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SSC - A Quiet Place
"That special moment when everything is quiet ( difficult at this time of year) but maybe when you’re just having 5 minutes. Or perhaps just before everyone wakes up the streets are still sleepy. Takes us with you for your interpretation of some quiet time.
Have a good week everyone"
At the moment most of my time is spent in a quiet place. My interpretation of this weeks challenge is to go to a place I am always happy. It achieves in so many ways for me, as said it's a place I am always happy, it provides sustenance, allows for creativity, can be shared with friends, and more, it relaxes me and is a place to destress, even simple tasks are therapeutic! Where am I my kitchen of course and in this case preparing breakfast which I think is possibly the most important meal of the day. I look out of my window and I see people hustling off to work, children walking to School, dog walkers with mutts of all shapes and sizes, all whilst I prepare for breakfast!!
Picture Spring - Day 5
Shooting at ground level with my camera resting in the grass is not the easiest thing to accomplish and still be happy with the result. I must have taken dozens of shots. At least the little blue flower is more or less in focus. I have mixed feelings about this kind of exercise in which I feel I have no control whatsoever. It's very touch-and-go... a rather precarious feeling!
"You can reach me by sailboat, climb a tree and swing rope to rope
Take a sled and slide down the slope, into these arms of mine
You can jump on a speedy colt, cross the border in a blaze of hope
I don't care how you get here, just get here if you can
There are hills and mountains between us
Always something to get over
If I had my way, surely you would be closer
I need you closer"
I have driven past this place hundreds of times . . . literally . . . but usually on the clock, so no time to dawdle . . . on this day, the sky was dramatic . . . the highway empty . . . and I was on my own time. There is actually a lot more clutter than I captured here, but this angle just sang . . . I knew I would have to sacrifice foreground and sky in a crop, and I hesitated before releasing the shutter . . . I'm glad it turned out!
For other reasons that I am not presently at liberty to discuss, I will remember this day as Black Friday!
Shooting from Alexandra Palace, North London
Alexandra Palace is an historic entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, North London. It is located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green, in the north of the city. It was originally opened in 1873 but was rebuilt in 1875 following a destructive fire.
It's raining too, so Pippy isn't the only one who's getting wet today!!!
It was such a beautiful sunny day yesterday!
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In the recent years many “Reception Halls” became common in the villages of Cyprus, which cater for the typical Cypriot wedding receptions of 2-3 thousand guests. (I refer to the villages!)
These photos here show one such a hall getting prepared for a wedding dinner. Thousands of plastic chairs are stacked on the tables while workers are cleaning the floor.
The crew of the Gary Switcher has both pans up as they pump up the 803 and get ready for a days work at the Gary Station in December 1976.
A view of Loughborough shed at daybreak on 25 January 2025. engines seen getting ready for the days Gala are 6990, 73156, 6880, 68067 and 78018 (taking water).
© David K. Edwards. This was on a couch in the lobby of a nameless and unmemorable motel somewhere, I think, near Los Angeles.
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Mixed series of seven. June has been a disappointing month but I did find a few interesting things. One caterpillar like critter I cannot find in my books, ID please. The HG chicks are on the roof opposite my house, getting rather hot!