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Trains from two Train Operating Companies may be seen in this image taken at Nottingham on 25 July 2017. On the left is East Midlands Trains 'Meridian' numbered 222012 which is to work 1B51, the 14.05 to St Pancras International, in the middle is fellow east Midlands Trains Class 156 with 2H15, the 13.55 to Mansfield Woodhouse and on the right is Arriva Cross Country Class 170 numbered 170637 with 1V11, the 14.10 to cardiff Central.
Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia
Wrestling competition
Young boys nervous at the start!
National Festival 2017 - NAADAM
Mongolia-style wrestling
The opening ceremony at the Naadam stadium includes a speech from the president and a 40- minutes show featuring traditional music, dancing and colourful costumes.
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Mongolia's penchant for war games comes to a head each summer on the vast grasslands, where competitors show off their skills in wrestling, archery and horse racing. The annual Naadam Festival is the much-anticipated culmination of these events, and it's a colourful spectacle enjoyed by locals and tourists alike.
Mongolians hold a special place in their hearts for horse racing, and Naadam is the best time of the year to watch this sport. Jockeys - traditionally children between the ages of seven and 12 years - race their horses over open countryside rather than around a track. Distances range between 15 km and 28 km and are both exhausting and dangerous. Every year jockeys tumble from their mounts and horses collapse and die from exhaustion at the finish line.
Mongolia-style wrestling has no weight divisions, so the biggest wrestlers are often the best. Naadam have a time limit - after 30 minutes the match goes into 'overtime' . The match ends only when the first wrestler falls, or when anything other than the soles of the feet or open palms touches the ground.
The unique uniform worn by the wrestlers needs some explaining. A Mongolian legend recounts that one Amazonian female entered a wrestling competition and trashed her male competitors. In order to prevent such an embarrassing episode happening again, the wrestling jacket was redesigned with an open chest, 'exposing' any would-be female contenders.
After the horse racing and wrestling, the third sport of naadam is archery, wich is performed by both men and women.
from 'lonely planet' Mongolia
In my experience it's good to start them young. Hopefully this young whippersnapper will grow up to have some amazing can control if he's starting out this young. The image is based on a photo I found on my phone of a friend's kid looking longingly at the can of paint that I'd put on the table just within his grasp. The next shot I've got shows him playing with it (and don't worry it didn't actually have a cap on. I have added that for dramatic effect which I'm allowed to do as it's my picture) but this is the one I like when he's got that look of concentration like he's working out what to do next...
Cheers
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Glasgow was again a host city for the start of the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique and a number of local runs for classic vehicles. The cars departed from the People's Palace, Glasgow Green. Here can be seen, just after leaving the start ramp, a 1974 Saab 96 - Number 354 - registration mark WHM 172M - with, driver and co-driver respectively, David Heirs and Richard Welsh.
See below for a bit more information about the Monte etc.
The 0600 PRS starts the chilly morning by making a hill trip from the Proctor Scale to Duluth Docks on April 17, 2012. DM&IR 405, 408, BLE 906, and DMIR 406 weave around the scale track with tac. loads that were brought in from an overnight pellet loader.
the small bullet that came out of the shadows & cast long shadow & help start the Great War WW1. It was close to this size
Sketching designs for some proposals.
Blogged: bugsandfishes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/starting-and-finishi...
Vielen herzlichen Dank an alle, die mich im vergangenen Jahr durch ihre Kommentare so liebevoll begleitet haben. Ich freue mich auf ein neues Jahr wo sich unsere Fotofreundschaft sicherlich noch vertiefen wird.
Thanks a lot to all of you who have attended my stream in the last year with their lovely comments.
I am looking forward to another year which will deepen our relationship in photographic matter.
From Struer and now Venoe on the starboard side - the start of sailing BOAT RACE is running with 68 wooden ships. It is the third sailing day. That day will be ending in Nykøbing Mors.
Once you have a nice pile of trimmed petals, start rolling them between your fingers. Form them into little tubes, essentially.
Most of the trees in the park last weekend were in bud stage, but a few branches, like this one, had started to flower.
Constitution Park, Waynesboro, Virginia.
As I witnessed this glorious event, I was overwhelmed with a sense of peace. The troubles of the previous day being washed away with every wave. The day starting anew and my spirit revitailzed.
The driver of BR 2-6-4T locomotive 80105 shows how to start a train from a station.
SRPS Photoshoot at Bo'ness 19/06/09.
I was among volunteers photographing the 13th annual run.walk which raised money for The Arc of Midland, Michigan.
another start wtihin a start...there is a really old feeling creeping back into me i haven't felt for a long long time...a strange twist on satisfaction...like i have my own cabin in the woods at the top of a grassy clearing... a playful dog and can survive on the fiddlesticks and beets down in my root cellar for a long long winter listening to polish symphonic orchestras with a wind up radio as the snow reaches the window sills... drawing under candle light...
Man started worshiping Nature and its components when he was still a hunter gatherer. Elephant is the largest terrestrial animal and thus man needs his blessings to live in forest.
Later came Ganesa, the elephant headed God, and developed stories, myths and beliefs linking elephant and Ganesa. Elephant is intelligent and can be easily tamed, thus man took him while coming out of forest.
Here elephant blesses my father at Sringeri, in front of Saradamba temple, of course for a small payment.
People in Kerala spend huge amount of money for displaying elephants in temple festivities. People in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka simply keep an elephant in front of temple and make money from visitors.
Even in those excited moments I picked up my camera shooting the first moments of Francesca's life. Here it's about 3 o 5 minutes after her birth, preparing her for docs visit (before bathing).
La foto non e' recente ero io che stavo in fissa prima a non voler postare le foto di Francesca sentendone di cotte e crude su internet. Ora grazie a degli amici qui trovati (Dona, Costanza, Lothian et al.) le fobie sono mano a mano svanite e .... vi ammorbero' naturalmente ancora considerato che è un soggetto dei piu' fotografati!