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Am schwarzen Strand von Ajuy hat's wieder mal gekracht. / Big waves break on the black beach of Ajuy.
I continue my personal work on the produce farm just down the road. I continues to be a great experience.
This is what the last eight months has been all about. Getting crops ready for market. When I made this image, six flatbed trucks were being loaded like this one getting ready for the Saturday farm markets. It is a frenzy!
The work starts just about daybreak with the picking. Then in the fields the crops are loaded in pickup trucks and hauled to this area. These people in the image are the sellers and they will be driving the trucks to the markets and selling the produce. When they run out of produce they will call back to the farm and the workers will drive pickup truck loads to refill their needs.
One of the busiest stands is the one right at the farm. There are always six or more cars stopping to pick up fresh produce. The farm workers and especially the owners are nearing exhaustion from the seven day a week schedule. The owner works the longest hours of anyone on the farm. His wife works just as hard. Many of the workers are sent home at noon on extremely hot days.
I made this image with my Pentax K5 and Pentax 18-135mm lens. Aperture 3 and NIK Viveza 2 were used in post. I find I am using Viveza more and more for local enhancements. I found a nice step ladder in the barn so I could get up higher to get a better perspective for this shot. I might start hauling one around in my truck.
Camera settings: ISO 800, aperture f/3.2, shutter 1/500, focal length 21mm
load of produce
a summer's worth of hard work
going to market
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
Modèle : Ilona
Make up : Quoi Fair by Sonia
Photographes : Hervé Villieu & JP Cloux
Studio : Shooting Zone
Marc Venon Photographie
Marc Venon Photographie ©Tous Droits Réservés Février 2020 reproduction interdite sans accord
Shot with a Voigtländer Perkeo II
80mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens
Ilford HP5+ 400 film
Shot at EI 400
Developed in the Ego Lab using XTOL + Rodinal (apx 75ml XTOL, 17.25ml Rodinal, 507.25ml water, or 4.34:1:29.4, for 4:45 min at 79F, agitated each minute)
Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED
This photograph was published in Truth Dig.com on March 17, 2016 to illustrate the article "City of Los Angeles Continues to Invade Homeless Camp Despite Federal Lawsuit", and again in Truth Dig to illustrate the article "How a Canadian City Eradicated Homelessness with One Revolutionary Idea" published on April 27, 2016.
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/city_of_los_angeles_...
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/how_a_city_in_canada...
Also published June 15, 2016 in LA Curbed.com "County Leaders Issue Plea for 'State of Emergency' on Homelessness"
la.curbed.com/2016/6/15/11942920/emergency-state-homeless...
Also used by Meme News to illustrate LA Homeless bill (link below)
memenews.me/2016/02/11/l-a-homeless-bill/
Published as well in an academic paper of the Tel Aviv University in Israel.
urbanologia.tau.ac.il/%D7%94%D7%93%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A...
Also published in the Canadian labor union organization site to illustrate an open letter to Justin Trudeau { link below}
www.csn.qc.ca/actualites/lalena-doit-permettre-une-hausse...
Continuing my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024, with a stop in Sonoita. This is stage 5 of 9. I have left Patagonia and I am heading to Ramsey Canyon and Bisbee.
The Sonoita Inn sits at a crossroads and seems to be a central hub and element of Sonoita life.
an ideal outpost for those in search of comfort, convenience and adventure.
The Sonoita Inn is an 18 room hotel located in the heart of Sonoita, Arizona. A short distance from local wineries, nature preserves, watering holes and some of the most beautiful scenery to be found in Southern Arizona. Quintessentially Sonoita. We look forward to welcoming you.
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024,
My GoPro saga continues!! I am obsessed with this thing right now, and finally figuring out how to pose and relax my face underwater. Much less derp face with this shoot. And I only almost drowned like once this time!!
It's amazinggggg.
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Of never seeing one of these going eastbound. Cabbage car on the San Joaquin being pulled toward Emeryville at Hercules.
These last months I really felt this contrast, between what's happening and what I choose to make happen.
I admit it can sounds confusing, but in a way, it's like if I don't have anymore control of my life, it's going on and I'm just like on a boat, floating away.
This shot is from Konstanz (or Constance if you prefer), so ye I took a quick look in Germany, and I definitely need to learn more german! :D
Have a great day!
