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Union Pacific GP30 No. 811, DD35A No. 75 and DD35 No. 97B pull a train of Iron Mountain ore into Provo, Utah for a crew change on a gloomy Dec. 21, 1977 afternoon. The unit train will soon be delivered to United States Steel's Geneva Works in Vineyard, Utah.
I have a small collection of U.S. and foreign Christmas postage stamps, and this 1972 issie is one of my favorites.
The Gilbert & Ellice Island are located in the South Pacific, roughly between Hawaii and Australia. They were a British Protectorate, and later colony, beginning in 1892. In 1974, ethnic difference between the populations of the two island groups led to their requesting independence, which was granted, and they went their separate ways. The Gilberts became today's Kiribati, and the Ellice Islands are today's nation of Tuvalu. Interestingly, the colony had used its own Christmas stamps since 1911. How I'd love to have a few of those!
Many of the most beautiful postage stamps, including Christmas issues, in the world come from South Pacific island nations, where there is little manufacturing and the income from sales to collectors is important to their economies. And it's a wonderful way for children to learn about these countries and cultures. I know that it worked for me!
This motor vehicle image has not been cleaned or restored to the extent of the primary collections, and will not be posted into any Flickr groups.
If an image receives sufficient 'hits', I will consider cleaning it up for a more public release.
To see more of these 'Uncleaned' images, please go here
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Reproduced from the original negative in my collection
Resultaba curioso ver cómo íbamos de revolucionados con los balasteros que venían estos últimos meses. Podría decirse que era lógico puesto que vivimos en territorio monográfico, es decir, de los tecos y siderúrgicos no salimos. Así pues ver circulaciones "diferentes" es motivo de fiesta y algarabía...
Sin embargo no es una novedad en sí, puesto que este tipo de trenes han circulado con cierta asiduidad por estos nuestros dominios. No obstante existe una diferencia; mientras los actuales venían cargados hasta Burriana, los otros (como el de la foto) lo hacían vacíos para cargar en Moncofa. Es más, lo hacían en régimen de lanzadera desde / hasta FSL.
La narrativa del cuento cambia, pero el fondo se mantiene.
Massalfassar (Valencia)
Grove vs Towcestrians RFC Dec 13 - by James Rudd at Grove Rugby Football Club, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, on 14 December 2013.
All rights reserved. No unauthorised use. Copyright 2013 owned by James Rudd
at www.james-rudd-photography.co.uk.
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The Amegilla (Notomegilla) chlorocyanea have been flying in abundance this year.
This one was visiting our Salvia greggii flowers for a feed.
Photo: Jean
Explored: #314 14 Dec 2021
in my The Lobby Series ...
Taken Dec 9, 2018
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Note: this photo was published in a Mar 20, 2010 Norwegian blog titled "Entertainment guide 20.03 – 21.03.10." It was also published in an Apr 17, 2010 blog titled "Embodied rationality." And it was published in a Sep 30, 2010 blog titled "Bezuiniging kinderopvang zorgt voor Japanse toestanden." It was also published in an Aug 9, 2011 blog titled "Are NYC parents crazy?", as well as an Oct 5, 2011 blog titled "Why Quitters Prosper," as well as an Oct 21, 2011 blog titled "Helping Career Parents Keep Their Sanity." And it was published in a Dec 22, 2011 blog titled "Work-life balance, and leaning in."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in an undated (early Jan 2012) blog titled "4 helpful tips when your kids ask about an absent parent." It was also published in a Jan 23, 2012 blog titled "Norwegians’ workload evenly distributed." And it was published in a Feb 20, 2012 blog titled "Como afecta la reforma laboral en la conciliación de la vida familiar." It was also published in a Mar 9, 2012 blog titled "Raising Confident Sons Who Have Respect for Others." And it was published in a Jun 5, 2012 blog titled "Why you can’t afford to be an insecure mom." It was also published in an undated (mid-Jun 2012) "And Then She Saved" blog titled "Stay Home With The Kids or Return To Work To Pay Off Debts?" And it was published in a Jul 11, 2012 blog titled "FORELDRE BØR KUNNE HA ALT." It was also published in a Jul 31, 2012 blog titled "Norway immigration affects labour market efficiency." And it was published in a Nov 14,2012 blog titled "Ciao Mamma parto per un anno… ma non ti preoccupare!", as well as a Dec 7, 2012 blog titled "Eine Reise durch die Welt berufstätiger Mütter."