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This Sandwich tern failed to attract any females with this offering. Maybe the fish was too sad looking and perhaps the girls were looking for a 'Happy Meal'.
When a guy fails to get a date he just might decide to go watch some soft porn instead (See previous image) or perhaps he was curious as to how the 'Royals' do it? ;0)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
Source: hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/hoover-dam
85 years after its completion, Hoover dam is still considered an engineering marvel. It is named in honor of President Herbert Hoover, who played a crucial role in its creation.
For many years, residents of the American southwest sought to tame the unpredictable Colorado River. Disastrous floods during the early 1900’s led residents of the area to look to the federal government for aid, and experiments with irrigation on a limited scale had shown that this arid region could be transformed into fertile cropland, if only the river could be controlled. The greatest obstacle to the construction of such a dam was the allocation of water rights among the seven states comprising the Colorado River drainage basin. Meetings were held in 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the states could not reach a consensus.
Herbert Hoover had visited the Lower Colorado region in the years before World War I and was familiar with its problems and the potential for development. Upon becoming Secretary of Commerce in 1921, Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. In addition to flood control and irrigation, it would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and Southern California. The project would be self-supporting, recovering its cost through the sale of hydroelectric power generated by the dam.
In 1921, the state legislatures of the Colorado River basin authorized commissioners to negotiate an interstate agreement. Congress authorized President Harding to appoint a representative for the federal government to serve as chair of the Colorado River Commission and on December 17, 1921, Harding appointed Hoover to that role.
When the commission assembled in Santa Fe in November 1922, the seven states still disagreed over the fair distribution of water. The upstream states feared that the downstream states, with their rapidly developing agricultural and power demands, would quickly preempt rights to the water by the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Hoover suggested a compromise that the water be divided between the upper and lower basins without individual state quotas. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. It split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding amongst themselves how the water would be allocated.
A series of bills calling for Federal funding to build the dam were introduced by Congressman Phil D. Swing and Senator Hiram W. Johnson between 1922 and 1928, all of which were rejected. The last Swing-Johnson bill, titled the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was largely written by Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. Congress finally agreed, and the bill was signed into law on December 21, 1928 by President Coolidge. The dream was about to become reality.
On June 25, 1929, less than four months after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation declaring the Colorado River Compact effective at last. Appropriations were approved and construction began in 1930. The dam was dedicated in 1935 and the hydroelectric generators went online in 1937. In 1947, Congress officially "restored" Hoover's name to the dam, after FDR's Secretary of the Interior tried to remove it. Hoover Dam was built for a cost of $49 million (approximately $1 billion adjusted for inflation). The power plant and generators cost an additional $71 million, more than the cost of the dam itself. The sale of electrical power generated by the dam paid back its construction cost, with interest, by 1987.
Today the Hoover Dam controls the flooding of the Colorado River, irrigates more than 1.5 million acres of land, and provides water to more than 16 million people. Lake Mead supports recreational activities and provides habitats to fish and wildlife. Power generated by the dam provides energy to power over 500,000 homes. The Hoover Compromise still governs how the water is shared.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Nevada) "نيفادا" "内华达州" "नेवादा" "ネバダ" "네바다" "Невада"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Hoover Dam) "سد هوفر" "胡佛水坝" "हूवर बांध" "フーバーダム" "후버 댐" "Гувера" "Presa Hoover"
I have been reviewing my enormous collection of rejected exposures and I have altered my perspectives totally. I now realise that I should leave the instant reject editorial mode in the past.
This house was built in the 1830's and enlarged and remodeled in the 1850's by the famous architect & builder, Jacob Holt. The house sits almost a mile away from any public road which mandated a pretty good hike thru the fields and woods. It appears to have been empty for about 20 years and surprisingly hasn't been touched by vandals or thieves. This shot is of the side of the house. It's hard to get a shot of the front due to the severely overgrown boxwood alley and trees.
I found these abandoned flowers in a stream bed today, someone had thrown them away, and they were dying in the water, it was a sad sight, and I wondered about the person who had thrown them away, and the circumstances i will never know, but I do know the feeling.....B l a c k M a g i c</ EXPLORE #193 someone said!
"Success is 99% failure." - Soichiro Honda
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Even though this photo should be rejected, I've always enjoyed taking these types of shots. I guess it's about the experience. Knowing a train is approaching, setting up shot, and listening for train in the distance, all while enjoying some of the most peaceful, serene, and spectacular surroundings I could imagine. There's something about the night out here. No passing cars, no hum of sodium vapor street lights, no people. Until the train comes, it's just the occasional sound of a coyote, or maybe a distant grizzly. On one of these spectacular evenings, a full moon illuminates the scene as it ducks in and out of the clouds. An eastbound BNSF ESPBEBM012 empty coal train approaches Bridge 55 on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision just west of Trout Creek.
Whatever… Following a day of leaf peeping up the shore the family and I happened upon this Two Harbors pellet fetcher departing. I’ve wanted to get this shot for a long time but never really put in the labor to attain it. Well today I got it, and shit I had to put in even less effort than I didn’t put in previously! The lack of effort is likely evident in the foreground clutter but come on we’ve got a matched set of c40’s, fall colors and Lake Superior… what else could one ask for? Well, some sun would be nice. It’s less than perfect but it brings me a lot of joy. See, I’m stil of the old school, pre-ATCS, pre heads-up group, pre everything I guess. Don’t get me wrong, I use each of them but I find the most exciting moments of the hobby come along side by side with plain old dumb luck. There’s something special about that and there’s something special about this encounter as a result.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Ningú havia vist aquestes fotos fins ara. Fins que les he revelat.
