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Bingley Five-Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley (grid reference SE107399). As the name implies, a boat passing through the lock is lifted or lowered in five stages.
In effect the five-rise consists of five locks connected together without intermediate "ponds": the lower gate of each chamber forms the upper gate of the chamber below. There are therefore five chambers, and six gates. As the Leeds Liverpool canal is a wide canal, the chambers are 14 feet (4.3 m) wide, and each gate consists of two half-gates, "hinged" from opposite sides of the canal. Each half gate is slightly more than 7 feet (2.1 m) wide, so that the two halves close in a "V" shape (pointing "upstream"). Water pressure on the uphill side of the gate keeps it tightly closed until the water levels on either side are equal, when the gate can be opened and the boat moved to the next chamber.
The five-rise is the steepest flight of locks in the UK, with a gradient of about 1:5 (a rise of 59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) over a distance of 320 ft (98 m)). The intermediate and bottom gates are the tallest in the country. Because of the complications of working a staircase lock, and because so many boaters (both first-time hirers and new owners) are inexperienced, a full-time lock keeper is employed, and the locks are padlocked out of hours. Barry Whitelock, the lock keeper, after twenty years based here is now almost synonymous with the flight. Barry was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year Honours List for "Services to Inland Waterways in the North". The Locks also have an overflow waterfall at the side, which water runs down when the lock is not open. When descending boat enters each lock chanber, the water level rises slightly and the excess overflows via a channel at the side of each lock which runs into the main overflow.
The structure is Grade I listed
The five-rise opened on 12 March 1774 and was a major feat of engineering at the time. When the locks and therefore the canal from Gargrave to Leeds was opened in 1774 a crowd of 30,000 people turned out to celebrate. The first boat to use the locks took just 28 minutes. The first trip was described in the Leeds Intelligencer. The smaller Bingley three-Rise opened at the same time just a few hundred yards downstream.
The staircase is a major tourist attraction in the area. Most boats that pass through attract a lot of attention especially at weekends where there may be a crowd of thirty people or more watching a boat go up or down.
The staircase underwent extensive restorative maintenance in 2004, and again in 2006 when the lock gates and paddles were replaced. As is expected with such a feat of engineering it requires a lot of maintenance and is often on British Waterways' list of winter stoppages for maintenance.
In January 2012, the locks were drained to allow the installation of new lock gates. The new gates are made of English green oak and, when installed with the balance beam, weigh over 5 tons
Jennifer and I got together for a retro 50's Pinup look at a local railroad museum. We ran the full range of pinup with streetcars to artistically implied nude inside and around the streetcars.
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Jennifer and I got together for a retro 50's Pinup look at a local railroad museum. We ran the full range of pinup with streetcars to artistically implied nude inside and around the streetcars.
©FranksRails Photography, LLC.
Another film soak - 35mm film in pickled beetroot juice.
Zenit B with Helios 44-2 58mm f2.
Fujicolor 200 ISO 35mm film.
Processed at home with Tetenal C-41 kit.
Model: Lorna Lynne
MM#: 4402245
Lingerie & Implied Shoot
Studio Chez-Moi
Photographer/Editor: Pedro Marenco
These owls are one of the biggest species of owl in the world. They are easily identified by their large stature, prominent ear tufts and those amazing, bright orange eyes. As their name implies they are native to Europe and Asia. I saw this bird, as well as an adult, at a Canadian Raptor Conservancy.
Redhead Actress Pason, Art Implied Nude, Chanel Heels, pasonactress.com, www.imdb.me/pason, www.RedheadActress.com
We did some crazy lighting where I blasted her with differently gelled strobes earlier where she was wearing more. But it ended up that she liked some of the crazy lighting that I'd done earlier in the shoot that she wanted some of what is technically known as "implied nudes" with the same sort of lighting setup.
Yeah, it's a booty shot. I'm really not big on looking at people's rear end, which is why you don't have very many on my stream.
Since I'm not a butt person, you want to know what I love most about this shot? How there's a big blue glint off of one of her earrings. That's what makes this shot for me.
