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The last thing I expected to find at the top of the Buttertubs Pass, which links Wensleydale (in the background) and Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, was this beautiful Austin Healey 100/6 - one of the classic English sports cars of all time. It was built from 1956 to 1959 and had a six-cylinder 2.6 litre engine. Its successor, the Austin Healey 3000, had a 2.9 litre engine. The 100/6 used a tuned version of the BMC C-Series engine previously fitted to the Austin Westminster, initially producing 102 bhp and increased in 1957 to 117 bhp by fitting a revised manifold and cylinder head. It had a top speed of around 104mph, and would accelerate from 0-60 in just under eleven seconds. The average fuel consumption was around 21mpg. But its looks, road-holding and sheer class far outweigh those modest figures.
this one started as a Parka Coat but became more abstracted & I added an abstract head....this was mirrored & framed.....decided to add water droplets which also reflect parts of the image......didn't realize this included the boarder.....remind me of early flying aces...."tallyho old chap...what what"
thanks for looking.....best bigger....hope you have a great day
added to Mel's "Vivid Mirror Challenge"....VIVID IMAGINATION
Friday night...another week done...accomplishments and failings fading quickly...much like the Sun outside...ready for nothing...I looked out the back window...there were three deer casually grazing in the back yard...two Canada Geese hung out nearby...the Purple Martins were on the house...could this be Eden or just a Dream...the kisses eluded me...I never seem to wake up.
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The dark shrouded figure placed his hand on the vault door. Closing his eyes, he felt every gear and spring in the mechanism. He paused, remembering a time when he had been a hero. When he had fought against what he had become. He banished that thought and continued with his work. The people he had dedicated his life to protect had repaid him with alienation, calling him a monster, freak, and mutant. They were fools. Now it was time to get what he deserved!
Suddenly there was a tremendous crash as glass flew across the room. The figure that stood in the shattered remains of the window was his old friend, whom he betrayed and left for dead. The only one who could spoil the criminal's plan.
The newcomer smiled, brushing glass shards off his cape.
"Expecting me?"
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece' (John Ruskin)
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Tynemouth, as might be expected, is a town at the mouth of the River Tyne, a few miles from Newcastle. Historically part of Northumberland, the modern town of Tynemouth includes North Shields and Cullercoats. We came back home this way in September following a short holiday in south-east Scotland.
The history of Tynemouth dates back to an Iron Age settlement and its strategic position on a headland over-looking the mouth of the Tyne. The heart of the town - seen here - is known by residents as "The village" and has popular coffee-shops, pubs and restaurants. It is a prosperous area with comparatively expensive housing stock, ranging from Georgian terraces and Victorian ship-owners' houses to 1960s "executive homes".
Trying to mix Urbex & Modeling once again, let me know what you think of this shot in the comments!
Music to listen to : Arkasia - She's the one : www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9opD8gnGLo
..when you least expect it,
the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope
David Archuleta
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Not sure I expected any sort of shot at ISO 12800 on a grey afternoon, shot from the distance I shot it., with a 2x extender, but the wonders of Dxo helped out.
The interior corridors of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Niagara on the Lake is exactly what you would expect a grand old hotel to be. It takes you back in time (but there's also a good wifi signal)
Despite being English, I've never particularly been a fan of the royals but the fact Meghan and Harry are now hanging out in Victoria, BC seems to have people quite excited. :-)
(Snapped on iPhone 6)
We expected something
Something better than before
We expected something more
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
Behind a painting, lock it up and leave?
Walk away now and you're gonna start a war
Music Monday today features another "Take-Away Show" by Vincent Moon, this time Start a War by The National. I'm only going to link one version of the song, because I think this particular version is more emotive than any other: the band members and a few others, sitting in a dark space around a long table, picking at guitars and tapping out a beat on the wooden surface of the table and on glass jars. So simple, and yet it works so very, very well.
This image was made in Ireland, with a Holga, and features those magnificent Beech Trees again... which, from what I understand, will be making an appearance on this season's Game of Thrones.
