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The U.S. Military Academy Class of 2021 chose their first Army assignment during Post Night, Feb. 3, 2021. During Post Night, cadets select their U.S. Army posts they will report to upon commissioning and graduating from basic officer leaders’ course. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Ilyankoff, USMA West Point Public Affairs)
The ‘one-off’ Class 89 was an awkward design from a livery perspective, as demonstrated by this fictional Virgin Trains version - the same livery sat much better on my earlier Class 91 image. In reality, prototype 89001 saw some service with East Coast Mainline franchise operator Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) in that operator’s dark blue and red livery, but it did not pass with the franchise to subsequent operators. GNER was succeeded first by National Express East Coast and then East Coast Trains before the franchise passed to Virgin Trains East Coast in 2015 – by which time there was no requirement for a ‘one-off’ locomotive. Thanks again to Flickr user Clagmaster for the base image (09-Dec-23).
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Post-Sunset Geese. San Joaquin Valley, California. January 11, 2018. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Winter geese fly toward San Joaquin Valley wetlands after sunset
These days photographing wild birds in California's Central Valley are frequently long. For me they begin about three hours before dawn, when I awake to a (very) early alarm, grab coffee and a bit of food, load my vehicle, and start out on a two-hour drive in the darkness. As I approach my destination the first color is coming to the sky above the Sierra, that is if tule fog doesn't reduce visibility to 100 feet or so! I pull in about a half hour before sunrise, set up camera equipment, and begin to work. At first I may make some landscape photographs, since it is often still too early to handhold the camera for bird photography, but soon the first birds fly up from the ponds. I usually spend the next three hours of so photographing birds and landscape — though the precise time varies depending on the conditions — and then I take a break in the middle of the day. By mid-afternoon I'm back, looking for evening photographic opportunities, and the pace of the work increases as sunset approaches. During the last few minutes of light a lot happens quickly, and then I photograph until the light is gone.
I made this photograph during that late period, following sunset, when lingering light colored the thin clouds above the western mountains. (My home lies beyond those mountains, a two-hour drive away.) Around sunset there is a period of coming and going by the birds. Geese may rise up from ponds and fly away, or flocks may arrive from distant points and settle in for the night. Often great flocks of cranes arrive just after sunset. The birds in this photograph are geese, most likely Ross's geese, approaching the wetland ponds from that western sunset sky.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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I'm proud to present the Emiliacouture Spring 2021 ready to wear capsule collection: "Post Apocalypse".
The Post Apocalypse athleisure garments are all about movement and dancing around the apartment while no one is watching. This Issey Miyake inspired collection of lounge wear is made out of Japanese pleated cotton blend with PVC stripes. The soft and stiff stripes give the fabric a unique shapeability that is really fun to play around with.
All items are OOAK and fit most 16" dolls (photographed here on Inamorata 3.0). They are sold as mix-an-match items at my store:
www.inamoratadolls.com/fullinventory
The background wall elements are made by Julia Gartung and painted by me using a sponge technique. The leather lounge that is in some pics is also commissioned from Julia.
The Bundaberg Region.
The rich volcanic soils of the plains near Bundaberg and the Burnett River were covered with thick scrub and bush but a few adventurous pastoralists tried to establish sheep grazing there in the 1850s. It was easier away from the Bundaberg site at Gin Gin and Gayndah further inland. More white settlers came in the mid-1860s as timber cutters. In these early years clashes with the local Aboriginal people were often violent. Aboriginal massacres are known to have occurred at Gin Gin in 1850, in North Bundaberg in the early 1860s. The first timber cutters arrived in the Bundaberg area 1867 followed by the first white farmers also in 1867. The first saw mill was erected in 1868. The town site was surveyed and laid in 1870. Experimental sugar cane farms began around 1871 and within a few months the sugar mills was built. As sugar plantations increased Bundaberg ended up with four major sugar mills. The sugar cane plantations were usually owned by the mills, run as large plantations and they employed Kanaka or South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Thus like Maryborough Bundaberg became a main entry point for the South Sea Islanders. The town grew quickly as more farmers took up small selections or acreages often growing maize or small amounts of sugar cane. The local Kolan Shire council was formed in 1873 and Bundaberg was emerging as a town. It became a municipality in 1881 and a city in 1913. The discovery of copper and that start of mining operations at nearby Mt Perry in 1871 really boosted the prospects of Bundaberg. The first bank opened in 1872, the first