formal photos on Flickr

I had thought to do some shots for a website, in Formal, Casual and Lingerie. However between me asking the parameters and submitting, the rules changed so it was a waste of my time. So lets post them here!

This is the Formal clothing one.

Formal Validation by xxStanxx [ Dandy & Fun on SL ]

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E-Clipse Minimal Jacket

@ TMD

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Validation ferme et définitive.... surtout ferme :D

Formal Gardens by Paul McNamara

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Royal Hospital Kilmainham

Formal by Moi Memoi

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#Sunny's

Taken at Sunny's Backdrop Up Against the Window

Pose Vista AO

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Adobe formal by Ralphy Triellis.

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Formal by Sangviene Coeur

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Stop the killing by Nick Wood

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December 26, 2018

Japan formally announces IWC withdrawal to resume commercial whaling, Tomohiro Osaki, Staff Writer, The Japan Times

In a landmark policy shift, Japan formally announced Wednesday that it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters next year for the first time in more than 30 years.

Japan’s withdrawal will at the same time put an end to its IWC-sanctioned whaling activity in the Antarctic Ocean, long conducted under the name of “scientific research,” in a practice widely slammed as commercial whaling in disguise.

My thanks to Christopher Michel for his fabulous image of a Humpback Whale and for making it available under a Creative Commons CC-BY Licence creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/12389655773/in/photostream/

Help make it a happy New Year for whales and all our wonderful wildlife!

Naugatuck Freight - Take 1 by David Blazejewski

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The Naugatuck Railroad is that rather rare tourist railroad and museum which is also a common carrier freight railroad. However, as a non profit the freight revenue returns to support the ongoing preservation, restoration, and expanded excursion goals.

This view looks north near MP 6.9 on the Naugatuck Railroad's mainline as NAUG 686 shoves a cut of empty construction debris/trash gons north for storage on the mainline just south of the Thomaston Station since no passenger excursions were operating at the time during the museum's winter off season. This unit is an EMD GP9 painted in a scheme mirroring its original look as Norfolk and Western 686 for which it was built in Mar. 1959. It and sister 859 came here in 2019 from South Carolina's Hampton and Branchville Railroad.

The the train is passing under Reynolds Bridge which carries Waterbury Road (unsigned State Road 848) over the Naugatuck River. Built in 1928, it is one of a small number of surviving concrete open-spandrel arch bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The bridge is a three-arch open spandrel concrete structure, with four concrete beam approach spans on either side. The main span is 169 feet long, while the secondary arches are each 97 feet; the brige has a total length of 487 feet. At the time of its construction in 1928, the open-spandrel design was used for long concrete bridge crossings, and this was the longest designed by the Connecticut State Highway Department up to that time. The Cornwall Bridge, built a few years later over the Housatonic River and railroad, has a longer span. It has also been featured here and photos of it can be found in my Housatonic album.

As for the railroad, the Naugatuck is the operating arm of the Railroad Museum of New England. Home to one of the largest collections of preserved historic railroad equipment in New England, RMNE and its predecessor organizations have been active since the 1960s and the RMNE name was adopted in 1987.

This line goes back to the original Naugatuck Railroad which was chartered in 1845, to be built between Bridgeport and Winsted, adjacent to the Naugatuck River. Construction began in April, 1848, and was completed by May, 1849. The first regular train service began June 11, 1849. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad began leasing the Naugatuck in 1887; and formally merged it in 1906.

Passenger service between Waterbury and Winsted was discontinued in 1958. Facing hard economic times as a result of the decline of its New england industrial base in the 1960s, the New Haven Railroad became a part of the Penn Central merger on January 1, 1969. The branch line suffered during the Penn Central years, losing freight customers and falling into disrepair and was left out of inclusion in Conrail by the USRA's final system plan.

In 1976, the State of Connecticut stepped in to save the northern portion when it purchased the line between Waterbury and Torrington, and Conrail was named the designated operator. In 1982, Boston & Maine leased the line line when under progressive president Alan Dustin it expanded into Connecticut for the first time in its history. But traffic continued to decline on the route, and Guilford Rail system (owners of the B&M) discontinued regular freight service on August 2, 1995. The future of the line was in question. Looking for a new home where it could establish a tourist operation the RMNE moved from Essex on the Valley Railroad to Thomaston.

The RMNE restored the original Naugatuck Railroad name from 1845 when it obtained a state charter for its new wholly owned operating subsidiary on June 7, 1995. The first passenger trains ran in October of 1996. They operate regular excursion service on the southern portion of the lines and occasional charters and specials to the northern end in Torrington.

In 2016 the the NAUG also began regular freight operations when Cherry Hill Construction opened its brand new C&D Transfer Facility called Frost Bridge about 2.5 miles south of this point. To learn more about the Naugatuck's freight operations check out their page here: www.naugfreight.com/

Thomaston, Connecticut

Thursday January 22, 2026

Formal introduction by Charles Connor

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Two starlings interacting in flight. Taken from a hide.

in Explore 9/5/2021 #28

Narcissus by René Vetter

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Narcissus were well known in ancient civilisation, both medicinally and botanically, but formally described by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). The genus is generally considered to have about ten sections with approximately 50 species. The number of species has varied, depending on how they are classified, due to similarity between species and hybridisation. The genus arose some time in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, in the Iberian peninsula and adjacent areas of southwest Europe. The exact origin of the name Narcissus is unknown, but it is often linked to a Greek word (ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") and the myth of the youth of that name who fell in love with his own reflection. The English word "daffodil" appears to be derived from "asphodel", with which it was commonly compared.

The species are native to meadows and woods in southern Europe and North Africa with a centre of diversity in the Western Mediterranean, particularly the Iberian peninsula. Both wild and cultivated plants have naturalised widely, and were introduced into the Far East prior to the tenth century. Narcissi tend to be long-lived bulbs, which propagate by division, but are also insect-pollinated

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28plant%29?wprov=sfla1

Formal by Inaяah ༺♡Kitten♡༻ Lockheart

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