constructionworker photos on Flickr

USACE begins convertion of WWII-era facility into fire station for Moldova residents by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District recently began renovating a World War II-era converted fire station in Comrat, Moldova. The project seeks to update all living and sleeping accomodations, modernize the communication room, and add five new fire truck garages, as well as an Emergency Operations Center. The EOC and fire station will provide rescue and emergency operation services for roughly 35,000 people in 12 surrounding villages. When complete in late 2010, the facility will also serve as the emergency headquarters for capital, Chisinau, located 64 miles north. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Carol E. Davis)

Mumbai Skyline by E R

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Massive construction works are going on in the city of Mumbai. As the city is always under constant pressure of searching new places for thriving population of commerce and business. Skyline of Mumbai changing rapidly than ever.Central of these real estate activity is Lower Parel a former cotton mill locality of Mumbai.

ILO photo e20317 by International Labour Organization ILO

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2013-03, portrait of a young worker in a construction site, in the city of Lilongwe, capital of Malawi.

Country : Malawi

Date : 2013-03

Copyright : Marcel Crozet /

living and working on site by BoblyP

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on-site but off-plan

by memos to the future

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A construction worker in Chongqing, China is walking across an unfinished building site.

Fort Peck Dam, Montana 1936 by Peer Into The Past

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Building the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, 1936. Photo: Margaret Bourke-White

5 Ave E 56 St New York City green and white street signs with The Statue of Liberty NYC USA November 13th 2021 by RyanReporting

#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021

#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc

30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent

#Winter ❄️ season

Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm

#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas

#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -

Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson

Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -

The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -

The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland

lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018

The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.

#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, NY 10112

After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -

@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY

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Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820

Fifth installment

"Christmas"

"The Stage Coach"

"Christmas Eve"

"Christmas Day"

"Christmas Dinner"

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843

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Additional famous Christmas story:

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823

Clement Clarke Moore USA

with the quote:

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"

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Believed Christmas origins:

Christmas Tree - Germany

Advent wreath - Germany

Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880

Christmas Cards - England 1843

Befana Christmas Witch - Italy

Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939

Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year

Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)

Poinsettia red flowers - México

First documented snowman Netherlands 1380

The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904

The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907

First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"

1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.

Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration

Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home

The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923

Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3

Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963

Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s

The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996

#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus

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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video

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Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting

November 13th 2021

20-09_294_BNSF Railway Bridge Project_Track Laying Machine_Western Springs by Illinois Tollway

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A Track Laying Machine is used to automatically load, transport and install rails and ties to expedite construction of the new Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway temporary shoofly over the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) near Hinsdale and Western Springs. (09/2020)

Daniel by MichelleL

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31/100

I saw an interesting video the other day for an advertisement for a particular beer.

The producers of this beer commercial borrowed a small 150 seat cinema playing a popular film, and filled 148 of its seats with rough-looking, tattooed bikers, leaving only two free seats in the middle of the theatre. They then allowed theatre management to sell tickets for the last pair of seats to several young couples.

The question then was - what would you do? (Needless to say the outcome for those that ventured forth was not what they were expecting and some of the facial expressions were just priceless!)

So, when I read "what would you do" I gave this some serious thought as recently I had the wonderful experience of running a fund raiser at our school where we provided parking for the soundwave concert which was being held at the RNA showgrounds. I've got to say, I've never met a nicer bunch of people - the great majority who were covered from head to toe in tats.

It reinforced to me - do. not. judge - especially on appearance only!!

Fast forward to me a few months later from the fund raiser, walking down the street to take a photo of a tree that has now gone (you'll all see what I mean when I post the picture of what I've been working on over the last few months) when I hear this voice - "wow, that's a big lens. What is it and can you take pictures of people far away?" (I had my 70-200L USM lens on the camera).

I looked up to see Daniel coming over. A discussion followed and when finished I asked Daniel if he would pose for my strangers project.

Needless to say the jokes that were coming from his friends about stranger danger to which I commented I don't even have a trench coat was quite entertaining.

So why did I start this stranger story with the add and my fund raising experience? When I first looked up and saw Daniel coming towards me, it could have been very easy to judge and think tall muscular man coming towards me covered in tat's equals danger. Instead I took the opportunity to chat for a second or two and met a lovely individual.

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com"; or the group here on flickr www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/

New airborne training facility under construction for Vicenza garrison by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District

Contractors work on the new Airborne Refresher Training facility at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, January 28, 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photos by Mark Nedzbala)

Hey You! - New York - 2014 by Scott Loftesness

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See my blog post about this image: sjl.us/main/2014/05/the-importance-of-gesture.html - "The Importance of Gesture"

Barrow by Rob Telford

Upper St. Martin's Lane, London WC2.

Sony A7 + Canon FDn 50mm f/1.4.

360H by Liza Williams

#competition #photography awards#awards#internationalcolorawards #photography #honorablemention #photojournalism #arles #france #constructionworker #color #fence #valeriechauffourphotography #instapic #visualsoflife by Valerie Chauffour

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Electrical workers protest (4) by nottsswp

dtconstruct005 by sue jekarl

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Ongoing construction in the Toy District of downtown Los Angeles. I stop by every week or so and snap some pics.

That's a beer gut if I ever saw one!

20140412 - construction in front of our house - 5-IMG_0475 by Claire CJS

Lots of noisy things happening outside today! School construction progressing.

shoveling.

construction, construction workers, road work, school.

front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

April 12, 2014.

... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress.com

ZC World Men's Hommes Vol. 12 Hard Hat and Safety Goggles by Edward Liu

Close-up of the hard hat and goggles on the figure (and after I straightened out the goggles). The goggles are made of a soft plastic that perfectly mimics the real thing, and I like the subtle weathering on the hard hat.

Autumn foliage in Central Park NYC USA Wollman Rink public ice rink November 13th 2021 by RyanReporting