash in the pan, but the band and their hardcore fans were not listening to them as the tour continued round the world non-stop, the arenas sold out and the music continued to be played everywhere, all the time, the ONE PINK NATION growing and growing for another half a year and what came next?
Just six months ago Steve, only eighteen months after the release of their debut, The SHADES released their third album, the incredible SINK THE PINK!!! The album that in just these past short six months has become the top selling album in the history of music!!!
STEVE: Brandon, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't one critic say it was the end all be all?
Brandon: Yes, yes you are correct Steve, that would be famous Rolling Stone writer and critic NACHO BIZNEZZ who declared SINK THE PINK the album and FIFTY SHADES OF PINK the band , the ultimate and final evolution of recorded popular music.
No one could have predicted such a horrible twist would occur in the excitement of this success! The dark chapter in this real life legend...two months ago, after finishing a performance in Las Vegas, with a show scheduled the next night in Dallas, Pinkus made the fateful decision to jump on a motorcycle and rush home to Los Angeles in the interest of spending just a couple hours with his beloved hairless Siamese cat TUSCADERO and that's when the horror happened, Pinkus was struck head on by a Tractor trailer , both the truck and Pinkus' bike estimated to be moving at speeds in excess of ninety miles an hour!
Pinkus was airlifted barely clinging to life, he in fact flatlined twice while in transit to a Los Angles hospital and that's when the Doctors on the helicopter made the very serious and difficult decision to induce a coma in hopes of saving his life;
The world was kept in a state of desperation, sadness, shock, weirdness and outrage over the week that followed as more details related to and surrounding the accident became public.
It was learned that the truck driver was also seriously injured , his rig had flipped over off the road after the collision, initially all that was known was he was bleeding profusely and in danger of dying as well. Those first couple of days no one knew the details of his injuries and then a Los Angeles reporter who was at the scene of the accident, against the orders of Police published a story sharing all the unknown facts with the world.
The reporter had witnessed police officers and emergency workers removing the remains of a third person, a woman, from the wreckage of the truck. OH, if there are any small children in our home audience, parents you might wanna um, you know, have them leave the room or distract them...this is very graphic and very adult...
It was revealed in the newspaper story that the woman was indeed a prostitute that the driver had picked up in Los Angeles and that at the time of the collision she was providing oral "services" to the driver, this it was assumed was the reason he had swerved out of his own lane colliding with the motorcycle...his injuries...the severe bleeding was in fact the result of his member being severed from his body by the teeth of the woman. By the time he was able to communicate this to the attending physicians and police officers on the scene, well..Steve..by the time they recovered his um...appendage? Well by that time it was too late, the tissue was dead.....um how do I say it..?
STEVE: His DICK WAS UNSALVAGABLE.
(gasps followed by chuckles heard in the background of the newsroom}
Brandon: STEVE!!!
Steve: What? What the heck, in this? Why beat around the bush? What're they gonna do fire me?
Brandon: Well a bad situation only grew worse after that as most of you know.
Three days after the story with these facts broke, hundreds of SHADES fans swarmed the small Nevada hospital where the truck driver was being treated. They were there for revenge, they were there for blood and of course sadly they got it. The mob overwhelmed Sheriff's Deputies assigned to the watch, injuring several of them and then the mob dragged the truck driver from his bed into the parking lot and stomped him to death.
Since then twenty seven people have been arrested and charged in this lynching, this murder, with the trial slated to begin late next summer.
The horror didn't end with that by a long shot though did it Steve? We, well us... I'm sorry I'm getting a bit choked up Steve..
STEVE: That's okay my friend, take your time , sip some water.....it's okay buddy..
BRANDON: Yes..(sips water)..um yes well of course the Shades band members, Pinkus' family and friends......his tens of millions of fans.. me ..well we were all gently led to a place, told that there was little or no hope that Pinkus would live.
And then what must be considered the worst of all in this..it started, a couple the first day, seven the next......the suicides...those, mostly young people who chose o take their own lives rather than live in a world without Pinkus...in one instance an entire family......the Father, the Mother and three children all took their own lives together. Police finding the bodies two days after they expired, with SINK THE PINK on repeat play still blaring from their stereo. In total fourteen hundred and sixty-three suicides in eleven days world-wide that were determined irrefutably as reactions to the situation with the apparent impending death of the beloved Rock Star, a darkness never seen before and I pray we never live to see repeat in our life time.
To make matters even more disheartening rumors ran amok, rumors that The SHADES would be PINK SLIPPING PINKUS, replacing their leader and continuing on with the band without him.
Thankfully that brings us to a better place in the story.
Nothing short of miraculously, eleven days ago......Pinkus woke up, got out of his hospital bed and walked down the hallway to ask where everyone was.
Two days ago he was released from that hospital and today Steve, he is in Tokyo with some answers and some big surprises.
STEVE: Brandon, hold on one minute, because this is the perfect time for us to take a short break with a word from our sponsors and then we'll come back to you with all the details from today.
Stay with us viewers, you won't wanna miss this.
******This Tokyo Report sponsored in part tonight by Pinkus' hand selected team of award winning stylists....
Halo, Choker and Glasses by CURELESS, Hair by DURA, Jacket by GABRIEL, Headress by CONTRAPTION, Horns by TENTACIO, Tattoo by NEFEKALUM, skin by HUMAN GLITCH, Ears by CERBERUS XING, Collar and Boots by ASTEROID BOX, Glove by HARO, Mask by BAMSE, Leggings by VISION(what? did I stutter, that's right he's wearing women's leggings just like his dear old Daddy used to), Guitar by VERSOV, Head by LELUTKA, Body by SIGNATURE, demented Brain and Twisted Back Story and Plot by this guy right here.
