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Shiny Facade (Living for the city)
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1978 Reliant Type Robin 1st generation (1973-1981) MK I Model 2½-door Saloon with large opening rear window
- an extreme rare special edition, a "Jubileum Special", of which only 50 were made, exclusively for The Netherlands
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L'arrière plan prend ici toute sa dimension . relevant l'effet "tableau", la fleur est un élément de sujet détourné pour obtenir un beauté simple mais créée par la volonté du photographe.
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The background here takes on its full dimension. Noting the "painting" effect, the flower is an element of subject diverted to obtain a simple beauty but created by the will of the photographer.
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Lo sfondo qui assume la sua piena dimensione. Notando l'effetto "pittura", il fiore è un elemento di soggetto deviato per ottenere una bellezza semplice ma creata dalla volontà del fotografo.
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El fondo aquí adquiere toda su dimensión. Observando el efecto "pintura", la flor es un elemento de sujeto desviado para obtener una belleza simple pero creada por la voluntad del fotógrafo.
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It wasn’t the first time I’d heard him say it, but there was no time at which those words seemed more relevant. I’d just arrived back at the campsite after a testing adventure that had taken me to the summit of Britain’s highest mountain and back, Ben Nevis. Five and a bit hours earlier I’d set off, part of a group of five on a grey July Saturday morning. Soft rain and mist wove a dampening conspiracy around us, and long before we were halfway up, the land below had vanished entirely. But it had been today or never for me on this middle instalment of three mountains in three days in the Scottish Highlands. Two of us were much faster than the other three and our brief stops to wait for them were rapidly abandoned so that we could keep on moving and stay warm. At the summit, a huge cornice of grainy snow covered the edge of the deadly north face. We didn’t stay at the top for long, huddling among the stone ruins of an abandoned shelter and taking the obligatory summit selfies. On the way down, the zip on my coat broke, and for the rest of the descent I was dogged by sixty mile per hour rain charged gusts that turned me into a sail and quickly soaked me to the core.
“The only thing that’s waterproof is skin!” said James as he peered grimly into the rain out of what I can only describe as a one man teepee. “Tea? Sausage sandwich?” I gratefully accepted, before trudging off squelchily to the campsite laundry where just about everything I had worn was poured into an industrial sized tumble dryer. Even my rucksack and ahem, yes my passport that had inexplicably been with me on the hike went in as I sat in a chair and gradually felt my senses return. It might have been July, but nobody had remembered to tell the Scottish Highlands.
James was always resourceful on these hiking adventures. The much loved patriarch of a Clydebank family, we first met him on the West Highland Way ten years ago as we hiked the hundred odd miles from Milngavie, just north of Glasgow, to Fort William. A man who seemed bigger in stature than he actually stood, he was one of those people who emanated warmth and humour behind which you could sense was a quiet layer of hidden steel. A man who earned our respect without trying to. He was accompanied by several members of his family, including his daughter Karen, who’d taken it upon herself to watch over us like a guardian angel as we made our way north through some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Each day we all finished at the same hostel or campsite where we would share stories of our adventures over a pint or three, and by the time we arrived in the streets of Fort William during a torrential downpour, the three of us that had started a week earlier had somehow snowballed into a group of twenty.
There were no beds at Fort William that night. We’d intended to sleep in our tents, but the campsite was flooded. A different year, but it was still July. After a lot of frantic searching, Karen appeared with the rescue plan. Alder and Anna, the young teachers from North Carolina we’d befriended and walked every step of the last two and a half days with, would be smuggled into the long since booked hotel room she and Louise were sharing, while Dave, Tom and I would sneak in with James. If James was at all disgruntled by the fact that he was about to share his long awaited hotel room with three people he’d only met a few days ago, he certainly didn’t show it. Instead, he just grinned and poured the whisky. Such effortless kindness is a rare and special thing. James had it in abundance. And since that first adventure, he’s featured in each of the ones we’ve had in Scotland.