A Lockheed P-3C Orion, assigned to Patrol Squadron 47 "The Golden Swordsmen", sits on the ramp at Moffett Federal Airfield while a Patrol Squadron 10 "Red Lancers" Boeing P-8A Poseidon departs for NAS Jacksonville.
The sun is setting on the P-3's lifetime while the P-8 is being integrated into the US Navy, and she will ultimately replace the P-3 in the maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare roles.
Both aircraft were in town as part of the VP-50 memorial 25th anniversary. On 21 March, 1991, two Moffett-based P-3s from Patrol Squadron (VP) 50 collided in mid-air, claiming the lives of the 27 crewmembers aboard both aircraft.
An eastbound stack is gliding over the I-215 bridge and just entering the city limits of Colton, CA near Grand Terrace. Not sure if the third bridge was ever used in the past. Just west of the freeway, the joint BNSF and UP tracks merge from three tracks to two. Perhaps years ago the three tracks continued on longer and the third bridge was used. Or, it was built for possible future expansion.
"Your welcome for saving your life!" Mystic quips. "Yeah, thanks... But, it is not a good feeling to think your favorite wrestler is in jail... Kinda sucks." Jen explains. "Oh, I'm sorry." Mystic replies. "Stop right there, good doing... Persons!" Someone yells out...
~Scarecrow
Banana bread. We ended up with too many bananas from our online grocery shopping and were forced to resort to banana bread. Perhaps the kids will call it Granna-banana bread.
They say every tree has a face in it somewhere. Maybe quick breads, too?
First attempt a gluten free baking so daughter-in-law Ashleigh can partake of everything we have for dinner.
Continuing my dancers series, I present Dominique Evening Blossom as the Black Swan. The black swan is the dark and dangerous woman in Prince Siegfried's subconscious; the heartless temptress and counterpart to the beautiful tragic and pure white swan. Of course I really loved the film Black Swan too - and in terms of realism it was pretty close to the bone!
Dominique wears outfit created by me incorporating Nadja Vanity and Glamour shrug, feathers and top made by me.
Continued development, getting dormers in shape, textures in better form... soon to take on the inside!
Continuing with posting photos from my archives. Not sure when I will get out for a drive, given that our winter weather continues. November 23 2024: lots of snow and it looked like almost 10-12 inches of snow on top of my back fence. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries a few days ago, so now I can hibernate for a little while.
28 November 2024: got up early, thinking of driving south to the Saskatoon Farm. However, change of plans, as our weather yesterday morning was -17°C (feels like -23°C), with freezing fog. More freezing fog today (29 November 2024), too. Another good day to stay home! Next week is forecast to be 'warmer'.
I will be adding the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted image taken on the same day.
"This photo was taken on 8 September 2015. In the morning, I joined a group of friends for a three-hour stroll at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. 38 bird species were seen, though I didn't manage to see any of the tiny, fast-moving Warblers. It was good to see 28 Wood Ducks, but they were far, far away, in an area that is still closed due to devastating flood damage. The Sanctuary had been closed for about two years for this reason and only very recently re-opened just a part of the area.
The Calgary Zoo is very close to the Sanctuary, so after our morning walk, I decided to call in at the Zoo. I hadn't been for about a year and I really missed going there. Of course, many of the garden flowers were past their prime, but I did find a few that were fit to photograph. I love photographing the Water Lilies. They always seem to glow, as if they had a light inside.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaeaceae
I knew I wouldn't be able to walk far, having already been walking all morning, but I really wanted to get to the ENMAX Conservatory to see what was going on. I had been longing all summer to see the tropical butterflies and plants. The butterfly season is coming to an end for these tropical beauties, but there were still plenty of them to be seen. Also, this month, the parking lot that I use will close for the winter and I don't like the drive back home from the north parking area, using Deerfoot Trail, so tend not to go to the Zoo all winter.
There was so much activity going on at the Zoo two days ago. People everywhere, carrying large animals wrapped in white, protective coverings, preparing for the upcoming ILLUMINASIA, Lantern & Garden Festival. Each animal is an individual lantern and there are so many of them. I noticed that several of the real animals in their enclosures were watching all the unaccustomed activity, which made me smile.
A good day, despite the overcast sky, and plenty of photo opportunities. Recently, I have been finding far fewer things to photograph, with fall on its way, so a day like this was more than welcome."
