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During a fantastic holiday in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, I captured this shot of a Great Blue Heron successfully fishing in the mangroves of the biosphere at Sian Ka'an.
Once the jet lag has worn off, I'll be back lineside for my more usual shots!
Lower Manhattan from Jersey City’s Exchange Place back in 2018. The original Dutch colony of New Amsterdam only extended as far as present as present Wall Street. The Dutch formed the colony of New Netherland in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company and actually extended at one point to include all of present day Long Island, parts of Connecticut and parts of New Jersey. On the tip of the island of Manhattan was the successful colony and capital of New Amsterdam. 40 years later, a British naval squadron under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls attacks New Amsterdam. The unpopular Dutch governor of New Amsterdam one Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender the capital of New Netherland because his Dutch subjects basically refused to defend the colony as they dislike Stuyvesant’s rule more than being under English rule. The organizer of the English mission, the Duke of York was honored with the renaming of the colony at the tip of Manhattan Island as the now English colony became New York.
Joshua Tree National Park happens to be one of my favorite places to visit in California. Not only is the landscape beautiful and strange, but there are fantastic 4x4 roads to explore and also some of the best climbing.
Last month, I hit the park with a few good friends and we did a bit of night shooting, during the full moon.
People often ask me which flashlights I like and which ones I use and the truth is, it varies. Some of my lights are upwards of $100. Others are under $20. You absolutely do not need a $100 light to successfully light paint an image, but there are definitely reasons I love the more expensive lights I have. To light this image, I used a $17 work light by Viisliam - amzn.to/1QYG1sc.
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Lucrezia, my adorable niece, is just 16. She has won her shyness and posed successfully for me. I'm proud of her and dramatically happy that she loves these portraits!
See it in the Model Republic Elite group.
Nikon Z7 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4G @ 1/400s f/2.2 64 ISO + triggered Nikon SB5000 in Walimex modifier + white bounce panel
After a successful practice set, the net is now neatly stacked on the stern of the purse seiner, and it and the power skiff are ready for the trip back to the harbour in Sitka Sound, Alaska. Misty snow-covered Peak 5390 looms tall in the background. Final shot in the series.
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Having successfully delivered a bicycle to Southampton, but wishing to avoid the traffic jams around the Berkshire County Show, I decided to take a very roundabout but scenic route home.
I cut through the New Forest, and found myself on the Jurassic Coast. I had Monty with me, so there was a good excuse to go for a walk on the shingle beach by Durdle Door - which for the uninitiated, is this spectacular sea arch.
Being a Saturday there were still a few folk about even though it was starting to get on in the evening - but a long exposure does make a few disappear....
Much to my annoyance I did have to wait for a rather over-amorous couple to shift out of the way. Fortunately for me, and perhaps less fortunately for these two would-be exhibitionist Porn-stars, the sea temperature was a bit on the chilly side so they gave up fairly quickly. I really am turning into a grumpy old man.....
Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annually.
Ybor City was unique in the American South as a successful town almost entirely populated and owned by immigrants. The neighborhood had features unusual among contemporary communities in the south, most notably its multiethnic and multiracial population and their many mutual aid societies. The cigar industry employed thousands of well-paid workers, helping Tampa grow from an economically depressed village to a bustling city in about 20 years and giving it the nickname "Cigar City".
Ybor City grew and flourished from the 1890s until the Great Depression of the 1930s, when a drop in demand for fine cigars reduced the number of cigar factories and mechanization in the cigar industry greatly reduced employment opportunities in the neighborhood. This process accelerated after World War II, and a steady exodus of residents and businesses continued until large areas of the formerly vibrant neighborhood were virtually abandoned by the late 1970s. Attempts at redevelopment failed until the 1980s, when an influx of artists began a slow process of gentrification. In the 1990s and early 2000s, a portion of the original neighborhood around 7th Avenue developed into a nightclub and entertainment district, and many old buildings were renovated for new uses. Since then, the area's economy has diversified with more offices and residences, and the population has shown notable growth for the first time in over half a century.
Ybor City has been designated as a National Historic Landmark District, and several structures in the area are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, 7th Avenue, Ybor City's main commercial thoroughfare, was recognized as one of the "10 Great Streets in America" by the American Planning Association. In 2010 Columbia Restaurant was named a "Top 50 All-American icon" by Nation's Restaurant News magazine.
