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Scott is a linguist and historian who speaks several different ancient languages, including Gaelic, Welsh and Russian. He was explaining to me the fine differences between Scottish Gaelic, Ulster Irish, Munster Irish, Argyll Gaelic and Manx when my cellphone rang and I was called away. Before I left, I asked Scott for a few quick shots, and quickly explained the 100 Strangers project. I'm glad he agreed to be photographed.
Thank you, Scott, for being stranger number sixty-three in my 100 Strangers project. I wish I would have been able to spend some more time listening to the different dialects. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
The 100 Strangers website can be found at 100strangers.com/
A Different Perspective/POV of the Cityskyline in Singapore.
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Mamiyaflex C2 TLR vs Olympus Pen EE3
OM-2 with Zuiko 50/1.4 + expired Konica Centuria 400.
Negative scanned.
Convert to 'Seim Old Red II' Lightroom 2.0 preset.
Different view than previous post:
White Thistle ~ Cirsium hookerianum Nutt.
Most thistles have purple flowers, this species has a showy white flower. Native to Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alberta and British Columbia. Thistles are members of the Aster Family.
This started as a totally different idea. I wanted to get a reverse "Psycho" type picture -- with the person in the shower having the knife. Here is the reject.
It sure it hard to shoot in a steamy bathroom...the damn lens kept fogging over!
No flash - 1600 ISO in all it's grainy goodness.
Processing. Lightroom. Saved Preset: B&W High Contrast, then a whole bunch of messing until I thought it looked OK. Some split toning to ad a touch of color.
Polar Bears (like Humans)
may look very different
on different days and
in the different photos ..
Their mood is always reflected
in their behavior
and facial expressions ..
In this photo FINJA ❤ (2 years old)
looks really SMALL !
She plays in the pool,
very close to me - only the glass
(that was quite dirty that day)
is between us ....
My videos:
The newly constructed Lake View Park alongside Rawal Lake has become a favourite picnic spot in the city.
Description
The Lake View Park of Rawal Lake is located on Murree – Islamabad Highway. CDA is the builder of this lovely park which constructed lovely installations of amusement park, passenger train, games and sports for all ages. Motor Bike safari, and many other thrilling sports have been added. Motorized as well as Manual Water boats are also available at the site.
General Information
Rawal Lake in Pakistan is an artificial reservoir that provides the water needs for the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Korang River along with some other small streams coming from Margalla Hills have been set to form this artificial lake which covers an area of 8.8 km². Korang River is the outlet stream of Rawal Dam. Rawal Lake is located within an isolated section of the Margalla Hills National Park.
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Our annual Just Love Festival was a little different in size and structure but still a welcome reminder of the power of Divine Love.
This year, the festival was more like a three-day retreat with a small group of invited guests. The website posted 'Love Never Dies', and it was true. From 4-6 September, 2020, it may have been small but it was filled with love and devotion and the joy of being with each other.
With beautiful Fall weather, the morning yoga sessions began the day, and a sumptuous breakfast was given to all. Like every year, there was something for everyone: Guruji's leading the beautiful abhishekams in the morning and candlelit aratis at night; great music throughout the day from guest singers and many ashram Resident singers and musicians too; some incredibly delicious vegan meals; aura-reading; hand reading; A&O water; personal coaching; and fun for the kids too.
But more than just another annual celebration, it was a confirmation that, with the grace of Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda, nothing can stop the power of Love!
justlovefestival.org
Basingstoke. During the recovery from a major signal failure at Woking, a northbound container working disappears towards Reading while a Salisbury line train eases out of the up sidings. In the background, Stanier 'Black Five' 44871 coasts towards its booked stop at platform 1 with the 11 December run to Sherborne. Shortly after this shot was taken, all four through platforms held down passenger trains!
Built in 1929, this 17-story Art Deco-style former passenger railroad station was designed by Fellheimer & Wagner to replace the multiple previous train stations and termini in Buffalo, which were scattered throughout the city and belonged to different railroads. The structure stands on the site of the old Union Depot built in 1874, which closed in the early 1920s. The station began construction in 1925 when the New York Central Railroad settled on building their new union terminal in Buffalo at the site, with the station being built to accommodate the expected growth of Buffalo from a city of about 550,000 people to one with 1.5 million people, and to accommodate continued growth in passenger numbers. However, both of these projections never materialized, with the city’s population growth and the railroad’s passenger numbers growth, already slowing in the 1920s, slowing further due to the Great Depression during the 1930s, and then beginning a long, steady decline, only being briefly buoyed by World War II before falling out of favor as automobile travel proved more flexible and air travel more swift than train travel. Due to these circumstances, the terminal was overbuilt and never reached its full capacity during its operations, only coming close during World War II due to resource shortages and mass mobilization of the United States during wartime. The terminal was offered for sale by the New York Central Railroad for one million dollars in 1956, but found no buyers, with continuing declines in passenger numbers, coupled with the decline in the population of Buffalo itself, leading to several services being ended during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, the railroad, in an effort to save costs and downsize their facilities, demolished several outbuildings in the complex, and in 1968, the once powerful New York Central Railroad, a husk of its former self, merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in an attempt to consolidate their expenses and save both companies, but this merger proved unsuccessful, leading to their bankruptcy in 1976, with both railroads absorbed into the public-private partnership known as Conrail.
