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Seated L/R Anthony Pizzarelli & Frank Biscuiti.
Standing L/R Joseph Cottone & Michael Biscuiti & Jack Cottone.. Mike complained he was getting Squashed between us two Behemoths!!!
Only Joseph Bula wasn't present, and the four female cousins weren't present..
(Published in Advanced Photographer, December 2012)
(Explore #21, Front Page)
Black and white photography is (as you may have guessed) by far the most compelling medium for me (although I have a near-complete colour version of this image which I was tempted to post as an alternative!), and typically the advice when shooting is to seek out strong, contrasting colours and tones that convert well to shades of gray for a balanced tonal range. I am of course simplifying things greatly, but those of you who regularly shoot with the intent to convert to mono - and I understand there's something called 'film' too which apparently comes in black and white, what will they think of next? - will I'm sure have by now trained your eye to see in a grayscale colour space. Of course, this is easier said than done - there are scores of awful looking flat, washed out black and white photos created by those who give no consideration to their craft. I met another photographer whilst out on a shoot recently who expressed an interest in what I was taking, so I showed him some of my work via my iphone. He was (or claimed to be!) impressed and told me he'd previously thought of black and white shots in terms of what I've just described; wishy-washy and lacking the impact of their more colourful and vibrant cousins. Step forward anyone who converts to mono simply by just tugging at that little saturation slider - hang your head in shame...
This image was shot on the same foggy morning as 'Something In the Way', and I incurred similar decision making issues during post production (I'll ignore my capture process for the purpose of my point) with both shots, due to the effect of the foggy weather conditions. Don't misunderstand me - fog and mist are a photographer's dream, but I think because of the dampening effect they have on contrast, detail, pattern, texture and line, I believe it's perhaps easier to produce a pleasing picture in colour. As with 'Something In The Way', my challenge then was to try and introduce enough in the way of contrast to the scene to warrant the mono conversion. Some of you are very good at injecting punch into landscapes captured during these conditions, and for my personal preference I enjoy photographs where this level of contrast has been created subtly, so as to allow the poor atmospherics to still take precedence in the image. I'm not entirely sure I succeeded at this with either of these shots (and I might yet post a third from the same morning), but the challenge was an enjoyable one at any rate.
...What do you mean, you can only see four seagulls?!
All the original five members of the Bad Batch.
Had these guys for more than a year, I think they deserve a good portrait.
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"If this last forever hope I'm the first to die..."
The hypnotic Five 0 by James youtu.be/PuDy3TWrM9E
Five minutes after sunset at the mouth of the Russian River, Jenner, California.
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Adult Bald Eagles have white heads and tails with dark brown bodies and wings. Their legs and bills are bright yellow. Immature birds have mostly dark heads and tails; their brown wings and bodies are mottled with white in varying amounts. Young birds attain adult plumage in about five years.
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Wow, what is going on with the weather at the moment? I had to shelter for around 45 mins before the skies cleared and I could get this shot. 10 minutes later it was pouring! At least it makes for some interesting skies :-)
Have a great weekend everyone, and if you're in England, don't get too wet :-)
Lots of cold and rain lately so no new material :( Time to browse the archives ^^
The resting moments of the Whimbrel from The Big Pose. Cheers everyone.
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Whimbrel (Numenius Phaeopus)
Maçarico Galego (Numenius Phaeopus)
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The love of my life, five years old now.
I know I'm really behind with uploads but we just got our net back so prepare to be spammed ;)
Anyways, I've wanted to post this for quite a while.
Happy Birthday Athena
Photograph Taken September 10, 2012
Moving east down the Kansas Sub, I next shot the SP 335 pulling the MWTKC through Perry, KS.
As best as I know, this is one of just five remaining unpatched SP's on the system, so even though the weather was a bit subpar, I'll happily shoot one of these on the point.
Note To Self: Cheeseburger = Double Patty.
Everything means everything; All the way means just the toppings listed in black on their menu.
When one kid gets some face time on Flickr, the others want theirs.
