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Easton / Phillipsburg Free Bridge crossing the Delaware River - Easton, PA - Minolta X-570 - Ilford HP5+ - home developed in D76 - scanned on Epson V600.
Compare this to the previous post, which had prairie smoke flowers. After the flowers are pollinated and the seeds are developing, the flowers turn from pendant to upright. When seeds are ready to disperse, long filaments develop, ready to loft the seeds on the next breeze.
At a close view, one can see the petals inside of the sepals and bracts filaments that have not yet elongated.
Something exciting has happened to the humble native coneflower over the past decade. Breeders have put their best efforts toward developing new and improved colors and forms of this easy-growing native perennial wildflower. Some of the newest varieties are hybrid crosses between two different coneflower species. With these makeovers, Echinacea has morphed into a rock star in the garden. With the addition of so many new Echinacea forms, it is possible to design an entire landscape centered on this flower.
Not that there was anything wrong with the original E. purpurea, a familiar dusky purple daisy-like flower with a prominent orange center. Its long bloom period, self-seeding habit, and drought tolerance still make it a favorite of beginners and professionals alike, who delight in the wildlife-friendly attributes of the pollen-rich blooms. Coneflowers are trouble-free but just watch out that you don't overwater the plant or root rot and fungal diseases like powdery mildew can occur.
Camera: Leica M6 2022
Lens: Leica Summilux 50mm f/1.4 Black Chrome
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Developing: Cinestill C41 104f for 4:10 (Chemistry getting to end of life)
Scanning: Valoi Easy 35 on Nikon Z9 and Z 105mm f/2.8 at f/8 and +1 exposure comp. Valoi set to full brightness and cool light temperature. Negative Lab Pro and Lightroom.
'Fighting Temeraire', developed by David Austin Roses.
Named after the colours in the famous painting by Turner.
A fairly uncommon rose I would think, with huge blowsy blooms like a loose lettuce and a wonderful glowing, golden centre that seems to be lit from the inside when newly opened.
Quite a large shrub, floriferous and surprisingly trouble free, but best in a cool spot as the flowers tend to collapse in a heatwave.
Taken at the end of May before the present storms battered my garden.
Sonoran Preserve, Phoenix, AZ -
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 40mm Distagon f/4
Film: Kodak T-MAX 100 developed in Rodinal 1+50
A boat in the harbour at Hull marina on a sunny evening in 2023.
Fed 2 camera
Industar 26M lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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Replica of a 1957 classroom during the height of the Cold War and fears of global nuclear war. The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
Technical information:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS STM
Film: Kodak Portra 800
Developer: Home developed manually in Bellini C-41
Digitized with a Canon EOS R5, a Sigma 105mm macro lens, the Valoi 360 film holder, the CS-Lite light source, and a copy stand made out of an old Durst enlarger.
Software conversion: Negative Lab Pro 3.0
The future looms over the small twice-weekly freight dawdling through what is to become parkland in downtown Brampton. Headed south, the Orangeville Brampton Railway approaches Queen Street, passing the former site of the CPR station.
OBRY
GMTX 333
Owen Sound Spur
Brampton, ON
Laccadives has not really achieved commercial levels in its tourism. One has to be thankful for the policies of the Indian government which prevents consumption of alcohol and presence of too many tourists, lack of fresh water and such. Not necessarily by design but it just happens to work like that.
In the developing world, wherever there are deep waters, obliging children act as divers and showmen to show off their prowess and eagerness and make some money. Laccadives was no different as the kids were having a blast hitting the cool emerald green waters at Agatti from a fishing vessel moored near the jetty.
Unlike other destinations, there was no obligatory solicitation by the participants, just pure fun.
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Developed by Rocketdyne, the F-1 engine generated nearly 1.5 million pounds of thrust. F-1 engines were clustered in groups of five in the first stage (S-IC stage) of Saturn V rockets. As a group, the five engines gulped 15 tons of kerosene and Liquid oxygen per second.