Three years later we did the hike again, this time in a Mediterranean style heatwave. But not in July - this time we were in Scotland in May. And somehow I persuaded Ali to come with me, on what was her first ever trip to Scotland. Once again, there was James, now almost in his seventieth year, always magically producing a hip flask full of single malt at the moment it was most needed. I wondered whether there was a lorry following us - or a boat during the very long section of the trail on the remote east bank of Loch Lomond - topping up his hip flask when the rest of us weren’t watching.
Last summer we were back in Scotland for the first time in five years, invited by Alder and Anna to join them on a long overdue reunion hike along the Great Glen. Afterwards, Ali and I trekked the Rannoch Moor section of the West Highland Way alone. Back in 2018 she’d decided to skip the testing haul across the huge open wilderness and regretted it ever since, while I was more than happy to follow that path for a third time. But it turned into yet another July afternoon in the Highlands when the heavens opened and obliterated the landscape. From start to end we were soaked by bullets from the sky, although at least this time the coats kept out the worst of it as we trod the boggy twelve miles across mountain and moor. On a fine day it’s a stunning walk, but in heavy rain it’s sheer purgatory with nowhere to throw in the towel and wait to be rescued by the bus or a taxi.
A couple of days later we met up with James and his wife Joanne who’d joined Karen to visit us at our waterfront pitch on the campsite beside the east bank of Loch Lomond, not far from their home. At least the rain mostly stayed at bay for once. We spent the time drinking tea and reminiscing about those wonderful shared adventures on the trail, and the day Karen and I hiked up to the summit of Buachaille Etive Mor, only to be surrounded by yet another thick veil of suffocating fog. Also in July. Catching up with friends like these was among the highlights of a road trip that we’ll never forget. It was a surprise though to hear that James no longer touched the whisky. Even a beer was politely refused when I dug a couple of cans out of the fridge.
Three weeks ago we learned that James had died suddenly while overseas on holiday with Joanne. A heart attack we were told. He was seventy-five. It doesn’t seem that old, and nor did James. Such a generous and unassuming man. The sad news took me back to the memory of that soaking wet hike across Rannoch Moor, when I smiled through the mist as I heard his well worn mantra speaking across the hills to me in that unmistakable Clydeside accent - “The only thing that’s waterproof is skin!” He’d have loved an afternoon like this. Slàinte James. This one’s for you.
My brother Dave made a video of the 2015 hike: youtu.be/LUjhj2ojeX0?si=1cOJLsAv2Qln-O8a
And despite the fact that his was so much better, I made one of the 2018 hike: youtu.be/Qjq47Wiyko8
1958 Buick Special Series 40 Model 46R Riviera Coupé (Fisher body)
Dear FLICKR friends.
Unfortunately I have to take it easy on FLICKR for the time being :-(
Sad circumstances affect me and my family :-(
We have to deal with it, but it requires a lot of energy :-(
I am very sorry for the inconvenience, such as hardly posting any photos, late responses, no comments etc. :-(
But, as always and very important: ENJOY, my friends ♫♪
Gr. Clay
Carrot Dangling Vol. III
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Triumph Model TR6 Roadster (1968-1976)
Sorry, I'm on Holiday ... ♫♪
The internet is here too slow to work well, so posting in groups again next week :-)
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Gr. Clay
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1964 Wolseley 16/60 4-door Saloon / 4/60 in some export countries
Dear FLICKR friends.
Unfortunately I have to take it easy on FLICKR for the time being :-(
Sad circumstances affect me and my family :-(
We have to deal with it, but it requires a lot of energy :-(
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But, as always and very important: ENJOY, my friends ♫♪
Gr. Clay
1926 Panhard et Levassor SS X47 10CV Torpédo
Dear FLICKR friends.
Unfortunately I have to take it easy on FLICKR for the time being :-(
Sad circumstances affect me and my family :-(
We have to deal with it, but it requires a lot of energy :-(
I am very sorry for the inconvenience, such as hardly posting any photos, late responses, no comments etc. :-(
But, as always and very important: ENJOY, my friends ♫♪
Gr. Clay
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1953 Renault 4CV R1062
Dear FLICKR friends,
Our situation is slowly improving!
We like to thank you all for your support lately ☺☺!
All really appreciated ☺☺!
