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Perhaps the most photographed Class 114 pairing was E53045 + E54004, after they uniquely received this brown and cream South Yorkshire Transport livery, seen here at Sheffield in the mid-1980s.
perhaps the real banshee no ?
few years ago I've designed one of my first owl, it was a barn owl (tito ablba). but really I was not proud of this design, after I've designed a flying barn owl but the face ... so only a few weeks ago I've wanted to make a new atempt of one of my favourite owl ... and now I like the face and the pose ... on a bird base with a graft in one diagonal for create the face and the toes. one uncut 45cm square of unryu and kraft paper with mc. my first owl for 2014 !!!!!
Proof, if any were needed, Elephants have really poor eyesight (105mm un-cropped) Sniffing the air to see who/what is there. Either that or I should wash more often!
Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Perhaps the hardest damn animal ive ever tried to shoot. They dip the moment you come close. I really want to get more of these because they are stunning little creatures, but also cunning, timid and infuriating. #madagascargolddustdaygecko #golddustdaygecko #madagascargecko #gecko #insitu #phelsuma #HELLsuma #phelsumalaticauda #hawaii #bigisland #herpinghawaii #bigislandherps
Perhaps the finest Stalinist building in Tallinn is the apartment block at Tartu maantee 24, nestling right against the glitzy glass towers of new Tallinn. Built in 1954, when architects from Leningrad were sent off to work or go on a traineeship to Tallinn. Their Stalinist style aimed to express Stalinist ideology in buildings. None were truly imaginative. This one, pictured in the light of dawn, argues better than any other for the ideas behind it.
It was perhaps the best day I have ever spent! My best friend once joked to me she needed a Maid to help her so she could have more time on her hands. I told her I have dressed up as a Maid and have 2 Maids uniforms! Every Tuesday we would meet somewhere for breakfast so one time I told her to come over instead and the Maid would cook her breakfast.
She came over and I greeted her at the door in my Maids uniform and curtseyed for her, she loved it! She came over wearing her "Princess" dress and looked to lovely in the white gown! I cooked her favorite, eggs benedict and home fries. Afterwards I treated her o a long massage and painted her toe nails. I really had a fun time and she said "The Maid" should be around more in the future! LOL. It truly was a fantasy come true for me!
Then she said let's go shopping! I was like don't you have to get going for work but she said no and has the whole day free. So she goes to her car and gets out a cute outfit of jeans, ruffle blouse, tan leather jacket, cute tan booties, and a stylish cap. I changed into my polka dot dress and we went to Ross Dress For Less, Home Goods to pick out bathroom stuff for her newly redecorated bath, and spent a long time in Charming Charlie's trying on jewelry and just having a ball! I bought her a necklace and earing set for being such a good friend and sport and she surprised me by buying me my first feminine cell phone case! I didn't even know she purchased it until she pulled it out of her handbag in the car, announcing that if I am going be spending more time out as a girl, the plain black case I used was out of fashion! We pulled over to the other side of the shopping center and went into a nice Greek café and split a Gyro. It felt great to be just another girl in the crowded shopping area and told her at lunch that this was so much fun! She had a smile on that I could tell she was having fun too.
We went back to my house and hung out for a while and talked. I told her I have more fun doing regular things like this than going out clubbing at night and showed her all the different kind of outfits I had, so much fun doing with a very interested partner! Then she asked if I would like to continue the "girls day out" and I said sure! She suggested we go to my favorite Italian restaurant and then a movie. I said YES even being a bit leary of going to the restaurant as I have been there many times not dressed. She said I shouldn't worry and that no one will know at all. I refreshed my makeup and switched from a wide black belt to a thin white belt and changed my ballet flats for shopping to my black kitten heels and she put on the new earrings and necklace i bought her. We had a delicious meal at the place and then walked over to the movie theater to see the movie. It was my first movie seen as a female so another FIRST off the list! When leaving the movie it felt so natural leaving with crowd and talking about the movie with my girlfriend, as natural as can be! Walking back to the car having my skirt play around my legs I stopped and she said what is wrong? I told her nothing it's just that this was such a great day and you are such a good friend. She said she has a lot of fun too going out with Lisa and we should do it more, I totally agreed!