Strobist details: Three lights. One Vivitar 285HV with a blue gel to the left, one Sunpak 622 with an orange gel to the right, and one backlight, all with bare heads. The 285HV was cable triggered, the pair of 622s were optically triggered.
As the name implies, these woodpeckers are acorn specialists -- inserting thousands and thousands of these nuts into specially made holes in trees. Seen at Big Bend NP.
Model: Julz
www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=740394
Hair: Do or Dye
Makeup: Angelina Broso
Wardrobe: me
Strobist:
* canon 580ex with gobo , model right, pointed at backdrop
* vivitar 285hv with gobo, model left, pointed at backdrop
No this is not to imply that liberals are pigs. Rudy's is where The Original "Drinking Liberally" was born and it still lives on.
Model: Eboni
Strobist: White LIghtening 800 bare at wall camera right. White Lightening 1600 through softbox camera left, right.
Still a few things on this image I'd like to clean up, but overall not bad.
It may not be obvious from my images here, but I prefer the implied nude over images that show more, in general.
On 10/9/06, Dan M wrote:
> Since this is the second post referencing it, I guess I don't understand....is
> someone surprised that heroin is traded? and if so, why?
>
> and the text seems to be implying that it's a *small* amount, confusingly...I
> don't get the point at all.
>
OK, like I said this is a germ of an idea that I've had kicking around for a while, and it's not as fully developed as I'd like it to be, I'll try to give you what I have.
I can see by some of the posts that have come in as I'm typing this that I'm looking at it from a different angle than most people do, so please bear with.
The point I have in mind is simple, but I find it really hard to explain to people, though I am excited about the house visual being a help in demonstrating just how small and tiny the world heroin market is in reality.
Let me preface some of these comments by saying that I no longer believe that "addiction" is the problem that it is made out to be, but rather the related costs and penalties of pursuing an addiction are what causes bigger problems than the addiction itself, i.e. more damage is done to an individual being locked up and arrested and being exposed to a jailhouse environment for a period of time over a gram of heroin or cocaine than that gram of a drug could ever to a person physically.
Then there's the fact that there's a lot of money to be made out of arresting and keeping people locked up.
I also no longer see any "moral" component to whether or not a person chooses to get intoxicated.
Despite all the hype that you may hear to the contrary, not getting high doesn't make anyone a "better" person than one who abstains.
See: George Bush.
Or: Robert Downey Jr.
This may seem like a minor point but in reality it isn't because demonizing and stigmatizing drug users has been a major driving force on the War on Drugs, as Rush Limbaugh can tell you, being that he got bit the way he did by the stigmatization of getting addicted to pain pills, stemming from 'legitimate' causes, as happens to many, many people. It's not his fault that he needed surgery at one point in his life and medication to help him function after.
Where I've gotten to in my thinking on this is that the human drive towards intoxication is as natural and normal as eating, drinking, sleeping, fucking, but in this culture it's made out to be some evil, unnatural thing, that if you engage in it in any way, you've got to be punished for your sins.
It's kind of the same kind of mental mind-fuck the religions of the world, most notably the Catholics, have done with sex, by making it a 'dirty', 'naughty' 'ungodly' 'sinful' thing, where the reality of it is that sex is the one thing that humans do that does the one thing the Church can't, that is create sacred and holy life.
All the Hail Marys, Masses with burning incense, men in funny hats telling you what you can and cannot do in your bedroom, and confessions in the world will never make one baby.
But if you can convince a lot of people that to do a normal and natural thing is 'wrong', well then you've then got a means of power and control over them.
For life, unless, through some act of divine intervention, the spell is broken.
A friend once made the outrageous claim that drug users in the United States are just as stigmatized as Gypsis and Jews were in the early 1930's in Germany. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?
Until you start to think about it and you realize that the guy's got a point.
When was the last time you ever saw someone, anyone, getting high in the media portrayed in a positive light?
Pretty much never.
