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Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jun 8, 2015.
Technically, this is not a "couple" in the familiar sense of the word. But the bond between a grandparent and grandchild (which is, I think, what we're looking at here) is a pretty special one ...
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This is a continuation of Flickr sets that I created in 2014 (shown here), 2013 (shown here)
2012 (shown here), 2011 (shown here), 2010 (shown here), 2009 (shown here), and 2008 (shown here) -- which, collectively, illustrate a variety of scenes and people in the small "pocket park" known as Verdi Square, located at 72nd Street and Broadway in New York City's Upper West Side, right by the 72nd St. IRT subway station.
I typically visit a local gym once or twice a week, and I get there by taking the downtown IRT express from my home (at 96th Street) down to the 72nd Street stop. Whenever possible, I try to schedule an extra 30-60 minutes to sit quietly on one of the park benches, and just watch the flow of people coming in and out of the park -- sometimes just passing through, to get from 72nd Street up to 73rd Street, sometimes coming down Broadway to enter the park at 73rd Street, but mostly entering or exiting the subway station.
You see all kinds of people here: students, bums, tourists (from New Jersey and from all four corners of the globe), office workers, homeless people, retired people, babysitters, children, soldiers, sanitation workers, lovers, friends, dogs, cats, pigeons, and a few things that simply defy description. Sometimes you see the same people over and over again; sometimes they follow a regular pattern at a particular time of the day, which always makes me smile — even though I never go up to them and introduce myself.
If I focus on the people coming south on Broadway, and entering the park at 73rd Street, and then continuing to walk southwards toward the subway entrance, I typically have five or ten seconds to (a) decide if they're sufficiently interesting to bother photographing,(b) wait for them to get in a position where I can get a clear shot of them, and (c) focus my camera on them and take several shots, in the hope that at least one or two of them will be well-focused and really interesting.
While you might get the impression that I photograph every single person who moves through this park, it's actually just the opposite: the overwhelming majority of people that I see here are just not all that interesting. (It's not that they're ugly, it's just that there's nothing interesting, memorable, or distinctive about them.) Even so, I might well take, say, 200 shots in the space of an hour. But some of them are repetitive or redundant, and others are blurred or out-of-focus, or technically defective in some other way. Of the ones that survive this kind of scrutiny, many turn out to be well-focused, nicely-composed, but ... well ... just "okay". I'll keep them on my computer, just in case, but I don't bother uploading them.
Typically, only about 1-2% of the photos I've taken get uploaded to Flickr -- e.g., about 5-10 photos from a one-hour session in which a thousand, or more, people have walked past me. There are some exceptions to this rule of thumb -- but in general, what you're seeing it is indeed only a tiny, tiny subset of the "real" street scene in New York City. On the other hand, it is reassuring to see that there are at least a few "interesting" people in a city that often has a reputation of being mean, cold, and heartless...
Cast Notes:
Body
Genesis Mesh Head (Rita in Milk - Open Mouth)
+ Maitreya Lara (Full)
Amitomo Eye Collection 2 (16) (Gacha Prize from Kustom 9)
Calico Hair Brooklee (for Hairlogie)
Hair Roses - Poet's Heart (Part of Reverie)
Dress + Jewels
Bare Rose - Champagne
ieQED Jellybean Ring
Yummy Starburst Shaker Necklace
Props (For Cats & Dogs 1,2 and3)
Toro. Tongue Chair (Pink & Gray)- from Shiny Shabby Current Round
{anc} Mist Cloud (Heavenly Blue), flottante puppy, EDEN Wing Swing (white)
Moon Amore - Papillon Balloon (White)
BWish - Origami Boat Candle (with own textures)
More to be blogged on opofish.blogspot.co.uk
الذكريات كلمة تحمل احداث السنين بل العمر كله
الذكريات كلمه لطالما ابكت الكثيرين
الذكريات كلمة فيها ما يفرح القلب وما يعيد الألام
الذكريات...الذكريات....الذكريات
كلمة ولكنها عن الاف الكلمات
قليله الحروف كثيرة الاحداث ما اقسى بعض الذكريات عند مرورها او تذكرها فقط
وما اجمل بعضها ولكنها قليله للأسف
صصوري ملك للجميع دون ازالة الحققوق
الصصورة الجايية عن تَخررج اختي زهررة
تتتخرجها بكرة ان شَاءء الله
23/6
تتخرج من تمهيدي ان ششاء الله
تتنتظر تبريكاتكم
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Sep 10, 2011.