In the early 1880s, Tampa was an isolated village with a population of less than 1000 and a struggling economy. However, its combination of a good port, Henry Plant's new railroad line, and humid climate attracted the attention of Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish cigar manufacturer.
Ybor had moved his cigar-making operation from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in 1869, due to political turmoil in the then-Spanish colony. But, labor unrest and the lack of room for expansion had him looking for another base of operations, preferably in his own company town.
Ybor considered several communities in the southern United States and decided that an area of sandy scrubland just northeast of Tampa would be the best location. In 1885, the Tampa Board of Trade helped broker an initial purchase of 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land, and Ybor quickly bought more. However, Ybor City very nearly didn't happen at all. Vicente Ybor initially failed to come to an agreement with the owner of the 40 acre parcel. The Tampa Board of Trade was horrified to find that the purchase had failed and hatched a plan to get the buyer and seller back together. Vicente Ybor was sitting in the train station on his way to Jacksonville to look at more property when the Board of Trade (a group of five, one of whom was Frederick Salomonson, future 3-time mayor of Tampa) arrived and persuaded Ybor to reconsider and the deal went forward from there, the birth of Ybor City.
Italians were also among the early settlers of Ybor City. Most of them came from a few villages in southwestern Sicily. The villages were Santo Stefano Quisquina, Alessandria della Rocca, Bivona, Cianciana, and Contessa Entellina. Sixty percent of them came from Santo Stefano Quisquina. Before settling in Ybor City, many first worked in the sugar cane plantations in St. Cloud, central Florida. Some came by way of Louisiana. A number of families migrated from New Orleans after the lynching of eleven Italians in 1891 during the "Mafia Riot". Italians mostly brought their entire families with them, unlike other immigrants. The foreign-born Italian population of Tampa grew from 56 in 1890 to 2,684 in 1940. Once arriving in Ybor City, Italians settled mainly in the eastern and southern fringes of the city. The area was referred to as La Pachata, after a Cuban rent collector in that area. It was also called "Little Italy".
In 1887, Tampa annexed the neighborhood. By 1900, the rough frontier settlement of wooden buildings and sandy streets had been transformed into a bustling town with brick buildings and streets, a streetcar line, and many social and cultural opportunities. Largely due to the growth of Ybor City, Tampa's population had jumped to almost 16,000.
Ybor City grew and prospered during the first decades of the 20th Century. Thousands of residents built a community that combined Cuban, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish culture. "Ybor City is Tampa's Spanish India," observed a visitor to the area, "What a colorful, screaming, shrill, and turbulent world."
Circulo Cubano de Tampa, one of Ybor City's social clubs
An aspect of life were the mutual aid societies built and sustained mainly by ordinary citizens. These clubs were founded in Ybor's early days (the first was the Centro Español, established in 1891) and were run on dues collected from their members, usually 5% of a member's salary. In exchange, members and their whole family received services including free libraries, educational programs, sports teams, restaurants, numerous social functions like dances and picnics, and free medical services. Beyond the services, these clubs served as extended families and communal gathering places for generations of Ybor's citizens.
There were clubs for each ethnic division in the community – the Deutscher-Americaner Club (for German and eastern Europeans), L'Unione Italiana (for Italians), El Circulo Cubano (for light-skinned Cubans), La Union Marti-Maceo (for darker-skinned Cubans), El Centro Español (for Spaniards), and the largest, El Centro Asturiano, which accepted members from any ethnic group[20]
Although there was little racism in Ybor City, Tampa's Jim Crow laws at the time forbade Afro-Cubans from belonging to the same social organization as their lighter-skinned countrymen. Sometimes, differences in skin color within the same family made joining the same Cuban club impossible. In general, the rivalries between all the clubs were friendly, and families were known to switch affiliations depending on which one offered preferred services and events.
Cigar production reached its peak in 1929, when 500 million cigars were rolled in the factories of Ybor City. Not coincidentally, that was also the year that the Great Depression began.
In the early 1980s, an influx of artists seeking interesting and inexpensive studio quarters started a slow recovery, followed by a period of commercial gentrification. By the early 1990s, many of the old long-empty brick buildings on 7th Avenue had been converted into bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other nightlife attractions.Traffic grew so much that the city built parking garages and closed 7th Ave. to traffic to deal with the visitors.