When we got back we went inside to get hr white dress and other things and she left soon after as it was already past midnight! I told her to text me when she got home safe and when she did I sent her a photo of the lingerie I had changed into and thanked her for a wonder fully feminine day of fun! She was in a good mood too and I coerced her into send a few lingerie pics but she said she had to disguise herself a bit! LOL she is so much fun!
Won't you?
Strobist info:
430 Ex II @ 1/8 in homemade Fresnel at 3:00
580 Ex II @ 1/32 in softbox at 9:00
CyberSync triggers
It is perhaps coincidence having uploaded some shots with snow in the background that the images I have recently worked on are from the days in Feb of 1991 when snow was on the ground. They evoke great memories for me when I would finish my night shift at Royal Mail and cycle down from my base at Yardley to this location.
1. my neighbor gifted me a dead bird because he knew i loved feathers. (the blue jay met it's end when it crashed into his fence.) my kids made fun of me "you are SO darn weird mom!" but, i treasured the gesture and today i researched how to pluck feathers and now i have the most beautiful handful to add to my collection.
2. i looked up the meaning of blue jay feathers and this is what i found: "blue jay feathers are valued as bringer of light and joy and are said to have the ability to brighten up even the darkest places."
3. i learned a few days ago that a new friend, my partner in my drawing class, died unexpectedly last week. she was a "bringer of light and joy"...and i've traveled to some dark places grieving her death. we were just talking about cool boots, and how hard it was to draw each other without feeling the need to apologize for how absurd the drawings often were. i wish i would have told her how pretty i thought her skin was, and how the color of her eyes reminded me of sea glass.
4. this poem: “your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. if it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~Rumi
5. i prefer to live with my hands unclenched. and my heart wide open...
Perhaps the most graceful flying bird on the East Coast, the swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) returns to the northern part of its breeding range in Florida and adjacent Gulf Coast and southeast Atlantic Coast states in late February/late March. (Some individuals remain year-round in Central and South America: migratory individuals sometimes travel 10,000 miles to reach breeding habitat in North America. Swallow-tailed kits often uses Spanish moss in constructing its tree-top nests, and feed on insects, lizards, bats and other small vertebrates, often remaining in flight during feeding. They are buoyant and agile fliers, and I had not seen any so far this year in Florida until today, when we spotted 3 birds circling far away. Eventually they appeared overhead and made several swooping circles above us, seemingly looking at us and tilting their deeply forked tails to bank towards a flying insect or to move closer to investigate something of potential interest in a tree-top. Fortunately, I had readied my camera and lens for a possible birds-in-flight opportunity, so when the bird miraculoousy reappered overhead, I was ready and was alble to zoo in and follow them, struggling at times to avoid falling backwards as I aimed my long lens upward.
Red Bug Slough; Sarasota, FL
(15 March, 2024)
Perhaps not the biggest mosque in Istanbul, the Süleymaniye Mosque certainly one of the grandest and most beautiful
perhaps.
The 'Head On' installation at the "Falling Back to Earth" exhibition by artist Cai Guo Xiang at the GoMA
Witton station is functional, perhaps that is the strength of the place. The station served two important functions it was the station for Villa Park, the home of Aston Villa FC, millions of supporters have set foot on these platforms. The other use was for workers, when Britain made goods the Aston/Witton area was packed with factories during wartime Kynoch were at full stretch making ammunition. Today most of the factories have long gone leaving residual industry like car scrap yards.
A Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon class 100 rasps away towards Birmingham New Street, probably from Walsall.
Peter Shoesmith
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
Perhaps one of the most photogenic lakes in the province, I am anxious for the road to Moraine to reopen so I can spend more time admiring the amazing colour and serenity of this little gem in the Rockies.
Perhaps if I had kissed it, I might have found Prince Charming ;-)
I've had a few days on the adjacent isle and as I was sailing (well being tossed around on the Irish Sea) back from Liverpool, I took the opportunity to book a macro workshop at Knowsley with Wild Arena. I had a brilliant time. There are a few more images to come...