From wikidedia: The Rodeo San Francisco Refinery is a oil refinery located in Rodeo, California, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The refinery is currently owned and operated by ConocoPhillips.
The complex is capable of refining 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
The 'microbus' built by Volkswagen was known in Australia as the Kombi.
Much prized over the decades by surfers - hence a good choice for a Scarborough Beach sculpture.
Another one of Jane which is a little better than the last.
But this wonderful Bedford KM was seen this year at the Ackworth show in July and im so glad the owner has left it as it is..
I saw this many years ago when it was stored in shed with others at Joseph Hughes and im glad its escaped at last!
This Saab was in an excellent condition. No rust (except for some spots at the left door). No dents. The motor was still there. Only the left front drive shaft was broken, or at least disconnected.
The Saab 96 was derived from type 92. This very first version was introduced in 1949.
The 95/96-Series was designed by Saab's chief designer Sixten Sason (1912-1969).
The front part was face-lifted late 1964 for model year 1965. The round headlamps were replaced by rectangular ones in 1969. Another face-lift was done in 1974: the grille received a black background.
The last modernization took place in 1977: the chrome bumper bar was replaced by a big black rubber one, like the Saab 99 also had.
1498 cc V4 Ford Taunus 15m engine (since 1967).
Performance: 68 bhp.
914 kg.
Production Saab 96: 1960-Jan. 1980.
Production Saab 96 this version: 1969.-1974.
Original Dutch reg. number: Sept. 1, 1972 (still valid).
Since Aug. 3, 2023 from current owner.
Alkmaar, Lemmingkoog, April 27, 2025.
© 2025 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Common Blue butterfly on windy highbridge hill :-)
Not the perfect specimen though the first one i have got close to so far this year :-)
R1 fill-flash
Sometimes, in the middle of a particularly cold and snowy winter, it's hard to imagine needing a machine to keep your house cold.
Yilki Horses at Hurmetci
Cappadocia, Türkiye
These are semi-wild horses that are bred, but allowed to largely roam around. The breeders do a little conditioning to keep them together as a herd and do a few basic things like run, stop, go that way, etc. When these horses run, they drive up dust, which looks spectacular in the sunlight.
Horses are deep in the psyche of the Turkish people going back their Mongol days. They are revered and used as props for weddings and all kinds of advertisements. They are a major tourist attraction for both the locals and visitors.
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For the past couple of years, I have struggled with exactly what I am doing on Flickr. I travel a fair amount and I shoot a lot of photos. A tiny fraction of them might qualify as fine art or maybe worthy of printing. But most of these photos are of a documentary nature.
In the past, I have been publishing these photos on flickr, whether they were test shots from a specific lens or a camera, or photos from some place I visited. Then I thought I should perhaps not publish so many “run of the mill” photos, but instead, I should focus on a much smaller volume of images I would be of very high quality or photos that were really unusual or interesting.
But as a practical matter, I haven’t had the time sort through thousands of images and identify my “masterpieces”. I don’t even know if I have any! In the meantime, my photos are piling up. A lot of these photos, even if somewhat garden-variety, at least capture what I saw on my travels. There may be some value in publishing these, after all. If someone else is planning a trip to Turkiye or Tanzania or wherever, maybe they might find it interesting to browse through my images to get a feel for the place.
So I have decided to not hold back, but simply upload anything that looks halfway decent. By not publishing on Flickr, I have also distanced myself from my contacts. So by being back on Flickr, I get a chance to stay in touch with my contacts. So enjoy the images if you get a chance to see them, but please do NOT feel compelled to comment on any of these.
1st April 2018. Pulling into Platform Four at Bury Bolton Street is LMS 5MT Crab 2-6-0 No.13065 with a service from Heywood. The Crab would be continueing its journey with an all stations stopping train to Rawtenstall.
It seems a long time a go that we saw LMS No.13065 in action as it was decided in 2018 that if it went for over-haul now it would not coincide with a City Of Wells [another ELR loco ] over-haul which would be the same year. As it turns out both locomotives could be out of action at the same time as the LMS 5MT Crab 2-6-0 No.13065 has just been pushed back and further back for unforseen circumstances. Hopefully the ELR will launch an appeal for the Crab when this lockdown has finished.
Bury Bolton Street Station is part of the East Lancashire Railway.
The Poet clings on to the Aarhus University wall... It's a perfect metaphor for the human condition. Attempting something seemingly impossible, ill prepared while the elements have at you. :)
test shot from my new (used) canon 5d classic! i was able to snag a near mint condition one on ebay for super cheap over christmas. i’m so excited to finally be shooting full frame! :’) i’m very emotional right now, haha. the tones & colors are so true, rich and natural sooc. i can’t wait to really get out there and work with it on a legit shoot soon. i’m gonna have to wait a bit, though. i have some new batteries in the mail (the canon ones it came with are very old and aren’t holding a charge well.) but, yeah. i am over the moon with excitement.
A Mexican gray wolf keeps cool above a waterfall at the zoo. The wolves are very timid; I usually find them sleeping under the trees, far from the space provided to view them. I hope this wolf was able to keep cool, as I was also thankful for the photo opportunity!
Note: Trucks (Iveco Schumi, Daf Euro6 Schumi, Mercedes Actros 2014 Schumi, e Scania RJL)
Addons Spoiler RJL Sogard3.