In the meantime, Amtrak was formed in 1971 to provide passenger rail service in the United States, operating out of the terminal until 1979, with the agency facing budgetary limitations that did not allow them to renovate the aging structure, which, when coupled with the massive expenses of keeping the building comfortable, dry, and well-lit, led to the agency building two smaller stations in Buffalo during the 1970s to replace it. The terminal was subsequently purchased by Anthony T. Fedele, whom managed to maintain the building in decent condition, but was unable to find any interested developers to reuse the building, and eventually fell behind on taxes, leading to the building being seized at foreclosure so the taxes could be recouped by the government. During the time it was owned by Fedele, the building was vacated by Conrail’s offices between 1980 and 1984, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, with the final operations at the terminal, the interlocking towers that once signaled trains arriving at the station, being shut down in 1985. In 1986, the building was purchased at auction by Thomas Telesco, whom did not maintain the building, selling off many artifacts and fixtures from its interior, and proposing grandiose and unrealistic schemes of what he would do with the building, including being a stop on a high-speed rail line between New York and Toronto. The building was then sold to Bernie Tuchman and Samuel Tuchman, with the building seeing further elements removed and sold, and the building continuing to decay.
In 1997, the terminal, then in poor condition, was purchased by Scott Field of the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, whom paid for the building’s back taxes, and shortly thereafter, formed the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, transferring ownership of the building to the organization. The building was stabilized and secured under the stewardship of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, which opened the building for public tours in 2003, and holds many fundraising events at the station every year. The building has been preserved, but a restoration or adaptive reuse of the structure has so far remained elusive.
The building features a brown brick exterior with an octagonal corner tower, with a large barrel-roofed main concourse structure wrapping around the tower to the south and east. The facade of the tower features multiple setbacks, chamfered corners, corner clock faces at the roofline above the twelfth floor, a rotunda with large archways and buttresses atop the tower with a decorative trim crown at the parapet, vertical window bays that stretch from the building’s base to the roofline, large entrances with metal canopies, large transoms, and stone surrounds, pilasters, and stone trim and caps atop the parapets. The main concourse portion of the building features large arched curtain walls at the ends of its barrel vaulted roof, a cavernous barrel vaulted interior, large metal canopies over the entrances, and a tunnel underneath that once allowed traffic on Curtiss Street to run beneath the building, though this has been closed since the 1980s due to the building’s decay, with a light court between the waiting room and a low-rise office block in the front, which sits just east of the tower and presents a similar facade treatment to that of the tower, with vertically accentuated window bays and pilasters. The rear of the building is more spartan in appearance, with a scar from the former location of the entrance to the train concourse to the rear, with the connecting structure having been removed following the discontinuation of railroad services at the building in 1979. The train concourse features multiple platforms with Art Deco-style aluminum canopies with sleek columns, thin-profile roofs, and rounded ends, with the train concourse featuring arched clerestory windows and a gabled roof, and being in a rather advanced state of deterioration with vegetation having grown throughout the structure and the surrounding abandoned tracks between the platforms. Attached to the southwest corner of the main building is the baggage building, a simpler six-story Art Deco-style structure with a buff brick exterior, a penthouse above the main entrance to the building, pilasters, vertically accentuated window bays, steel windows, stone spandrel panels, stone trim, and stone parapet caps, with long canopies along the base of the front and rear of the building that protected incoming and outgoing mail and baggage from inclement weather. To the west of the baggage building is the one-story mail processing building, which features a similar facade treatment, with the main difference besides height being the rooftop monitor windows in the middle of the building’s roof. Southwest of the baggage and mail processing building, sitting close to Memorial Drive, is a structure that formerly housed the Railway Express Agency, which is more utilitarian than the rest of the surviving complex, and is in an advanced state of decay, with the demolition of the structure being planned to take place sometime this decade. The structure features large window bays with steel windows, stucco cladding on the brick structure, and the remnants of canopies on the north and south facades of the first floor, with a long and low one-story wing to the rear.
The complex is one of the largest designed by Fellheimer & Wagner, and has maintained a remarkable state of preservation in its original form with few changes since its construction, besides some damage from the years of decay and neglect in the 1980s and 1990s. Another notable structure by the firm, and one of the most well-known railroad stations in the world, is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, which was also built for the New York Central Railroad. In addition to Grand Central Terminal, the firm also designed terminals that are more similar in appearance to the Buffalo Central Terminal, including Union Station in South Bend, Indiana, and Cincinnati Union Terminal, with Grand Central Terminal, Buffalo Central Terminal, and Cincinnati Union Terminal being among the largest, most impressive, and most significant railroad stations ever built in the United States. The station, though unrestored, is still impressive, and hopefully will be eventually adaptively reused for an economically sustainable function.
Patients and staff of the Neu-Ulm hospital watching the "Nabada" on the close-by Danube on "Schwörmontag" 2012.
Operation AVRO is a forcewide initiative that delivers a surge of extra resources and specialist officers to a different district within Greater Manchester each month.
This month saw the operation take place in Wigan.
The operation targets crimes that members of the public in that district have told us give them the most concern.
Members of the press and key partners, including local representatives, are invited to attend Operation AVRO deployments to see results first-hand and conduct important multi-agency work, such as welfare visits.
More details on AVRO can be found by visiting gmp.police.uk and following us on social media.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
1. Material: Plant, room lighting, phone
2. Idea: To show the different aspects
3. Process: I took this picture when I was walking by the hall way and I thought it looked very good
One building gone!! July 2, 2013 Christchurch CBD, New Zealand.
Info on the Earthquakes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
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Pink or yellow?
Bees have a choice when it comes to these Lantana flowers. It's interesting that there are different coloured flowers in one inflorescence. They're actually considered a weed here but the birds kindly dropped a seed in my garden and this plant appeared so I let it grow especially for the pollinators.
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Different flavoured cupcakes with grass frosting and sporty decorations including football shirts for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd, also Cobblers shirt & scarf, Saints shirt, some footballs and the '18th' hole