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During his five-day visit to Afghanistan, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson met with President Hamid Karzai, ministers, election and human rights officials, and representatives of political parties and civil society groups. He also journeyed to Kandahar. The overall aim of his visit was to gain a first-hand view of the progress the country has made and to discuss with Afghan interlocutors their priorities and challenges. Shown here, Mr. Eliasson about to board a helicopter in Kandahar.
Photo: Fardin Waezi / UNAMA
Stanier Black Five, built 1945, withdrawn 1968.
Unsure of photographer or date. I could have the location wrong, any help welcomed!
A Dodge Charger actually used in the Fast Five movie was on display during the 2011 New York International Auto Show.
These are 3 of five type drafts layouts in that I working in. The serie it´s call "The dark serie"
5 favourite bands
5 lovely lyrics
5 connections: love, my girlfriend, music, sex and type.
5 posters
St Mary, South Luffenham, Rutland
Another bike ride in England's smallest county. Sixteen churches altogether, which sounds a lot, but churches in Rutland are refreshingly close together, and generally open, although I did find two that said they were open and weren't, and one that said it wasn't, but was.
Part six.
I headed east from Wing, scenting the train home from Stamford but with three more churches to visit before I got there. It was a lonely road, though not as lonely as the one I turned off onto, a tiny lane up to the small, isolated hamlet of Pilton, set at a remote crossroads high on the ridge. It was easy to imagine Thomas Hardy characters wandering through here at night, perhaps on their way to become the destined mayor of a small town, or maybe to commit suicide on a historic monument. Just down from the road is the church, which I found locked with a keyholder notice.
This was annoying, as I was conscious of the clock ticking away - it was nearly three, and I had a train to catch in Stamford at five - but the house wasn't far off, and unusually for a Saturday the keyholder was in. "Why do you want the key?" I was asked. This was such a stunningly unexpected question that I could not think of a sensible reply, and could only mumble "because I want to see inside the church", but this seemed to satisfy him.
This is a small church, but externally a pretty one, with a delightful little late-Perp south aisle as if it were a room in a Cambridge college. I let myself in. As you would expect, given that this was the only keyholder notice church of the sixteen I visited today, it was also the least interesting church, and the altar and parts of the floor were swathed in plastic sheeting on account of the bats. I had seen everything I needed to see in about thirty seconds, but I spent a bit of time pottering about in the graveyard before taking the key back, so as not to disappoint him. The churchyard is raised, and home to two vast scots pines which dwarf the little church. One of them had recently lost a branch in the high winds, and the branch that lay on the floor was bigger than most churchyard trees on its own. It would easily have killed anyone it had fallen on.
I took back the key and hurtled down back into the relative civilisation of North Luffenham, a village large enough to have a zebra crossing by the school, and a new road which led down to the biggest church of the day, St John the Baptist. The church was open - but I thought it was locked. There was a padlock and chain on the gate, and a sign saying 'Sorry, church closed, open again tomorrow!' Luckily, there was also a keyholder notice, but conscious of that train which would not wait for me at Stamford I hurried hell-for-leather back up to the high street and found the house. Luckily, the keyholder was in, but I probably sounded a bit grumpy as I asked for the key. The nice lady looked at me slightly wide-eyed. "But the church is open!" she told me. "It's always open every day! My husband opened it this morning!" I explained what I had found, and although she obviously had her doubts she gave me the key anyway.
I got back to the church to find that she was quite right. The padlock and chain were not around both doors, just hanging off one of the grills, and when I stepped into the porch the inner door was already unlocked. I looked back at the 'church closed' sign, and saw that on the back of it it said 'Church Open! Do come in!" Obviously, the person who had unlocked the church that morning had forgotten to turn the sign around, so I restored it to its correct orientation.
Now a bit flustered, I calmed myself down and explored within. As I say, this is a big church, a grand church which underwent an opulent restoration and was probably very High Church in its day. The feeling is of a town church where no expense has been spared. There are old survivals - the 15th Century angels still look down from the roof, and there is surviving painting under the Early English arcades. But best of all, in the long chancel, there is Rutland's best collection of 14th Century glass, the stars of which are the near-complete figures of St Mary Magdalene, St Barbara and St Edward the Confessor. It must be said that they were in the east window, and in a quite different configuration, until the late 19th Century, when Clayton & Bell came along and resotred them. But that does suggest that they were from this church originally. There is a modern version of the last figure in the west window below the tower which asks, in Latin, for prayers for the soul of the donor, a very daring thing to do in the Church of England in the early 20th Century.
