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En el fuerte encontré esta otra arquerÃa, un poco más estrecha pero igual de profunda...
Y como dicen los jarochos: "¡Sólo Veracruz es bello!"
This was one of those moments when it really paid to have my camera with me. The fog descended quickly and I happened to drive by this spot. The rest, as they say, is history.
(MOST viewed picture).
Added to Cream Of The Crop as my most favourited.
This was taken at The Big Chill Festival. August 5-7 2005, Eastnor Castle, England. What a fantastic festival!! This bubble was courtesy of Bubble Inc!!
This was the #1 photo by Flickr - Interesting on the date August 11th 2005.
Steps down into the lagoon from the jetty, Nalaguraidhoo (Sun Island), South Ari Atoll, Maldives.
Nikon D200 with Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm f/4 (wide open, as I stupidly forgot to attach my QR plate to the camera, so no tripod...)
i find it amazing to see how beautiful can be such a small thing we burn and throw away every day...
Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most favorited photo of my stream. (523 faves on September 22nd 2009) thanks guys!!
Back in April this incredible barking tree frog appeared magically in our canna gardens and I took over 300 shots of him during a one hour shoot.
This is one of the many images from that shoot that have laid dormant in my files until I had a chance to review them a second time earlier this week.....
Taken on Silvan road in the Hamer arboretum in the Dandenong Ranges. Using a Nikon D70. I like the light in the foreground in this pic. Wish it was a little brighter.
One of my favorite views. I take this shot a lot. I dont know why, but that hill (Sugarloaf Hill), intrigues me to no end, kinda like Richard Dreyfus in "Close Encounters"
Plumas County, California. This is about ten minutes from my house on my 1.25 hr drive from work. Almost home and the storm has passed. 'Icy Highway' On Black
(2/5/07) Sorry for not stating earlier. I think my aim here is to simply show the magnetism this mountain holds for me. Thanks!
My son is mystified by the sight..you could hear the boats on the river
but theres no sign of them.
Bluewater Bridges..Sarnia Ontario
best viewed large! ;)
my mom went to the market and bought a lot of peas!!!! she's addicted to veggies. and i helped her take the peas out the pods.. hmmmm... actually, i didn't help her, it was me doing all the work! LOL at some point i thought about flickr (actually i think of flickr every 5 minutes) LOL again! LOL! it took me a while to manage to split the pods so the peas wouldn't break from the pod, but i finally had enough to take this shot! hope you like it!! ;)
published in the may 2007 issue of NZ Gardener Magazine, New Zeeland's top selling gardening magazine!
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shown in the Musée de l'Elysée's exhibit ‘We are all photographers now!’
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Winner of the PhotoStockPlus Contest (Food theme) on the 31st of January 2007:
www.photostockplus.com/contest.php?action=last :))))
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my best of 2006.
and from a different angle:
Well Jonny... This one goes out to you my friend!! Thanks for the kick in the butt and the inspiration!!!
'Gold Coast at Dusk' Best Viewed at Larger Size 800x600
Shot on Queensland's Gold Coast, Australia.
Used a reversed graduated neutral density filter
for the water effect.
In 5 Card Draw Poker with Joker's Wild, Five Aces is the highest hand beating a Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Flush, Full House, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair.
For Crazy Tuesday
Theme: House of Cards (Playing Cards)
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But thats not the shape of my heart
Thats not the shape of my heart
I found this umbrella at the Kinkaku-Ji Temple (better known as the Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto, Japan.
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Por favor, ver las imagenes de Youtube...Please see pictures of Youtube ...Escaleras con imagenes móviles de la Estación de Kioto.Stairs with moving images of Kyoto Station.Kyoto Station stairs light show.
The Flickr Lounge - I Left My Heart
Macro Mondays, Busy (having a good time, but is Freddy going to win or lose?)
ODC, Seen From Above
Honestly, I look away for a moment and Freddy's up to no good again!
Thank you in advance for any comments and/or favourites - I always appreciate them, even if I'm not managing to return the compliment right now. I will catch up asap.
B-29 Superfortress S/N 44-86408, formerly known as "Hagarty's Hag" has a case of dual identity, having worn the colors of sister aircraft "Straight Flush" since 2015.
Hagarty's Hag was delivered to the US Army Air Force on August 6, 1945; the same day the original Straight Flush was used as a weather reconnaissance plane for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
After transferring through various bombing units, Hagarty's Hag would arrive in Utah in 1953 where it was assigned to support chemical weapons testing at Dugway Proving Ground. The Hag would spend twenty years at Dugway before its retirement; ultimately being abandoned in-situ and left to rot, before it would be donated the Hill Aerospace Museum in 1983. The plane was restored as a static display outside the museum.
The original Straight Flush, after supporting the atomic weapons testing at Bikini Atoll; would eventually meet the scrapper in 1954. After the Hag's repaint into Straight Flush colors, it would remain on display outdoors until the expansion of indoor space at the museum has allowed the Hag a place indoors, albeit with the tips of its long wings removed. It is now on display alongside fellow World War II craft such as a B-17 and a P-51 Mustang. I have some older photos from 2013 showing the Hag outdoors wearing its original name: flic.kr/p/eqyxZi
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Bay/Adelaide Centre,
333 Bay Street
Straight Flush
James Turrell
Though personalized art appeared during World War I, and occasionally grew to incorporate the entire aircraft, most pilots carried a saying or a slogan, or a family crest, or squadron symbol. Some were named, but nose art was not common. During World War II, nose art not only saw its true beginnings, but its heyday.