Urquhart Castle sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is 21 kilometres (13 mi) south-west of Inverness and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the village of Drumnadrochit.
The present ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though built on the site of an early medieval fortification. Founded in the 13th century, Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross. The castle was granted to the Clan Grant in 1509, though conflict with the MacDonalds continued. Despite a series of further raids the castle was strengthened, only to be largely abandoned by the middle of the 17th century. Urquhart was partially destroyed in 1692 to prevent its use by Jacobite forces, and subsequently decayed.
Continuing with the Wheelers series, I turn my focus (so to speak) on Henry's Garage. This is an example of HDR processing coming in very handy as a normal exposure would leave the inside of the garage in shadows. We will look inside the garage in the next day or two.
White Rose was a Canadian owned company back in the day. I'm not sure when the company disappeared, but it was the service station that my family used back in the early to mid-sixties.
I don't often say this, but this would best be viewed large (as would most photos by most posters).
Life continues to move on and I am now sixty…how did I get there so fast?…the reality is I have! I moved into my sixth decade of life earlier this year and it has given me a renewed outlook on my cross-dressing. I do have regrets in my life, the biggest being my self imposed suppression of my transgender self. Why did I hold back? The answer is I was not brave enough. I feared the reaction of others, I feared losing my family life and I feared losing my income. I just caved in and tried to ignore it.
Well, back in the year 2000, 19 tears ago, at the age of forty one I began to cross-dress as a woman. I could no longer suppress my inner desire to appear as a woman. It caused a lot of upset with my family and though I am now fortunate enough to engage in cross0dressing, it is a compromise in regard to the opportunities I have. My family tolerate it but my moments as my female alter-ego are rare. I have no wish to jeopardise my family life and work so I accepted the limited opportunities. I do adore becoming Helene and though it is rare it is always an amazing and rather emotional experience.
Now I am older and less hung up about my cross-dressing I find myself being more confident and at ease with it and having more fun when I do dress up as a woman. Last night I had a sudden opportunity to become Helene again ad I totally went for it. i was somewhat tired and not quite as focused as I would have liked, not to mention very much out of practice, but I intended to enjoy my time en femme.
Having emerged from the bath with freshly shaved, legs, chest and arms I enjoyed plucking my eyebrows into a better shape and excitedly sat down to start putting on my make-up. Part of my excitement was a new piece of equipment I purchased in December purely for my make-up application. I’m sure many of us struggle with getting a real world foundation coverage because of our beard shadows. The dreaded beard shadow , even after a super close shave, can feel smooth but the skin is bumpy due to the underlying hair follicles and this also leaves a visible shadow (unless you are fortunate enough to have light hair colour).
I usually employ all the techniques to neutralise the beard shadow cover then several layers of heavy foundation and can usually get a successful coverage result but it is rather heavy looking compared to real women. I had been looking into trying to get smoother coverage but without the thick layer result. On my male face after decades of shaving I could never get the look I hoped for ski coverage on my face.
I have new aspirations to spend more time out in the real world as a woman. I do love make-up and enjoy wearing it but to be amongst women and men in public in daylight had me wanting nice smooth makeup coverage that successfully disguised my shadows but did not look like a heavy coating on my face. As I say, I love wearing make-up and when I cross-dress in private I have no issue with wearing heavy coatings of foundation at all. For the real world though, I realised I need to up my game if I was to be perceived as a female when out and about.
This led me to look at applying foundation using an airbrush with a small air compressor. The look and finish from foundation applied with an airbrush is very good. I bought a kit and some silicone foundation for use with the airbrush and I have been biding my time to give it a go.
Last night was my chance. I set it all p, watched the manufacturers tutorials and set about spraying the foundation onto my face. It is a very different feel to the traditional method of applying foundation. It is a far more subtle approach. as you gradually build up the coverage using a light misted spray and moving in small circular motions.
I had to laugh when I began as I soon realised this required a degree of practice and my initial spraying efforts were somewhat inept. I was getting the hang of it but I definitely need a lot more practice and..patience! You cannot rush it. I think once one gets competent with it it is possible to apply the foundation considerably faster than my first effort.
Despite my poor technique I was amazed by the coverage, your skin looks amazing! It’s like a flexible, durable, long lasting coverage but none of the thick make up appearance. My skin is unavoidably bumpy around my upper lip, cheeks, chin and neck area but this cover was unlike any previous efforts and the realisation that this was going to work for real world trips in public made me dizzy with excitement. Even on m y sixty year old skin it was as smooth as I was ever going to look.