I took back the key, explaining that it had been my mistake, but that I had altered the sign, and then headed back down into the valley for one last time to South Luffenham. This is more of a hamlet than a village, but it sits beside the Stamford to Leicester road. Unusually for Rutland the church sits below the village beside the River Chater.
Well, the church was locked - but the sign said it was open every day. Whoever had opened it that morning had opened the porch gates, but not unlocked the inner door. The notice in the porch even gave the unlocking rota, saying that the church should be 'unlocked by 9am and locked again at 5pm'. There was even a list of nearby keyholders with their addresses! But at last the curse of Saturday struck, and they were all out. And so I was reduced to a few exteriors, not entirely easy in the narrow churchyard.
After huffing and puffing a bit with frustration, I headed on towards Stamford, reaching Ketton after a mile or so. I'd visited the church here two weeks previously, but the light was better today so as I was passing anyway I rolled down between the high stone walls of the old village to have another go at the west front, as well as the Comper war memorial which I had unaccountably missed. I couldn't resist stepping inside again to that vast, slightly absurd space, a healing benediction perhaps after the frustrations of the Luffenhams. Yes, God was in his heaven and all was right with the world.
It was a quarter past four. It was an easy roll now down and up over the A1 and that long, slow downhill drift into the middle of Stamford. I reached the station at twenty to five, and I was back in Ipswich by half past seven, to discover I had missed several hours of steady Suffolk rain. Sixteen churches visited, fourteen of them open or accessible. Church of the day? Edith Weston, with honourable mentions for Tickencote, Manton and Ayston.
This little (big) guy turned 5 on March 19th! How time flies!!
...wonder what his brother was saying there in the background, hehe.
Five-coach Avanti West Coast "EVERO" Bi-Mode Class 805/0 No. 805005 passes through Platform 4 of Milton Keynes Station, working the 3A88, 09:11 Edge Hill Depot to London Euston Empty Coaching Stock and Driver Training Service on 17th July 2024.
PCA 171 (Five) - Aug 21-Sept 4, 2011 (2 weeks) - Image Tag: pca171
The Assignment: This assignment is a take on the compositional element of repetition. In this case there is a limit to the repetition. Creatively compose an image featuring five of something. The five items should stand out and be obvious from the rest of the image. If you use something common, put an twist on the theme some how.
WIT: In keeping with traditon, my pca will be an image I took at yesterdays Virginia Scottish Games and Festival. I've used several images from past festivals for either my PCA entires or my 365 projects.
I had two possible entires this one and the preivous post of five pipers piping. Festivals don't always provide the best backgrounds and the several people milling about this car caused me to come in closer than I would of liked.
This particular image was taken early in the morning of one of the cars entered into the antique car show competition. The five American flags stood out right away and I played with several different pov's, but in the end I liked the straight on shoot the best.
Each summer, the Fashion Center BID and the DOT Urban Art Program select an artist to present artwork along Broadway between 36th and 41st Streets in Manhattan. This year, international artist Xin Song presented "Five Elements," a series of five eight-foot tall glass art fixtures. On one side of the structure, the artist implemented traditional Chinese paper-cut techniques creating forms out of site-specific photographs of the neighborhood, and on the reverse side, the artist created silhouettes out of black paper reminiscent of the wrought iron filigree elements found in historic New York City architecture.
The configuration of both paper-cuts formed new images that represented the five elements: water, fire, wood, metal and earth. Together, the structures were an exploration of environmental and personal transformations in New York City's surroundings. A corresponding floral pattern was painted in circular patterns on the plaza pavement to complement the exhibit.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Five Elements by Xin Song
Presented with the Fashion Center BID
Broadway Plaza, Broadway between 36th and 41st Streets, Manhattan
According to Guangzhou's city legend, the region the city was created on was traditionally resource poor land, and despite the hard work of locals they could barely produce enough food for subsidence. Then one day during the Eastern Wu Period (~200ADE), Governor Teng Xiu stated that five immortals (also called fairies) descended from the sky riding on five rams of different colors, each bearing one of the five grains (soybeans (豆), wheat (麦), broomcorn (黍), foxtail millet (稷), and hemp). The immortals gave the grains to starving locals (or the governor), and soon Guanzhou began to thrive. An alternative version has the immortals introducing rice(稻) to the region, rice being the traditional staple of Southern China as opposed to the older grains more prevalent in the North. Regardless the immortals soon returned to heaven and the rams they rode on turned to stone. There is now an active temple and folk region worshiping the immortals in Guangzhou. To this day Guangzhou is nicknamed the City of Rams and they are seen as a symbol of good luck.
