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Empty bleachers face a temporary inflatable sports arena. (Remarkably, the arena was assembled in one day.)
An eastbound empty unit Gypsum train departs Portola not long after the day has begun, working its way out of the shadowy confines of the Middle Fork of the Feather River and into the Sierra Valley. Even in May it was a chilly morning, and frost is still abundant in the shadows where the sun has yet to warm.
"That long cold black cloud is coming down
I'm feelin' like I'm knocking on Heaven's door
Bob Dylan - Knocking On Heaven's Door
I love finding old paths and roads that are not well traveled because it gives me a chance to see another view point of the world I live in.
Former Super Kmart / Kmart store #3784 (1825 North State Route 19) in Fremont, Ohio
>175,035 square feet
>opened as Super Kmart Center in 1993
>converted to regular Kmart in 2011
>closed July 2016
I am going to take a break from posting the rest of the Pittsburgh pictures for a while. I have to finish a post on the Century III Mall for Dead & Dying Retail and I generally don't post pictures used in posts on Flickr until after the post is published. I also don't want to spend too much time posting pictures from the same area or backlogged photos I took nearly a year ago. For the time being, I will be posting some more recent pictures from smaller trips I have taken.
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The #FlickrFriday #MadeInJapan challenge
Empty hand . . . or in Japanese, "Karate".
"Karate is properly applied only in those rare situations in which one really must either down another or be downed by him"
- Gichin Funakoshi, Founder of Shokotan Karate
I had a go at karate rather too late in life, to support my autistic son in an activity which features control, sequencing, memory, balance and a whole load of other stuff which is very beneficial in developing the life skills of people with that increasingly understood yet still mysterious condition.
Here (with grateful thanks to my dear wife who again found herself as my muse at very short notice) we have three strikes illustrated. Any black belt karatekas out there may be giggling by now, but anyway, 'Shuto', the knife hand strike is depicted on the left. Here the strike is delivered using the finger side (not the fingers themselves) of the hand using a chopping motion. It also most clearly depicts the concept of 'Empty Hand'. 'Zuki', the classic punch is in the centre with 'Taisho', the heel palm (or panther claw) strike on the right. This strike is delivered using the bottom of the palm. Dear wife refused to model for that one saying she'd been biting her nails. She always has been more of an origami girl.
There is a whole lot more to karate than the above. Hand strikes (including others not shown here) are delivered in different ways and styles, including from the forward or reverse hands, from different stances and to different parts of the unfortunate target. Mind you, a karate enthusiast, honour-bound to follow the ethos of Funakoshi, might observe that should they become necessary then the target deserves all he or she gets. And of course there are kicks, which in hands (OK, legs and feet) other than mine can be both spectacular and devastating. Indeed, I found footwork the most challenging aspect of this ancient art. I bowed out (literally as one does in karate) with a humble green belt.
This (ahem) striking photo is constructed of six layers, each subject to the wonders of Lightroom and Photoshop. At the back is a light grey layer, overlaid with a photo of a paving stone to add neutral texture and which was greatly reduced in opacity. The background to each hand was deleted using the background erasure tool and positioned on the canvas using the move tool, with the transform tool used to resize each. Finally the text, which Google Translate assures is 'Karate', was copied to to Photoshop's text tool and again positioned and resized appropriately.
Someone has left this empty Corona beer bottle on a plinth in the gardens at Nymans. There are no bins here but it's very rare to see litter in National Trust gardens – I wonder why?
Jack Skellington was out on Halloween, doling out tricks and screams when he happened upon the Empty Child, who wasn't frightened by his tricks, but kept asking if Jack was his mummy. This had never happened to Jack before, so he was forced to give a treat instead. Of course, tricks normally always worked, so the only thing he had on him to give was the iPod.
The Empty Child is listening to Mother by Pink Floyd.
Plastic 52 - Week 22
Queen Lydia Lili‘uokalani Elementary School, Honolulu.
Unfortunately, this elementary school closed in May 2011, a year shy of its 100th anniversary.
The School has the distinction of being personally dedicated by Queen Lydia Lili‘uokalani, Hawai‘i's last reigning monarch, on April 12, 1912.
Additional information on the school:
www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/04/11/15479-a-look-back-q...
Le Bambole Mk. II, "The Compact” Pinhole Camera. Kodak (new) Portra 160. Exposure: f/256 and 2 seconds.
The ever changing, never finished world of the model rail enthusiast.
Six months after my Dad's passing we are now attempting to sort out the strange mysterious world of the loft in my parents house. Its a busy place filled with enough railway equipment and model kits to last several life times.