I bought the Airbase HD kit, which is bigger than I expected. In hindsight I may have been better with the compressor and airbrush alone. The HD kit comes in a se with a lighted mirror. There are alternative kits from other manufacturers such as DInair and Luminess.
If you are serious about trying to look female and avoiding the heavy coverage look during the day then I can recommend using airbrush foundation application. I will admit I have decided to book myself onto a one day training course in the late Spring in order to learn how to use it well. As I am obsessed with trying to look as female as I possibly can I think the cost of the training is a god personal investment as was purchasing the airbrush kit.
I took a lot of selfies last night and one accompanies this narrative. It was rather fabulous to be appearing as a woman once more :-)
I pass Harry Lawson trucks on a regular basis on my travels, this beauty was parked at Seaton flats as I made my way down to Aberdeen Harbour,the driver agreed to me taking some photos, and had a chat about the company and what they do, a fine fellow indeed.
Harry Lawson Ltd. commenced operation in 1945 when the founders, Harry Lawson and his wife Dora, purchased a one vehicle business operating a daily carrier service between Dundee and Carnoustie. Their son Harry joined the company in 1961, at which time the fleet had increased to 12 vehicles. Harry continued to develop the business, taking over as Chief Executive in 1976 with Harry senior retiring by the end of the 70s. With marked determination to offer an efficient, high quality service and reliable road transport solutions, Harry soon built up an extensive portfolio of customers, including a number of blue chip accounts.
Despite now operating throughout the UK it was, however, the Company’s strong links with local enterprises which proved to be the catalyst in the Company’s move into tanker haulage. This niche was developed as Harry foresaw that the business would benefit from having a clear focus or speciality in the transport sector and whilst the business continues to operate both tanker haulage and general haulage, it is perhaps the tanker haulage sector for which it is best now known.
Harry Lawson Ltd., remains a family owned business operating from its base in Broughty Ferry and is now entering the third generation with Michael, Harry’s son, having joined in 2004. Today’s fleet comprises around 70 trucks and 150 trailers and the Company continues to take great pride in the presentation and cleanliness of its vehicles and the instantly recognisable two tone green livery is sure to be a familiar sight to many collectors and truck enthusiasts alike.
Harry Lawson Ltd. is a well established family transport business based in Broughty Ferry in the North East of Scotland,they have been in the general transport business for more than 70 years.
Specialising in providing bulk liquid, powder and general haulage transport services throughout the UK to a wide customer base in a range of markets.
Volvo FH series
Overview
ManufacturerVolvo Trucks
Production1993–present
AssemblyGothenburg, Sweden
Ghent, Belgium
Body and chassis
ClassHeavy truck
Body style COE
Day cab
Sleeper cab
Globetrotter High cab
Powertrain
Engine
Inline 6 turbodiesel intercooled
Volvo
D12A(12.1 L) 420 309kw 1993–1998
D12C (12.1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 1998–2001
D12D (12.1 L) 420 309kw. 460 340kw 2001–2005
D12F (12,1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 2004–2006 EGR
D13A,B,C(12.7 L)2005–present
D13K (12.9 L) 2012-present (Euro VI)
D16A,B(16.1 L)1993–2001
D16C,E,G(16.1 L)2006–present
Cummins
ISX600(14.91 L)1998–2006 (Australia)
Transmission
14 speed synchro manual
SR1900 (1993–1998)
SR(O)2400 (1993–1998)
VT2514(OD) (1998–present)
VT2814(OD) (2006–present)
VT(O)2214B (2012-present)
VT(O)2514B (2012-present)
VT(O)2814B (2012-present)
16 speed synchro manual (ZF)
ZT1816
12 speed semi-automatic (I-Shift)
V2512AT (2007–present)
V(O)2812AT (2007–present)
VO3112AT (2008–present)
AT2412D (2012-present)
AT(O)2612D (2012-present)
AT2812D (2012-present)
ATO3112D (2012-present)
ATO3512D (2012-present)
6 speed automatic (Powertronic)
VT1706PT
VT1906PT
Chronology
PredecessorF series
The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup.
FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.[1]
In September, 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with significant technology upgrades
The new Volvo FH (2012–present)
The 2012 model of Volvo FH.
In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more.