No one knows exactly who started nose art first--it appeared with both the British and the Germans around the first time, with RAF pilots painting Hitler being kicked or skulls and crossbones on their aircraft, while German nose art was usually a personal symbol, named for a girlfriend or adopting a mascot (such as Adolf Galland using Mickey Mouse, something Walt Disney likely didn't approve of). It would be with the Americans, and a lesser extent the Canadians, that nose art truly became common--and started including its most famous forms, which was usually half-naked or completely naked women. This was not always true, but it often was.
The quality of nose art depended on the squadron or wing artist. Some of it was rather crude, while others were equal to the finest pinup artists in the United States, such as Alberto Vargas. For men thousands of miles away from home and lonely, a curvaceous blonde on a B-17 or a P-51 made that loneliness a bit easier. Others thought naked women were a little crude, and just limited themselves to names, or depicted animals, cartoon characters, or patriotic emblems, or caricatures of the Axis dictators they were fighting.
Generally speaking, there was little censorship, with squadron and group commanders rarely intervening on names or pictures; the pilots themselves practiced self-censorship, with profanity almost unknown, and full-frontal nudity nearly nonexistent. After the loss of a B-17 named "Murder Inc.," which the Germans captured and used to make propaganda, the 8th Air Force, at least, set up a nose art committee that reviewed the nose art of aircraft--but even it rarely wielded its veto. For the most part, nose art was limited only by the crew's imagination and the artist's ability. The British tended to stay away from the lurid nudes of the Americans, though the Canadians adopted them as well. (The Axis also did not use nose art in this fashion, and neither did the Soviets, who usually confined themselves to patriotic slogans on their aircraft, such as "For Stalin!" or "In the Spirit of the Motherland!")
When World War II ended, so did nose art, for the most part. In the peacetime, postwar armed forces, the idea of having naked women were wives and children could see it was not something the postwar USAF or Navy wanted, and when it wasn't scrapped, it was painted over. A few units (especially those away from home and family) still allowed it, but it would take Korea to begin a renaissance of nose art.
"Straight Flush" is B-29A Superfortress 44-86408, delivered to the USAAF on the same day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on 6 August 1945. It did not see combat and was retired in 1953, to be used as a target for chemical warfare at the Dugway Proving Ground. It was recovered, cleaned and restored for the Hill Aerospace Museum in the late 1980s, and went on display as "Haggerty's Hag." Since the markings on the "Hag" were rather plain, it was repainted as 44-27301, "Straight Flush," one of the B-29s built specifically as atomic bomb aircraft and assigned to the 509th Composite Group. "Flush" dropped five "Pumpkin Bombs" in combat--5-ton bombs identical to the "Fat Man" nuclear device, but with the atomic warhead replaced by standard conventional explosives. On 6 August 1945, "Flush" flew ahead of "Enola Gay" to report on weather over southern Japan. The real 44-27301 remained in operation after World War II, and was retired and scrapped in 1954. "Haggerty's Hag" was repainted as "Straight Flush" in 2015.
Though the term "Straight Flush" is a poker term, it was used as a visual pun on the aircraft, depicting Uncle Sam's arm flushing a caricature of a Japanese soldier down a toilet. Though racist by modern standards, it was common for Americans to depict Japanese as buck-toothed, wearing thick glasses; this stereotype also led Americans to badly underestimate the Japanese ability to fight at night, since it was assumed Japanese were all nearsighted! (Japanese depictions of Americans during the war was equally racist.) After the horrors of the Pacific campaign from 1941 to 1945, the desire of American airmen to "flush" the Japanese Empire was certainly understandable. The six "fat man" mission markers behind the cockpit windows indicate the five Pumpkin Bomb missions and the single atomic mission, in which the fat man is painted red.
ODC2 - Our Daily Challenge - Straight
All New Scavenger Hunt - ANSH - Round 46 - Scavenger21 - A game in play.
I think I have the winning hand! :-)
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Service to all those gruesomely blinded; unable to
sight even an infinitesimal iota of their reflection
in the most brilliant of sunlight; is irrefutably true
service to the divine,
Service to all those pathetically maimed; disastrously
stumbling for life on each step; is irrefutably true
service to the divine,
Service to all those mentally bereaved; wholesomely
immune to the wonderfully bountiful beauty around; is
irrefutably true service to the divine,
Service to all those abominably orphaned; uncouthly
bereft of the ones they solely loved and adored; is
irrefutably true service to the divine,
Service to all those tyrannically lambasted; brutally
kicked from all quarters of the treacherous society;
is irrefutably true service to the divine,
Service to all those remorsefully lonely; existing for
the remainder of their lives in dungeons of ominous
morbidity and obsolescence; is irrefutably true
service to the divine,
A close up view of a hand of blackjack at the casino with some chips in the background.
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A winning hand of blackjack (21) with a large pile of poker chips on the table.
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A straight flush at the poker table with some chips in the background
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For Our Daily Challenge - Straight
Texture - Kim Klassen
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A jack of hearts in a game of texas holdem poker with some chips in the background.
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A royal flush winning a big pot at the casino
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