DB class 66's 66053 and 66152 slow into Yate station with a Little Kimble to Tytherington empty ballast train
6/366 (1132)
Went for a little stroll along the beach this evening and there was nothing to be seen out to sea.
This can also be for no. 30 of the 366 Treasure Hunt, "Empty". Ok so the water is still there, but there was nothing moving on it, and this is the supposedly the busiest shipping lane in the world!
Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware / USA - October 14, 2020: Waves crash on an empty beach under a bright sun.
An empty westbound CSX coal train passes through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on the Cumberland Subdivision.
Aurizon's 5035 leads an empty coal train north through Grasstree, just south of Muswellbrook. 5024 was on the rear of the train pushing in Distributed Power mode.
Once it was Woolworth's, then it was QD and now it is empty. Rates and rents keep rising so shops keep closing.
Near the meat and dairy departments, the egg case was already unused by the time I took these pictures, just after the closure was announced but before the closure date was announced (which turned out to be about a month later).
Indulging in Calatrava's wonderful architecture here in Valencia. I can visit the place a thousand times and I'm not tired of finding new views, new angles, new impressions....
5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan was empty at times during winter storm Nemo.
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Camera: Sony a99 | Lens: 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
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I live for snowstorms in New York City. So you can just imagine how bummed I was last winter season when we barely got any snow. Growing up in New York City, I remember quite a few blizzards and its with fond nostalgia that I always wish for at least one great snowstorm during the winter. New York City is extra beautiful when covered in a blanket of freshly fallen snow.
When I heard that winter storm Nemo (also known as the Blizzard of 2013, February snowstorm and other terms) was going to deliver some gorgeous white flakes from the sky I was more than ready for it. The photos in this set are not edited the way I would normally edit them. I just basically imported them into Lightroom and adjusted some contrast in a few cases from the RAW files. I will most likely go through the photos here plus others that I am not posting and give them the Vivienne treatment at some point. I am just floored at how incredible it was to shoot the snow with the Sony a99. I did go out of my way to protect it despite it being weather-sealed since it isn't technically my camera and since my lenses also needed protection. I must have been quite a sight in my ski-mask, enormous scarf, giant winter boots and a camera covered in plastic. :) It seemed like I had an easier time shooting in this snowstorm than in the two blizzards that I took photos in back in 2010 and 2011. I think it's because the wind was far more manageable and because I was out before the blizzard hit with full force. While the snow was heavy, the winds were easy to deal with in some respects since the gusts were few and far between.
I decided to walk from where I live on the Lower East Side all the way to Times Square since I do this particular walk frequently and know all of the spots I have always wanted to capture in the snow. I had a blast! The wind did get stronger and stronger as I got closer to Times Square and by the time I made my way home it was full-on blizzard conditions so I think I went at the optimal time. I somehow managed to take photos in the East Village, around Union Square, Chelsea (in truth, I had really hoped that the Empire State Building would be visible but it was completely hidden by the snow and lack of visibility), 5th Avenue, Midtown, the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Bryant Park (which was absolutely ethereal in the snow) and finally Times Square.
And so, the photos here are pretty much almost straight out of the camera save for a few tweaks to levels, no fancy tinkering (but I can't wait to do so!).
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YC 629 takes the branch at the south end of Pyinmana with empty sugar cane wagons for Lewe and beyond, Burma, 31st December 1996.
Class 47/0 no. 47237 hauls the 5Z42 1034 Bristol Kingsland Road-Southall Depot through Newton St. Loe on the 16th September 2013. This returning empty stock from the sunday excursions from Bristol has often included a steam loco this year so it was nice to get a proper formation in sun on one of the few occasions I have seen it. Rare bird 47237 was a bonus!
I took horrible notes, as yet another symboless empty grain train works its way north through Cartersville, Georgia with an SD60I and a AC60CW.
An empty 106 car hopper train rolls west on Pan Am Southern though the remnants of the old Boston & Maine yard at Athol MA at high noon. The ES44C4 pumpkin leading is nice, except when trailed by a an executive scheme SD70 and ex-CR SD50.
This is one of the main arterial roads into the City of Chelmsford in Essex, UK. Normally it would be full of traffic, not today or for the foreseeable future!
81 of 120 pictures in 2020 - On the street where you live
An empty coal train headed for Reno Jct races along the pristinely manicured rails of the Orin Line at the west end of UP's Bill Yard.
E CEBNRM0 40A (Empty Coal- Baldwin, IL to North Rochelle Mine, WY)
BNSF ES44AC #5761
BNSF SD70ACe #9105
(DPU) BNSF ES44AC #5856
Bill, WY
November 7th, 2020