Telephone Exchanges
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White-tailed Kites in a courtship exchange where the male holds the prey in his kiting position for her to grab with her talons. It's harder than it looks - she actually misses this try by a feather but he holds steady and she gets another chance. I just couldn't pass up on the light in their eyes on this one.
Do be sure and check it large with a couple of clicks.
White-tailed Kite pair in the process of making food exchange.
I spent a lot of mornings and evenings to get one of this images. Although not satisfied with the cropping I had to do, but at least the image came out fine. Yeah, I know I always complain, but man, so much time spent to get a green background. Fortunately they faced in the direction of the camera.
It was a rather brief meeting with some short and sharp exchanges of opinions.
Magpie-lark & Black-shouldered Kite
(Grallina cyanoleuca)
(Elanus axillaris)
The Snail Kite has to exchange the snail from his talons to his beak so he can land and eat his prize.
digital tip jar: buy me a coffee
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From my epic experience with the mated White-tailed Kites, here's another use of that hovering "kiting" skill. The male holds steady with his prey, a gift for his mate as she comes in from behind to take the offering with her talons. It's pretty cool to watch - they start calling at each other before you can even see him coming with the catch. They're very vocal, a real joy.
Another photo from inside the Exchange Bar in Leicester. I'm very much liking this lens/film combination.
Fed 2 camera
Industar 61 L/D lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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A Grade 1 listed building opened in 1863 that has housed corn traders, animal shows, night clubs and shops. The exchange doubled as a leather market from 1903 and also hosted animal shows, but its main purpose was as a corn market. Every Tuesday corn traders would gather to buy and sell their wares.
Due to the decline in agriculture the building was gradually converted into a shopping centre. An opening was cut into the trading floor and new stairs were installed to allow visitors easy access to the basement and the balcony. The corn traders continued to trade at the Corn Exchange until 1994.
With thanks to The Great Yorkshire Shop, Call Lane, Leeds Corn Exchange.
Aerial combat about to ensue between two female Rufous Hummingbirds, squabbling over nectar sipping rights.
With retail and hospitality closed and many people still working from home, this usually busy road junction was much quieter and easier to photograph when I was there last Thursday.
Usually, the difficulty here is to get your image in the gap between an endless procession of busses and cars. Now the challenge is to get a clean shot without the abundance of newly installed street furniture, cones and other clutter installed by the City of London to make the streets "Covid secure".
1908 built Peckett 1163 Whitehead with a freight during a Ribble Rail event on Preston Docks on 6/7/1997
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Over the summer, I did a color project photographing in a number of small towns on the Virginia/North Carolina border. For reasons I don't want to get into, I'm not sure what I'm doing with the project, if anything.
In fact, I just started to develop the shots now.
I decided to shoot the towns on Ektachrome E100S, which expired in 2002, because I had a bunch of it. I understand why I made this decision, but I'm not sure I like it now.
The color I shoot is usually vibrant and saturated due to how I dev it and the stocks I choose to shoot. At this point, Kodak has priced me out of new color. Lomography has as well.
I do have a lot of expired color left, especially in 4x5, but when I shoot through that, I might be finished with color.
This comes out of necessity, but also I never feel quite comfortable in color. I like the results, and I love it when people enjoy it. But it's never been fully me in the way that black & white can be.
Or maybe I'm just telling myself that because what choice do I have here?
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'Exchange'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Ektachrome E100S (x-07/2002)
Process: DIY ECN-2
July 2024
North Carolina
This is the reverse view of the Corn Exchange showing the lower floor where they have two table tennis tables for people to use.
The Leeds Corn Exchange is a Victorian building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and completed in 1864
The dome design was based on that of the Bourse de commerce of Paris by FranƧois-Joseph BƩlanger and FranƧois Brunet
Leeds Corn Exchange is now just one of three corn exchanges in the country which operates in its traditional capacity as a centre for trade, albeit no longer for trading in corn.
After the restoration in 2007 the Corn Exchange re-opened in November 2008 as a boutique shopping centre for independent retailers. (wiki)
www.itv.com/news/calendar/2013-07-16/history-of-the-corn-...
The Lumber Exchange Building was the first skyscraper built in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, dating to 1885. It was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Franklin B. Long and Frederick Kees and was billed as one of the first fireproof buildings in the country. It is the oldest high-rise building standing in Minneapolis, and is the oldest building outside of New York City with 12 or more floors.
I had a "party line" growing up. This was in the 80s, long after most communities had moved on from the archaic system. How ours worked was that several neighbors shared a line, though we all had different number (five digits, though seven could also be used).
When the neighbor's number was called, our phone would ring, but only a quick chime. If we picked it up, we could listen in on the conversation. This was a mostly-unspoken pastime. Everyone did it, nobody said a word (directly).
If you needed to make a call and another party was using the line, you didn't get to make the call. Again, this was in the 80s. The 1980s.
This changed in February of 1988 when the local phone company made the big switch. It wasn't to touchtone (that would still be a few more years), but to mostly private lines.
The dial tone was softer, we had to dial all seven digits. It wasn't a full switch yet, you could still call other numbers on your party line, you just had to dial the number, wait for a tick, hang up and then wait and hopefully your neighbor would be there when you picked your phone up again.
At some point the party lines disappeared - probably in the early 90s. By that time, we had moved into a new house and a fully private line and a touchtone phone were standard. At one point in my teens, I even had my own number.
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'Exchange'
Camera: Ensign Ful-Vue
Film: Lomo 100
Process: ECN-2
Pennsylvania
July 2024