37128 heads through Hebden Bridge with two unusual-looking tanks in tow, forming 6E39 Mostyn to Hull Saltend. 17/7/92. It's odd that the usual tanks weren't on the train. Perhaps this was a special load.
Perhaps one of the oldest running locomotives still active in the state of Georgia, this CONX 101 GP7 rest as it waits for a long week of shoving hoppers around for the plant sitting behind it.
Commentary.
Ardnamurchan is perhaps the most intriguing, beguiling, fascinating and beautiful peninsula on the British Mainland,
it just so happens to be the most westerly, as well.
Such a serene scene at this shallow bay.
Grazed right up to the fences above the beach
and yet it possesses a wild unfettered magnificence
that suspends belief, an aura of other-worldliness.
Mull and Tiree are on the distant oceanic horizon.
Golden eagles swooping and screeching, above an adjacent hill.
But the making of what we now see was massive, hugely violent and, yes, very other-worldly.
Ben Hiant, on the right, rises in two steps from the sea,
the first 1,000 feet and the second 732 feet or a grand total of 528 metres.
It is a south-flanking remnant of a huge Ardnamurchan volcano possibly over 20,000 feet as suggested by a clear three-mile diameter, collapsed caldera, five miles north-west of here.
Amongst the dips and hollows are rocks like Dolerite, Breccia and Pitchstone.
Lava Cone Sheets and Moine Schists, with its gleaming, glittering skin-thin layers of Mica, evidence of a fiery and cataclysmic past.
Macro or micro-scale this landscape is complex, and wonderfully compelling.
It is little explored because of its remoteness.
Over 60 miles from Arisaig and over 50 miles from the Corran Ferry on mostly single-track roads, few venture this far at such limited speeds.
But, as with so many areas in Scotland, the price of patience
will be heavily rewarded if we have the “stickability.”
A family outing at the markets. Not sure on the type of dog. A Shih Tzu perhaps? It was so cute and very well behaved. On reflection, it was perhaps too hot a day for the day to be so exposed to the sun.
TEETH FALLING OUT DREAM
Perhaps you are passing to a stage of greater maturity (and are reminded of when you lost your "baby teeth" as a child.) Maybe you are feeling old and decrepit or unattractive, thinking of the possibility of someday losing your teeth. Or perhaps you are subconsciously aware of serious dental problems that could lead to loss of your teeth. Are you overdue for a check up? Maybe you simply feel guilty about your poor dental hygiene. Have you said something(s) that you now regret? If so, maybe it feels as though you had a "loose tongue" and the words just "fell out" of your mouth. Maybe you grind your teeth at night (this phenomenon, called BRUXISM, is quite common) which leads to a strong dream awareness of dental discomfort, which triggers teeth-problems dreams. Perhaps you feel a lack of strength and assertiveness/aggression (there are "no teeth" to your personality). Or perhaps you recently saw, heard, or read something about loose teeth, which made a powerful enough impression to spark a dream.
Perhaps it may not seem to be March, the untimely greenery and temperatures in the 70s. Sometimes, it may seem the snow has become the abundant clouds or the melted ice, the clear skies. However, it does not seem to trouble the native birds, who invest heavily in eating suet on a competitive feeder. This female downy fails to care about her feathered peers while enjoying her meal. Small and docile encapsulates the personality of a downy. They are also vital to local ecology through controlling pest activity. Biology is often used as a front for exploration but I find poetry explains nature better than my drab commentary. American Progressivist and Naturalist John Burroughs once put:
Round his door as compass-mark,
True and smooth his wall;
Just a shadow on the bark
Points you to his hall.
Downy leads a hermit life
All the winter through;
Free his days from jar and strife,
And his cares are few.
"Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment. To walk with a dog is to enter the world of the immediate." — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs)
{My version of "street photography" on the beach.... sitting quietly and taking photos of passersby.... Needless to say, the morning light on the beach was blinding. I ended up using my sunglass lens as a polarizer which helped to tone down the bright light. }