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A Fleet Week Saturday aboard the USS Nimitz.
The day began at San Francisco Airport, where I boarded a US Navy C-2 transport plane at sunrise for a flight out to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which was cruising 50 miles off the California Coast. After landing on the flight deck, we disembarked for a tour while the ship sailed toward San Francisco to participate in the Fleet Week "Parade of Ships." Upon clearing the Golden Gate Bridge, the Nimitz launched three F-18s from the flight deck as we cruised past Fisherman's Wharf. From there we continued onward, under the Bay Bridge to an anchorage in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, just off South Beach. And then I had to go home.
It was a very remarkable day. Many thanks to the US Navy for extending the invitation, and the kind sailors who showed us around their ship!
Grade 2 listed Park Hill Flats built between 1957 and 1961 the area underwent a period of decline and the flats are now undergoing refurbishment by Urban Splash
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september 22
Gabo and Whit finding good angles.
We stepped in the elevator to go up one floor ... and there they were! Too good to be true. My heart leaped, my mind jumped ahead: how long would we be together in this confined space? One minute? No, thirty seconds?
"You look remarkable," I said, "can I take your picture?"
"Sure," she said. He hesitated. "I don't have to be included?"
"Oh yes! You look marvelous together!
Their pose was rather stiff but sympathetic. He withstood the attention of a camera. She enjoyed the unexpected elevator moment. I marveled at her T-shirt, just long enough to serve as a dress. Had she just bought it the museum shop? And immediately changed clothes? I was going to ask, but the lift stopped, the door opened. We had to get out. "Thank you, guys!" was all I could say, still not completely landed in my own head.
Sometimes a meeting with a stranger is just like that. Short as lightning.
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This picture is #43 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
I made a run up to the SW Michigan area and found this vintage grain elevator alongside the NS mainline in Milan.
Grain elevators in Westphalia, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Sony ILCE-7RM2 camera with a Canon TS-E50mm f/2.8L MACRO 1.0.4 lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/100-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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These old, wooden grrain elevators are two out of the three that still stand at Mossleigh, SE of Calgary. The third is just off to the left of my photo. They were seen on 14 April 2014, when my youngest daughter and I spent the day driving some of the backroads SE of Calgary.
From Alberta Prime Time - Talk of the Town: Mossleigh Grain Elevator Trio. Original Air Date: Thursday, April 05, 2012:
"A farm family in the Mossleigh area of Southern Alberta is doing all it can to keep their local grain elevators towering over the prairies.
Eric Donovan and his cousin purchased two of the three aging structures when the original owner had no more use for them. Now they're being restored to working condition."
Link to an interesting article from Vulcanadvocate.com, from March 2012:
www.vulcanadvocate.com/2012/03/26/mossleigh-area-resident...
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
The Torre de Madrid (English: Tower of Madrid) is one of the tallest buildings in Madrid. It measures 142 metres in height, has 36 floors and was constructed between 1954 and 1957. It was designed by the architects Julián and José María Otamendi Machimbarrena as an assignment of the Metropolitan Real Estate Agency, for whom they had already built the Edificio España.
It is situated on the Plaza de España, being a symbolic building for the plaza and the city. It holds offices and apartments. It was the highest office building in Western Europe until 1967, when it was surpassed by the 150-metre high South Tower in Brussels. The Tower appeared in numerous Spanish movies released in the 1960s.
The tower was conceived to be the tallest concrete building in the world at the time of its completion and until the construction of Torrespaña was the highest building in Madrid. The lead architects also envisioned that the building would harbour 500 stores, spacious galleries, a hotel, and even a cinema. Furthermore, the tower was equipped with twelve elevators of the fastest model of the time, permitting users to travel 3.5 metres per second. The works were finished on October 15, 1957.
The Tower of Madrid is found in the Plaza de España, at the end of the street of Gran Via, in the heart of the Spanish capital. Along with the 117-metre-tall Edificio de España, situated in the same plaza, they form an interesting architectural assembly. Both enjoy protection on the part of the City Hall of the capital. It was the tallest building in Spain until 1982, when it was surpassed by the Torrespaña telecommunications tower.
On April 28, 2005, the tower was put up for sale by the real estate agency Metrovacesa along with the Edificio España to vote part of the acquisition of the French company Gecina. The price was about 400.000.000 €.
The building was redeveloped in 2012 with apartments on floors 10-32, while the Hotel Barceló Torre de Madrid opened on floors 1-9 in 2017.
Like most towns in farming country, the grain elevators are located on railroad tracks.
I couldn't tell for sure if this one is still being use. It was in a pretty bad shape, but didn't lack for character.
what she had told me too, before we headed for an instant - still warm - meal, was: "you're right and got no reason to worry, baby. life is great. when you're dead by thirty" - she smiled and it was an extremely old smile.
Goldfish Memory, directed by: Elizabeth Gill, 2003.
Grain Elevators in St. Joseph, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/11.0 with a 1/1600-second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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