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1988 Emmy Awards
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Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.
The West Point Class of 2020 selected their first duty assignments or posts where they will first serve after attending BOLC (Basic Officer Leader Course). (U.S.Army Photos)
Location: Fairborn, Ohio
Artist: Henry Simon
Title: Wright Brothers in Ohio
Dated: 1941
Lots more of these in my Post Office and WPA art album.
Model/Hair/Makeup: Diana Cameron McQueen (facebook.com/dianamcqueen)
Lighting: bare canon 430ex II zoomed to 105mm, shot in Ettl mode at -1 flash exposure compensation. at about 8 o'clock. Everything else lit by the overcast sky.
PRISTINA, KOSOVO, 01 JULY 1999 ---- British army paratroopers patrol Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, days after Yugoslav army troops were forced from the province by NATO airstrikes.
(C) Photo Credit: Mark H. Milstein/ Northfoto
Linocut
Print on Hahnemühle paper cm 32,5 x 50
Black Calcograph ink
cm 25 x 35
2017
THE KINGDOM OF FUNGI
More than 30 years have passed since the Chernobyl disaster, since then the radioactive magma that was generated following the explosion of the fourth reactor was buried under a vault of steel and cement. Over the years the various and systematic inspections of the protective sarcophagus have revealed a black mushroom rich in melanin which, despite a very inhospitable and prohibitive environment, grew more and more flourishing on the walls of the protective structure. A team of researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has studied the phenomenon and found that strong ionizing radiations, more or less deadly for most living beings, are a major vital resource for fungi, in fact, researchers have shown that mycetes, thanks to a mechanism similar to that of chlorophylline photosynthesis, can absorb the radiations to develop and thrive.
I believe that in any post-nuclear scenario the mushrooms can not be missing and so as they have colonized the walls of the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl reactor are definitely destined to colonize the world. It seems unbelievable that this simple spongy and brainless organism, in the case of a nuclear catastrophe, is sure to survive the human species.
In Italy the boletus edulis also known as porcino is one of the most loved and sought after spontaneous mushrooms, and is considered the king of mushrooms and woods, it is a sin that it is greedy with ionizing radiation, especially cesium 137.
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In-between and after shooting with Bruna, I caught the rest of the MUNI Heritage Festival. At the end of the day, the busses put on a show leaving the event.
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Notes: Post Office
Postal services took some time to be regularised in the Blue Mountains. The first post office between the Nepean River and Mount Victoria was for railway workers at Wentworth Falls between 1864 and 1868, but the first general postal facility was Valley Heights post office, opened in December 1876.
In Springwood, the few residents, gingered by Charles Moore, petitioned for a post office in 1876 at the same time as the same group successfully applied for a public school. Although the postal authorities in Sydney were less impressed than the school inspector, claiming that there were 'only five residents at Springwood besides Mr Moore', a receiving office on Springwood railway station was opened in May 1877 and a postmaster was appointed in 1880, in reflection of increasing business.
The railway station remained the focus of postal facilities for the rest of the nineteenth century. The lamp room was fitted out as a post and telegraph office in 1891-2, but this proved to be 'damp and unhealthy' and in 1897 negotiations began to acquire the western 20 metres (66 feet) of vacant land between the public school on Macquarie Road and the police-station beside the railway station. The transfer of land was finally agreed in 1899, when Varney Parkes, son of Sir Henry, was Postmaster General, at the cost of 500 pounds.
Tenders for a post office building were called in July 1900 and the successful contractor, J. Beaumont, completed the work on 24 January 1901. It opened for business on 5 February 1901. A shelter shed for letter-carriers' horses was completed in the following June and the back verandah was enclosed at the end of 1903. From 1912-1965 it also housed the manual telephone exchange.
The Springwood Post Office is much altered from its original 1901 form. It is inter-war in character with only a few hints of its federation origins. The building has a hipped roof wing fronting Macquarie Road with a rear hipped roof wing facing east to the adjacent car park. The present accessible entry to the present office is through the verandah on the east side of the rear wing, replacing the original recessed porch and stairs off Macquarie Street.
A rear hipped roof wing with a corbelled brick chimney could be a survivor from the 1901 post office, along with a gabled building in the rear yard. The building retains significance since it has never ceased to be a post office. In a central location in the main shopping area of Springwood, the post office retains an important part of the community.
Format: 35 mm colour negative
Date Range: early 1980s
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 2332
Provenance: donation
Links: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
A notice is carried on this galvanised steel post, the zinc crystals show up clearly, they are called "spangles". Sometimes one sees them in pretty patterns.
On a hike today, Lori and I were meandering through the woods and came across this giant Ponderosa Pine with lots of character. It had wonderful chiseled old bark with numerous woodpecker holes circling the entire tree. As I walked around the tree I spotted these Bear Claw scratches just above my head.
As I was taking the pic a Downy Woodpecker landed near the top of the tree by a large hole and started pecking! I couldn't believe the vibrations I felt down at the base of the trunk.