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Cleaning up my processed but unpublished images from the year. My first "December Dump" to start 2023 with all new stuff.
The opposite exercise of my modernized space sets: here is a small vehicle built only with the parts available in 1983. Quite happy with the style, which fits quite well I think with the space sets of that year - but the "dump truck" side evokes maybe too much the corresponding Town sets from this era ^^
Been down the dump this morning ( or should that be the amenity centre ) and did not expect to come back with anything !! Well I did get a shot -sort of . There was a chap there with a bird of prey on his arm - a Harris Hawk it turned out to be . A quick word with the guy and they were there doing a bit of gull scaring - as they were working he did not want to stop and pose ,but as I got back to the car I grabbed the P&S in my bag and took a couple of quick snaps with a bit of zoom from a distance .
Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), formerly known as the bay-winged hawk or dusky hawk, and known in Latin America as peuco, is a medium-large bird of prey that breeds from the southwestern United States south to Chile, central Argentina, and Brazil. Birds are sometimes reported at large in Western Europe, especially Britain, but it is a popular species in falconry and these records almost certainly all refer to escapes from captivity.
The name is derived from the Greek para, meaning beside, near or like, and the Latin buteo, referring to a kind of buzzard; uni meaning once; and cinctus meaning girdled, referring to the white band at the tip of the tail. John James Audubon gave this bird its English name in honor of his ornithological companion, financial supporter, and friend Edward Harris.
The Harris's hawk is notable for its behavior of hunting cooperatively in packs consisting of tolerant groups, while other raptors often hunt alone. Harris hawks' social nature has been attributed to their intelligence, which makes them easy to train and have made them a popular bird for use in falconry.
Glad I chose today to go down the dump !!
*A photo dump of images saved over the past year, mostly lifted from social media - this image is not my own.*
Advertised in 2015, this Sierra Ghia was a one-owner-from-new car with 36k miles on the clock. Upon the original owner's death, the family put the Sierra in a garage for a while. They were unsure what to do with the car but feared selling it in case it was banger raced or the condition was led to deteriorate.
Original advert saved: retrorides.proboards.com/thread/165537/1983-ford-sierra-g...
Dumped in Lings lane Hatfield by someone that's not that clever as they left a lettter with their name and address on tucked down the side of the sofa...congratulations a 5,000 pound fine could be coming your way.
On Thursday 12 July 2018, US president Donald Trump, the most dangerous man in the world, was welcomed to the United Kingdom by the British prime minister Theresa May. The following day the streets of London witnessed the biggest protest for over a decade as thousands marched on Trafalgar Square to express their anger at the British government extending a red carpet welcome for Trump.
Protesters pointed out the extreme threat to democracy, to those dependent on welfare, to womens' rights, to civil rights generally and even to the survival of humankind which Trump presents. Such assertions might seem extreme, but they are unfortunately fully justifiable.
As the president of what is by far the richest and most powerful country on earth, Trump has dedicated his term to accelerating the US addiction to fossil fuels and agribusiness, dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Accords, thereby accelerating global warming and climate change and presenting a huge threat to the continued existence of humankind.
Trump's presidency also marks another dangerous step in the erosion of democracy in the United States. Far from "draining the swamp" as he promised, Trump has surrounded himself with powerful figures from big business, especially major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, as well as his friends and allies in the fossil fuel and defence industires.
Government policy, more and more, reflects the direct interests of concentrated private power with the public having less and less influence. At the same time the Trump presidency has allied itself with some of the most ruthless regimes in the world and is profiting from Saudi Arabia's illegal war of aggression in Yemen which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A serious war crime in which Donald Trump and Theresa May are both complicit.
Trump has also been keen to patronise the extreme nationalist constituency in the United States and through preaching a propaganda of fear his presidency has managed to oversee some of the most racist immigration policies ever to be implemented in the United States, targeted almost exclusively at Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Ironically, all of them have been massively destabilized and impoverished by US foreign policy.
