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Face to face with a German Wasp on top of my solar-powered security light.
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Urban landscape photography from East Kilbride, Scotland.
I was out for a walk with my camera on an unexpected local holiday and with nearby units closed, and therefore no cars parked in front, I got to see this scene a little differently.
Yes I am still avoiding people during the ongoing pandemic with my clinical vulnerability and I long for the day that it is safe for me to return to photographing what I love. Stay safe everyone.
Corrugated steel church hall (c. mid 20th Century).
Churches are renowned for being rich, yet they are always whingeing about roof repairs etc. Look at the state of this place, maintenance appears to be off the list of priorities.
LR3918 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Still officially the most deprived area in the UK, Jaywick certainly has a charm all of it's own.
LR3927 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Henry County, Georgia
Kodak 500 Instamatic camera with Ilford HP5+ film. Some fogging when working with the 126 film cartridge gave it a neat effect.
My former local telephone exchange, early Elizabethan 1956. It is a lovely mid century building with many modern features and could easily be tidied up.
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Don't you love it when you have an idea and it works like you wanted it to?
I've had this shot planned since the middle of the week as a way to sign off my latest mini-series (t-shirts with the words on them mixed up to make meanings and stuff . . . bit long-winded innit?).
I took this shot in my parent's back garden. They have a security light above the back door, and it occurred to me on the bus to work the other day (it's where I get my best ideas) that the light would probably give off enough brightness to get a decent ghetto lit shot . . . and it did! I took a fair few shots but this was my favourite - yes, I'm admitting I like this shot.
The message on the shirt today is: Party! Just because it's Friday so I thought I'd throw a bit of joviality into the mix. It's meant to contrast with my facial expression, which isn't in a party mood by the look of it. It's all about juxtaposition. Honest.
The title of the shot is a quote from Friends, in the episode where Ross and Chandler are going to meet their mate Gandalf? And Chandler asks Ross if he's ready to party? And Ross isn't sure, and then Chandler says "Are you ready . . . to party?" in a really hysterical way? Trust me, it's hilarious.
I almost feel like I've got my mojo back now, the last couple of shots have come out alright and that makes a lot of difference to my state of photographing mind. It was really, really cool today to go through the day knowing I had a shot planned, and even better when I tried it and the plan worked!
More music for you to listen to (should you want to of course):
It's been all about Machine Head for me this week, so as well as the song I linked to on day 139 I'd like to direct you towards a couple more of their albums. Namely Through The Ashes Of Empires (the link takes you to the first song from the album, Imperium), and The More Things Change . . . - this link takes you to the first track from this album, Ten Ton Hammer.
Don't listen to it if you like Coldplay . . .
The dogs are dueling over the fence, causing the motion sensor lights to come on. Mooky and Kona need to chill. 100 Days of Darkness 8/100.
Bricked up windows in a rapidly changing part of East London.
Three six nine, the goose drank wine.
The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line.
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowing boat, clap, clap . . .
Shirley Ellis, The Clapping Song (1965).
I found myself singing this as I took this photograph. It is the first song I remember as a child.
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Parking lot light in the middle of a heavy snow. Inspired by Drive to Survive and their super cool, atmospheric urban/industrial photos.
Taken on my phone with the Flickr app.
A composition for December's Most Versatile - set by Sharon for the Compositionally Challenged Group
Flâneuring "east side".
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Pimento Cheese is our favorite.
Griffin, Georgia
Holga 120N camera with Catlabs Film 320 Professional film.
Just after dawn the merchandise glows in the popular seaside town. Summer is long gone bit it's still possible to 'look good'. On the empty streets.
Dunnock / prunella modularis. Minsmere, Suffolk. 19/04/2016.
In the Spring I noticed this little beauty having a rest at the back of the Visitor Centre. Perched on an isolated branch in a shaded area, s/he watched the activities of other birds around the feeders.
I quite like the soft glow of a security light and muted tones in the bokeh of this image. They seem to compliment the Dunnock's plumage nicely.
Peak at an exciting relative at: flickr.com/photos/10112197@N02/1752079537/
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Desserts taste so good, right? Spelt backwards desserts is “stressed”? Even aliens need to have balance in their lives. Be careful how many desserts you eat in one sitting, hour, day. Alien clothes cost too much to just keep buying sizes larger and larger as the body grows to accommodate being big and bigger with less exercise. “Watch the size of your extra meals” is the motto on the transport I have been seeing the Worlds on. What can we each learn from these alien strangers that often look so much like us? If we could just understand their strange languages, and communicate better, would we see more love, justice and peace on earth? Want to try? We might like it. Then just do it!
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"She quibbles over words. 'If, as she says, a housekeeper earns more money than a maid, does a whore earn more money than a slut?'" David Sedaris's narrator in My Manuscript a short story in "Barrel Fever" (1984 Little Brown)
On March 11, 1994, during a Business Trip to Clearwater, Florida, I took these Photographs at an Aircraft Museum behind the Clearwater/St. Petersburg Airport. This Airport was directly across Roosevelt Boulevard from Smiths Aerospace Company. My home base was Smiths Aerospace Company in Florham Park, New Jersey, but I often visited the Clearwater Plant for various reasons. The Placard notes that this Aircraft is on loan from the US Air Force Museum Program.
This particular photograph shows United States Air Force T-33 T-Bird Trainer #80700 Jet Aircraft at the Clearwater Aircraft Museum. This Aircraft is a Lockheed Built Shooting Star (aka: T-Bird) Subsonic Jet Trainer. For further information about this aircraft, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_T-33
The Clearwater Airport Museum wasn't much of a Museum because most of the Aircraft were Old Military Aircraft which were in very poor condition because there was apparently no attempt to Restore any of these Aircraft. There was also a small Faux Village with some shops & eateries near the Museum. Whenever visited the Smiths Clearwater Plant, I would eat lunch at least once at the Hanger Club in the Faux Village. Both the Museum and the Faux Village were located just North of the Airport near the ramp leading to the Bayside Bridge. Since my company transferred me to Florida in 1996, the Village has been demolished because of the expansion of the US Coast Guard Station.
I took this photograph with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 35mm SLR Film Camera with Color Slide Film. I Scanned the Slide to create the Electronic Image presented here on the flickr™ site, using Photo Shop™ to improved the Exposure and Sharpness.
DISCLAIMER: I took these slides in the Mid 1990's, while I was just learning Photography and therefore they exhibited very poor Exposure, Composition and Sharpness. I've utilized Photoshop Elements 10™ to optimized them as best as I could.