Lake Nukabira, Kamishihoro, Hokkaido.
Canon T50, Tamron 90mm F2.5, Kodak Microfilm Imagelink HQ exposed as ISO 40, developed with SPD ( Superprodol from Fujifilm for B&W film developer ) for 10 minutes at 20 Deg.C., alkaline pushing added, scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 + VueScan, edited with GIMP.
Bigger sizes: www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/49657008852/sizes/ to 10000 × 6604 pixels compatible. Learn DIY development and upgrade to film !
The Hog’s Back Park was developed in the 1950s and it occupies an area of over 20.8 hectares in the middle of the City of Ottawa. It offers many things to explore such as the beautiful Hog’s Back Falls (officially known as Prince of Wales Falls, the dam was built during the construction of the Rideau Canal between 1826 and 1832), a place to picnic and spend time in family as well as many trails for walking and biking. It is also near the Mooney’s Bay Beach on the Rideau River in the Mooney’s Bay Park. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Le parc Hog's Back a été aménagé dans les années 1950 et occupe une superficie de plus de 20,8 hectares au centre de la ville d'Ottawa. Il offre de nombreuses choses à explorer telles que les magnifiques chutes Hog's Back (officiellement connues sous le nom de chutes Prince of Wales, le barrage a été construit lors de la construction du canal Rideau entre 1826 et 1832), un endroit pour pique-niquer et passer du temps en famille aussi autant de sentiers pour la marche et le vélo. Il est également près de la plage de Mooney's Bay sur la rivière Rideau dans le parc de Mooney's Bay. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Thought this was cool:
I basically "developed the film"
Using my scanner then taking the negative of the film strip
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Normanton Church, Rutland Water, Oakham...
Taken with Hasselblad 501cm and 80mm Planar *t CB lens, on Kodak Tmax 100 at 64asa and developed in Ilford ID-11 (1+1) for 12 minutes at 20°c. Digitised on Epson v550 and SilverFast®8 (SE) software at 3200ppi...
Amsterdam Amstel Station
film: Ilford FP4
develop: HC110 thick Adox version, semi stand
cam: Rolleiflex E2
Highway 163 in Southeast Utah looking West towards Eagle Mesa and Brighams Tomb.
Photographed with a Leica IIIc using a Canon 135mm f/3.5 lens. The film is Kodak Panatomic-X that expired 3/1963. The film was developed in Kodak HC-110 Dilution B.
Dilmun is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the Cradle of Civilization.
Dilmun (sometimes transliterated Telmun) is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Because of its location along the sea trade routes linking Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley Civilization, Dilmun developed in the Bronze Age, from ca. 3000 BC, into one of the greatest entrepots of trade of the ancient world.
There is both literary and archaeological evidence for the trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley (probably correctly identified with the land called Meluhha in Akkadian). Impressions of clay seals from the Indus Valley city of Harappa were evidently used to seal bundles of merchandise, as clay seal impressions with cord or sack marks on the reverse side testify.
A number of these Indus Valley seals have turned up at Ur and other Mesopotamian sites. "Persian Gulf" types of circular stamped rather than rolled seals, known from Dilmun, that appear at Lothal in Gujarat, India, and Faylahkah, as well as in Mesopotamia, are convincing corroboration of the long-distance sea trade. What the commerce consisted of is less sure: timber and precious woods, ivory, lapis lazuli, gold, and luxury goods such as carnelian and glazed stone beads, pearls from the Persian Gulf, shell and bone inlays, were among the goods sent to Mesopotamia in exchange for silver, tin, woolen textiles, olive oil and grains. Copper ingots, certainly, bitumen, which occurred naturally in Mesopotamia, may have been exchanged for cotton textiles and domestic fowl, major products of the Indus region that are not native to Mesopotamia - all these have been instanced.
