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I saw this guy dozing in the springtime sun. As I raised my camera he opened his eyes and raised his foot. As I continued down the street I could hear cries of ... excuse me ....excuse me.
The clouds that made the full moon misty first cut off the sunset before it could develop any color - oh well, gotta come out and try even if it gets cut off.
A new specialist policing team has been set up to tackle issues with off-road bikes across Greater Manchester, hitting the road recently.
The new Safer Roads Targeting Team at Greater Manchester Police will be on hand for community officers if off-road bikes are being used illegally in their area, equipped with a fleet of on and off-road bikes and unmarked cars to help catch offenders.
As well as introducing the Safer Roads Targeting Team, GMP is also launching a community ‘toolkit’, giving people information on how they can help police and other agencies tackle the issue.
The toolkit will be readily available on the GMP website to all those who need it with details on what information police and their partners need to take action against those who ride off road bikes illegally. It is designed to help tackle an issue that many say is top of the agenda for residents in some areas.
Chief Inspector Tariq Butt, who heads up GMP’s Road Policing Unit, said: “Off-road bikes being driven illegally are a big concern for us and also for the people of Greater Manchester.
“This new team will help us tackle the issue as effectively as we possibly can, but the toolkit we’ve put together will also enable people to help us do this – we can all take responsibility for our communities and letting the appropriate authorities know what’s happening in them. We need people to be active in looking after themselves and their neighbours and this toolkit gives people the information that they need to do this when it comes to off-road bikes.”
Greater Manchester Police currently works with local authorities and residents to tackle the problem of off –road bikes being used illegally. Measures include putting up warning signs, seeking civil orders to stop people committing offences or, if the problem is persistent, ultimately seizing a bike that is used illegally, taking it off the streets for good.
The Safer Roads Targeting Team will consist of seven off road bikes based at Eccles but covering the whole of Greater Manchester. View the toolkit at www.gmp.police.uk/reporting/offroadbikes.
Lens: Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S
Aperture: f/5.6
Cam: Nikon D5100
RAW (NEF): air.oldstable.org/raws/off.nef
post-processed
This is the hue as seen on the back of the camera when the image was taken.
Several flocks of birds passed by whilst I was out taking pictures. These ones were just a little bit too far away to have the effect I was hoping for though.
For the 3d year, the Thunderbirds have been spending a week with the Blue Angels at NAF El Centro. Here they are taking off for an afternoon flight from runway 12.
Southern Transit's semi-preserved L1 (A101 SYE) heads through Dorking rail station forecourt on rail replacement.
The recently remodelled forecourt had recently been opened at the time - perfectly designed for buses to have to mount kerbs, as necessary here...!
Station Approach, Dorking, Surrey.
1/200 s. - f/5 - 17 mm - ISO 100
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Handheld
Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS3
Taking the Land Cruiser for an off-road spin...
Explored: #166... 3rd April, 2008.
Location: Duba'eya, Kuwait
Technical Information:
Camera - Panasonic DSLR DMC-L1
Exposure - HDR (3 frames)
ISO - 100
Lens - Panasonic/Leica D Vario-
Elmarit 14-50mm f2.8-3.5
Focal Length - 20mm
Fliter - Circular Polarizer
Teleconverter - No
Extension Tube - No
Flash - No
Tripod - Yes
Capture Time - 6:14pm
Wembley once again played host to the Championship Play-Off Final between, Ian Holloway's Crystal Palace and Gianfranco Zola's Watford. The tie couldn't be settled despite many chances for both teams. It was coming to the end of the first half of extra time and Palace were awarded a penalty which was smashed away by substitute Kevin Phillips; which would decide the game. Crystal Palace were promoted to the Premier League after a long, arduous season which ended in celebration.
Attendance: 82,025
The class 117 + 121 combo rests at Wareham before operating it's next turn to Swanage, this would be the final year of the operation which gave passengers a unique glimpse into 1st generation DMU travel on the mainline albeit for around a mile.
The Polar Bear Express rounds the curve at MP 5 of the Island Falls Subdivision, destination Moosonee.
It was weird knowing we couldn't chase this train even if we wanted to...unless we had a helicopter, I guess.
I am on the road to Bonnaroo right now, but I wanted to post a quick note to say thank you to all of the people who just added me as a contact after seeing the Flickr blog shot. I appreciate it!
Keep watching this space for lots of Bonnaroo 2009 photos to come in the next while.
The above shot was taken last night through the window of the famous guitar shop Gruhn's Guitar in Nashville, TN. I took it with my iPhone using the QuadCam application.
.. we drove to downtown Durham this afternoon to photograph the tobacco warehouses and the old painted building signs near the Bull's stadium which were bathed in late day light.
After pushing a heavy mixed train upgrade from Wiscasset to Alna Center, a Wiscasset-based, WW&F helper engine is cut off on the fly on a flat stretch of track. On the platform of the trailing coach, Brakeman Jason Lamontagne has just lifted the pin on the coupler while Engineman Rick Sisson in the cab of WW&F #9 is gently closing his throttle. Momentarily, the engine will come to a stop, then reverse direction and return to Wiscasset.
O primeiro utilitário esportivo da marca alemã tem perfomance inigualável no “on” e no “off road”; veículo traz novas tecnologias e alto luxo para a categoria dos fora-de-estrada.
www.motorclube.com.br/materias/novo-audi-q7-revoluciona-c...
These spiral cloud eddies, seen by GOES-16 (GOES East) streaming off the Canary Islands on Feb. 20, 2020, are caused by von Kármán vortices. Named after Theodore von Kármán, a physicist who was the first to describe their formation in detail, they tend to occur anywhere that a streaming fluid—or in this case, atmospheric flow—is disturbed by an object and undergoes oscillation. Here, winds blowing across the ocean are diverted around the islands, flowing around them and producing clouds in an alternating direction of rotation.
There are numerous places in the world where this phenomenon occurs regularly, particularly where the Trade Winds are prevalent. These not only include the Canary Islands, but also Madeira Island, the Cape Verde Islands, as well as Guadalupe and Socorro Islands west of Baja California and the Juan Fernandez Islands off the Chilean coast. They have also been spotted in the Greenland Sea, in the Arctic, and even next to a tropical storm. The world’s largest von Kármán vortices tend to form near the Hallasan Volcano on Jeju Island, off the coast of South Korea.
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