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I've decided to start posting on flickr again, though I'm going to turn off commenting and post lots and lots of photos - I don't have the time to spend here like I used to, so if you want to look just look, that's fine - I mostly post on Facebook now, the only problem with that is that the quality of photos is ruined - so if I want to share a link with how the original photo looked I now can through flickr.
I hope you are all keeping well, it's been a while.
Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.
Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST Cities!
Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong is full of surprises!
Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do” when you come to Hong Kong.
Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 15,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!
Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.
Hong Kong - Some Facts - Population 7.5 Million people | 92% Ethnic Chinese | English is an Official Language along with Cantonese and Mandarin | 1,114 sq km or 430sq miles of diversity | 263 Islands | People | Street Scenes | Traffic Scenes | Nature Scenes | Animals | Buildings | Shopping | Gardens | The Countryside | Islands and the Ocean + Daily Life and anything interesting, all Districts, Hong Kong
☛.... and if you want to read about my personal views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link is shown below, I have lived in Hong Kong for over 50 years and completed 2,324 Private Tours of Hong Kong between 8th April 2011 and February 11th 2020
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
So lovely to see and hear Cranes on the Somerset Levels during the summer months. I normally stay well away from any potential breeding areas but I saw these two recently in a public area and there is no sign of a young one so tonight I thought that I would sit and watch them for a while. It was lovely to watch them picking off insects and calling to other Cranes nearby.
Both these cranes were born in 2013
Female "Excalibird"
Male "Bombus" (Yellow/Black/Yellow)
DB Schenker Class 66 no. 66125 heads through Tamworth with 6E54 10.34 Kingsbury - Humber discharged tanks.
3rd February 2011
Another Norfolk Southern train heads west on the Chicago Line. Hosting more than 50 trains a day, this is an extremely busy route.
Rooftop detail of the Simms factory, a crop of a shot taken from the hilltop park across the road (see "frozen park").
By: Staff Sgt. José E. Santos Santos
1st MSC Public Affairs
Dover Air Force Base, Del. (Sept 20, 2011) – Working as Mortuary Affairs Specialist has never been easy. It’s a job that needs to be done with the highest level of dignity, honor and respect.
It is a job where all senses get sharpen, where everything stop for a moment and all kinds of thoughts go through your mind: your childhood memories, your old friends, even your dreams. That is when you realize that it could be you… No other experience in life can get you closer to life than death itself.
Then you start thinking of that fallen soldier, about his family, his friends and all of a sudden you realize that this is it, they will no longer have him physically and that is really when you have to do your best to immortalize his presence through his belongings.
That is what the soldiers for the 246th and the 311th Quartermaster companies (QM CO) have been doing for years. Their members, out of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, do the best possible job to bring to the fallen Soldier’s families their last memory and they made it last forever.
The Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations (AFMAO) at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs and the Joint Personal Effects Depot (JPED) are the two facilities that work directly and deal with the fallen soldiers remains and personal effects on Dover AFB.
The AFMAO mission is to fulfill the nation's sacred commitment of ensuring dignity, honor and respect to the fallen and care, service and support to their families. A solemn dignified transfer of remains is conducted upon arrival at Dover AFB, from the aircraft to a transfer vehicle to honor those who have given their lives in the service of the country. The vehicle then moves the fallen to the Port Mortuary at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs. Once positively identified, the fallen service members are prepared for transport to their final destination as determined by the family.
“This is a nice job, but it is a tough job also, mentally tough… you have to deal with dead bodies…the person in the body bag could be your friend, could be your brother, your cousin, or it could be one of your family [members], said Staff Sgt. Franklyn Seda, a member of the 311th QM CO with 22 years of service, who has been working here for the last three months.
Staff Sgt. Seda is part of the uniform team, one of the four teams integrated by 1st MSC Soldiers. This group of soldiers is in charge of putting together the last uniform, including ribbons, medals, badges, etc., that the fallen soldier will wear until his last stop. They make sure everything is wear according to military standards.
The other teams on this facility are family, case manager and driver teams, which are the ones responsible for coordination, the support, the transportation and movement of the family members of the fallen soldier.
On the other hand, Staff Sgt. Jeysha Alarcón, a 10 years veteran expressed: “I love what I’m doing…I think I make a difference… you are doing something for someone that gave his life for this Country”.
SSG Alarcón works with the case manager’s team. “We put everything to send these soldiers back to their families” she pointed out, meaning that they do their very best on this job.
Joint Personal Effects Depot (JPED), one of the facilities that our soldiers support, has the mission of receive, safeguard, inventory, store, process and determine final disposition of Personal Effects (PE) of deceased, injured or missing DoD personnel in support of current Overseas Contingency Operations.
“We take so much care of their personal effects, we have great people in here, including civilians… they make sure that everything get the most detail, the most care possible, so when the families opens that foot locker they see everything is folded, everything is nice, everything got taking care of, so they don’t think that the military is not taking care of soldiers even after they are dead”, said Capt. Efrain Irizarry, a member of the 246th QM CO who works as a Summary Court Martial Officer for the JPED.
Both, Col. Tom Joyce, AFMAO Commander and Lt. Col. Kelly Kyburz, JPED Commander, expressed their satisfaction of having the 1st MSC Soldiers working on their respective facilities. Lt. Col. Kyburz also informed her intent to keep employing 1st MSC soldiers and added that they are in need of more troops like the ones from the 246th and the 311th QM CO.
Working the 3S61 Margam - Margam via Tir-phil with RHTT southbound through Heath High Level i kept the exposure dark to try and capture the rainbow. Taken on the 29.10.2012
GB Railfreight Class 66, 66778 “Darius Cheskin” is seen passing Langford Level Crossing with a rail tour. 66775 “F231 HMS Argyll” is on the tail end of the train.
‘GRBf Staff Charter’ 1Z66 08:13 Ipswich – Cleethorpes.
#GBRailfreight #LevelCrossing #2017
My niece did her first skydive on Friday- I was honored to be there to shoot for her jump! Terrifying and beautiful! :)
Having just crossed over the Hereward Trail, Adtranz 'Turbostar' unit 170 203 takes the switchback route across the 'Bedford Level' and on towards Manea and Peterborough on Saturday 26th January 2013. Two swans, rather conveniently, fly across towards the River Ouse.
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