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My husband called out from the kitchen and I came on the run, camera in hand, with no time to think. I managed 5 frames, including this, the clearest of the lot, through the window before this sharp shinned hawk continued his hunt elsewhere. This image is very tightly cropped.
They are sharp .. need to be careful!
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When on NCT's brown line buses, I've seen on most days a Sharpes double decker (or two) parked down Haydn Road and it was only a matter of time before I had a walk down to take photos. That time came on 30.4.22 when I'd already seen there was one (despite it being a Saturday) and on my return journey towards town decided to go on foot and take a look.
Rather fortunately, the bus waiting for me was NLZ 116, an ex-Dublin B7TL which I was after a better photo of! It is pictured on Haydn Road outside Nottingham Free School, on a Saturday evening, which seems like a weird time for it to be there. What was weirder was that two days later it was still there, seemingly untouched.
Second in the line of Sharpes vehicles was Gemini 2 60 YWX, carrying a registration that was formerly on a Dublin Olympian. IIRC this is an ex-Bournemouth bus, which although still a G2 has come from a city besides Edinburgh for once.
Maid Marian Way, Nottingham
3.12.25
Sharpes Of Nottingham Daf Van Hool TX17 Astron Reg SH15 RPE is seen parked in Belfast Titanic Quarter
Was I spotted taking this couple's photograph? They were initially looking in opposite directions, but I managed to miss that shot! Never mind ....
Taken with my Leica M7 and Tele-Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 on Kodak Porta 160 ASA film. Film processed and scanned by the excellent Aperture Photography, 27 Rathbone Place, London, W1T
Searcher XL - Japanese import. In immaculate condition. This 1980 Sharp model has some super cool features so i thought deserved a good photograph once i got it back from the service engineer.
Here we have the second transistor radio released by Sharp (Hayakawa Electric Co., Ltd.) in mid 1957.
This model sported the nickname "Peppy" in a Sharp ad from the summer of 1957. Methinks Sharp was taking the term "pet name" a bit too literally . ;-)
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A complete entry on this model will eventually appear on my site, including chassis pics, a bit of history, and more stories of spicy pet names.
One of the Sharpes Volvo Olympians showed up on Derby Road on 17.7.18
Here's another ex-Dublin Olympian just under 10 years previous:
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Dorothea Sharp was born in Dartford in Kent in 1874 but it was not until the age of twenty-one that she began her artistic education in earnest. She soon moved to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the work of the Impressionists, which is evident in the spontaneous style and strong sense of colour and light that she is so well known for. Techniques, such as outlining figures with bright colours, were also adopted by Sharp after seeing the paintings of Matisse and van Gogh. In the mid 1940s she returned to London where she lived until her death in 1955.
[Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 61 cm]
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When I encountered the Bottesford school buses 'by accident' in June, the only one I saw but didn't manage to photograph (aside from the phantom Centrebus) was a Sharpes ex-Dublin B7TL which made the turn up Belvoir Road. Of course, I couldn't have been happier when I saw this approaching and was able to get a photo of the thing I missed last time, in some pretty nice weather conditions, too!
I don't know if it's the exact same bus from June or not (most likely not), but it doesn't matter as this is one of the Sharpes ALX400s which I haven't seen before and so is a tick in the book no matter what. The plate UXI 476 I have seen before, in fact, when it was attached to an Alexander PS that Sharpes were using on a University of Nottingham shuttle in 2015.
Belvoir Road, Bottesford, 16.9.22
Icy conditions render this bird a lot more sociable than usual...my dog dropped her ball in the water and this male bird and a female came to investigate the ripples probably to see if it was a fish...landed and stayed for about 20 minutes, no more than 12 feet away.
A few hardy mountaineers brave the conditions and tackle Sharp Edge. Head for heights required. I took the easier route which was still testing in the conditions
Taken from Corndon Tor which is near the Marines memorial on Dartmoor.In the distance can be seen the peak of Sharp Tor.
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THE TALE often told about Michelangelo forming a statue speaks of how spiritual formation takes place in the heart:
~The Lion in the Marble~
There was once a sculptor who worked hard with hammer and chisel on a large block of marble. A little child who was watching him saw nothing more than large and small pieces of stone falling away left and right. He had no idea what was happening. But when the boy returned to the studio a few weeks later, he saw, to his surprise, a large, powerful lion sitting in the place where the marble had stood. With great excitement, the boy ran to the sculptor and said, “Sir, tell me, how did you know there was a lion in the marble?” (an Old Jewish Tale)
The little boy’s question to the sculptor is a very real one, perhaps the most important question of all. The answer is, “I knew there was a lion in the marble because before I saw the lion in the marble, I saw him in my own heart.
-Spiritual Direction,
Henri J. M. Nouwen