Cigar making display, Ybor City Museum State Park
Since around 2000, the city of Tampa and the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce have encouraged a broader emphasis in development. With financial help from the city, Centro Ybor, a family-oriented shopping complex and movie theater, opened in the former home of the Centro Español social club.
The Florida Brewing Company building was restored into a commercial building in 2001. New apartments, condominiums and a hotel have been built on long-vacant lots, and old buildings have been restored and converted into residences and hotels. New residents began moving into Ybor City for the first time in many years. The blocks surrounding 7th Avenue also thrive with restaurants, nightlife and shopping. Reflecting the district's status as a party destination, Ybor City is referenced extensively in the lyrics of Brooklyn-based rock band The Hold Steady. The song "Killer Parties", for instance, contains the line "Ybor City is très speedy, but they throw such killer parties." In May 2009 Swedish super-retailer IKEA opened its long-awaited Tampa location in the southern edge of Ybor City.
The local museum is the Ybor City Museum State Park in the former Ferlita Bakery building (originally La Joven Francesca) building on 9th Avenue. Tours of the gardens and the "casitas" (small homes of cigar company workers) are provided by a ranger. Exhibits, period photos and a video cover the founding of Ybor City and the cigar making industry.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ybor_City
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Successful hunting trip for this Long-Tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus).
Image cropped only, to focus on target.
Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser spacecraft underwent a successful free-flight test on November 11, 2017 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The test verified and validated the performance of the Dream Chaser in the critical final approach and landing phase of flight, meeting expected models for a future return from the International Space Station.
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Bald Eagle fishing at Conowingo, MD 2010
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DVT 82139 leads Locomotive Services Limited’s immaculate InterCity Mk3 rake at 110 mph through Acton Bridge as 5Z51 15:01 Carlisle to Crewe Holding Sidings.
The set was wrapping up two successful days testing for LSL’s Class 87, 87002 (propelling from the rear) ahead of the 2022 InterCity railtour season starting on 26th January with the AL7 due to work the Electric Scot from Euston to Glasgow.
Full consist: 87002 + 10416 11077 11075 11091 10411 11068 11098 11076 11030 82139
I used a SX-70 with Polaroid Color SX-70 film. Followed a couple of you tube videos and have made four lifts - three were successful. This was my first that worked and I had a bit of trouble getting the edges aligned.
Hunting season is well underway in Alaska - and I have already seen quite a few moose and caribou racks in hunter's vehicles, as they head back to their urban homes. Returning to our cabin, we came upon this successful hunter with a beautiful caribou rack in the bed of his truck. I sure hope he packed out the meat as well - or at least donated it to a needy family.
The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS 4, was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at 12:47 p.m. EDT, April 16 (4:47 a.m. local, April 17) from the Kwajalein Atoll in The Republic of the Marshall Islands.Â
The CHESS 4 mission will study the interstellar medium, the matter between stars. The mission focuses on translucent clouds of gas, that provide the fundamental building blocks for stars and planets. These clouds have very low densities and the only way to study them is to measure how a cloud is affected by a star -- and its associated outpouring of stellar material, the stellar wind -- moving through it.
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Great Egret - - - - - - ( Ardea alba, aka Casmerodius albus )
I tossed a stale dinner roll to deep water as bait for both bird and fish.
( I knew that the bird would know that the bread would attract fish, and would fly out to hover over it.)
She did, and successfully caught one.
Lake Emerald, in Oakland Park, Florida -US- near Fort Lauderdale.
Shot from my balcony over the lake, early Wednesday afternoon, September 5, 2007.
See her LARGER, if you wish.
See WHERE. ( When map appears, click "Hybrid" and "+" sign for best map view.)
Successful Stunt.
قوة الجوهر الصبر رجل مجنون مجهولة رؤى الأشياء الغنية استسلم الأعداء نمت الإيمان إشراف النفاق,
frères anxieux sœurs nerveuses ordres exprimés portes indésirables alternance de mensonges transpiration échappements amers revers souffrance poésie,
interpretaties blues uitspreken van overbereik regels speculeren sonnetten belangrijke suggesties dure rebellies impliceerde hevige wedstrijden,
رینگتی ہوئی بگاڑ نثر کی نظمیں بے نقاب کرنے والی بدکاری کو بھڑکا رہی ہیں بدعنوانیوں کو جواز پیش کرتی ہے لاطینی دھواں غلیظ آراء سیاہ سورج جنگلی کام,
symudiadau technegol cyfarwyddo gweithrediadau delwyr sgyrsiau ffotograffig anialwch dogfennau deliriwm yn pacio dagrau oer eu hunain yn disgleirio adlewyrchiadau poenau sensitif,
regole crescenti pugnali sostengono notti di ignoranza sogni sfortunati cose malvagie .