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Feb 13, 2013 blog titled "Cheap and easy beauty tips for busy mums." And it was published in a Mar 6, 2013 blog titled "‘Fear of foreigners groundless’, researcher says," as well as a Mar 7, 2013 blog titled "8 Ways to Say No at Work – Without Feeling Guilty." It was also published in a Mar 22, 2013 Norwegian blog titled "EFTA challenges Norwegian policies on benefits for foreigners."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in a Mar 1, 2014 blog titled "Norway’s new immigration and asylum policies." It was also published in a Mar 8, 2014 blog titled "Work-Life Balance Still a Woman's Problem, According to Execs." And it was published in a Jul 4, 2014 blog titled "Immigrants contribute to employment growth." It was also published in an Aug 12, 2014 blog titled "21 Signs You're Meant to Be a Mom."
Moving into 2015, the photo was published in an Apr 21, 2015 blog titled "s5 Sexy and Sensual Tips for Busy Moms."
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The streets were wet when I got up this morning, and the weather forecast called for rain throughout the day. As it turned out, the forecasters were wrong; but not wanting to expose my digital camera to a potential downpour, I decided to spend my half-hour of free time, during my lunch-break, down in the local subway station, where I knew I could stay dry. It was also my second opportunity to try out the combination of a new 70-300mm VR full-frame zoom lens with the high-ISO capability of my Nikon D700 full-frame camera. So I set the ISO meter to 6400 (yeah, yeah, I know that the newly-announced Nikon D3X can go all the way up to ISO 110,000 -- but 6,400 is still a pretty awesome to me), found a quiet bench on the downtown side of the 96th Street IRT line (as opposed to last week's adventure on the uptown side), and sat patiently to see what would happen across the tracks, on the uptown side...
For the first 15 minutes, I didn't see anything at all worth photographing. But then, little by little, interesting people began shuffle past, or sit for a few moments on the wooden bench across the tracks. Or maybe they were there all along, and maybe it just took me a while to get "in the zone" and begin to appreciate why they were interesting and photogenic. I got a consistent sense of solitude, isolation, wistfulness and even loneliness in today's collection of subjects; maybe the gloomy weather up above made them all pensive, or maybe they were just tired at the end of a long work-week. Or maybe they just had a lot on their minds, what with the economy and the swine flu and all of life's other frustrations and disappointments. Whatever the reason, there were only one or two cases where I saw people laughing, smiling, or chatting cheerfully with one another.
I also took a couple of shots of people inside a subway car -- sometimes through the window of the uptown train on the other side of the track, and occasionally of the downtown train when it stopped right in front of me (temporarily blocking my view of the activity across the track). In one case, the subway door opened right in front of me, and a young woman stared vacantly in my general direction while various other passengers wandered into, and out of, various subway cars. I pointed my camera in her general direction while I sat on the wooden bench, opened up the zoom as far as I could -- i.e., 70mm -- aimed it in her direction, and pushed the shutter button. With a wide-angle lens, this kind of "hip shot" often works reasonably well, even if I have to do a lot of cropping; but it was sheer luck that I got the woman framed almost perfectly with the 70mm setting on the long-telephoto I was using today.
As with the last subway group that I shot at ISO 6400, there's a little bit of noise/graininess in these images -- but I decided to leave them that way. I did adjust the "hot spots" (areas over-exposed from the fluorescent lighting in the subway station) and "cold spots" (shadows and dark areas), and punched up the color a little bit. But aside from that, this is yet another view of the typical daytime scene on a typical NYC subway line...
