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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)
Rye, New Hampshire
A few nights ago a large ship was sitting outside Portsmouth Harbor, presumably waiting for the tide to come in and/or waiting for the tugboats. This is a pretty common occurrence, but I hadn't really seen a ship lit up quite so brightly in a while. I thought it might make an interesting night shot. In this long exposure, it looks kind of like the moon or sun is rising.
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.
UNITED STATE POST OFFICE, 201 E. THIRD STREET. Built in 1931, this large brick post office is a Neo-Classical building with eight large Ionic columns across the recessed entryway, a raised basement level and long, narrow windows. The building has a hipped roof which is clearly visible, though surrounded by a raised parapet. The almost-original interior of the building includes a high-ceilinged lobby and service area with dentil moldings and original interior doors. This building has served as Sweetwater’s official post office since it replaced the original wood frame structure which served the purpose from the 1880s well into the 20th century. It was the original post office which was known as “Sweet Water,” until in 1918 the U.S. Postal Service mandated that it conform to local usage of “Sweetwater.” National Register of Historic Places (1984 – District).
Silverton, CO 1975
(Homemade post cards were very popular in the 70's among photographers. Bill Dane raised it to an art form; most did it to communicate, and exhcange examples of their work. I found this one, unsent, among my other pictures.)
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.
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.
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Carrion Crow on a fence post at Forfar Loch.