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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)
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).
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
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.
Shelter for 6-inch Gun Detachment manning the 6-inch Mk.VII Gun, built after 1916. A rectangular concrete building, measuring 24ft 7in x 9ft 2in externally (22ft 7in x 7ft 2in internally) with a concrete floor and a flat concrete roof coated with a thin layer of asphalt. Timber plugs in the external wall may mark the positions for fire buckets and a brick blast wall outside the western elevation survives to a height of 4ft 3in.
There are openings for two sliding metal doors, 3ft wide x 6ft high, one at either end of the west wall flanking two central windows, each 3ft wide x 3ft 11in high, with metal surrounds. The doors and windows have concrete sills but no lintels. Inside are remains of a wooden floor with cross-axial joists and axial floorboards. On the walls are the flaking remains of several layers of paint including a creamy colour with a painted frieze at dado level, superseded by orange with a horizontal red stripe.
There are scars of two shelves along the north and east walls and coat hooks along the south and east walls. A pot-bellied stove fitted into an angled recess in the east wall, with a circular hole for a chimney pipe in the roof above, the hearth is defined by a low concrete sill. Ventilation was provided by a rectangular metal grilles high up in the walls.
Another shot of the posts on Derwent Water in the Lake District, this was taken half an hour after my last upload from the same spot just as the sun was rising giving some fantastic light on Lord's Island.
Taken on my nikon d7000, sigma 17-70 lens, hitech06 nd soft grad, hitech 06 nd hard grad, lee polariser, tripod mounted and cable release.
Please view large On Black
The local post box in Castledonovan, Cork, Ireland with Castle Donovan in the background. ift.tt/1GZzjm2 via 500px ift.tt/1BvwWzk
The survivor hid out of sight behind the grimy metal pillar, knowing that if he was seen, it would all be over.
exploring the old abandoned Chicago Post office was fun, This was the biggest and most visible abandoned building in Chicago
I actually found this note in a post secret book.
It says "While visiting my parents last night, I caught my father sleeping in front of the TV. The moment was both beautiful & sad. I realized how little I really know him - yet, at that moment, I felt more connected to him than I ever had before."
It really touched me.
This is my first entry to the Competition Corner Group for the weekly theme of 'Post-it' I have a similar image taken 2 years ago in my stream and saw this lovely little 'in the wall' post box whilst driving through Ellel near Lancaster today....hope you like :)
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