newspaper began publication in 1875 and a coach service operated to Maryborough until the railway line was completed in 1888. The government wharf in Bundaberg was built in 1875 with the main cargoes being timber and maize. The Primitive Methodists built an early brush and timber church in 1877 and the Anglicans completed their first church in 1876. But the Catholics were the first to build a permanent church which was consecrated in 1875. The town was well established but the big transformation occurred in the early 1880s when the land owners developed the sugar industry to its full extent until sugar eclipsed all other crops. In 1881 the Bundaberg region produced 3% of QLD’s sugar crop. In 1883 it produced 20% of QLD’s sugar crop. This domination of sugar persisted from 1880 through to 1915. New sugar mills started up with the new Millaquin mill in 1882 and mills for the Youngs of Fairymead and the Gibsons of Bingera. Stable prices for sugar assisted with this development of sugar mills and by the mid-1880s more sugar farms were being established reliant on European labour instead of South Sea Islander labour. The 1885 QLD Royal Commission into malpractices with the Kanaka trade meant the government intervened more to control conditions of the indentured labourers and limited the trade. These restrictions were lifted in 1891 to boost the sugar industry again but the emerging labour unions and associations of white labourers opposed the revival of the Kanaka trade as their employment suffered because of the trade. The new Commonwealth government of 1901 made the decision to cease the trade from 1906. As the sugar industry had to restructure itself the QLD government started to build and financially back the sugar mills itself at Gin Gin and Isis. They also tried to control the mills of Fairymead and Bingera and CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining.)The Labour government of QLD established sugar price control in 1915 and set up a board of appeal for complaints from growers against the sugar mills. By 1915 Bundaberg was in fierce competition with sugar cane areas in the Far North QLD and the industry was much regulated. But it has survived well to the present day. This has been assisted by a new port at Burnett Heads which was built in 1962.
Apart from the sugar industry the growth of Bundaberg has been assisted by mining, fruit and vegetable growing and the development of side products from sugar – molasses and rum distilling. The first rum was distilled from the Millaquin sugar mill in 1888. The town was boosted greatly by the opening of the railway from North Bundaberg to Mt Perry copper mines in 1884 which in turn encouraged the establishment of foundries and works to support the mines in Bundaberg. By the 1880s Bundaberg has some grand buildings appropriate for a regional city. The commercial and civic heart of the town was in Bourbong Street with the Post Office 157 Bourbong St (1891), the War Memorial 180 Bourbong St (1922), the School of Arts building 184 Bourbong St (1889), the former Commercial Bank 191 Bourbong St (1891) etc.
I went to Wickham Park in CT today and I brought only my new 40mm pancake lens with me. Once I started to get a feel for the lens I ended up with quite a few keepers. It's not as "bokehlicious" as a tighter lens would be but I really like the framing it gives.
Rooks are heavily armed and/or armored, carrying destructive weapons such as submachine guns or explosive weaponry.
Thanks to Mainman for the Axe Bayonet idea.
Post boxes in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside have been yarn bombed with Christmas decorations. Even a tree stump got the treatment. Identity of the yarn bombers is a mystery but they cheer up all who spot them.
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).
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)
Red and white post, Venice, Italy
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I took this and then noticed that some stupid statue got in the way in the background and I couldn't photoshop it out...
ps. I know its nelsons column...
A regular to the coffee shop this historian reads up on art in foreign countries, then travels to photograph rare pieces. As he reads about his subject he places post it notes on pages of interest winding up with books and magazines almost obscured by yellow extrusions.
One of the most bizarre sights I’ve seen in years – an Arthur Rimbaud post box in the cemetery at Charleville-Mézières, France.
For more details about the poet, see here
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)
An abandoned fence post in the vast scrub land in Iceland. Taken at the entrance to the lighthouse on the coast near to the town in which we were staying, Selfoss.
I'm proud to present the Emiliacouture Spring 2021 ready to wear capsule collection: "Post Apocalypse".
The Post Apocalypse athleisure garments are all about movement and dancing around the apartment while no one is watching. This Issey Miyake inspired collection of lounge wear is made out of Japanese pleated cotton blend with PVC stripes. The soft and stiff stripes give the fabric a unique shapeability that is really fun to play around with.
All items are OOAK and fit most 16" dolls (photographed here on Inamorata 3.0). They are sold as mix-an-match items at my store:
www.inamoratadolls.com/fullinventory
The background wall elements are made by Julia Gartung and painted by me using a sponge technique. The leather lounge that is in some pics is also commissioned from Julia.