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Over the years, I've seen various photos of the NYC subway "scene," usually in black-and-white format. But during a recent class on street photography at the NYC International Center of Photography (ICP), I saw lots and lots of terrific subway shots taken by my fellow classmates ... so I was inspired to start taking a few myself.
So far, I'm taking photos in color; I don't feel any need to make the scene look darker and grimier than it already is. To avoid disruption, and to avoid drawing attention to myself, I'm not using flash shots; but because of the relatively low level of lighting, I'm generally using an ISO setting of 800 or 1600 -- except for my most recent photos with my new D700, which are all shot at ISO 6400.
I may eventually use a small "pocket" digital camera, but the initial photos have been taken with my somewhat large, bulky Nikon D300 DSLR; and today's were taken with an even bulkier Nikon D700. If I'm photographing people on the other side of the tracks in a subway station, there's no problem holding up the camera, composing the shot, and taking it in full view of everyone -- indeed, hardly anyone pays attention to what's going on across the tracks, and most people are lost in their own little world, reading a book or listening to music. But if I'm taking photos inside a subway car, I normally set the camera lens to a wide angle (18mm) setting, point it in the general direction of the subject(s), and shoot without framing or composing.
So far it seems to be working ... we'll see how it goes...
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Note: This is one of 12 photos that I've culled from several thousand that I took in 2009, for possible presentation at a Jan 2010 class I'm taking at the International Center of Photography (ICP), called "On Seeing What's Right In Front of You." The photos already exist in various other Flickr sets -- often just one or two out of a group of hundreds of related images -- and I've just pulled them together for this occasion.
In the spirit of the ICP class title, all of these photos were taken "right in front" of where I live -- i.e., within a hundred feet of my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The photos are organized as 6 separate pairs -- each pair illustrating a specific situation, close to home, where I had a particular motivation or strategy for taking photos. This particular photo illustrates the principle that if you've avoided taking photos "right in front of you" because you don't like the "style" of the ones taken by other people, then choose your own style. Case in point: every subway photo I've seen for the past 40 years has been black-and-white. I don't like black-and-white, so I didn't take subway photos. Then it occurred to me I could take color photos. Duh. Now I've got hundreds of interesting subway photos.
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Tórtola europea
(Streptopelia turtur)
Ave de mediano tamaño y aspecto grácil. Es una especie estival y relativamente común en ambientes que alternen zonas abiertas de pastizales y cultivos con zonas arboladas. Resulta muy común durante la migración, especialmente la otoñal, cuando a la población local se unen ejemplares procedentes del centro de Europa, con destino a las zonas de invernada africanas. A pesar de su relativa abundancia, en las últimas décadas se encuentra en marcada regresión.
Descripción y Clasificación
Orden Columbiformes; familia Columbidae
Longitud 26-28 cm. Envergadura 47-53 cm.
Identificación
Ave esbelta, ligera y de porte delicado. Tiene el dorso y los hombros anaranjados y moteados de negro, un collar de listas negras y blancas, la cabeza y el cuello de color gris azulado, y el pecho rosado (dibujo 1). Cuando vuela destacan las rémiges oscuras, una franja alar grisácea y el dorso anaranjado. La cola muestra un patrón de color característico, con base negra y amplia banda terminal blanca (dibujo 2). Su vuelo es rápido, ágil y errático, con fuertes batidos y cambios constantes de dirección.
Canto
Emite un arrullo suave y monótono, bisilábico, que pronuncia repetidamente: tur-tuur-tuur. El canto puede ser realizado por ambos sexos, aunque el macho dispone de una versión más rápida en el cortejo.
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - Dec 15, 2015: Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa atrium. This area is open to the public.
I think these guys are making their intentions for the Christmas holiday pretty clear. Bah, monkeys!