Gr. Clay
This shot comes from my archives dating from Summer 2015, when we had a vacation in Catalunya (Calella and Barcelona). My sunrise session at Cala de la Vinyeta was coming to an end; the sun was slowly rising above the horizon, just beyond the rocks - those Maresme pink granite rocks which slowly turns into a beautiful grainy, rosy sand. I had overlooked this shot because… well, I have no idea why. The relevant thing is that I have unearthed it now, mainly because of the curvy, sparkling line painted by the backwash on the seashore. An everchanging path towards the light springing from the horizon. A memento of what my life shoud be: a journey from darkness towards the light. Since this is the (highly non-linear) journey of a lifetime, I am – or should be – humbly along the way. However just now you and I are fellow travellers, and I feel that the best thing I can do for you, just now, is to share this path of light.
Before the usual notes about processing (sorry, being one of the strange beasts librarians are I somehow must describe the process behind the photo), I have to tell you that I have played with some unusual, precious features of an unusual, precious free program called Chasys Draw IES Artist by John Paul Chatcha. Very interesting features indeed; just as an example, I have tried “heuristic rescaling” and in a flash I have got a 2x2 high quality enlargement of my original image (from 4946x3280 px to 9892x6560 px). What I have actually implemented in this picture, as an experiment asking for your potential criticism, is “smart resize”, which allows to change the proportions of the frame from 3:2 to 16:9 in… well, in a smart way (e.g. I selected the cliff on the left to have it retaining its original proportions) ;-)
Although I must state that this program cannot possibly supersede the Gimp in my workflow, I warmly advice you to try the “special” features of Chasys Draw IES Artist.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds good results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. Here I have blurred a bit the inverted Blue channel layer.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable (I am trying experimenting with RawTherapee, but in no satisfactory way for now). Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by luminance).
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1907 Holsman Model 3 Type Runabout Highwheeler
- 1647cc 2 cylinder boxer SV air-cooled engine
- power 10 bhp
- curb weight 365 kg
- top speed 40 km/h
1925 Citroën 10CV B12 Conduite Interieure 4 Places
^)(^ SORRY: I have to "slow down" (probably fewer photos, fewer input in groups, fewer comments and slower responses, etc.) for the next coming weeks, because we renovate our house ♫♪
I am very sorry about possible inconveniences ...
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IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
El poble anglès de Lacock, a Wiltshire, és un dels més ben conservats i bonics del sud del país. S'hi han rodat moltes series i pel·licules, com Downton Abbey i Harry Potter.
Aquesta vista en concret és la que surt a l'escena on Albus Dumbledore i Harry Potter "apareixen" al poblet de Budleigh Babberton, que no és altre que Lacock però amb una creu de terme d'atrezzo.
Però per a mi és encara més rellevant per ser un dels llocs del món on es va inventar la fotografia. I el més ben documentat, en aquest aspecte.
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This is one of the most photogenic corners of Lacock, in Wiltshire. This beautiful southern England village has been the location of the filming of several TV series and movies, most notably Downton Abbey and Harry Potter.
This is the first view Harry Potter gets of the village of Budleigh Babberton when Albus Dumbledore brings hime magically there. But it's Lacock at night and with an atrezzo stone cross.
But for me, it's mostly relevant because it's one of the places where photography was invented, and the most interestig at that.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock-abbey-fox-talbot-museum-a...
Doesn't make much sense anymore
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Urban Vignettes
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A brace of B&O GP9s are covered in sand from duty on the B&O's West End. M&K was once a busy place with the mainline to St. Louis spinning off the Morgantown & Kingwood, as well as a base for helpers. With the through-route being eliminated in the 1980s, the M&K being cut back and finally entirely ripped up, and better power and technology has made M&K Junction more of a historical note. Luckily W. Brennan was here in May 1969 to capture this scene when it was still a relevant location. JL Sessa collection.
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Deer ....☺☺!
Sorry, I'm on Holiday ... ♫♪
The internet is here too slow to work well, so posting in groups again next week :-)
ENJOY ♫♪
Gr. Clay
Trolling happens under bridges, right?
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Very relevant today because of the ongoing judicial review in the High Court into the takeover of 49 GP practices by the private US healthcare giant Centene Corporation. The grounds for the review are that there has been no consultation with patients.
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