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Before attending the Stirling event I (and my nephew) investigated the Transport Museum - then at Pollockshields,Glasgow. I thought this was a great setting for the locos -and road exhibits - and , like Clapham in London , did not agree with its closure. Here is CR Single No.123 -last seen and photographed in steam at London Victoria station ten years previously (Sep '63) on a special. 28/4/73.
single family house / jswd architekten / köln rodenkirchen, germany
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Earlier this year and my up and down shift patterns had resulted in a period of insomnia. So 2am and i'm driving on the road to Malham, in this mist and under a super moon. These trees had cast the longest of shadows across the field i'd traversed. Something coughed in the darkness- daylight revealed that this was a herd of young bulls, but you can imagine my nervousness at the time. I stood fearful and alone and watched as the moon set, the night passed and the morning arrive in warm tones through the mist. You may say i'm a dreamer, a headcase or a fool... but there is really nothing like it. Standing fearful and alone before nature, or my creator and then having such beauty revealed... there aren't the words..
THE YORKSHIRE DALES. Upper Wharfedale. 1953 BSA M21 600cc (actual 591cc) side-valve single in The Square, Grassington.
A couple more shots from a lunch time mission to the local woods. This time I decided to have a play with off camera flash to really bring out the textures and isolate the mushrooms.
I was quite pleased with this little scene although I do wish that I'd cleaned up the background a little. I placed my flash low and to the right a little behind the mushroom for some rim light. After a quick test shot I realised that the left side of the mushroom was disappearing into darkness so I rummaged in my bag and found a white envelope. I placed this just out of shot to the left to bounce a little light back in and give that edge a lift. I was pretty pleased with how that bit worked out, it's the kind of thing I normally only notice on the computer afterwards when it's too late to fix.
Showing designs and technologies through the ages, these two very different single-deck vehicles are seen here at Shore Road Car Park, Birkenhead, for the Wirral Bus & Tram Show on 02/10/2022. Nearest the camera is Arriva Merseyside 6005, SM15HWB, a Wrightbus StreetLite Max DF Micro Hybrid 11.5m. It was new to Arriva Merseyside in 08/2015. Alongside is preserved Crosville CSG655, 904OFM, a coach seated ECW bodied Bristol SC4LK. It was new to Crosville in 05/1960 © Peter Steel 2022.
Taken earlier in the summer, this is another SFV tractor, a single cylinder machine, started by first heating a "hot bulb" attached to the cylinder head, with a gas torch, and then turning the flywheel with a crank handle, there is no electric or compressed air starter! Despite it's apparent primitiveness, it was able to run a large threshing & baling machine with ease, which is what is on the other end of the drive belt! In the background is a wartime US Army GM three ton truck. Like the picture of the Lorraine Dietrich, this photo was carelessly underexposed by about five stops!
1953 Agfa Ventura 66 Deluxe, f4.5/85mm Solinar lens. Fomapan 400 @800 in Caffenol C + iodized salt. Coffee 40g/L, Washing Soda(50% water) 40g/L, Ascorbic Acid powder 12g/L, Iodized sea salt 12g/L No pre-soak, 18mins @ 21C, 30 seconds continuous agitation, then 2 gentle inversions every two minutes.
"In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file..."
--"Let No Charitable Hope" by Elinor Wylie
New York on December 31, 1962:
Teen model Nylah was so excited to be going to a party to which she was invited by her friends in the fashion world. Not only would socialites and celebrities be there; it was rumored that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller would make an appearance, which greatly excited Nylah as a fan of Rocky.
Moreover, she was so happy to put 1962 behind her:
"The Cuban Missile Crisis was so scary. My little sister said that at her grammar school, the nuns led the children in a drill of what to do if the bomb were dropped: calmly line up in the hallway and say the Hail Mary. That seems so...impractical," Nylah said, avoiding using the word 'dumb.'
Indeed, some historians would say that 1962 was one of the worst years in American history.
Thus, Nylah had a reason to look forward with hope:
"1963: We can close the book on being frightened and nervous. I just know this will be a great year!"