✦ SENIHA MAINSTORE / MARKETPLACE - Natalia Set Outfit - EQUAL10 - Dec. 10th / Jan. 05th)
✦ DOUX - Tainy Hairstyle
✦ LAVAROCK - Fem Bento Pose-32
✦ EVHAH - Wall Mexico & Bugambilias Cactus
A US Air Force Boeing VC-25A - Air Force One - on final approach for landing on Runway 19L at Kansas City International Airport. President Biden was visiting Kansas City for the afternoon.
Aircraft Registration: 82-8000
Kansas City, Missouri
Wednesday afternoon 8 December 2021
Es un gusto siempre , encontrar en la red plegados elementos que he descubierto y compartido en el transcurso del tiempo :) , bastante gratificante a decir verdad... !:) #origami #papiroflexia #origamiart #paper #papel #art #design #flower #hexagon #he
Basilica- Cathedral ; Ottawa, Canada ...
on the left is the sun effect/reflection through stained glass window ....
in my Ottawa Series ...
Taken on Dec 4, 2018
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Taken on Sunday 15th December 2019 at this year’s Cheshire Fashion Week at Chester Town Hall.
“Cheshire Fashion Week is a clothing trade show held semi-annually in Chester, Cheshire areas, established in 2018 a team of Chester fashion promoters and events producers lead by the CEO Claire Namukolo, inspired by the global "Big Four Fashion Weeks", being Milan Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, London Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week.”
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Pearla Mae “Pearl” Johnson, daughter of John Wesley and Fairby Malissia (Cole) Johnson, was born 11 Sep 1894 in Alabama and died 3 Aug 1967 in Santa Rosa Co., Florida. On 23 Dec 1915 in Coffee Co., Alabama, she married Lawrence Caney Cook (1897-1980). They are buried in Serenity Gardens, Milton, Florida. They had three sons: Verdis O’Neal (1918-2001), Emory Talmadge (1921-1923) and Doyle D. (1937-2012).
Verdis O’Neal Cook, son of Lawrence Caney and Pearla Mae “Pearl” (Johnson) Cook, was born 13 Apr 1918 in Elba, Alabama and died 12 Apr 2001 in Crestview, Florida. In 1948, he married Annie Marie Lewis (1921-2012). They are buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Andalusia, Alabama. They had a son, Larry Lamar.
George Thomas “Tom” Johnson, son of John Wesley and Fairby Malissia (Cole) Johnson, was born 3 Jan 1887 in Alabama and died 14 Dec 1928 in Elba, Alabama. On 11 Aug 1916, in Coffee Co., Alabama, he married Addie Esther Bryan, daughter of Morris Bethel and Martha Lura (Chapman) Bryan. She was born 13 May 1896 in Alabama and died 7 Feb 1985. The are buried in Zion Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Shady Grove, Alabama. They had five children: Lura (1917-2016), Gala Seay (1919-1985), Morris Wesley (1921-1986), Thomas Bryan (1922-1993) and Lela M. (1926-2008).
Lura Johnson, daughter of George Thomas “Tom” and Addie Ester (Bryan) Johnson, was born 19 Jul 1917 in Coffee Co., Alabama and died 8 May 2016 in Opelika, Alabama. On 15 Jul 1939, she married Eugene Harper Atkins (1912-1994). They are buried in Auburn Memorial Park Cemetery, Auburn, Alabama. They had no children.
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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 27-Dec-25.
First flown with the Boeing test registration N1786B, this aircraft was delivered to Boeing Business Jets as N127QS in Aug-99 for interior fitout.
It was delivered to the Pitney Bowes Credit Corporation and leased to Executive Jet Aviation Inc in Dec-00. Executive Jet Aviation was re-named NetJets Aviation Inc at the end of Apr-02.
It was returned to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest in Apr-10 and re-registered N796BA a few days later. It was returned to the Boeing Airplane Company in Dec-10. Boeing sold it to F & L Aviation III Inc in Jun-11. It was re-registered N721UF in Apr-13.
In May-18 the aircraft was sold to Wren Acquisitions LLC and re-registered N737CM in Aug 18. Current, updated 27-Dec-25.