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Another flag quilt for another friend. Blogged: www.diaryofaquilter.com/2012/11/new-flag-quilt-for-old-ch...
Flags along the route of the mourning procession from the Maria church to the Wawel cathedral of the Polish president Kaczyński and his wife. Kraków, Poland
I was originally going to call this "Irish American" but that would have been 'somewhat' clichéd (not that 'Flag Day' is a wonderful title or anything!).
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Over the weekend, the tall ship 'Bounty', visited Cobh in Cork Harbour.
This vessel was purpose-built in 1960 for the Marlon Brando / Trevor Howard film 'Mutiny on the Bounty'. (The original 'HMS Bounty' was burned by the mutineers in Pitcairn Island).
The helm on this vessel is same one as used in the 1935 Charles Laughton / Clark Gable film of the same name.
More recently, this ship was used in the Johnny Depp movie series 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.
** Tragically, the HMS Bounty was lost 90 miles off the coast of North Carolina on the 29th of October, 2012, during Hurricane Sandy, with the loss of two lives.
Pentax Spotmatic, Super-Takumar 1.8/55, Kodak 400TX developed in Super Prodol, Epson GT-X830. 1/1000, f/5.6.
When we moved to a new location at the wye at Speer, we watched the excursion train pass through the wye in order to reverse direction and back into Cheyenne and got to watch it at slow speed. If you ever need location and time of the train, simply ask one of the several fellows with a hand walkie-talkie next to you; you'll get more info than you ever wanted. I noticed how spiffed it was all Simonized with the helpers and the new flag scheme. I don't know if you need a shot of the diesel helper all spiffed but the new flag scheme on the attached wrinkly metal.caught my eye. The art department worked overtime on that. Here is the shot I like with a slice of #844's tender on the wye. The #844 will be stored in the engine house and out of the sun. I got some of my other shots at the water tank here. They don't much need water - look at the yellow water tank car with the flag back of the tender. Eddie learned they would be heading for Cheyenne with the Frontier Days Special. Duh, same as every year for the Frontier Days Special. I had no idea they would sic the Brillo crew AND the Simonize crew on the train before the excursion. My exposure was darker than expected. The sky was devoid of anything so this marks yet another time I had to get through this on an #844 shot. I don't particularly need the practice as much as others I know! Lately, I prefer to modulate great clouds that I find; as if I hadn't already found some. Here, diesels shepherd the run but not for power (this engine can pull, thank you) but they are used to provide the safety power (dynamic braking - ceramic resisters over the engines burn off the current produced by the diesel traction motors) for the train thus guaranteeing arrival at the destination. And they help handle the yards.
The trailing cars carry dignitaries, crew, passengers and extra brakes on the excursion. This chunk of metal is really valuable at this time in history. I realize that I happen to live in a fortuitous spot and will wait until the next steam up. If it is cooler, steam will leak wherever possible and provide great shooting. Find further information here. Or track it down on Google.
A map of India, with each state represented by the flag of a country of roughly equivalent population.
Had to post another one - I applied a mild filter to this one, seemed to work with the sunlight coming from a different angle. A slightly more dreamy shot.
Indian Sands, Fla. I saw more flags per square metre (sorry, yard) than anywhere else I have ever been.
Hires rendering, RGB 300 DPI PSD Layer 3000×3000px. Nice arrangement layer with group. Great for prints, concept design, poster, flyer, billboard.
Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard, place U.S. flags at every gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery as part of Flags-In, Arlington, Va., May 26, 2022.
On this day, over 1,000 service members placed flags at more than 250,000 headstones and at the bottom of about 7,000 niche rows at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery.
(U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery/released)