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"A ghost bike is a bicycle roadside memorial, placed where a cyclist has been killed or severely injured, usually by the driver of a motor vehicle.
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Ghost bikes are usually junk bicycles painted white, sometimes with a placard attached, and locked to a suitable object close to the scene of the crash."
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_bike
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"Le bici fantasma sono installazioni a carattere commemorativo site nei luoghi teatro di incidenti stradali nei quali un ciclista ha perso la vita. Trattasi di biciclette, spesse volte proprio la bicicletta su cui pedalava la vittima, interamente verniciate di bianco, spesso accompagnate da fiori e targhette recanti il nome della vittima o altre diciture, poste nei luoghi degli incidenti col duplice significato di tributo in memoria della vittima e di monito per gli utenti della strada e le amministrazioni."
Da it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bici_fantasma
Berlin-Charlottenburg
Olympus OM-2N
OM Zuiko 28mm f/2.8
Kentmere 400
D23 1+1 @20°C
A long exposure shot, to try to remove the other tourists. Mostly but not fully successful. Lucky to be there for such a good sunset though.
Ghost Ship
Created for Faestock Challenge 139 – Medieval pack 2
Background by maiarcita stock -deviantArt
Ship by Thy darkest hour stock- stock-deviantArt
Seagulls by Momotte2 stock- deviantArt
Atlantic Ghost Crabs live on the beach and scamper back and forth between their holes in the sand and the ocean. Their eyes, like two tiny periscopes, give them the ability to remain hidden in their hole yet still see their surroundings. They are very skittish and usually hide long before you see them.
the lost city of dvigrad, istria, croatia.
once an important center of commerce, now left.
legends say, that the famous captain morgan hid his treasure in the ruins of dvigrad.
During a heavy downpour in Bandarawela, Sri Lanka, I noticed this wet ghost through the windscreen of our van!
Got the opportunity to capture these shots of a coyote while exploring the area around Mexia, TX working on my Texas Ghosts project.
The old Roman road of Stane Street to Halnaker windmill Built by the Romans in the first decade of their occupation 43-53 AD, the 57 mile Roman road from Chichester to London, I did like the walkers in the darker area off in the distance, I used my tripod here on it`s lowest legs which would have my camera about a foot off the ground to take in all those lovely coloured leaves.
Kate Ryan - Désenchantée Remix. . . Its an awesome version^^
Kate Ryan- Desénchantée or Mylène Farmer - Désenchantée
Nager dans les eaux troubles
Des lendemains
Attendre ici la fin
Flotter dans l'air trop lourd
Du presque rien
A qui tendre la main
Si je dois tomber de haut
Que ma chute soit lente
Je n'ai trouvé de repos
Que dans l'indifférence
Pourtant, je voudrais retrouver l'innocence
Mais rien n'a de sens, et rien ne va
Tout est chaos
A côté
Tous mes idéaux, des mots
Abimés
Je cherche une âme, qui
Pourra m'aider
Je suis d'une
Génération désenchantée,
Désenchantée...
English^^
To swim in troubled waters
for days,
To wait here for the end.
To float in air, too heavy
from almost nothing.
To whom to reach out a hand?
If I must fall from high,
May my fall be gentle.
I found rest only in indifference.
Still, I would like to find innocence again,
But nothing makes sense and nothing goes right.
All is Chaos,
On all sides,
All my ideals; the words overwhelmed,
I look for a soul who is able to help me.
I am of a disenchanted generation.
Disenchanted ...
Taken at "Dead man´s Chest" pure SL
"The Ghosts of my life,
Blow wilder, than before...."
Japan, 1982 (in case you were wondering...)
I have looked out on this particular view on what must be hundreds of morning dog walks, and photographed it many, many times, and yet each time it looks both different and yet the same...
I originally thought "Ghosts" when I saw how the mist transforms the landscape into more and more indistinct, "ghostly" outlines as distance increases - an effect well known to photographers and painters, "aerial perspective".
This triggered more "cranial wanderings" about all the times I have stood in this exact same spot looking at this exact same view, and yet how different each day looks. AND how different the experience - different weather, different light, different dogs, different people - the same, but not the same.
When I look at this view, I don't only see what there is to simply see, but also all the recalled experiences from the past too - the photograph itself is just a collection of pixels, it is the mind and imagination that assigns the meaning, based not just on aesthetic values, but also on personal experience - I tend to photograph not just what I love to look at in a photograph, but what I actually love, as I suspect is the case with most people.
Thus, I see not only what I photographed, but the "ghosts" of my own experiences, all of which is part of the idea of "capturing a beautiful moment forever".
Not only my own photographs of course are like this - I know when I look at another photographers "pixels" I am able to assign not just values of an aesthetic nature to the image, but also draw upon my own experience and imagination to truly experience and "identify" with some part of the experience expressed by the photographer.
And thus we not only express aesthetic values in our images, but also our common experiences and values - a shared love of what we see, feel and experience.
I just learned the meaning of the term "ghost sign" (thanks, Lois). According to the internet, a ghost sign "is an old hand-painted advertising sign that has been preserved on a building for an extended period of time. The sign may be kept for its nostalgic appeal, or simply indifference by the owner." They are everywhere.
The private Gold King Mine and Ghost Town on the outskirts of Jerome, Arizona can be visited for a $12.00 fee. The remains of around trucks, cars and motorcycles, a stamp mill, historic buildings and mining detritus have been moved to the site. For an additional fee, children can pan for gold in a tub of murky water. There is also a petting zoo of goats, rabbits, donkeys, chickens, and other fowl, none of which seemed eager to be petted. This truck is one of the large collection of vehicles assembled to create the tourist experience.
Happy Truck Thursday!