Mesopotamian trade documents, lists of goods, and official inscriptions mentioning Meluhha supplement Harappan seals and archaeological finds. Literary references to Meluhhan trade date from the Akkadian, the Third Dynasty of Ur, and Isin - Larsa Periods (ca. 2350 - 1800 BC), but the trade probably started in the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2600 BC). Some Meluhhan vessels may have sailed directly to Mesopotamian ports, but by the Isin - Larsa Period, Dilmun monopolized the trade. By the subsequent Old Babylonian period, trade between the two cultures evidently had ceased entirely.
The Bahrain National Museum assesses that its "Golden Age" lasted ca. 2200 - 1600 BC. Its decline dates from the time the Indus Valley civilization suddenly and mysteriously collapsed, in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. This would of course have stripped Dilmun of its importance as a trading center between Mesopotamia and India. The decay of the great sea trade with the east may have affected the power shift northwards observed in Mesopotamia itself.
Evidence about Neolithic human cultures in Dilmun comes from flint tools and weapons. From later periods, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, pottery and even correspondence between rulers throw light on Dilmun. Written records mentioning the archipelago exist in Sumerian, Akkadian, Persian, Greek, and Latin sources.
Dilmun, sometimes described as "the place where the sun rises" and "the Land of the Living" is the scene of a Sumerian creation myth and the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Ziusudra (Utnapishtim), was taken by the gods to live for ever.
There is mention of Dilmun as a vassal of Assyria in the 8th century BC and by about 600 BC, it had been fully incorporated into the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Dilmun then falls into deep eclipse marked by the decline of the copper trade, so long controlled by Dilmun, and the switch to a less important role in the new trade of frankincense and spices. The discovery of an impressive palace at the Ras al Qalah site in Bahrain is promising to increase knowledge of this late period.
Otherwise, there is virtually no information until the passage of Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet on the return from the Indus Valley. Nearchus kept to the Iranian coast of the Gulf, however, and cannot have stopped at Dilmun. Nearchus established a colony on the island of Falaika off the coast of Kuwait in the late 4th century BC, and explored the Gulf perhaps least as far south as Dilmun/Bahrain.
From the time of Nearchus until the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD Dilmun/Bahrain was known by its Greek name of Tylos. The political history for this period is little known, but Tylos was at one point part of the Seleucid Empire, and of Characene and perhaps part of the Parthian Empire. Shapur II annexed it, together with eastern Arabia, into the Persian Sassanian empire in the 4th century.
Unlike Egyptian and Mesopotamian tablets and cylinders, the Dilmun legacy has been discovered on circular seals. The primitive forms of images carved on the seal indicate they were used as charms or talisman. Carved on wood, soapstone shells or metal, these images clearly define a complex society. Temples in the center of the agrarian village, towns, city-states, religious, and economic cultural life. All facets of the emergence of an evolutionary society are reflected in the inscriptions about the seals.
Impressions found on pottery and property is a probable usage of the seals. Burying them with the dead was probably to avoid misuse. Tiny fragments found impressed, suggest identifying property. Clearly there was an intrinsic value; each seal tells a story, has an identity.
Seals depict Enki, God of wisdom and sweet water. Gilgamesh as a massive and heroic figure, the 'Bull of heaven' hat. Ladies of the mountains 'Inanas' servants wearing her triangle signs depicting space for her power. 'Nana' is the moon god who was also named 'sin'. Symbol was the bull of heaven head. Inana, goddess of immortality.
From the dreams of Gilgamesh, to the philosophy of life. Seals depicting a harmonious life with nature and god are painted here in the colors and form I hope you enjoy. The colors naturally excite and stimulate, often sexually. Indisputably the ancient myths of immortality and resurrection influenced Dilmun beliefs and are abundantly supported in the seal designs, represented by gods of the sun and moon.
The Mesopotamian texts described Tilmun as situated at the 'mouth' of two bodies of water. The Sinai peninsula, shaped as an inverted triangle indeed begins where the Red Sea separates into two arms - the gulf of Suez on the west, and the Gulf of Elat (Gulf of Aqaba) on the east.