A great year: in some ways, perhaps. Cetainly for the Beach Boys, whose "Surfin' USA" was the biggest selling single of the year. Moreover, in August, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King would proclaim "I have a dream..." President Kennedy would continue to be popular, and would be praised for his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
Yet, of course, "Nothing gold can stay..."
Country/cross-over star Patsy Kline, who had a huge hit with Willie Nelson's composition "Crazy," would die in a plane crash...
Little more than 2 weeks after the March on Washington, "4 Little Girls'--one 11 and three 14 year olds--would die in the KKK perpetrated Birmingham Church bombing.
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would resign after "The Profumo Scandal," a tawdry melange of sex and alleged national security risks, featuring the Minister of War along with 'party girls' Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.
In August, First Lady Jackie Kennedy would give birth to a son, Patrick, who was born prematurely and would live for only a couple of days...
In early November, the President of South Vietnam and his brother would be killed in a CIA-backed coup, though it is said that President Kennedy had no knowledge that assassinations were in the cards...
Later in November, President Kennedy would reduce funding for the war in Vietnam...
On November 22, for Americans, the violence and discord would come to a climax; as Bob Dylan sang:
'Twas a dark day in Dallas, November '63
A day that will live on in infamy
President Kennedy was a-ridin' high
Good day to be livin' and a good day to die
Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb
He said, "Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?"
"Of course we do, we know who you are"
Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
Shot down like a dog in broad daylight
Was a matter of timing and the timing was right
You got unpaid debts, we've come to collect
We're gonna kill you with hatred, without any respect
We'll mock you and shock you and we'll put it in your face
We've already got someone here to take your place
The day they blew out the brains of the king
Thousands were watchin', no one saw a thing
It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise
Right there in front of everyone's eyes
Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done
Wolfman, oh Wolfman, oh Wolfman, howl
Rub-a-dub-dub, it's a murder most foul
...Put your head out the window, let the good times roll
There's a party goin' on behind the Grassy Knoll
Stack up the bricks, pour the cement
'Don't say Dallas don't love you,' Mr. President
Put your foot in the tank and step on the gas
Try to make it to the triple underpass
...Riding in the backseat next to my wife
Heading straight on in to the afterlife
...But his soul's not there where it was supposed to be at
For the last fifty years they've been searchin' for that
Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me
I hate to tell you, mister, but only dead men are free
...Got blood in my eye, got blood in my ear
I'm never gonna make it to the new frontier
Zapruder's film, I've seen that before
Seen it thirty-three times, maybe more
It's vile and deceitful, it's cruel and it's mean
Ugliest thing that you ever have seen
They killed him once and they killed him twice
Killed him like a human sacrifice
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, "Son
The age of the Antichrist has just only begun"
Air Force One comin' in through the gate
Johnson sworn in at 2:38
Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel
It is what it is, and it's murder most foul
...Love Field is where his plane touched down
But it never did get back up off the ground
Was a hard act to follow, second to none
They killed him on the altar of the rising sun
...Play "Darkness" and death will come when it comes
Play "Love Me Or Leave Me" by the great Bud Powell
Play "The Blood-stained Banner" play "Murder Most Foul"
--"Murder Most Foul" written and recorded by Bob Dylan (2020)
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Netherlands, Rotterdam. Flickr Meetup Kop van Zuid April 2007. Bachelorette Karin.
You are a week away from getting married. Your friends abduct you for this bachelorette party on a Saturday. Dress you up as a bunny and give you this red bike. So far so good.
Then you walk by this cafe's pavement where three photographers with big cameras bounce up from behind their beers and start taking photos as if you were Britney Spears. And then this one photographer asks you to lift up your arm, to make a nice pose.
Wouldn't you feel at least a bit embarrased or surprised?
So the photographers were rrheauchyr and www.flickr.com/photos/jaccodotorg/475786363/in/set-721576... and I, We had stayed behind at the cafe while the rest of the Flickr meetup group were doing this extra round.
I had several takes to choose from, but I like this one the best, also because of the friend in the background on the left. She was in shock and laughter when Karin obediently acted to my request to raise her arm. I envy the groom for marrying such a good listening and cooperative wife. ;-)