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In the lobby of the SAS Royal hotel in Copenhagen.
Five Arne Jacobsen Egg chairs doing what they do best... looking fabulous.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Five YouthPoint is part of the Five Children and Families Trust. We provide a detached youth service within the Speke/Garston South Liverpool area.
The photographs above were taken during a pamper day which took place at a YouthPoint project called Blossom, a 10-week accredited self-esteem project examining all areas of relationships including self awareness, sexuality, peer pressure, and the impact of domestic violence. This project was piloted between April and July this year in direct response to consultation with our young people about areas that affect their life. The project was run on a Friday night as this is when our young people are at greatest risk.
Area demographics indicate significant need in areas of relationships, self esteem and domestic violence which have become more prevalent demonstrated through our work on the streets and findings of our recent pilot.
Data from the Cities Central Community Safety Domestic Violence Prevention Co coordinator suggests that there is a growing number of young people perpetrating domestic violence against their parents and teenage parents are at a greater risk of domestic violence. Speke has the highest teenage pregnancy in Liverpool.
On average Merseyside Police receive 11,500 calls in relation to Domestic Violence each year. National research by Women's aid in relation to teenage domestic violence reports 1 in 5 girls 15 and under has experienced domestic violence from someone they were dating. It also states that one quarter of 14 year olds have been forced to have sex or perform a sexual act by someone they were dating. There are no services addressing this need in Liverpool.
Portrait photographs by Dominic Brown
To find out more please visit our website ( www.fiveyouthpoint.org.uk )
07-02-2010 5:37 pm
@ Westbound IB Terminal, Bulua
Cagayan de Oro City
Super Five Transport S028
Higer KLQ6125BA
JAZZ FIVE
Dates: 30.6 â 4.7
Jeppe Zacho, tenor sax
Johan Bylling Lang, alto & baryton sax
Jonas Starke, bass & vocals
Esben Hillig, piano
Stefan Andersen, drums & vocals
From: DK
Style: New Orleansâ Groove
FIRST TIME IN ASCONA!
Mardi Gras⦠in salsa danese fra jazz nâroll e irresistibile funk groove
Jazz Five presenta al pubblico un travolgente spaccato della musica di New Orleans di oggi grazie a uno spettacolo di grande impatto in cui il groove funkeggiante delle second lines si mescola con il blues, lo shuffle, il jazzânâroll.
Costituitisi nel 1996, i Jazz Five hanno allâattivo più di mille concerti in Europa, Stati Uniti e persino nella Corea del Sud nel 2013. La band è unâautentica macchina da party, che non si ferma mai e che trascina l'ascoltatore nelle caldissime atmosfere del Mardi Gras di New Orleans. Con due sax a formare la front line, unâenergica sezione ritmica, un pianoforte dal tocco blues e un batterista cantante, Jazz Five presenta un cocktail di musica dal vivo che fa letteralmente girare la testa. La band si ispira ad artisti come Jon Cleary, Dr. John, The Meters e Fats Domino e propone classici riarrangiati di New Orleans accanto a pezzi originali. Jazz Five hanno sinora pubblicato cinque album, lâultimo dei quali, âBelleville Streetâ registrato nel 2014 a New Orleans, in collaborazione, fra gli altri, con John Boutté e Michael Watson.
Danish Mardi Gras blends jazz n'roll and an irresistible funk groove
Jazz Five takes the audience to modern day New Orleans and delivers a unique show with funky second line grooves, blues, shuffle, and jazz`n`roll.
Jazz Five was founded in 1996 and has since played 1000 concerts from British Columbia, to Bornholm, all the way to South Korea in 2013. The band is a non-stop swinging sweat dripping party machine that invites the listener to Mardi Gras and delivers a world class show. With a two-sax frontline, an energetic rhythm section, a blues infused piano and a singing drummer, Jazz Five offers a cocktail of live music that will make your head spin. Their music is inspired by artists such as Jon Cleary, Dr. John, The Meters, and Fats Domino. Alongside original songs, their repertoire also includes rearranged New Orleans classics.
