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Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
This red Telephone Box in Ashbourne, Derbyshire still has a working payphone inside, whereas many now have defibrillators or some kind of local book exchange or are modern 'heritage' installations.
Amongst their predominantly MCV saloon fleet, Hulleys operate a sole Plaxton Centro-bodied MAN 12.240, this being YN08JWY (3). Notably, it is from the same dealer stock as the three previously operated by TM Travel , though its stay in northern Derbyshire has proven more fruitful.
It was caught today on the 13:25 Bakewell-Matlock 172 in the village of Alport on the double-run to Youlgreave. Save the final journey from Bakewell to Matlock, the 172 used to omit Alport and Youlgreave however from the end of March several more journeys were diverted to compensate for the withdrawal of the short 171 trips to the two villages. While passengers for other stops may despair at longer journey times, they can reassure themselves that help is now available on the route should they suffer a cardiac arrest - as can be seen, the phone box to the right is now fitted as a defibrillator!
In this shot, Sanders former Parks of Hamilton Plaxton bodied Volvo B9R type number 912 - PVF 377 is seen as it heads along Rectory Road in the village of Elsing with the above journey on Friday only service 80. Having reached this point from Aylsham by way of Cawston, Salle, Reepham, Bawdeswell, Sparham and Ling, it will continue to Dereham via North Tuddenham. Note, that like many other examples, the telephone kiosk on the left now houses a defibrillator. Upon arrival in Dereham, coach and driver will next cover a contract hire. As a result the return service 80 journey to Aylsham is worked by the bus and driver on service 25 after they have completed their return run to Fakenham.
Although Sanders Tuesday & Friday Fakenham to Dereham service 25 has featured amongst my uploads a number of times in recent months, their Friday only Dereham Market Day service 80 from Aylsham, which is one of only two Sanders non school day only services to operate entirely outside the North Norfolk District Council area, has not been captured since 14th July 2017.
Reregistered from Parks cherished plate 15 RWM to SO12 VOD immediately prior to sale, upon acquisition in March 2015 this coach received Sanders cherished plate PVF 377 which was previously carried by fleet member 1002. The latter, a Plaxton bodied Dennis Javelin type, reverting to registration P44 TCC at the same date. This is also the first time vehicle 912 has appeared before my camera since 29th August 2016.
A new location this time and here we see Sanders Optare Solo type number 203 - MX09 AOU about to set down shortly after turning off of Church Road on to Rectory Road in the village of Wood Norton whilst operating the above journey on Fakenham Academy school day only service 308. From Fakenham, it has reached this point - which is still designated as the long closed Post Office - by way of Guist and will continue through to Hindolveston. Up until 30th May 2010, when it was partly incorporated into a revised and rerouted service 98 Cawston - Fakenham, Sanders Thursday only Market Day service 14 from Holt to Fakenham passed this way, but apart from service 308, Wood Norton now appears to be busless.
According to the Parish Council website the village sign, which depicts All Saints Church, is currently away for repainting. Behind the tree to the right of shot is the former village school and to the left we can see that the phone box, like many other examples, is now occupied by a Defibrillator. I hope to return here when the village sign is back from repainting, but it will have to be another overcast afternoon.
On schooldays, both the above 308 journey and the morning inward run are part of a Monday to Friday duty which is normally worked by the same bus and driver each day. In between these school related activities, on Monday they operate service 24 Fakenham - Norwich via Reepham, on Tuesday & Friday service 25 Fakenham - Dereham via Litcham, on Wednesday 23 Horningtoft - Norwich via Litcham and on Thursday 98 Foulsham - Fakenham via Reepham.
Volvo B5Tl/Wrightbus VWD420 is seen at the University of Limerick at Plassey when new in October 2018, it is passing an old Post and Telegraphs Phone Box now refurbished to house a Defibrillator
i've seen some repurposed telephone boxes in Surrrey villages, a magazine library in Pirbrght, and a used bookrepository in Chobham, but Seale has a life-saver. What a great idea!
The K6 at Greywell, Hampshire, outside the Fox & Goose Public House, the box now home to a defibrillator.
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
In a rare moment, the crew of Delta-19 are not on a call, or on their way to a call.
It won't be long until it's off to the races once again.