I mean, just to get back to the original subject of this thread look at all the hot water Graham Norton got into by simply saying that he had a great time doing a few Ecstacy pills years back.
Bit of a sticky wicket, inn't matey?
Much is made about how out of control the world heroin market is and I believe that that is a War on Drugs propaganda smokescreen that does nothing but keep the price artificially high, to the tune of a 5,000% mark-up over production and distribution costs, and that that way of 'doing business' feeds ancilliary businesses like prisons and governmental power via the War on Drugs.
According to news reports in early September authorities were aghast, aghast, that the opium produced in Afghanistan this year created a bumper crop that would lead to 610 tons of heroin being available.
610 tons of heroin according to these reports is a third more heroin than is consumed by the worlds junkies.
I'm working with rounded off figures heres, but if you were to take that 610 tons divided by 3 figure it means that roughly 400 tons of the stuff are consumed each and every year.
The picture of the Queen Anne house in that's being moved on the water from point A to point B weighs 220 tons, so if you were to take two of these houses together that would represent the entire volume of all the heroin consumed every year.
Houses, and buildings, are mostly air.
If you were to collapse and pancake that Queen Anne house, which represents half the consumed heroin of the planet, it would take up an incredibly small amount of space. As would 2 or 3 of them, or 20 or 30 or 200 or 300 of them.
Here's the beef I have with all this.
Wal-Mart can track every product it has on its shelves, be it a stick of gum, razor, can of coke, shoelaces, nylons, bic pens, etc, etc, that moves through its supply, warehouse and distribution system, as can any other retail operation that's worth its salt, right down to the Mom & Pop Korean grocer on your corner.
It's work, but it's not all that dfficult to do.
We live in an age of high powered computers, UPC tracking codes, RFID, GPS, etc, etc and have no problem keeping track of things and making a profit off of them in the process.
Yet when it comes to the monster of heroin, and all other "illicit" products, somehow things all go to pieces, and people lose their heads over it?
Oh no!
Look out for that gram of heroin!!!
Stand backl!!!!
It's gonna explode!!!
It's smoke and mirrors, pernicious nonsense that creates a lot of broken, ruined lives, enslaves people, creates unnecesary crime, and endless misery, all for a buck.
I find it hard to believe that the same kind of inventory control that is used to keep Wal-Mart, and any other like business, up and running, can't be applied to this "product," "illicit" as it may be.
610 tons of *anything* is hardly unmanageable, given the tools we have at our disposal in this modern world of ours.
Unless of course that isn't the goal, unless of course the goal is to create this huge imaginary monster of chaos and unmanageability.
Just imagine, if you will, if routine tracking controls were put into this "illicit" business.
And took the stigma out of getting intoxicated?
What would happen?
For starters, it would take the money right out of it.
Here's where things get kind of tricky and go down a path that could get someone hurt or killed if that path is followed.
Now, if you had a business that did half a trillion dollars a year, based on lies and bullshit, wouldn't you do everything in your power to keep the lies and bullshit going?
Seen in this light, the $50 billion dollars that we spend in the US on The War On Drugs, isn't money being thrown down a rat-hole and wasted but rather an investment.
Spend $50 billion, reap $500 billion, that's a nice ROI, no matter how you slice it.
Of course this leads to the argument that the illicit drug market is a fragmented, de-centralized, non-hierarchical thing, and no one is really 'in charge' which on its face sounds right but the more I think about that argument it strikes me as "The Dog That Didn't Bark."
More to follow....
> Derek wrote:
> > "What Does a 220 ton Queen Ann House Being Towed On Water Have To Do
> > With The World Heroin Supply?"
> >
> > www.flickr.com/photos/dustindewynde/264358419/
> >
> > A stunning illustration indeed
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Nyc Alberts [mailto:nwa@ggmail.com]
> >> Sent: 09 October 2006 00:29
> >> To: Derek
> >> Cc: some listserv
> >> Subject: Re: The Beeb stands by Graham Norton in drugs row
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/8/06, Derek wrote:
> >>
> >>> We've got this guy
> >>>
> >> www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_a
> > rticle_id=
> >> 408829&in_page_id=1770 Rev George Hargreaves - an intersting bit of work
> > who
> >> seems to have a war chest of £30,000 or more to fight against drug law
> >> reform.