Honestly being located on the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou was likely one of the most fertile places in China, the legend notwithstanding. Rams/Goats are likewise quite traditional symbols of fertility.
At the very top of Yuexiu Hill is a statue to the five rams created in 1960 out of 130 pieces of granite. It is one of the most popular tourist spots in the city.
Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
He was in a happy mood
after we took in the new
Indiana Jones movie at our
local cinema - which father loved
as much as son -
and so he indulged his old man
afterwards
by quickly donning
a few of his favorite hats
and tossing his red rubber ball
in front of our garage
as I snapped away
to create this
collage of
the beamish boy
times five.
Located in the Staines memorial gardens by the Thames, just behind the old Town Hall (now a pub), the 'Five Swimmers' by David Wynne is a very valuable sculpture that was originally the centrepiece of the Elmsleigh Centre Shopping Centre when it was opened by the Queen in 1980.
It was removed from the shopping centre and went missing for many years (allegedly it was left abandoned in a stone-yard) before finding it's new resting place here.
David Wynne was born in London in 1926, and seems to have had no formal art training. His figurative sculpture concentrates on movement, and includes most notably 'Girl With Doves' (1970), 'The Dancers' (1971) and 'Dancer with Bird' (1975), all to be found in Cadogen Square Gardens. Other works in London are 'Girl with a Dolphin' Chelsea Bridge and 'Boy with a Dolphin', the latter being at the Chelsea School of Art.
Wynne is also credited with designing the 'joined hands' on the modern 50 pence piece to represent European accord.
Five Merlins.There were six but I was behind a high hedge and did not get the Hurricane.The BBMF had done a flypast over Kenley and I was walking near Godstone at the time.
Five-coach Avanti West Coast "EVERO" Bi-Mode Class 805/0 No. 805010 passes through Platform 4 of Milton Keynes Station, working the 1A19, 09:20 Chester to London Euston Service on 17th July 2024.
Five Guys #511 (2,891 square feet)
4210 Claiborne Square East, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
Opened October 6th, 2009
Three of our five cats, Bonkers leaving his chigura/cat house, Norio resting on my backpack on the suitcase, and Tigger on her favorite mat, in the living room this morning. Norio and Tigger were enjoying the warm sun from the southern windows after a cool night.
Five Guys #511 (2,891 square feet)
4210 Claiborne Square East, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
Opened October 6th, 2009
Five Guys #511 (2,891 square feet)
4210 Claiborne Square East, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
Opened October 6th, 2009
Five Guys #511 (2,891 square feet)
4210 Claiborne Square East, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
Opened October 6th, 2009
Ellie's Dad is learning how to groom his girl. I've been ribbing him for cutting off the girls eyebrows and eyelashes. Here is my version of "stockings" that should never be on my boy Julian. Hey I was learning.
It is sort of a kit supercar. Factory Five builds the frame, body and some other parts. You then use suspension, engine and drive train parts from a 1997-2004 Corvette C5, plus a Porsche G50 or Mendeola trans. You end up with a rear engine car 1000lbs lighter than a vette, with 505hp (if you put in the LS7). So for about $60k you end up with a car that can out handle an Enzo and out accelerate pretty much anything. The kit goes for $25k. Factory Five makes some other models besides this.
Five months today since our first dance, my sweet, precious, beautiful wife. I love you so much ♥♥♥♥♥X
So a group of us local Ohio Photographers got together to purchase some awesome studio space. Tons more to come. I'm really excited to start the photography podcast (tutorials, lighting diagrams, etc) that will be shot here.
Canon 5D (Keatons) | Canon EF 15mm Fisheye 2.8 (Mine) | AB800 w/Octobox (Nicks)
From Left to Right
Me!