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This is why I prefer shooting the details instead of the whole car, though I bet there are some out there who can tell me what car this is (yes, I do know).
Sometimes, it's all about the lines.
The Gardens by the Bay is a nature park spanning 101 hectares in the Central Region of Singapore, adjacent to the Marina Reservoir. The park consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden (in Marina South), Bay East Garden (in Marina East) and Bay Central Garden (in Downtown Core and Kallang). The largest of the gardens is the Bay South Garden at 54 hectares designed by Grant Associates. Its Flower Dome is the largest glass greenhouse in the world. Being one of the popular tourist attractions in Singapore, the park received 6.4 million visitors in 2014, while topping its 20 millionth visitor mark in November 2015 and over 50 million in 2018.
Supertrees are the 18 tree-like structures that dominate the Gardens' landscape with heights that range between 25 metres and 50 metres. They were conceived and designed by Grant Associates, with the imaginative engineering of Atelier One and Atelier Ten. They are vertical gardens that perform a multitude of functions, which include planting, shading and working as environmental engines for the gardens. The Supertrees are home to enclaves of unique and exotic ferns, vines, orchids and also a vast collection of bromeliads such as Tillandsia, amongst other plants. They are fitted with environmental technologies that mimic the ecological function of trees: photovoltaic cells that harness solar energy which can be used for some of the functions of the Supertrees (such as lighting), similar to how trees photosynthesize, and collection of rainwater for use in irrigation and fountain displays, similar to how trees absorb rainwater for growth. The Supertrees also serve air intake and exhaust functions as part of the conservatories' cooling systems. There is an elevated walkway, the OCBC Skyway, between two of the larger Supertrees for visitors to enjoy a panoramic aerial view of the Gardens. Every night, at 7:45pm and 8:45pm, the Supertree Grove comes alive with a coordinated light and music show known as the Garden Rhapsody. The accompanying music to the show changes every month or so, with certain themes such as A World of Wonder and A Night of Musical Theatre, which features excerpts/pieces from films like Jurassic Park and Pirates of the Caribbean. 32437
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in January 2025.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend of photography my Flickr friends.
Stay safe and keep the shutters clicking!
15 Miles West of Bishop on Highway 168, Bishop, California
Intake II (Intake No. 2), a lake along Bishop Creek, located in Eastern Sierra,Inyo County.
The Mig 15 and the American F-86 look very much alike but are wildly different in design, one of which being that the American fighter did not have a diverter in the nose of the aircraft, just a gaping maw sucking air into the hungry turbine in the rear of the jet. What's that? Why yes, someone was sucked into one of these, one Airman Third Class Fred E. Higinbotham was attempting to plug in the grounding cable somewhere near the nose wheel of a running plane when his hat was sucked off his head and into the intake. By instinct, he reached for the cap and quickly followed it in. Conflicting stories say that the airman was able to arrest himself six inches from disaster until the pilot shut down the engine, the investigators claim that the cable wrapped itself around his legs and held him just short. Either way, Airman Higinbotham was back to work the next day, which would have been On May 15, 1956.
Walking back through the fields after a day in the woods looking ( unsuccessfully ) for fungi late evening November 2018. There is two farm buildings in this image ,the one in silhouette is Middle Intake Farm, I cant find the name of the one in the foreground with all the trees but both are in a state of ruin...
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of one of my favourite candid portraits from Glasgow, captured in June 2019. I hope that you are all having a great weekend of photography - stay safe!
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot from August 2018. I hope that you like it. Stay safe in this crazy world my Flickr friends.
Technician Thomas Hardy had been ankles deep in his third tube of the day, his jump suit completely soaked through from being baked in this metal hell hole when the inevitable happened. A bead of sweat stung his eye and he dropped the cover plate that he had been trying to attach. He heard it fall, and fall, and fall, bouncing off the sides of the tube, through the many fans that hadn't been turned on yet and finally coming to rest some four stories below. Tech Tom pondered the piece of plastic for a moment, it was just decorative, something to cover up a minor relay and it's tiny wires. No one could see it, and the wires couldn't get wet in here...
The Bunker had been built 27 years ago to protect government officials, surgeons, people who had the means to line the right pockets, etc. from a nuclear attack. It was hoped that it would never be used of course, but it had been empty and maintained ever since. As a maintenance employee, Tech Tom had a golden ticket, he and his family were inside within minutes of the detection of warheads being launched. There were no sirens, nothing on television or radio, just a message on the selected fews' phones. No need to tell the general populace, they'd just clog the roads and then no one would live.
The long dining hall sat 1,000, or one third of the people inside so they were divided into groups of three and ate in shifts and it was time for group three.
It was surreal to hear laughter at a grim time like this, but laugh they did, Tech Tom figured they laughed for the same reason people have sex after a funeral, a reaffirmation of life, thankful to still be here instead of being among the millions dead and dying on the outside. Then Tom coughed, a little cough really, but then he noticed many quiet stifled coughs around him almost drowned out by the sounds of laughter and forks on plates. Tech Tom looked up at the shiny ventilation system...
Years ago a spider had made her home inside of Intake 22E7b, more specifically the open relay box, a nice quiet place to lay her eggs in their cocoon. This eventually caused a break in the two dollar circuit that was responsible for closing the vents on Intake 22E7b....
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of an old shot from July 2015. I have been playing around with colour grading a bit in these re-edits and opted for a slightly matte look in the blacks on this shot.
I now have over 5000 photographs in my 'Glasgow' album on Flickr. Enjoy!
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I have no why this man's mouth is agape but it made for an intriguing shot. Enjoy!