Jazz Five has recorded five albums, the latest of which - âBelleville Streetâ - was recorded in 2014 in New Orleans with John Boutté and Michael Watson, among others.
Mardi Gras... in dänischer Tunke: zwischen Jazz n'Roll und unwiderstehlichem Funk Groove
Jazz Five präsentieren einen mitreissenden Querschnitt der heutigen Musik aus New Orleans, in einem wirkungsvollen Spektakel, in welchem der funkige Groove der Second Lines sich vermischt mit Blues, Shuffle und Jazz n'Roll.
Seit ihrer Gründung im 1996 gaben die Jazz Five mehr als 1000 Konzerte in Europa und den USA, 2013 sogar in Südkorea. Die Band ist eine wahre Party-Maschine, die pausenlos weiterläuft und die Zuhörer in die angeheizte Atmosphäre des Mardi Gras von New Orleans entführt. Mit zwei Saxofonen in der Front Line, einer energischen Rhythmussektion, dem Piano mit einem Touch Blues und einem Sänger/Schlagzeuger mischen die Jazz Five ihren musikalischen Cocktail, und ihre Live-Auftritte verdrehen dem Zuhörer buchstäblich den Kopf. Inspiration holt sich die Band bei Künstlern wie Jon Cleary, Dr. John, The Meters und Fats Domino. Sie präsentieren neu arrangierte Klassiker aus New Orleans genauso wie eigene Kompositionen. Jazz Five haben bis jetzt fünf Alben veröffentlicht. Das letzte, "Belleville Street", entstand 2014 in New Orleans, in Zusammenarbeit mit, unter anderen, John Boutté und Michael Watson.
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Are you kidding me?
Three bites in, I gave up and left the bread behind... ate the burger with a knife and fork.
I have never been to a FiveGuys, and it's Craig's fault that I went. But at least the BurgerCraving is now satiated.
Until the next time someone mentions Krystal, anyway.
Spode cup, USA salad plate, "Blue Willow"? USA cup, pink creamer" USA P", and modern Southern Living Home 4½" bowl. Aug. 2013.
This mama skunk with litter of four, travel as a group. Photographed at Minnesota Wildlife Connection.
This is the main building at Weston State Hospital. The clock tower is unfinished inside. The wooden support beams inside hold carved names and dates of workmen who repaired the clock in the 1930s.
Five Below (4,400 square feet)
12551 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 165, Jefferson Commons, Newport News, VA
Opened in 2005
Five little aliens studying the lore;
One mentioned Roswell, and then there were four.
Пятеро пришельцев байки о Земле травили,
Один о Розвелле сболтнул, осталось их четыре.
Look closely at the faces, there is Mr Embarassed, Mr Ill put on My Best Face, Mr Giggle and Mr Wind-Up.
The fifth friend was Mr I Dont get my photo taken so I walk away. I had quite a laugh with Mr Wind-Up.
The hangar was built as a starting point for the colony. A place for the vehicles to return and refuel. As time passed, the colonists did not find the hostile lifeforms they had prepared for, but also found lean resources. They could survive comfortably, but it wasn't enough to bring investment to the new world. It did make for a fine waypoint and trading depot for other nearby worlds, and a small community thrived on the trading business.
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Starport Seventy-Five at Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom Park in Walt Disney World Resort.
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This image depicts US Navy warships entering Sydney Harbour through the Heads. Spectators are seen in the foreground, possibly near Bradleys Head in Mosman. On 23 July 1925, Sydney hosted eight of the US Navy Battle Fleet's largest ships, including USS CALIFORNIA, USS COLORADO, USS TENNESSEE, USS MARYLAND, USS WEST VIRGINIA, USS NEW MEXICO, USS MISSISSIPPI and USS IDAHO. The fleet departed for New Zealand on 6 August.
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic age of sail and two world wars. The photos in the collection were taken mainly in Sydney and Newcastle during the first half of the 20th century.
The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly.
Photographer: Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection
Object no. 00035979