Serving Baynard, Cypress and Phillips County, they'll help ensure people get the help they need, when they need it most.
2013 International Durastar Ambulance
Regional Fire Control District
Basic Life Support Unit
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
Went for a nice stroll around where we live. This caught my eye. Not seen one of these for a while. Used to empty the money boxes from these as a young postman. In the dark and distant past. This one has a defibrillator in it.
Physio Control have been providing defibrillators to Ambulance Services around the Uk for certainly as long as I’ve been working for the Ambulance Service over 30 yrs . Having been trained and worked with the Lifepak 5 , 10 and 12 it looks like my association with Physio Control will like the Pacer DMU will shortly be ending as Yorkshire Ambulance are changing their defibrillator provider to Core Pulse .
This is the Lifepak 15 the current defibrillator, in amongst the buttons is the Pacer to be used in the treatment of patient’s with a slow pulse .
Le Puy was a major bishopric in medieval France, founded very early, though the early history is legendary. It was for sure already a place of worship in pagan times.
268 steps are carved into the rock and lead up to Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe, erected in 969 on a volcanic plug 82 metres high. Bishop Gotescalc founded the chapel to celebrate the return from the pilgrimage of Saint Jaques.
When the number of pilgrims climbing up grew in the 12th century, the chapel seen today was erected.
People of course still walk up the steps to the chapel. As this is not that really easy, there is a defibrillator up there.
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Every once in awhile something genuinely exciting happens. It's as if someone walks up, slaps defibrillator paddles on us, and hits the juice. Whoa...
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the story of Pablo Pino told in the caption of one of my photos
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
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www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-...
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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the story of Pablo Pino told in the caption of one of my photos
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
So the time had come to visit my big brother and family in Jersey. I thought, "time the trip with the Jersey Orchid flowering season." I contacted Jon Peake at the Jersey National Trust, a lovely man who got me up to speed concerning the Lax or Loose Flowered Orchids on Jersey, the only place they naturally grow in the UK. Up at 02.30am in the morning and off we went to Gatwick. It was the day of the luna eclipse and although there were clouds in the night sky we drove into the eclipse along the M25, awesome. Then it all started to go pear shape, the M23, closed! So down the A22 we went, small, slow roads, stuffed with cars as we were all trying to make our way to the airport. Arrived, just in time, a kiss goodbye, and that was just Max and into secuirity. I phoned easyJet a few days before and told them about my implanted Defibrillator, no problem they said but big problem it was! Through the machine I went, "beeb", and again "beeb" and again, "beeb", this time a border control person was interested and came over to me, a brown trouser moment! After a few questions about "have I got a gun a sharpe object or an explosive device" and with me trying to explain about my implant I was patted down rather forcefully and checked with a metal detector, "beeb," it went off. So I was escorted to a private room and asked to strip to my undies, thank god I bought some new ones the day before. I was checked with the detector again and searched, by this time the scar and defibrillator could be easily seen! The border control person put the detector over my chest and you guest it, "beeb", when he looked at me and said, "defibrillator" and I said yes! After getting dressed and finally getting through security I joined the plane, sat down and took a deep breath and said to myself, relax......The flight was uneventful accept I was squeezed in between someone who had not discovered deoderant yet and a man who really needed to go to the dentist or at least invest in mouth wash!. I popped out of the plane like a cork out of a bottle, cleared security, quickly, and out onto Jersey soil. I had a driver arranged for the trip, Jack, a big old Canadian who who was simply delightful. The first stop straight from the airport, feeling rather exhausted, La Blinerie Meadows St Clements.....
The red telephone box in Auchenblae has found a new and very important role. It now houses a life saving defibrillator complete with instructions on how to use it. The box has been refurbished and it looks very good. Beside it is a new Royal Mail letterbox with a regular collection.
The Royal Mail delivery office, complete with postboxes and a phone box (now housing a defibrillator) on Broad Street, Wokingham.
"Healing Hands": Spc. Kayla Richie, assigned to the 2d Engineer Brigade, U.S. Army Alaska, poses for a portrait on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Richie, a combat medic, used CPR chest compressions and an Automatic External Defibrillator alongside another soldier to revive a dependent who collapsed at the Buckner Physical Fitness Center Sept. 27. Richie said she really enjoys helping people, and working with her hands. As a combat medic she does both. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)
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We cordially invite you through the mysterious wrought iron gates and rumbling stages of the stunning Enchanted Stage at Lutz City of Templemore SL beginning Saturday at 11AM SLT! Come as you are! Proudly sponsored by FaMESHed!