華麗な勝利の労働者のまぶしさ収集されたベールスケルトン人形花のような笑い子守完成笑う子守子守の完成
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A House Wren delivers a leaf-hopper to an awaiting nestling. Over the course of an hour, 23 insects were brought to the box.
This should be the last brood of the season for the wrens. This year, there were 5 successful broods of wrens raised in my backyard boxes. I also had three broods of barn swallows successfully raise 13 chicks on my front porch. (what a mess).
This pair of birds have remained faithful to Cromer and are getting themselves ready for another (hopefully) successful breeding season.
We saw this bobcat stocking something, so we decided to wait. We didn't wait to long when this cat pounced with amazing speed and got this big rodent (not sure what it is). This isn't the cooperative bobcat from the previous photos, however they were neighbours. Their territories were one next to each other.
It is important for researchers and doctors to understand more about how people camouflage, because camouflaging might make people unwell. For example, some studies have found that people who camouflage more also have more mental health problems, such as depression or anxiety. It is important that we learn more about why these mental health problems happen, so we can help people to feel better..." Laura Hull and Will Mandy via kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00129 💙
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I find that we must reflect on the good and the bad that comes with autism. My experiences vary: I can be so happy and joyous that I will stim (reactions/movements that autistic people may do when there's a sensory overload or an overwhelming sense of joy or stress.) But then I can also feel very low and drained, this can be due to masking for a lengthy period of time; long social interactions and intense 1-1 situations- often with strangers. 💙
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These opposite sides of the masking spectrum can be very varying and inconsistent. Now that I am aware of masking and how it is something I do, I worry about the implications from this; how will it affect me as I grow further into adulthood: building my own family and my business. Will I be happy, healthy and me? 💙
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This photo is a portrayal of the conflict that comes with masking. How it feels to be in the centre of masking, particularly for a long period of time. You feel yourself doing whatever you can to successfully mask, to hide any autistic traits that people might judge. I often feel exposed when trying to mask, like I can't hide and am a witness to my own insecurities. 💙
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‘Masking: Conflict’ Part 2 of my masking triptych. #Autismus
On this, the 15th day of our successful 16-day trek to the K2 North Base Camp and the North Gasherbrum Glacier in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, we hiked along the Surukwat River some 12.4 km (7.7 mi.) from a campsite at Lower Kotaz (Elevation 4,174 m, 13,694 ft.) past Sarak (Elevation 3,780 m, 12,402 ft.) and on to Algul (Elevation 3,676 m, 12,060 ft.), where we camped for the night. Some forty minutes after leaving Lower Kotaz I turned around and shot this view back upstream to the southwest. The peak at far left in mist rises to 5,220 m (17,126 ft.). The sharp peak on the right is at 5,350 m (17,552 ft.). The dirty glacier seen between the two drains into what our camel men identified as the valley of the Jalang River near its confluence with the Surukwat. The ridge lost in mist beyond rises to over 6,000 m (19,685 ft.).
To be a successful intergalactic smuggler, one must be really good at escaping, and with this modified YT Corellian light freighter, you will never have to worry about sneaking through vertical gaps again, as it can transform between normal mode and verticale flying mode! I also try to incorporate as much detail as I can into this microscale model, including the removable escape pod and openable the loading ramp.
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One of the most successful designs of Alec Issigonis.
The Minor 1000 was introduced in 1948 and after two small body changes in 1952 (Series II) and 1956 continuously produced till 1971.
The Minor was available in full program: as a 2- or 4-dr saloon, open Tourer (convertible), Pick-up, Traveller (the estate version with partly ashwood framework) or as a delivery van.
It surprises me that such an old and fragile classic car is parked just outside on the street.
948 cc.
761 kg.
Production Minor 1000: 1948-1956/1956-1971.
Original first reg. number: March 24, 1956.
New Dutch pseudo-historical reg. number: July 4, 1997.
Same owner since Jan. 3, 2007.
Amsterdam-Centrum, Amstelveld/Prinsengracht, Febr. 9, 2021.
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