He was also responsible for the ruthless decision to separate children from their parents as they cross into the United States from Mexico, in his determination to block immigration from central America, where decades of US illegal intervention, including the CIA funded Contra terror operations in Nicaragua and enforced free trade (under NAFTA or IMF rules) have devastated the region and merely enhanced the power of corrupt corporate elites and drug cartels.
As if this was not enough to worry about, Trump has also authorized a huge increase in both US defence spending and in the US nuclear arsenal, and changed the strategic posture of the US so that nuclear weapons can be used even for offensive operations and even when their use is not required to preempt a nuclear strike by an enemy power.
As any historian of conflict since the Second World War knows, it is only by a miracle that humankind has survived since 1945 without a nuclear war. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever before. Not only are we are now dependent on Trump's extremely unpredictable temperament but also increasingly on automated systems which can easily malfunction.
Trump and Republicans maintain they need to spend heavily on military equipment in order to counter the supposed Russian threat. However they seldom remind the public that the United States already spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defence and that Russia's expenditure is far behind both that of the United States and only on about the same level of Saudi Arabia, and spends only 10% of what NATO spends.
It has also to be remembered that it is NATO and US forces which are operating right on the Russian border, not Russian forces on the American border. Russia's defence spending is clearly recognised by academics to be primarily defensive and responsive to US spending. What is desperately needed is a serious international dialogue at the highest level to decrease the danger of conflict, especially the risk of a terminal nuclear war and begin a process of multilateral disarmament.
March 19, 2009 marked the 6-year anniversary of the Iraq War. A war that didn't need to happen. With over 4,261 military casualties, thousands of wounded soldiers, an economy in shambles as we struggle to pay millions a month with a staggering total of over $1 trillion and counting. Iraq civilian deaths numbering in the thousands. It sickens me. Let's get the eff out of there.
From a recent protest in San Francisco using my Leica M6.
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As seen on the Brooklyn Bridge. People from HUNDREDS of countries around the world walk this bridge every day. The guy is a laughing stock.
Cleaning up my processed but unpublished images from the year. My first "December Dump" to start 2023 with all new stuff.
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A Naugatuck Railroad employee dumps ballast at Torrington, CT using one of the "new" remote controlled ballast cars the company picked up second hand from Amtrak.
a big orange Mack dump truck hauling dirt in the Sandbox at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion back in 2006
Chicago Moons The Trump Tower
S#!TSHOW Presents:
Operation "Kiss Our Asses, Release Your Taxes!"
Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago
Chicago, IL
February 12th, 2017
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Taken on 18 October 2014. Checked on 2 March 2015 - it's still there!
Still there - minus cushion - 2 July 2016 ...
autobody shop in Alexander, North Dakota where thousands of cars and trailers have been left to rust
Another batch of ex-Birmingham Daimlers has arrived at Birds Commercial Motors at Stratford-upon-Avon. They are HOV 811, 810, 814, all of them are 1948 Daimler CVD with Daimler CD6 engines and Metro-Cammell bodies, the Shell pump is selling petrol at 4/10d a gallon.
To the right is the A34 Stratford Road, deserted apart from a carefree cyclist, today it is permanently jammed 7 days a week. Flower's Brewery dominates the scene producing their fine ales that were very popular in Stratford-upon-Avon and its surroundings.
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Appropriately referred to as "the brick."
Recently rescued from the Portland dump by the good folks at Reclaim It!
I was excited to discover it was loaded with a roll of film. I had no idea what kind it might be, or if it contained any images. After some internet searching I learned some of the exposure, focusing and film advancing quirks of the brick. I guessed about 8 frames remained on a 36 exposure roll of something. So I took some shots, finished the roll and unloaded the Kentmere 100. I had the film processed by Blue Moon Camera.
The film delivered about 8 - 10 usable negative frames, which I have scanned. Three or four images are from an unknown photographer, and I managed about the same number of exposures myself. There is some overlappage and multiple exposure, so the numbers are not precise. I'll be posting a few of those images soon. And I'll be running another roll of film through it for full evaluation.
The Brick here photographed with the Polaroid 600 on new Polaroind 600 bw film. August 3, 2023.
As always, thanks for reading and looking.