EIGHTY FIVE 4U
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Here is the depression-era suspension walking bridge in Richfield County Park, built in 1938. A WPA project in the county made this possible. It is standing the test of time, as many of the WPA-CCC builds do all across the USA.
Building: 1 Canada Square,
Architect: Cesar Pelli, Adamson Associates and Frederick Gibberd Coombes
Completed: 1991
For distribution map, photos by other observers, and more links: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/488658-Callicore-cynosura
October 11, 2025. Manu Road, Peru.
Some decades are bigger than others. Well, maybe big 80's hair will make a comeback. Or how about a neo-Miami Vice. What was your favorite 80's show?
BTW, this area around Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave. has dramatically improved since the 80's.
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I've heard opinions that film, particularly color negative film, is not sharp. I've also heard that lenses from the eighties and nineties are really not sharp. To the owners of those opinions, I respectfully present this image. While yes, it has been sharpened, so have most digital images.
I think the biggest problem that people who believe that film is soft face is that film, even when shot by a photographer who knows what she/he/they is/are doing, still needs a really good scanner with sharp focus and a really good scanner operator. Although I have an Epson Perfection 800, a dedicated 35mm film scanner with autofocus, and various camera macro lens scanning rigs, nothing beats a really skilled professional scanner and scanner operator at a professional lab except for a really skilled professional drum scanner operator at a pro lab. None of this, unfortunately, is cheap. If it were, I would likely consider shooting film only.
Technical data:
Camera: Zenza Bronica ETRSI
Lens: Zenzanon PE 50mm f/2.8
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Processed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab
Killing Joke - „Eighties“
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties
Eighties, I have to push, I have to struggle
Eighties, get out of my way, I'm not for sale no more
Eighties, let's kamikaze 'til we get there
And we sang
You do it this way
Eighties, by day we run by night we dance, we do
Eighties, I'm in love with the coming race
Eighties, I've got the best, I'll take all I can get
Eighties, I'm living for the eighties
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I struggle
Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
Eighties, push, push, struggle
Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
It would be foolish not to acknowledge the physical decay that inevitably comes with old age. The brain is physical too, so it is included here. The task is to develop a way of life and a mentality corresponding to these changes. And that is more difficult than it sounds. Leica M8, Elmar 4/135 at F8.
It would be even more foolish to give up on humour, laughter, curiosity and sociability. If you can, that is. Even if wisdom does not come with old age (at least, it hasn't come to me) we do at least have a large repertoire of ways of looking. All in all, it is not that bad to be old. Leica M8, Elmar 4/135 at F8.
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Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces
163rd MMM "BOOK TITLES" Challenge
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society.
The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth, the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.
This is the old Ford farm truck I have been posting as a series of close-ups recently. It is on display along the roadside in Meadowville, Utah.
Cover photo, Eighty-Sixed, September 18, 2021
A little over 1300cc, that’s 650cc per barrel sadly the horsepower is a tad flabby at 70bhp (compared to say my last R1 Yamaha’s 170bhp).
Still, someone likes polishing it.
Personally speaking, I am out of the 2 wheel club for the foreseeable future, regardless of pandemic lockdown as a combination of arthritic agony and dulled reflexes would lead to my exiting the planet sooner than I would prefer.