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Throughout my adult life, most of my business trips have involved air travel from New York City; I’ve seen the insides of more airports and more airplanes than I care to remember.
But most of my trips along the eastern corridor of the U.S. have involved trains, and I find them to be a very relaxing and enjoyable contrast. These trips almost always start with a subway ride to Penn Station, rather than a taxi ride to JFK or LGA or EWR; and they are followed by a relatively pleasant journey along the East Coast on an Amtrak Acela train that has a much greater chance of departing and arriving on time than most of my airplane journeys.
On a recent trip to Philadelphia, my journey began with a subway ride from 96th Street to Penn Station; and then a train trip to the architecturally interesting Amtrak station in Philadelphia, before reaching my client’s office for a day-long meeting. At the end of the day, the journey reversed itself, and I was back home shortly after dinner.
I took a few photos and videos along the way; the ones I’ve uploaded here are representative of the trip...
... on time.
The view through the skylight 12 hours apart:
06.48 (left) and 18.52, 5th May 2016.
© Lise Utne
This was taken Inside Tompkins Sq Park.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Aug 5,2015.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
on transience and self
This is a comment on the galleries 'kiss the pain away' and 'show us a smile, then', which I compiled from among some of your brilliant and interesting photos over the past couple of days.
The x-ray is from 2010.
(I'll catch up with recent comments and uploads some time soon.)
11th March 2015 © Lise Utne
Who does hand written notes if it is easier to send a text message? Who prints out text messages? On the other hand, who stashes away a special hand written thank you note? The latter seems to appear in memory treasure boxes more often than you think! So, they continue to bring joy, again and again.
Maybe, we should all sit down and do a handwritten thank you note to someone today!
One of my favorite shot!
She's in Lacey Chick outfit made by me! :-D
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Marzia Casilli nasce a Lecce nel 1989. Vive ad Ascoli Piceno, dove è Vicepresidente dell'Associazione Culturale ''Das Andere'', che promuove incontri con scrittori e dibattiti filosofico-letterari, con l'obbiettivo di risvegliare la coscienza sociale. E' laureanda in Psicologia e dal 2015 allieva della Scuola Holden di Torino. Nel 2010 pubblicava con Albatros una raccolta di poesie dal titolo ''Leggendo e scrivendo'' . Con il mare in tasca'' (Talos 2015 - collana Polis) è il suo primo romanzo.
Hey! Go check out TIP's Analog Travelog today. Vanessa and I have nine of our Redfish Lake photos featured!
Note the CD buffet car, ZSSK has a shortage of such coaches, and has hired in a batch for their express services to fill a short term gap
Date: 1929
Source Type: Currency
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Valparaiso National Bank
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This is a $10 bank note issued by the Valparaiso National Bank, Charter No. 6215, Serial No. A001046A (1929).
In March 1902, William Johnston, Charles W. Benton, and others filed an application with the United States government for authority to organize the Valparaiso National Bank. This newly formed bank was to take the place of the First National Bank of Porter County through reorganization.
The Valparaiso National Bank was located on the west side of Washington Street, across the street from the Porter County Court House. A statement of the bank issued at the close of business on June 14, 1912, showed a capital stock of $100,000, a surplus of $20,000, and deposits of $693,793. At that time, the officers of the bank were Charles W. Benton, president; Leslie R. Skinner, vice-president; A. J. Louderback, cashier; T. L. Applegate, assistant cashier.
The Valparaiso National Bank printed a total of $1,582,130 of national currency beginning in 1902 and ceasing in 1932. The bank printed a total of 1,696 sheets of Type I $10 red seal bank notes. This bank note was signed by Andrew J. Louderback, cashier, and Horace M. Evans, president. Due to the effects of the Great Depression, the Valparaiso National Bank was forced to discontinue operations on January 11, 1932. The First Trust Company in Valparaiso ceased operations on the same day.
Copyright 2024. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
A note of appreciation to visitors
Thank you very much for visiting and for your supportive comments and favorites, Also, a big thanks to those following my Photostream. I understand that to do so means you've taken time out from your busy day, so please know that I am very grateful. I always try my best to return your generosity.
BUT PLEASE, no badges in comments. I call it dumping on the lawn.
Cheers!
Bob
p.s. Unless otherwise noted in my image Tags, all the images I post here are taken with an iPhone and processed entirely on an iPad using a wide variety of apps. Certainly not as capable as using a "real" camera and Photoshop, but I'm enjoying the liberation of simply seeing, capturing, fiddling, and posting a wider variety of images than was otherwise possible for me in the past.