I've tried to teach my kids to handle critters rarely (which the one pictured here doesn't like) and, when actually handling, as gently as possible, minimizing capture anxiety and physical injury. When my daughter initially caught five-lined skinks, they'd always detach their tails in response to the rough handling. As you can see here, she's learned to be a bit more gentle, although at least half of the skinks still leave their encounters with her without their tails.
Five SD40-2s in command of H-NTWGFD1-09A
BNSF 1687
BNSF 1688
BNSF 1997
BNSF 1940
BNSF 1698
Yes, this is a mainline train with nothing but SD40-2s, just what decade are we in?
Too bad 1687 fell victim to the primer door.
With five class 60's at Tuebrook GBRf at the moment it was odds on one would be allocated to 6E10. Running 20E 60087 has just come off Dutton Viaduct and passes Acton Cliff, alas it had clouded over by this time, shame as this would have been very nice in sun.
Das Five Boats ist ein Bürogebäude im Innenhafen von Duisburg direkt an der Buckelbrücke und dem Hitachi Power Office.
Das 2004 fertiggestellte, siebenstöckige Bürogebäude wurde vom Stardesigner Sir Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners aus London entworfen, die Detailplanung stammt vom deutschen Architekturbüro Bahl und Partner, die Projektleitung hatte die Kölbl Kruse GmbH, die Bauausführung stammt von der Bilfinger Berger AG, die Baukosten betrugen 50 Millionen Euro. Vorgabe war möglichst vielen Büros eine Anbindung an das Wasser zu ermöglichen. Durch die ovale Form der fünf einzelnen Bootskörper und die Auffächerung nebeneinander haben fast alle Büros einen Ausblick auf den Innenhafen bzw. die Innenstadt von Duisburg. Die 35 Büroetagen sind alle identisch geschnitten und modular aufgebaut, sodass eine sehr flexible Nutzung möglich ist. In den hinteren, nur sechsgeschossigen Quertrakten sind die Technik- und Versorgungsräume untergebracht. Die gesamte Bürofläche beträgt 22.000 m². Mieter ist die Betriebskrankenkasse Novitas BKK.
Im Erdgeschoss sind Einzelhandelsgeschäfte und Gastronomie auf 1.500 m² untergebracht. Im Untergeschoss befinden sich 175 Tiefgaragenstellplätze.
Nachts erleuchten die vier hinteren Quertrakte mittels LED-Technik in unterschiedlichen Farben und strahlen die Wellaluminiumflächen der Bootskörper an. Die insgesamt 660 m² großen Beleuchtungsfläche wurde pro Verbindungstrakt in zwanzig Felder aufgeteilt, deren Farbverläufe oder Lichtstimmungen frei programmiert werden können. Das Lichtkonzept entwickelte die spectral Gesellschaft für Lichttechnik mbH.
This pair gave me some great photo ops standing close together in the cat enclosure; I've narrowed it down to five.
What you can't see (thank goodness) is that I am dangling through a half-open window balancing with my stomach on the window ledge, to get these photos. And, yes, I did fall through--which sent Cousin scrambling for the cat flap to inside (as I knew it would).
Lettres emblématiques de Montréal, ne pas confondre avec une distillerie d'un célèbre Bourbon ... ici elles annoncent une usine de ...
A scene that could so nearly have been taken in the 60s but in fact 7th November 2008 as Black five 45231 is seen in Baron street works on the East Lancashire Railway. At the time the loco was owned by Bert Hitchen but is now part of the lsl pool at Crewe
[Val'More] - Cubbus - Horn - FATPACK (UNPACK)
[Val'More] - Asura Blade - Fatpack - (Unpack)
Mainstore Valmore
[NoRush] Black Eyes (BOM-LEL)
[NoRush] Blood Thirst (BOM for Lelutka EvoX)
Mainstore NoRush
Double-Five. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Stenciled numbers on a weathered wall next to a roll-up door.
Weathered, decaying subjects and subjects with strong patterns attract me, and this one works on both counts. I photographed it a few years ago while wandering around in San Francisco and poking my camera into odd little corners and alleys. This is in a shoreline area that was once a location of true maritime industry, but which is today much like the rest of San Francisco — in other words a place for small offices, start-ups, restaurants and similar enterprises.