When I left the shaw tower from some camera work, I walked past the convention center and had a talk with the construction manager at the Cactus club being re-designed.
He informed me that there would be a little fireworks show at 8 pm.
I was the only one near my place that was out with a tripod and looking for them.
I didnt expect it to be so easy to photograph people in Kashmir.
We were walking by the lake very early morning when we saw him do his morning walk.
Srinagar, Kashmir
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that
I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do
it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday my Friends!
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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So, my girlfriend's brother and his wife are expecting a baby and what better can i give them than a photoshoot?! :) We were shooting almost all day long then i had this crazy idea, i said let's get on a bridge(with a lot of traffic) and with the help of 2 other people who were holding the baby clothes, we managed to get this shot. i hope you guys like it :)
Not the tulip I expected to be on explore..... but nice anyway :-)
1. A lot of, 2. rainbow, 3. White tree, 4. Winter in Holland, 5. Lily, 6. Orchid, 7. Yeah, so I'm lying on the table...., 8. Sight at the sea,
9. Gerbera in rain, 10. Medicine Lake, 11. Blue lake, 12. Again, 13. Dandelion, 14. Me??? A big mouth???, 15. Look through the window, 16. Swan,
17. Paws, paws, paws, 18. RED, 19. Something on tv tonight..., 20. Eating grass, 21. Amsterdam again!, 22. Walking in nature, 23. Color disorder!, 24. Teplice, Czech Repubic
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Canadian Pacific 2816, "The Empress" is seen on a reverse move back to CP's Nahant Yard after spending the day at the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in Silvis, IL, to celebrate the return to operation of Union Pacific "Centennial" 6936. 2816 is seen passing the iconic Williams White & Co. factory, which has been the backdrop for many a famous photo in the Quad Cities area. I expected this area to be swarming with people, but in the end, there were just 2 of us. Instead of battling other railfans, the only thing we had to battle was tall grass.
We can regularly expect to see two of our four US Sapsuckers up here. The other one that is regular (if not common) is the Williamson's. The Red-breasted is primarily a West Coast bird, and the Yellow-bellied is mainly an Eastern bird... although vagrants may show up anywhere in North America. Our constructed bird oasis draws in nearly all of the avian population to be found in this area. This gal has stopped at our avian oasis for a drink and has conveniently parked on one of my photo props. The white under her chin indicates her sex. I also believe her to be a first-year bird.
IMG_8713; Red-naped Sapsucker
(Not As You Would Expect) Fairy Tales on the Fourth Plinth (One and Other) performance art in Trafalgar Square, London.
Once upon a time, there was a little princess, who sat upon a big stone plinth in the square and told deliciously dark fairy tales, just because everybody likes storytime in the afternoon. She took her dearest companion, Mr Teddy, with his very best black satin bow, and wore her favourite green taffeta party dress, and had a nice cup of tea and some ginger beer.
Miss Leanna (From The One and Other site - edited)
Because of the expected snow storms tonight, NSR started its special winter service today. Trains are running every 30 minutes only and many commuter trains are cancelled. For the commuter stop of Voorhout this means Intercity trains are stopping here now to pick up passengers.
I'm not expecting many views or comments as I know people hate creepy-crawlies. But this is the first Scorpion I have ever managed to photograph. We had been on a night drive lamping for wildlife at Awash in Ethiopia when we spotted this Scorpion running about in the road. Someone shone my torch while I tried to capture a photograph, though it never stopped running. From claws to sting it was about 30cm, so quite a big one, though I didn't actually measure it. Despite having a formidable sting in the tail they are preyed upon by many species from Mongooses to Hornbills. That's why they usually only emerge after dark, having spent the day under stones.
july 7, 2010
expect and be disappointed.
this is what the past few of my days mostly looked like. today I finally did the laundry and put clean sheets on my bed and later watched the football match (Germany - Spain) with friends. as you may know it was quite disappointing for us. the spanish team was better and they deserved to win, but I'm sad anyway. I guess finishing school and being world champion in the same year would've been too perfect. ;)