> >>
> >> He's American, this is what someone dug up about him:
> >>
> >
> > Wow. He's trying to foist off the marijuana leads to
> > murder/schizophrenia meme on you people I see, I guess since it worked
> > so well for William Randolph Hearst in the 1930's in the US, guess it
> > might work in modern day Britain.
> >
> > Everything old is new again, again.
> >
> > oh, btw, here's a question I'm working on, it's a visual so I can't
> > post it here, but I'd love some feedback on:
> >
> > "What Does a 220 ton Queen Ann House Being Towed On Water Have To Do
> > With The World Heroin Supply?"
> >
> > www.flickr.com/photos/dustindewynde/264358419/
> >
> > It's a germ of an idea I've had for a while but I never had as good a
> > pic as I do theree to work with.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > nwa
> >
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"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops,cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books." ~ Harper Lee, 2006
"Ha ha! Ever had the feeling you've been cheated?" ~ J. Lydon, SF, 1978
For CarlosA.1 Thank you for your comment - hugs - and for your reference to Wayne Booth: "... This implied author is always distinct from the "real man" - whatever we may take him to be - who creates a superior version of himself, a "second self," as he creates his work."
One picture of a series experimenting with selfportraits reflected in the glass door of Pavillon 35.
DMC-G2 - P1190609 15.11.2011 no postprocessing, straight from the camera.
A Narrowboat enters the eastern portal of the 690 yard Falkirk Tunnel on 27 August 2016. The tunnel - on the Union canal - is actually much darker and wetter than this picture implies.
Series of fireworks from the Singapore National Day Parade 2011, taken from the Marina Bay Sands skypark.
The Singapore National Day Parade (Abbreviation: NDP, simplified Chinese: 国庆庆典; traditional Chinese: 國慶慶典; pinyin: guóqìng qìngdiǎn, Malay: Perbarisan Hari Kebangsaan, Tamil: தேசிய தின அணிவகுப்பு) is a national ceremony in Singapore that, as its name implies, includes a parade on Singapore's National Day on August 9, in commemoration of Singapore's independence that is usually held at the Padang (1966 - 1974), the National Stadium, various decentalized venues all over Singapore or The Float@Marina Bay.
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Some information about singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. Singapore is highly urbanised but almost half of the country is covered by greenery. More land is being created for development through land reclamation.
Singapore had been a part of various local empires since it was first inhabited in the second century AD. Modern Singapore was founded as a trading post of the East India Company by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819 with permission from the Sultanate of Johor. The British obtained full sovereignty over the island in 1824 and Singapore became one of the British Straits Settlements in 1826. Singapore was occupied by the Japanese in World War II and reverted to British rule after the war. It became internally self-governing in 1959. Singapore united with other former British territories to form Malaysia in 1963 and became a fully independent state two years later after separation from Malaysia. Since then it has had a massive increase in wealth, and is one of the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on the industry and service sectors. Singapore is a world leader in several areas: It is the world's fourth-leading financial centre, the world's second-biggest casino gambling market, and the world's third-largest oil refining centre. The port of Singapore is one of the five busiest ports in the world, most notable for being the busiest transshipment port in the world. The country is home to more US dollar millionaire households per capita than any other country. The World Bank notes Singapore as the easiest place in the world to do business. The country has the world's third highest GDP PPP per capita of US$59,936, making Singapore one of the world's wealthiest countries.
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Singapore Marina Bay is a bay near Central Area in the southern part of Singapore, and lies to the east of the Downtown Core. Marina Bay is set to be a 24/7 destination with endless opportunities for people to “explore new living and lifestyle options, exchange new ideas and information for business, and be entertained by rich leisure and cultural experiences”.
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