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Charging the main line at Ferry Street as the RJED struggles to get its 87 car train up the Scagitoke Grade
Children in one of Maputo's poorest neighborhoods play outside a community center. The neighborhood is home for a growing number of children who raise themselves because their parents have died of AIDS. Inside the community center, orphans are learning job skills so that they can support themselves and their siblings. More than a dozen AIDS orphans in the city are participating in a photography project that has them behind the cameras, documenting their lives. Highlights of their work are published daily on the project website, www.thehouseissmall.org.
Mom or Dad was on the nest when we first spotted it, but soon flew to this tree. Guessing it needed a little break.
After the first two shots I was used to the wonky sight and curved trajectory of the cork. The rest of my shots all knocked over the cans and I was rewarded with one of those plush Smurfettes in the background.
This place was easy. I just had to take down a few security guards. I didn't know they also filmed the news here (That's what the white space is, not just a discolored wall)
Killer Croc moves from #66 Financial District to takeover neutral zone # 64 Gotham Globe Headquarters. Very sorry the pic is blurry. I took a few pics and I couldn't tell which ones were blurry or not. It is supposed to be somewhat blurry though.
Two Greylag geese - having just been given permission from air traffic control to take off and head south!
Danforth Pewter Shop. Looks like an addition. Vines are taking over. historicbuildingsct.com/danforth-pewter-shop-1756/
Anyone who has stood on this bridge in Savanna can attest that it isn't quite safe. A two-lane road with a grated surface and NO place to get out of the way. Luckily, traffic was light and it was a quick run and gun. The view is worth the personal risk, but for a BNSF C44-9W? Not so much...
All of this capture to be come from a florist Japanese near my home when I taking a walk I ask to taking a photo of his arrangement and he was very happy of that and me too.
The city is replacing our fire hydrant system and in the process one of the temporary above ground pipes broke not far from my house. Several young children were playing in the spray.
Rachel jumping into the ice cold water! - Photo by Tim Soper
Read the whole story of our trip: antarctic.fury.com/
Actually, I wanted to focus on the man, but I was a little distracted and forget to change the zone focussing. Oh well :-) Shot with an Agfa Silette Pronto Color Apotar 45mm f1.8 viewfinder camera with color film as this was the first roll of film I ever shot with a non-digital camera. Converted to B&W in Gimp.
Philadelphia 2008 Sundae @ Bubble House - sundaephiladelphia.com
These dancers change direction in an instant! I had her all lined up for a portrait shot and she suddenly did a fantastic leap.
Men from the 29th Division take a break somewhere in the city of Brest. They all wear full M-1928 packs, which indicates that this was probably taken after the city was captured, but before the unit was pulled out to the countryside to rest and reorganize. Typically soldiers fighting in the city carried only what they needed because they knew they would not move very far from the company supply point and carrying heavy packs was particularly difficult in the debris clogged buildings. (From "1944 Americans in Brittany: The Battle for Brest" by Jonathan Gawne)
Despite the damage done by the urban renewal of the 1960s, East Liberty's location still made it a good potential site for retail businesses. East Liberty remained close to some of the Pittsburgh area's most prosperous residents, who had not left the City for the suburbs, but continued to live in Shadyside, Point Breeze, Highland Park and Friendship. To revitalize the neighborhood, community groups in East Liberty worked to lure these potential shoppers back. In the 1980s Motor Square Garden was converted to a retail mall. It failed, but the Pittsburgh American Automobile Association uses it as its headquarters.
In the 1990s, the City of Pittsburgh took a first step toward restoration by returning some of the neighborhood's roads to their pre-1960 traffic pattern. After 2000, the City also used tax increment financing to lure two national retailers to the neighborhood: Home Depot and Whole Foods. Both these stores thrived, and their success convinced other national retailers to invest in the neighborhood. The success of Home Depot and Whole Foods sparked a great deal of investment in East Liberty. Local entrepreneurs opened successful restaurants, nightspots, and other businesses, many of them targeted at local artists, musicians, and young professionals from Shadyside. National stores did likewise.
After a complex and time-consuming set of transactions, two of the three housing projects that visually barricaded the neighborhood were demolished in 2005. The last will be demolished within the next few years.
The City of Pittsburgh still has plans to return the roads of Penn Circle from one-way throughfares to two-way streets, and otherwise to return the neighborhood to the way it was during its heyday. The success of national and local retailers, and the demolition of the three housing projects suggests that the neighborhood is recovering from its struggles in the period from 1965–1995, and will once again become a retail center in the greater Pittsburgh area.