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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.
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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...
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20205 & 20007 at Crewe with 397011 in tow about to head into the Carriage Sidings for delivery 31/10/2019
London, UK.
Olympus OM 10 - Zuiko 50mm f1.8 - Kodak TRI-X @ISO 1600
Scansione da negativo. (Epson Perfection 3490)
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.
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.
Taiyuan, Shanxi, September 2008
One with the 50mm....digging through the folders, found a few more shots from the Pingyao-Xi'an-Guangzhou trip that I can probably upload.
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.
....seen at Willows Beach, Oak Bay, Victoria, BC yesterday afternoon at 6pm. The beach was emptying of all the sun worshippers as I walked by, and caught this couple and thier dog embracing the magic of being at the beach!
this is the location of daily beach volleyball games...
Mt Baker in Washington State is seen in the background!
Yes! I live in paradise!
The is a photograph from the third running of the Athlone Flatline Half Marathon ("The Flatline") which was held at Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Saturday 13th September 2014 at 11:00. There was beautiful weather for the event which started and finished at St. Aloysius College near the Canal Banks area of the town just slightly west of the River Shannon. This event was professionally organised and the very flat course meant that many runners both seasoned and new to the scene achieved season or personal bests. Almost 1,000 participants successfully completed the event in the beautiful September sunshine. Everyone involved must be congratulated for the flawless running of the event. This event is sure to go from strength to strength over the coming years. The event has grown from just over 600 in 2012, to over 900 in 2013 with around the same number finishing in 2014. Entry to the race closed weeks in advance.
This is a photograph which is part of a larger set of photographs taken at the start and finish of "The Flatline" 2014. The URL of the main set is www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157647516503901. This photoset contains photographs of the start (at the 600 meter mark) and then of the finish (at the 400 meter mark to go) up to a finish time of about 1:45.
Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2100 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
For reference the satellite navigation Coordinates to the event HQ are (Longitude: -7.948153, Latitude: 53.420575)
Overall Race Summary
Participants: Such is the popularity of the race this year that registration closed for the race in mid-August 2013. There were well over 850 participants who took to the start line.
Weather: The weather on the day was almost too warm for running which is a very rare complaint in Ireland. The runners were bathed in hot September sunshine for the duration of the race and into the early afternoon. In the sections of the race out towards Clonown and around the Bord na Mona areas there was a cooling.
Course: "The Flatline" ceratinly lived up to its name. It is as flat a course as one is likely to find. A garmin connect gps trace of the route is provided here [connect.garmin.com/activity/199678412] Geographically the course spends much of the race in County Roscommon with only the first and last kilometers actually in County Westmeath. This gives geographically inclined runners the novel opportunity to race in two Irish provinces in one race. The course had distance markers at every kilometre and mile along the way. There were official pacers provided by the race organisers.
Location Map: Start/finish area and registration etc on Google StreetView [goo.gl/maps/8qCes] - Ample parking was supplied with some over-flow car-parking options also available.
Refreshments: An Alkohol Frei bottle of Erdinger was provided to every finisher as they crossed the line. Light refreshments were served.
Some Useful Links
Our photographs on Flickr from the 2013 Flatline Half Marathon: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635495089498/
Jimmy Mac's Photography Services on Facebook www.facebook.com/JimmyMacsPics
Precision Timing Results Page 2014: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2175
Precision Timing Results Page 2013: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1489
Precision Timing Results Page 2012: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1014
Facebook Event Page for the 2013 www.facebook.com/events/495900447163378/ (Facebook logon required)
Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread about the 2014 race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057148781
Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread about the 2013 race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056984967
Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread about the 2012 race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80049447
GARMIN GPS Trace of the Route for 2013: connect.garmin.com/activity/199678412
Race HQ Venue in 2014: St.Aloysius College Athlone : staloysiuscollege.ie/
Race photographs from 2012's Flatline - supplied by PIXELS PROMOTIONS: pixelspromotions.zenfolio.com/p126168889 (on route) and at the Finish line pixelspromotions.zenfolio.com/p31872670 - please note these are not our photographs (see www.pixelspromotions.com/).
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We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
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Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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