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Fire Hydrants in NZ are not as attractive to dogs as the iconic American
ones. Approximately every 100m down a street, you'll see a painted yellow triangle and blue reflector which mark the position of the hydrant.
Roadway cover to fire hydrant in Salcombe, Devon. See also associated sign at www.flickr.com/photos/61719529@N07/12578164233/ .
My Photo ref.: P1010184
Date photographed: 25 September 2011
This rather washed out and faded sign was on a concrete post along the front of my garden. Although not used now as hydrants are on GPS, it needed a rub down and coat of paint to restore to its former glory.
An old fasioned fire hydrant sits in the grass near the police station at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Probably dating back to the building's origin, c. 1890. Don't recognize the logo, and as far as I know, it's not used for anything.
The 7,900 fire hydrants on the Buffalo Water system require regular maintenance and flushing so firefighters and emergency responders have quick, reliable access to life- and property-saving water.
I had another opportunity (swimming lessons with boys at the pool at Sir James Whitney School) to continue capturing the full set of fire hydrants. This is the third posted still (I've already posted hydrant #3 and hydrant #1, and just now created the Hydrants set).
I like the "face," complete with extended maple key tongue and @shareski-like mustard stain on the #6 shirt.
I've also been capturing each hydrant as a "twitch" 3D pic -- posted to TwitPics.
WARNING: If you are effected by strobe or quickly changing/flashing images, you might not want to follow these links. (You might need to wait a few seconds for the effect, depending on the speed of your connection.)
Previously, I had taken pics of hydrants #1, #2, #3, #10, and #11.
This evening, I shot and posted similar "twitch" pics of ...
While I have yet to cover the full grounds, I did come across #19 this evening, so I still have at least another evening's work cut out for me to get #12-18. Are there more above #19?
2010/365 - Day 148
Man resting on fire hydrant. He was not posing for me, this was a candid shot.
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I found this hydrant in the middle of an open area in Old Sacramento.
Since it was kind of boring in color, I thought black and white with some contrast would add some interest.
As many of you know, I started a group last week -- The Birdsill Holly Society. There will be people reading this that were in fact kind enough to participate, sharing their wonderful images of hydrants!
The endeavor -- my first attempt to create a Flickr group -- opened quite well: almost 70 members & approx. 120 photos.
I had finally begun to try to thank everyone (many of you) when, very early this morning (for NO apparent reason whatsoever), the group disappeared. It's no longer on my “groups” page. Gone from every photo posted to the group pool. If you try to visit, you’ll receive this familiar message: "Oops! Looks like you followed a bad link."
Again, here's where it should be:
www.flickr.com/groups/birdsillholly/
Afterwards, I read how an admin goes about deleting a group, and I couldn't have done this if I wanted to. Why would I anyway?!? What I really wished to do was to create a place worthy of the unique, amazing images people were starting to post. I was incredibly impressed by the collection that had already amassed!
Well, I heard back from Flickr support, and here's what they told me:
"It appears that there is no group anymore of that name. We
can't explain it -- we don't delete groups."
That's it. Hmmm.
There MUST be an explanation that I’m not getting from Flickr because I did absolutely nothing out of the ordinary before this happened! (BTW, I'm not trying to take shots at Flickr. I love this site! I'm just a bit bewildered, disconecrted, ad nauseam.)
Does anyone have any ideas? What I can do? What might have happened?
I tremendously appreciate your time! For those of you who were both kind and somehow attracted enough to the idea of The Birdsill Holly Society to become members, lending your wonderful work to the group, I really apologize for this bizarre incident. I’ll work this out one way or another, and I hope that you’ll consider becoming a part of perhaps the next incarnation of this group because, simply, your participation meant a lot. THANKS=)
Kind regards,
Matthew
aka Mr. TRONA