The texts spoke of mountainous Tilmun. The Sinai peninsula is indeed made up of a high mountainous southern part, a mountainous central plateau, and a northern plain (surrounded by mountains), which levels off via sandy hills to the Mediterranean coastline. Sargon of Akkad claimed that he reached as 'washed his weapons' in the Mediterranean; 'the sea lands' - the lands along the Mediterranean coast - 'three times I encircled; Tilmun my hand captured'. Sargon II, king of Assyria in the eighth century BC, asserted that he had conquered the area stretching 'from Bit-Yahkin on the shore of the salt Sea as far as the border of Tilmun'. The name 'Salt Sea' has survived to this day as a Hebrew name for the Dead Sea - another confirmation that Tilmun lay in proximity to the Dead Sea.
The cradle of civilization is sometimes referenced by the name Dilmun, or Tilmun. Here, it was said, the god Ea and his wife were placed to institute 'a sinless age of complete happiness'.
Here too animals lived in peace and harmony, man had no rival and the god Enlil `in one tongue gave praise'. It is also described as a pure, clean and `bright' `abode of the immortals' where death, disease and sorrow are unknown and some mortals have been given `life like a god', words reminiscent of the Airyana Vaejah, the realm of the immortals in Iranian myth and legend, and the Eden of Hebraic tradition
Although Dilmun is equated by most scholars with the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, there is evidence to suggest that a much earlier mythical Dilmun was located in a mountainous region beyond the plains of Sumer.
But where exactly was it located Mesopotamian inscriptions do not say; however, the Zoroastrian Bundahishn text and the Christian records of Arbela in Iraqi Kurdistan both refer to a location named Dilamƒn as having existed around the head waters of the Tigris, south-west of Lake Van - the very area in which the biblical Eden is said to have been located.
Furthermore, Ea (the Akkadian Enki) was said to have presided over the concourse of Mesopotamia's two greatest rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates - which are shown in depictions as flowing from each of his shoulders.
This would have undoubtedly have meant that the head-waters, or sources, of these rivers would have been looked upon as sacred to Ea by the cultures of Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent.
- Zecharia Sitchin The Stairway to Heaven
Dilmun was allegedly a magical land, the birthplace of the gods and the place where the arts of civilization where said first to have been transmitted to men. It was the subject of many legends told by the Sumerians, the people of southern Iraq; it was famed as a land where death and disease were unknown and men and animals lived at peace together.
It was the home of the Sumerian king who was the origin of the myth of Noah, the immortal survivor of the Great Flood, a story retold in the Qu'ran and the Bible.
The first great hero of world literature, Gilgamesh the king of Uruk, journeyed to Dilmun in search of the secret of eternal youth.
He found it deep in the waters of the Persian Gulf, off Bahrain, but lost it when the flower which restored the youth of those who sought it, was stolen by a snake, lurking in a pool as Gilgamesh returned to his kingdom; this is the reason why the snake sloughs his skin.
Symbolism - All is Myth and Metaphor in our reality
* water: flow of consciousness - creation
* restore to youth: move out of the physical body and return to higher frequency forms of sound, light, and color
* snake: DNA - the human bio-genetic experiment in time and emotion
* kingdom - Leo - Lion - King - Omega - closure
Dilmun was also the center of the most important trade routes of the third and second millennia BC. The most important commodity was copper for which Dilmun was famous and the dates for which Bahrain was always celebrated, from ancient times until the present day.
Because Dilmun was so sacred a land, there were many temples built there, the impressive remains of which can be seen today. The largest and most splendid temple surviving in Western Asia is at Barbar on Bahrain's northern shore.
The most famous of all Bahrain's rich archaeological heritage are the 200,000 grave mounds which are a feature of the landscape in the northern half of the island and which, by their size and quality of construction, show how prosperous Bahrain must have been in ancient times.