11AM SLT: Lisa Brune
12PM SLT: Shamrock Defibrillator
1PM SLT: Shagpile Spyker
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Discord: tinyurl.com/TemplemoreDiscord
Flickr: tinyurl.com/TemplemoreFlickr
Website: www.templemoresl.com
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
or…. press L to enlarge;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
oppure…. premi L per ingrandire l'immagine;
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-...
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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the story of Pablo Pino told in the caption of one of my photos
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
A snapshot of a very busy day at NHS Lanarkside’s Mossend District General Hospital, Belshotmuir. A visiting restored MKii Ford Transit Ambulance, preserved by a private individual and enthusiast, adds to the colourful mix of Emergency Service vehicles around the Emergency Department annex.
In the road outside the Dept are 3 Police vehicles, a Police Scotland (PolScot) Ford Transit cell Van followed by LJ66EUU, an electric powered BMW i3 Paramedic Response Unit, based at Scottish Ambulance Service, Glasgow Central - Springburn Station, Laverockhall Street (My old Station in reality). Passing in the other direction are 2 PolScot Roads Policing Unit (RPU or “Traffic Cops”) cars, an Audi and BMW.
A patient on crutches can be seen making his way towards a taxi in all over advertising for Real Radio, which waits at the Taxi Stand.
By the Portakabin, used as a crew room/rest area for SAS, PolScot and others) a SAS Driver Training Unit (DTU) is parked, the trainees must be nearing the end of their course as a DTU parked at Hospital suggests the new starts are on hospital familiarisation visits, ensuring they can find their way to local Emergency Depts from day one.
Pulling into the Hospital is an Urgent Tier (now outdated style), crewed by a Technician and an Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) from the Patient Transport Service (PTS) with emergency response driver training, these resources convey patients GP’s deem “Urgent” to be admitted, typically within 4 hours maximum often bypassing A&E and being admitted directly to a ward or assessment unit. As both crew can drive under emergency conditions, the Technician has airway management and manual defibrillation skills, the ACA has first aid and Basic Life Support/AED skills, Urgent Tier ambulances can be used as a first response to Immediately Life Threatening calls, but must be backed up by a full A&E double crewed resource. They may also carry out Inter-Hospital Transfers.
Parked to the left of the Acute Assessment Unit doors, without Battenberg markings or blue lights, is a PTS Ambulance, crewed by two ACA’s. Experts at safe Manual Handling, the non-emergency branch of the service are responsible for planned admissions, discharges, non-urgent transfers and repatriations, day hospital and outpatient clinics and all manner of other work. Every PTS vehicle carries an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), crews are trained in its use, first aid and Basic Life Support, safely extricating patients and returning them home and are experts at communication - given the often long journeys, broad range of patients and on some duties, regular patients, they have to be comfortable talking for hours. In days gone by you would have to become an ACA before joining A&E and training as a Technician, then applying to train as a Paramedic.
To the right of AAU’s doors and to the left of the Main Entrance to A&E is another Urgent Tier, dropping off a patient to AAU, bypassing and saving a space in A&E.
The other vehicles seen are Mercedes Benz Sprinter, box body Emergency Ambulances.
In reality this is a diorama using Kingsway Models 1:76 scale kit of the equally fictional Holby Emergency Department from BBC shows Casualty and Holby City. The models are a mix of 1:76 and 1:64 scale from varying manufactures and include a number of Code 3 adaptions, my own work, except for the PolScot Transit which is Code 3 and bought online.
On a typical run I will see several pulverised little bodies in the road. Usually they will be long dead, barely recognisable and I will try not to get transfixed by the horrible mess of their untimely death.
On this occasion the little lump in the road was different. It wasn’t tainted road grey, its flash of yellow instead of the usual sickening red caught my eye. It was a coal tit.
‘That’s a recent hit’ I thought sadly as I continued to plod on.