Aquestes fotos de carnaval foren fetes per un desconegut entre 1972 i 1985, i concretament al poble anglès de Croft, Warrington, Cheshire (al oest de Manchester). Que com puc donar tants detalls d’unes fotos fetes fa 40 anys per un desconegut? Be, observant tots els detalls i amb FORÇA sort.
Comencem dient que en aquest rodet format 120 (datable pel tipus entre 1972 i 1982, el periode de producció) el vaig comprar a internet d’origen desconegut. Apart de 4 fotos del que clàrament és una carrossa de carnaval, al davant tenia 2 fotos d’un cementiri militar britanic a Creta i al darrera només fotos desenfocades d’interiors que podrien ser a qualsevol lloc. La bandera británica que es veu en aquestes fotos (i l’ambientació general) indiquen el Regne Unit però això és molt generic. La sort la vaig tenir amb un únic element: el text que es veu a la carrossa: “8th Warrington Rejects”. Les disfresses de boy-scouts i el terme “rejects” fa pensar en una carictaturització dels mateixos, però el element clau és Warrington, que és una población a mig camí entre Liverpool i Manchester. Furgant per internet amb el terme “8th Warrington” vaig veure que es tracta d’un casal de boy-scouts situat al poblet de Croft, a les afores de Warrington. Bingo. Croft és famós pel seu carnaval… i a sobre vaig poder identificar la única casa que s’intueix en una de les fotos amb una que hi ha al costat del parc central de la población, lloc obvi per a fer una desfilada de carnaval.
Com a posdata, la darrera foto del rodet, molt desenfocada i moguda, mostra l’interior d’un local força ampli. Ja segur que es tractava de Croft, fou força fácil veure que aquest interior correspon sense dubtes amb el del Croft Village Memorial Hall (el “centre civic”, vaja).
ACTUALITZACIÓ: per mitjà de contactes a internet amb la comunitat de Croft, vaig poder contactar amb els autors de les fotografies, Bevan i Doris Friar. El viatge a Creta era part del 40è aniversari d'ella. Més informació aquí:
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19104804.couples-photos...
S'anomena "found film" a aquelles fotografies en pel•licula o placa que es troben sense revelar dins càmeres velles o per altres racons. La gracia és que ningú ha vist mai aquestes fotografies.
Vaig trobar una desena de rodets de format mitjà (la majoria format 120) a internet, procedents d'un venedor de Manchester; provenien de càmeres que ell havia anat col•leccionant. Dels 10, 6 no s'havien en veritat fet servir mai o només com a proves (un eren només fotos d'un sostre d'oficina). Els altres han donat resultats força interessants.
Aquest rodet era un Kodak Kodacolor II de format 120, per tant, produit entre 1973 i 1983; el que implica que segurament fou emprat entre 1973 i 1985, abans de caducar. El paper protector tenia el text en verd, el que fa pensar més aviat en la part final d’aquest periode (1980-85?). El vaig revelar amb el kit de color C41 de Tetenal.
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Nobody, even less the author, had seen these pictures until now.
These old photos were taken by a stranger between 1972 and 1985, and specifically in the English village of Croft, Warrington, Cheshire (west of Manchester). I developed myself these images that had been sleeping in its roll film since then. How can I give so many details of photos taken 40 years ago by a stranger? Well, observing all the details and with A LOT of luck.
Let's start by saying that in this 120 roll film (dating by type between 1972 and 1982, the production period) I bought it on the internet of unknown origin, there several groups of pictures. Aside from these 4 photos of what is clearly a carnival float, on the front was 2 photos of a British military cemetery in Crete and on the back only blurry photos of interiors that could be anywhere. The British flag seen in these photos (and the general setting) indicates the UK but this is very generic. I was lucky with a single element: the text seen on the float: "8th Warrington Rejects." The boy-scout costumes and the term “rejects” suggest a caricature of them, but the key element is Warrington, which is a town halfway between Liverpool and Manchester. Searching the internet for the term "8th Warrington", I saw that it was a boy-scout group in the village of Croft, on the outskirts of Warrington. Bingo. Croft is famous for its carnival… and on top of that I was able to identify the only house that can be intuited in one of the photos with one next to the Croft Playing Fields, an obvious place for a carnival parade and festival.
As a postscript, the last photo of the reel, very out of focus, shows the interior of a fairly large room. Surely it was Croft, it was quite easy to see that this interior undoubtedly corresponds to that of the Croft Village Memorial Hall.
UPDATE: Through internet contacts with the Croft community, I was able to contact the authors of the photographs, Bevan and Doris Friar. The trip to Crete was part of her 40th birthday. More information here:
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19104804.couples-photos...
They call "found film" at those images in film or plates that are find undeveloped inside old cameras or in other places, like boxes or old houses.
I found a dozen roll films (mostly 120-format) on the internet, from a Manchester sale; they came from cameras the owner had been collecting. Of the ten, six had never actually been used or only as trials (one was just photos of an office ceiling). The others have given quite interesting results.
This one roll was a 120-format Kodacolor II, therefore produced between 1973 and 1983, so it was probably exposed between 1973 and 1985. The backing paper has the lettering in green, but there are Kodacolor II rolls with black lettering, which look older; so maybe the setting is on the later part of 1973-85. I developed it with the C41 color kit by Tetenal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_film
www.cheshirescouts.org.uk/about-us/groups/8th-warrington-...