The stenciled numbers did catch my attention when I first saw this little scene. Initially I think that their weathered character may have been responsible. But more recently I have wondered about them. Do they still mean something or are they now remnants divorced from an earlier context? Is the message “5” or is it “55?” And what, if anything, is the relationship between the two different fonts used?
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
Found this little clump of wild flowers along the edge of Lake Thompson near Delaplane, VA. My son and I went one Sunday afternoon just to find the place. He fished for a while and I strolled along the edge of the lake looking for pictures. I didn't find a lot, but I like this one:)
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The 25 de Abril Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus river. It has a total length of 2,277 metres, making it the 46th longest suspension bridge in the world.
From its inauguration in 6 August 1966 up to 1974, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the remnants of Salazar's regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge.
Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the beginning, was finally built. Today, the upper deck carries six car lanes while the lower deck carries a double track railway, electrified at 25 kV AC.
From the late 19th century, there had been proposals to build a bridge across the Tagus. In 1929, the idea advanced when the Portuguese engineer and entrepreneur, António Bello, requested a government concession for a railway crossing between Lisbon and Montijo (where the Vasco da Gama Bridge, the second bridge serving Lisbon, was later built in 1998). As a result, the Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco, created a commission in 1933 to analyse the request. The commission reported in 1934, and proposed building a road and rail bridge. Bids were obtained, but the proposal was subsequently put aside in favor of a bridge crossing the river at Vila Franca de Xira, 35 kilometres north of Lisbon.
In 1953, a new government commission started work and, in 1958, recommended building the bridge, choosing the southern anchor point adjacent to the recently built monument to Christ the King (Cristo-Rei). In 1959, the international invitation to tender for the project received four bids. In 1960, the winner was announced as a consortium headed by the United States Steel Export Company, which had also submitted a bid in 1935. The American School of Lisbon was founded largely to educate the children of the American engineers brought to Portugal to work on the construction of the bridge.
Construction began on 5 November 1962. Forty-five months later, six months ahead of schedule, the bridge was inaugurated on 6 August 1966. Presiding at the ceremony was the President of Portugal, Admiral Américo Thomaz. Also present were the Prime-Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, and the Patriarch of Lisbon, Cardinal Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. The bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after Prime Minister Salazar.
United States Steel International Inc., based in New York, was prime contractor for the bridge. Morrison-Knudsen of Portugal Ltd., an American firm based in Boise, Idaho, was U.S. Steel's principal associate. Morrison-Knudsen had previously worked on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The bridge was designed by Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and London of New York, and Tudor Engineering Company of San Francisco. The steel was imported from the US. Four workers lost their lives, out of a total of 3,000 who worked on the site. Construction took a total of 2,185,000 man-hours of work. The total cost of the bridge came to 2.2 billion Portuguese escudos, or US$32 million (US$225 million in 2011 adjusted for inflation).
Soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the bridge was renamed the 25 de Abril Bridge, the day the revolution had occurred. A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the large brass letters spelling "Salazar" from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional "25 de Abril" in its place.
The upper platform, running 70 m above water, had four car lanes, two in each direction, with a dividing guardrail. On 23 July 1990, the guardrail was removed and a fifth, reversible lane was created. On 6 November 1998, the side walls were extended and reinforced to make space for the present six lanes. Cars crossing the bridge make a peculiar hum because the two inner lanes are made of metallic grating rather than asphalt to minimize aerodynamic forces by means of pressure equalization.
Since 30 June 1999, the lower platform has carried a double track railway. To accommodate that, the bridge underwent extensive structural reinforcements, including a second set of main cables, placed above the original set, and the main towers were increased in height. The railway had been part of the initial design, but was eliminated for economy, so the initial structure was lightened. The original builder American Bridge Company was called again for the job, performing the first aerial spinning of additional main cables on a loaded, fully operational suspension bridge.
Traffic soon increased well beyond predictions, and has remained at maximum capacity despite the enlargement from four to six lanes, the addition of the railway, and the building of a second bridge serving Lisbon, the Vasco da Gama Bridge. A third bridge has been on and off government plans for some time, but the idea has been dropped presently, due to Portugal's budget constraints.