Then its tail moved and I realised I was there just seconds after it must have been hit. With no thought for the time of my run being affected (I am told a serious runner stops for nothing) I dashed out and swept up the little form which was tumbling helplessly from the wind caused by another passing car. It was like grasping a warm breath in my hands. So light I was sure I could only feel it because I could see it. All I felt was the heat emanating. It was in its very last moments, there was nothing to be done, I knew it would die but I couldn’t bear for it to pass away on the damp road crushed under unceasing wheels, its perfect form destroyed. I hoped that its last seconds in my warm hands with me talking nonsense to it and smoothing its feathers would have allowed it to drift away aware that someone had cared about its life. Ok I realise that a bird would not have such thoughts, so maybe it was really just a comfort for me.
I stood in the drizzle at the side of the road looking down into the tissue in my hands where the bird lay. To passing cars I must have looked as though I was looking sadly at the outcome of a particularly harrowing nose blow.
Until I watched this bird die, it was an unknown creature, without identity in the world of humans; just another little blur flitting to and fro within the landscape.
Suddenly now it was under a spotlight, my own little spotlight of awareness. He was, at this moment the most important little being to me and I couldn’t bear to leave him half buried in slimy leaf litter and empty coffee cups and go running on.
I swaddled him carefully in tissue and zipped him safely in my pocket, running extra smoothly and with elbows protectively extended to protect my precious cargo from any would be cadaver robbers on my route.
As I ran homewards my normally repetitive and bothersome thoughts about ex boyfriends, ex jobs, the minutiae of my life that irritated like an itchy washing instruction label were all gone. The death of this tiny, seemingly insignificant creature had interrupted and erased all of my self destructive thoughts.
It had surely never during its life wielded such power. (How do I know this? Perhaps he had been a much revered and admired pillar of the community in the hedgerows of Hertfordshire.)
I could still feel his warmth against my side. The fantasist seven year old in me toyed with the idea that maybe it had just been concussed and the movement and warmth of my body would act like a giant defibrillator and revive him. I would unzip my pocket and out he would burst, shreds of tissue in his wake with a thank you flyby for good measure.
I arrived home to find that my tiny bundle had cooled, and stiffened.
I felt a macabre urge to record him on memory card. Was I being strange? Heartless? Are compulsions like this just the beginning of a pattern that might lead to pulling wings off daddy log legs and shooting at cats with dried peas before finally having my parents stuffed and mounted in a huge taxidermy squirrel display?!
No, not macabre I decided.
I want to remember the tiny being whose death I had felt in my sweaty palm. I want to catapult him to Flickr fame. If he had to die by windscreen ahead of his time then let him live on in Flickr, immortal, the most recognised coal tit on the internet!
I continue to run with eyes ever peeled for those bodies in the road that can be saved. I also look for the cardboard box full of abandoned kittens that I shall rescue from imminent death and tuck safely into my leggings as I run home face and pants filled with kitten joy.
Let us form a group celebrating the lives of those ill fated creatures whose decayed ignored bodies hold our roads together!
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
or…. press L to enlarge;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
oppure…. premi L per ingrandire l'immagine;
www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/winners-...
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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the story of Pablo Pino told in the caption of one of my photos
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
This appeared in this year's Buckingham Christmas Parade promoting the use of defibrillators - the signs on the sides say "this ambulance is too old to carry a defibrillator". DIA 1979 oddly doesn't appear on the DVLA website and other sites only give very basic details, and I can find no other photos of it so maybe it has only recently been put back on the road. It was clearly a Michelin factory ambulance and the Northern Irish registration suggests it served at the Ballymena plant.
Another converted phone box, this one in Conwy, North Wales Elsewhere I’ve seen phone boxes being used as book libraries, cash machines and mini bars…very few are now used for making phone calls!
(Portable studio. Recharging.)
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5 1/2 x 11 in. double page spread; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Global Art Materials Handbook.
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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va. (May 9, 2008) - Lt. Cmdr. Steven Yaden, assigned to Boone Branch Health Clinic, discusses on giving a CPR aid to a patient during a code blue course. Code blue course is a four-hour basic emergency refresher course on CPR, the use of automated external defibrillator (AED) and crash cart for both Sailors and civilian caregivers. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kitt Amaritnant.