Dilmun continued to be the most important center of trade in the Gulf region throughout its history.
After the Sumerians, the Babylonians, Assyrians, even the Greeks, settled on the islands, because of their strategic importance in the movement of merchandise, north and south, east and west, by sea and by the land routes to which the seas gave access.
The records of their diplomatic relations with the kings of Dilmun, some of whose names are known from the records, testify to the importance of the islands throughout antiquity.
All left evidence of their presence, preserved today in the Bahrain National Museum and in the immense archaeological sites in which Bahrain is particularly rich.
Bahrain is an open-air treasure house of the past, a unique heritage from the earliest times when men first began to keep records of their hopes, fears and achievements.
It is the contemporary of ancient Egypt with Sumer and the peoples who succeeded them, of the great cities of the Indus Valley.
Source: www.crystalinks.com/dilmun.html
My dad bought a movie camera when I was a kid. I remember him taking movies and then he would package them up and send them off to be processed and developed by mail. The excitement was when they arrived back we could watch them and remember the day in a movie rather than just in photographs. I picked up an old 8mm projector at a second hand shop a few years back so I could watch them.
I will thank you in advance for any comment or fave on my image as I may not always have the time to get back.
Sun sets over beach in Naples, February 2015.
Fujichrome MS 100/1000
Cross-processed in C-41
Self-developed
Tianzifang or Tianzi Fang (Chinese: 田子坊) is a touristic arts and crafts enclave that has developed from a renovated traditional residential area in the French Concession area of Shanghai. It is now home to boutique shops, bars and restaurants.
Tianzi fang is located in one of the most expensive areas in Shanghai. It has become a major tourist attraction and has more than 200 diverse small businesses such as cafes, bars, restaurants, art galleries, craft stores, design houses and studios, and even French bistros. It is adjacent to the SML center which is among the largest shopping malls in Shanghai upon completion.
It is also near the Shanghai Metro Line 9's Dapuqiao Station which is immediately to the south.
Despite all the businesses selling trendy craft and some foreign goods, the area does not have the look of having been overly beautified - electricity cables are still strung overhead, and air conditioning units are obvious on the outside of the buildings. The district is distinctly different from Xintiandi, another Shikumen redevelopment in central Shanghai further to the northeast, in that it has managed to preserve its residential feel, adding to its appeal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianzifang
Tianzifang o Tianzi Fang (en chino: 田子坊) es un enclave turístico de artesanía que se ha desarrollado a partir de una zona residencial tradicional renovada en la zona de la Concesión Francesa de Shanghái. Ahora alberga tiendas boutique, bares y restaurantes.
Tianzi Fang está situado en una de las zonas más caras de Shanghái. Se ha convertido en una importante atracción turística y cuenta con más de 200 pequeñas empresas diversas, como cafés, bares, restaurantes, galerías de arte, tiendas de artesanía, casas y estudios de diseño e incluso bistrós franceses. Está junto al centro SML, que se encuentra entre los centros comerciales más grandes de Shanghái una vez finalizado.
También está cerca de la estación Dapuqiao de la línea 9 del metro de Shanghái, que está inmediatamente al sur.
A pesar de todos los negocios que venden artesanía de moda y algunos productos extranjeros, la zona no parece haber sido demasiado embellecida: todavía hay cables eléctricos tendidos por encima y las unidades de aire acondicionado son evidentes en el exterior de los edificios. El distrito es claramente diferente de Xintiandi, otra reurbanización de Shikumen en el centro de Shanghai más al noreste, en el sentido de que ha logrado preservar su sensación residencial, lo que aumenta su atractivo.
Rollei SL66SE, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2,8, Orange filter, T-MAX 100 Professional (Kodak TMX 6052) developed in Ilfosol S 1+9, digitised by photographing the original negative on a light pad - tethered capture and digital development in Lightroom.