The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology. With the new thirteen-litre engine, the name has changed to FH13.
AEB
Volvo Trucks have demonstrated the new AEB system for their FH series on YouTube. The truck did well and stopped only centimeters from the car ahead. The tractor trailer was fully loaded to 40 tons GCW when Volvo demonstrated the system.
The AEB system combines a radar and a camera that work together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h.
When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.
Continuing the northbound chase here was the eleventh spot I photographed this Mass Bay special.
Granite State Scenic Railway SW1000 105 leads the Mass Bay RRE rare mileage special along the little used middle portion of the line at about MP 12.3 on the old Boston and Maine Pemigewasset Valley Branch. They are paralleling Route 3, the Daniel Webster Highway as 1500 ft Blake Mountain rises a couple miles to the south.
Behind 105 are three demotored RDCs two of which are ex B&M and right at home here along with a third of Reading heritage. The fourth car is first class parlor car 103, 'Determination' (built 1954 by Pullman for the Canadian National) which looks sharp in fresh new matching paint after wearing blue and yellow Bangor and Aroostook colors for over three decades dating from the days when Iron Road Railways owned the BAR. Bringing up the rear is 1590, an EMD SW1001 blt. Nov. 1973 for the Reading as number 2618 it passed to Conrail and Norfolk Southern before being sold. It was repainted in 2021 from the bright CIT blue paint with white stripes its worn since coming to the Granite State in 2016.
To read the full story of this day and some history of the line check out the caption with the earlier photo at Plymouth station.
Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024
9x12"
acrylic/graphite/charcoal on panel
I made this painting for "Get Lucky" at Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 7pm - 11pm
Advance Tickets $40 Members: $35
Tickets at the Door: $45
Continuing my look back at some Alder Valley bus depot visits from the 1980s and early 1990s.
Here we see the Amery Street, Alton depot in November 1987.
and condenses on every chilly surface, then gathers into drops which fall and plop loudly - it's really quite unpleasant outside today !
The grey behind is fog - I took this with lots of Dof and there should be a conifer a few paces behind the birch twigs !Do try larger -
"Ain't I a Woman?," is the name given to a speech May 29, 1851
Sojourner Truth ( born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; c. 1797 – Nov 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God has called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying the hope that was in her." Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?," a variation of the original speech re-written by someone else using a stereotypical Southern dialect; whereas Sojourner Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine's list of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time".
Truth was one of the ten or twelve children born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree (or Bomefree). Colonel Hardenbergh bought James and Elizabeth Baumfree from slave traders and kept their family at his estate in a big hilly area called by the Dutch name Swartekill (just north of present-day Rifton), in the town of Esopus, New York, 95 miles (153 km) north of New York City. Charles Hardenbergh inherited his father's estate and continued to enslave people as a part of that estate's property.
When Charles Hardenbergh died in 1806, nine-year-old Truth (known as Belle), was sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100 to John Neely, near Kingston, New York. Until that time, Truth spoke only Dutch. She later described Neely as cruel and harsh, relating how he beat her daily and once even with a bundle of rods. Neely sold her in 1808, for $105, to Martinus Schryver of Port Ewen, a tavern keeper, who owned her for eighteen months. Schryver sold her in 1810 to John Dumont of West Park, New York. Although this fourth owner was kindly disposed toward her, considerable tension existed between Truth and Dumont's second wife, Elizabeth Waring Dumont, who harassed her and made her life more difficult. (John Dumont's first wife, Sarah "Sally" Waring Dumont (Elizabeth's sister), died around 1805, five years before he bought Truth.)
Around 1815, Truth met and fell in love with a slave named Robert from a neighboring farm. Robert's owner (Charles Catton, Jr., a landscape painter) forbade their relationship; he did not want the people he enslaved to have children with people he was not enslaving, because he would not own the children. One day Robert sneaked over to see Truth. When Catton and his son found him, they savagely beat Robert until Dumont finally intervened, and Truth never saw Robert again. He later died as a result of the injuries, and the experience haunted Truth throughout her life. Truth eventually married an older slave named Thomas. She bore five children: James, her firstborn, who died in childhood, Diana (1815), fathered by either Robert or John Dumont, and Peter (1821), Elizabeth (1825), and Sophia (ca. 1826), all born after she and Thomas united.
"Ain't I a Woman?,"
Artwork: TudioJepegii