Edinburgh Trams 259 and 268 are seen calling at West End-Princes Street tramstop. 268 ( on the right) is heading for the airport while 259 is eastbound to York Place. Eighteen trams in the fleet are gradually getting vinyls advertising glazing company, CRSmith. Number 259 was one of the first to be so adorned in August 2017. Edinburgh Trams recently announced that all the fleet now carry defibrillators. The tower of the former St George's West church dominates the picture - it is now Charlotte Chapel.
Got back almost midnight last night....as most of you already know, my plan A was to purchase:
1. Canon Rebel T3i ( $799)
2. 18-200mm 3.5-5.6 ($655)
3. 100mm 2.8 Macro USM ($1049).....a total budget of $2,500 ( excluding filters, pouches etc..)
Imagine my horror, when I held the T3i....and it just didn't feel right in my hands....I know it sounds so silly, but apparently according to my DH, I almost turned white. Thank God, he then asked the shop to show us the EOS60D which he knew I casted aside earlier in my research due to the weight...and I almost loved it straight away (*see below). Then to make things worse, because I didn't ask the shop to put aside the EOS60D body, he only had EOS60D with kit lens only! Can you imagine, how depressing I felt at that point? I seriously thought I was going to leave Miami without a camera.
It was only when the shop said, if I knew the kit lens for EOS60D was completely different to the T3i….it was the 18-135mm lens! I'm such an idiot…..because I was so fixated on the T3i, I didn't check anything about the EOS60D package… I just ignored it even though it had higher specs because of the weight.…and guess what, the EOS60D came with fantastic rebates…Drum roll...I bought:
1. Canon EOS60D ($1148 with kit lens after $100 rebate)
2. 18-135mm kit lens
3. 70-300mm lens ( $443 after $200 rebate ONLY if you buy with the EOS60D kit!)
4. 100mm macro ( as per my original plan)
So, in the end, Mister Wonderful spent an additional $140 against my original plan.
After customising my camera, I spent all morning in my bathroom today taking photos of everything from my toothbrush to soap dish to shutter blinds....with the 100mm Macro.....that lens makes my heart beat like crazy.
* I can't understand why the trash button is on the left! And also, it can edit RAW images as well! Why'd anyone want that? OK, maybe I'm hard to please but I must admit, I just love the handling and you see that metering at the top....I love it!!!
Used lesbrumes with many thanks!
One of the first casualties of the great war was corporate ethics. The FX-Star Patroller, built by Union Aviation, was fast, versatile and powerful, but it wasn't very profitable. So it was repainted and resold to the Blacktron Empire as the Defibrillator. Thanks to double-selling and non-competitive contracts on both sides, Union Aviation managed to single-handedly prolong the war for an extra 49 years.
This isn't really a reboot of the 6931, it's more of a re-branding. Couple changes that I made - the cockpit is now completely sealed, and a couple parts that I didn't have in black were replaced. The front blasters were redone to echo the design of the blasters on the 6894 Invader.
Special thanks to Shannon Ocean for the inspiration/idea.
(A year with guarded heart.)
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8.3 x 11.7 in; watercolor, ink, whatever, on Canson Imagine.
#hearts #defibrillators #anatomy
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the story of Pablo Pino told in the caption of one of my photos
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Last Monday, an alert call from the local emergency health service 118 came to the emergency room, it was necessary to be ready, one person had drowned, the news had come that the rescuers were practicing external heart massage, and if all had gone at best, they would arrive in the ambulance with blaring sirens; everything is already set up to intubate together with the emergency drugs, the defibrillator is perfectly in order, the infusion and the aspirator of organic fluids (certainly mixed with sea water) are ready, visors, gloves, protective coats, protective masks for covid-19 are always worn in the hospital (in cases like these there will certainly not be time to swab for covid-19, this will certainly be done, but in a second time): time passes, a second lasts an eternity, too much time passes ... that patient will never arrive. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that apparently could seem devoid of pitfalls, yet every year there is always someone who drowns in it: there are various causes, one is hydrocution syncope (once understood as "congestion") caused from entering the cold water and after eating (even drinking hot and quickly a frozen drink can lead to the same fatal consequences), then there is the stormy winter sea and, on the Ionian coast, there are also violent currents (the strait of Messina involves a narrowing both horizontally and vertically of the passage of water from the Ionian sea to the Tyrrhenian sea, and the other way around, waters pushed by the gravitational attraction exerted by the moon), then there is the dangerous "step" immediately beyond the shore (two meters from the water's edge, it immediately plunges into water where it is deep and it's no possible to touch the bottom). In the sea of Letojanni a boy lost his life who, to define a hero, is an understatement, his name was Pablo Pino, on 19 February '72 he jumped into the stormy winter waters to save three American sisters sucked by the waves while they were playing on the shore , he saved two, the youngest of eight years could not save her, but he did not leave her, he kept her afloat close to him, until his strength gave out, both disappeared forever among the waves. (I'll put a link, I talked about it some time ago).