The Howgills as a whole lie within the county of Cumbria, although the area remains in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
"Cautley Spout is England's highest (cascade) waterfall above ground. (Gaping Gill on Ingleborough falls a greater unbroken distance into a pothole, and Hardraw Force has a greater unbroken fall above ground). The broken cascade of falls tumbles a total of [nearly 200m] down a cliff face at the head of a wild and bleak glacial valley that comes down from a high plateau called The Calf. [...] This fall is one of the few cascade falls in England; most are either tiered or plunge falls." (Wikipedia)
Now, for the 3rd year running, we have another 3 young House Martins developing fast. These are the 3 egg shells found in the garden, 2 on the 29th May with an interesting fine pattern inside, (showing through the light) and the last one found 2 days later on 31st May with no patterning inside?
The shells are incredibly delicate and only the size of a small fingernail. Alas, since this photograph was taken, the birds have not visited again since 2020.
Canon Sure Shot Supreme
Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400
Lab Developed
Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
Continuing with the westbound chase of the annual 470 Railroad Club charter on the Conway Scenic Railroad here's the next spot. This is the only other location that would work for a properly lit shot on a sunny day, but alas it just wasn't in the cards.
Just like in 2024 the club showcased their historic ex B&M trio of 1949 vintage F7s 4266/4268 and GP9 1741 resplendent in its as delivered McGinnis 'bluebird' livery. After first making a 12 mile round trip down and back on the former Boston and Maine Conway Branch the special headed west on the former Maine Central Mountain Sub mainline through Crawford Notch to Fabyan. They are headed west at MP 72.9 (as measured from former Portland Union Station) rolling alongside the Saco River between the 2nd and 3rd Iron bridges past a location known as Sawyer’s Rock.
A New Hampshire state historical marker along US 302 denotes this spot and reads:
In 1771, Timothy Lash of Lancaster and Benjamin Sawyer of Conway made a bargain with Governor John Wentworth to bring a horse through Crawford Notch in order to prove the route’s commercial value. The pair succeeded by dragging and lowering the animal down rock faces. Sawyer’s Rock is said to be the last obstacle they encountered before reaching the Bartlett intervales. Nash and Sawyer were rewarded with a 2,184 acre parcel at the northern end of the Notch. Sawyer’s Rock symbolizes the determination and foresight that helped open and develop trade and travel into the White Mountains region.
Interestingly this is actually a double header with two crews because the F7s have no MU connections on their front ends and therefore can not be controlled remotely from the GP9 when set up in this manner. To learn more about the history of these vintage locomotives refer to earlier posts in this series.
Harts Location, New Hampshire
Saturday November 1, 2025
The Blauwburgwal (literally: Dutch: blue fortress wall) is a canal in Amsterdam between the Singel (at Lijnbaanssteeg) and the Herengracht (at Herenstraat). It is close to the city center and part of the west Grachtengordel (canal belt).
Halfway along the northeast side, the Langestraat meets the Blauwburgwal. The canal has two bridges, one beside Singel bridge 11 and the other beside Herengracht bridge 19.
History
The canal was dug at the end of the 16th century. Before the city expansion of 1612, the Blauwburgwal was called Blauwburgwal Lijnbaansgracht as an extension of Lijnbaanssteeg. When a new Lijnbaansgracht was created during the expansion, the name was changed to Blauwburgwal naar de Blauwe Brug. The Blauwe Brug (Blue Bridge) across the Singel is now called the Lijnbaansbrug.
On 11 May 1940 part of the Blauwburgwal was destroyed by a German bombing. Fourteen buildings were destroyed and 44 were killed.
Architecture
The facade of Blauwburgwal 22 has an elevated bell-gable dating from 1669. The bell gable developed from the neck gable. This building was mainly built between 1660 and 1790.
Blauwburgwal 22 is unique in its kind. It is the only example of a raised bell gable: an extra step with a small claw piece. The gable has curved side walls ornamented with fruit and urns. The house is owned by the Hendrick de Keyser Association.
(Wikipedia)