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Luang Prabang, Laos, May, 2004 - Here are some monks just after sunrise silently going through the town collecting gifts of food from the residents. It will be their only food for the day. I cannot look at these photos without recalling the smell of sandalwood which was used for very small fires in little sidewalk hibachi stoves for cooking in the morning.
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer, sight unseen, 2010, Old City Hall, Toronto
photograph © Stephanie Fysh 2010; all rights reserved
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This was never a common sight in my time living in Kansas City, but these days, it is extremely rare, especially with favorable light. But the Railroad Gods looked out for me on this day. Luckily, this was a Saturday morning with no traffic around on the Woodsweather Bridge. I was able to stop, get out and get a few shots of this stopped KCS grain (100 cars). KCS SD70ACe #4199 leds with KCSM Grey Ghost CW44AC #4574 trailing.
Just some of the sites and sounds you'll experience walking to and from Conway Hall to Notre Dame's London Law Centre.
The Search For Elephants: Part 4 cont.
Okay, so he found them. But what now? I mean he still has to find a way to get one of them out into rush hour traffic and they don't appear to be going anywhere...
Saw this guy sitting on a rock on the side of the Yosemite falls trail. People say he's a regular sight.
View from ferryboat Finnøy, crossing the Høgsfjord between Oanes and Lauvvik. The mountain in the foreground is Uburen, alt. 438 m.
Here the Dry Ditch Tower on the east side of Fort Henry in the forefront shows the line of sight ot the Martello Tower further east.
As you can see, restoration work is being done on the tower in the background. It is the fourth Martello Tower, Cathcart Tower, which stands unused on Cedar Island near Point Henry.
No less than four Martello Towers were built at Kingston, Ontario to defend its harbour and naval shipyards in response to the Oregon Crisis.
Two thin towers (of which this one in the foreground) were added to the existing fortifications at Fort Henry between 1845 and 1848. These are considered dry ditch defence towers, rather than true Martello towers.
The four independent towers were built as redoubts to defend against marine attacks. Two of Kingston's towers, Murney Tower and the tower at Point Frederick (at the Royal Military College of Canada) are maintained as museums which are open during the summer. Frederick Tower is further defended by earthen ramparts and a limestone curtain wall. The only Martello tower completely surrounded by water, the Shoal Tower, stands in Kingston's Confederation Basin and is opened to the public as part of Doors Open Ontario for one day only in June each year, (since 2005).
The Martello Towers along with, the Rideau Canal system and Fort Henry became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the summer of 2007.
Thanks to Wikipedia for information on the Towers.
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SEEING BEYOND SIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY BLIND TEENAGERS
by Tony Deifell
Chronicle Books (Spring 2007)
Photography by Katy Singhas
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I've absolutely lost count of forgotten cabins in the forest. They all tell the same story, the perils of owning a building you don't have time to maintain. It's a sorrowful sort of thing, for someone, but it's my joy in the lonely woods. Strange to say it, but if it wasn't for the tumbledown history, I wouldn't go hiking at all. Every time I see a roof peak through the treetops, it makes me smile. This one has a view of swampland and beaver lodges, life in sight from a high, dry perch. Maybe salvation will come some day.
First shot ever with my new Bessa... inadvertantly taken while loading and advancing the film for the first time.