In this group of photographs, there is a photo in which you can see a huge cloud: in reality that is not a normal cloud heralding some summer storm coming (many swimmers thinking that a storm was coming quickly they collected towels and umbrellas, leaving the beach in a hurry), but it is a gigantic cloud laden with ... volcanic ash: the Etna volcano plays these tricks from time to time, it is not uncommon that in a good weather, suddenly you have to equip yourself with umbrellas to protect yourself from a dense rain of volcanic ash.
All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
Lo scorso lunedì è giunta al pronto soccorso una chiamata di allerta da parte del servizio di emergenza sanitaria territoriale 118, occorreva tenersi pronti, una persona era annegata, era giunta la notizia che i soccorritori stavano praticando il massaggio cardiaco esterno, e se tutto fosse andato al meglio, sarebbero arrivati con l’ambulanza a sirene spiegate; tutto è già predisposto per intubare assieme ai farmaci dell’emergenza, il defibrillatore è perfettamente in ordine, la flebo e l’aspiratore dei fluidi organici (certamente misti all’acqua di mare) sono pronti, si indossano le visiere, i guanti, i camici protettivi, le mascherine protettive per il covid-19 sono sempre indossate in ospedale (in casi come questi i secondi contano quanto millenni, non ci sarà certo il tempo di fare il tampone per il covid-19, questo si farà certamente, ma in un secondo tempo): il tempo passa, un secondo dura un’eternità, passa troppo tempo….quel paziente non arriverà mai. Il mar Mediterraneo è un mare che in apparenza potrebbe sembrare privo di insidie, eppure ogni anno c’è sempre qualcuno che vi muore annegato: varie sono le cause, una è la sincope da idrocuzione (una volta era intesa come “congestione”) causata dall’entrare in acqua accaldati e dopo aver mangiato (anche bere accaldati e velocemente una bevanda gelata può portare alle stesse fatali conseguenze), c’è poi il mare invernale in tempesta e, sulla costa Ionica, ci sono anche violente correnti (lo stretto di Messina comporta un restringimento sia in senso orizzontale che in senso verticale del passaggio delle acque dal mare Ionio al mare Tirreno, acque sospinte dall’attrazione gravitazionale esercitata dalla luna), c’è poi lo “scalino” subito oltre il bagnasciuga (a due metri dal bagnasciuga si sprofonda immediatamente in acque dove non si tocca). Nel mare di Letojanni perse la vita un ragazzo che, definire eroe, è dire poco, il suo nome era Pablo Pino, il 19 febbraio del '72 si gettò nelle acque invernali in burrasca per salvare tre sorelline americane risucchiate dalle onde mentre giocavano sul bagnasciuga, ne salvò due, la più piccola di otto anni non riuscì a salvarla, ma non la lasciò, la tenne a galla stretta a se, fino a quando le forze non gli cedettero, scomparirono entrambi per sempre tra i flutti. (metterò un link, ne ho parlato tempo fa).
In questo gruppo di fotografie, c’è una foto nella quale si vede una enorme nuvola: in realtà quella non è una normale nuvola foriera di qualche buriana estiva in arrivo (tantissimi bagnanti pensando che stesse arrivando un temporale raccolsero velocemente asciugamani ed ombrelloni, lasciando la spiaggia in tutta fretta), ma è una gigantesca nuvola carica di …cenere vulcanica: il vulcano Etna gioca di tanto in tanto di questi scherzi, non è raro che in pieno bel tempo improvvisamente ci si debba munire di ombrelli per proteggersi da una fitta pioggia di cenere vulcanica.
Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in mare per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.