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Cleanliness is an obsession in Pyonyang. Everywhere you will see people clean up the streets, and even the void highways.
Before entering Pyongyang, the buses and the cars have to be clean! I didn't understand why i saw so many drivers who polished their machines, until iask why to my guide...
la propreté est une obsession à Pyongyang. Souvent dans les musées on vous demandera de mettre des protection ssur vos chaussures, ou pour entrer dans la maternité, des l'accueil, vous devez mettre de nouvelles chaussures. et je ne parle pas de la visite du Mausolée, grand moment qui vous fait passer pour un pouilleux qu'on désinfecte!
Pour entrer dans la ville, les voitures et les bus se doivent d'être propres, aussi, à quelques kilomètres du check point de Pyongyang, on peut observer les conducteurs sur le bord de la route en train d'astiquer les jantes et la carrosserie.
© Eric Lafforgue
Surrey, England. Pentax ME + SMC Pentax-M 1:4 200mm prime lens + Fomapan 200 Film © DSAM7 all rights reserved.
I can't imagine living in any country, or under any regime, where you can't have beautiful women in public in bikini contests, strip clubs, rock music, motorcycle rallies, women free to dress and do as they please...
Let us all work hard to keep the freedoms in America that so many, both within and without, are seeking to erode or take away entirely.
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Enjoy more in my set, "Bike Week 2013:"
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So here’s the scoop on this bikini contest:
At Destination Daytona
www.brucerossmeyer.com/t-events.aspx
they were hosting a blast, a real party...a really rockin' band, a kick-ass solo guitarist, a bikini contest, a raffle, a beer belly contest, food...the works! Plenty of cold beer and drinks to go around too.
Well, here’s the kicker: the temp barely crawled into the 50s and the wind blew nonstop at 15-20 mph with gusts as high as 40! Can you say, "fucking frigid?!" So all of us bikers are sitting around with multiple layers of clothing on, chaps, leather jackets, gloves, stocking caps...drinking cold beer and freezing our asses off, and we figure the bikini contest, natch, will be canceled...nope! Four incredibly sexy and gorgeous ladies who I think were tougher than any of us got up on stage in that roaring wind and stripped down to nearly nothing and they were on stage a long time, posing, dancing, etc. Kudos to these gals for not only their sexy beauty but for braving this frigid wind with next to nothing on just to give us old fools a little pleasure! :) Thank you, ladies!
And if you think I'm exaggerating about the cold and the wind, watch this video:
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I believe these girls were dancers from Diamond Dolls, one of Daytona’s more well-known strip joints. (I don't call 'em "gentlemen's clubs," I prefer the old school term and I use it with affection and respect, not pejoratively.) So guess where I'm going multiple times during Bike Week to pay my respects? :)
Can you say, ridiculous god-awful amounts of fun? Hell yeah!
Thanks Destination Daytona and all involved for hosting a really great party!
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Montreal QC - Will Austin and Nader Hasan, of the Toronto-based rationalist avant-garde world spirited utopian band Keep Them Alive, on their way to record an album in a studio in Montreal's Parc Ex. April 2014.
taken on a Canon F-1 slr w/ 50mm FD f1.8 lens + polarizing filter. Fuji Neopan iso 100 film pushed to 800.
With the James River in the background, this swing looks like the perfect summer spot to relax.
A four exposure HDR using a Nikon D300S at f/8.0, fl/200 mm, ISO 200
The weather was warm and humid; my clothes were quite wet with sweat by the time I left. I spent two hours at the fundraising event, then decided to go home. I have to be sharp on Sunday mornings!
Soon after I left, clouds moved in quickly and there was torrential rain. I'm hoping there were enough tarps to save people's equipment!
If that was the farmer's instruction then he got himself a 10 out of 10!!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Captured this somewhere near Weligama. I'm not a huge fan of what long exposure does to the clouds. so i always ended up doing time blending or exposure blending to keep the clouds sharp and clear. but in this particular scene, I think striking effect on clouds works well.
This mural is telling a story to keep tabacco sacerd. Native Americans used this product for special events, although I'm quite sure their stuff was way better than the crap they sell now to hook people.
Waldoboro, ME - Button Factory
My friends and I went to an "abandoned" button factory to do some filming for a project. Turns out that the place was bought by an eccentric artist who totally converted the whole place into his own personal studio. This was his truck out front, completely painted, along with the driveway and all the windows of the factory!
To all of you who think they are out of strength, please don't let your dreams go away:)))
Thank you!
The castle ruin of Hilpoltstein with its keep during the medieval festival "Knights, Minstrels, Cut-purses", Hilpoltstein, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
Hilpoltstein is the ruin of a hill castle on a sandstone rock. It is located in the old town of Hilpoltstein in Middle Franconia in the federal state of Bavaria, about 30 km (19 miles) south of the city of Nuremberg.
The castle dates back to the 10th century, as archaeologists have found evidences for a first fortification already at that time. However the hill castle, as we know it today, was most likely built not before 1100. In 1109, it was first mentioned in a document. In 1154, the castle was named "castellum dicto Stein", which refers to its founders, the Knights von Stein.
Between 1220 and 1230 the great hall and the keep were built. In 1250 the imperial ministerialis Heinrich von Stein pushed on with the further expansion of the castle. He passed the stronghold on to his son Hilpolt I, who also became the name giver of both town and castle. After the death of Hilpolt V in 1385, Hilpoltstein Castle was acquired by the House of Wittelsbach, but not for a long time. Further owners over the next two centuries were the Dukes of Bayern-Landshut and the Dukes of Pfalz-Neuburg.
In 1606, Dutchess Maria Dorothea, who was the widow of Duke Ottheinrich II of Sulzbach, the patriarch of a branch line of the House of Pfalz-Neuburg, chose the castle as her residence. Hence Hilpoltstein Castle was extended again. But after Maria Dorothea's death in 1639, the estate was abandoned.
In 1793 it was acquired by private persons, who used it as a stone quarry. In 1972, the administrative district of Roth took possession of the meanwhile badly damaged castle and in 1989, the administrative district began to realise extensive measures of protection.
Hilpoltstein Castle can be visited between April and October each year. Every year in May it is the venue of three-day medieval festival "Knights, Minstrels, Cut-purses", where people dress themselves up as medieval citizens and act out their romantic imagination of the Middle Ages.
The town of Hilpoltstein has a population of more than 13,000 and is situated in the administrative district of Roth in Northern Bavaria. The history of the town also dates back to the 10th century. In 1392, Duke Stephan of Bayern-Landshut approved the town privilege of Hilpoltstein. In 1505 Hilpoltstein was attributed to the princedom of Pfalz-Neuburg and in 1542 it was pledged to the free imperial city of Nuremberg for the following 36 years. After this period of time Duke Philipp Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg bequeathed both town and castle to his brother Ottheinrich II. After the death of Dutchess Maria Dorothea in 1639, who had chosen Hilpolstein as her place of residence, the castle derelicted and in the following years also the town lost its status as a ducal seat.
In 1799, Hilpolstein was awarded to the Electorate of Bavaria. Due to a boundary adjustment between the Upper Palatinate and Middle Franconia in 1880, the town was affiliated to Middle Franconia. Until 1972 Hilpoltstein was the administrative centre of the administrative district of Hilpoltstein, but has lost this function in the course of local government reorganisation.