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I recently endured the lack of Run Flats for my BMW and then saw this ad. Thought I'd make a little Parody.
View of Transport Interchange and Sheffield Railway Station. IN the background are the blocks of flats that were in the process of demolition. There are many other shots of the colourful interiors of these flats in this photostream
If you are near my age, you will remember the old flat top hair cut, now worn by sports luminaries like Howie Long. Sony nex5n and Micro Nikkor 55/3.5, hand held, rocking focus. I am really liking this old lens.
For Eric's birthday this year, we decided to stay in a hotel overnight in Wendover. On our way then, we decided to stop off at the Bonneville Salt Flats where we played around for a bit before heading to our hotel.
For Eric's birthday this year, we decided to stay in a hotel overnight in Wendover. On our way then, we decided to stop off at the Bonneville Salt Flats where we played around for a bit before heading to our hotel.
Alviso Flat lies just a hundred yards north of the Alviso Marina County Park. Situated just west of the 1880 South Coast Pacific railroad grade, the flat is a widening of the ditch flanking the rail track. I have no idea why the ditch widens here but it makes an interesting and photographic landscape feature. The area fills with a few inches of water during our winter rainy season and tends to dry out in the summer. This has been an exceptionally dry winter so I was a bit surprised to find water in the flat during this January visit. Perhaps it is due to the adjacent salt ponds, which were relatively full, or a connection to the New Chicago Marsh on the other side of the track. This marsh is running with much higher water levels since the Salt Pond A16 construction project.
As you walk along the levee past Alviso Flat you can see the vague remnants of a few marsh channels. These are much more evident from the air as is the color du jour of the flat’s shallow water (in this case light brown).
Fellow KAPper Dave Wheeler, who was visiting from Maryland, accompanied me on this outing. You can see Dave’s white Rokakku kite in several of the images.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit, as is access to this part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
Built in 1962, the flats were the highest residential housing in Europe at the time and seemed the answer to Glasgow's housing situation. It was great at first but the idealism died out and they became a ghetto.
Learn more about Flat Rock, Michigan at downtownflatrock.com, the official site of the Flat Rock, MI Downtown Development District.