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First came an Olympus 35 RC, with which I haven't shot much.
Then came an Olympus XA, which went everywhere with me. Until it took a brief flight to some hard concrete floor and the rangefinder focusing stopped working.
Then came this, an Olympus OM-1 MD and a 50mm OM-System F-Zuiko f/1.8 lens. Got this from John Titterington, who seems to be a person of some very good repute. The camera is very clean and nice, and should last a long time. But John's done a curtain replacement surgery among other service work, so shutter release is not exactly the legendary OM-system silent.
Later a G-Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 lens was added. But I haven't been shooting much. Much busy came, and obsessive photography of earlier days was kind of forgotten. I'm looking for a 24mm f/2.8 and a 55mm f/1.2 lens though.
Please do let me know if you happen to know someone that's likely to offload their "obsolete" Olympus/Pentax film gear.
Another week and FL Class 90s on ECML route learning. This time on 7th April 2025 we were treated to 90040 & 018 in DB red recently added to the Freightliner fleet giving a nice touch of variety unlike the location at Morpeth. 0S92 11:23 Newcastle to Mossend LHS.
A lovely Belted Galloway looking on curiously
There are a lot of Belties in Yorkshire these days: www.beltedgalloways.co.uk/
Looking back to the third pinnacle of Sgurr nan Gillean's Pinnacle Ridge, where we decided to deploy the rope for a nice abseil. We couldn't use the upper point to start our abseil because our rope had only 40m. Next time I'll bring a 50m half rope, as the 40m was even a bit too short for the abseil from the slightly lower start at that beak of rock on the top right.
That ledge on the right leading out of the frame of the picture is that wonderful "nicest walking terrain" from the previous photo.
This eastbound stack, about to cross 3rd St in Riverside, has a third-unit EMD, very rare for BNSF, which almost always is all-GE.
I might just as well post pictures of clouds for the rest of my life. They can't take those away.
I had to run into Wal-Mart yesterday to pick something up for my Dad. I decided to make a spin through the film department because I need some more of that black and white film Kodak has that processes in the color C-41 chemicals - very handy stuff. I got back to where the film was, or rather, where it used to be and didn't see any Kodak film. I figured they had just moved it somewhere else like they always do every week. So, I asked a passing worker where it was, but it wasn't her department and there weren't any stationary workers to assist me - the store looked like a ghost town, so she radioed somewhere to have one come and assist me. After waiting 10 minutes for somebody to finally show up, I said, "Is business so bad that you had to lay off everybody?" This was in response to there not being any clerks to assist me like in the olden days.
Well, the girl didn't know where the Kodak film was, (she only draws a paycheck, doesn't know anything about the store where she works), so she had to call the manager. The manager informed her that the "home office" had decided that this particular store didn't need Kodak film anymore. This is getting ridiculous! I went to talk to the manager in person to find out what was going on and why I couldn't buy Kodak film any more. Like I have purchased for the last 34 years. (Kodak is an old American brand of film at least 100 years in existence. Sure, they still had the Japanese brand of film on the shelves, but no American film.)
The manager kindly informed me that, since this Wal-Mart was a tiny store, the smallest they have, they didn't carry everything like the bigger stores in Evansville or St. Louis do. (One an hour away from me and the other 2 hours away.)
What am I? A third class citizen? I use the same kind of things that people in big cities use! Everybody uses the same stuff, no matter where they live. That's just the way it is. But - people like me don't deserve to be able to buy everything like those "special" and "important" people in the big cities. I'm just a third class citizen and don't deserve the same choices as everybody else.
I, Kenny, am telling you, who is reading this right now, that you'd better wake up and get prepared for calamity. People aren't going to take being treated like third class citizens forever. And do you want to not be prepared for when some nutcase goes into a Wal-Mart and guns down 40 people because they don't carry his Nacho Pringles anymore and sets off nationwide outrage?
Not me, brother. I'm going to try and be ready to save myself and my family. You can do what you like. Those that aren't prepared will be the first to die. And that means that I'll have a better chance of surviving. Do you want to be a survivor or a casualty? It's your choice - one of the few they still allow you to have. (At least for the moment, anyway.)
Street captures from the Pride 2014 Parade in San Francisco, Ca. The complete set can be viewed at edwardcondephotography.tumblr.com/tagged/pride2014
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This is actually one of a pair of Leki trekking poles I bought in Glacier National Park years ago to use hiking. I have used just
one also as a cane! 9-)
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Bristol Omnibus Co's no. C7290, a Gardner-engined Bristol FLF Lodekka, spent less than three years with its original owner. It had been put into service from Staple Hill depot on 16th December 1966. On 2nd November 1969 it was delivered to the Wakefield depot of West Riding Autos, one of a number of buses transferred from other National Bus Company subsidiaries to replace West Riding's disastrous fleet of Guy Wulfrunians. In this way, to my subsequent chagrin, Bristol Omnibus Co. lost all the Gardner-engined FLFs from its Bristol Joint Services fleet.
In 1978 the newer ex-BOC Lodekkas remaining with West Riding were transferred to the Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Six months after transfer to Lincolnshire, a "green" company, the former C7290 was still running in West Riding's poppy red. Nor had the company yet fitted a local destination blind. It was photographed in Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, on Monday 9th October 1978. Note the masking of the grilles on either side of the destination box ...yet another attempt to improve the Cave-Brown-Cave heating-ventilation-cooling system.
My cat whom I was very lucky to get a picture of before she ran off. using the rule of thirds to put her in the corner of the picture.
Parkdale, just love this place. Most beautiful part is that I don't go 3 minutes without someone saying Hi.
Title: [Third class deck]
Creator: Bedford Lemere & Co.
Date: ca. 1905-1907
Part Of: Photographs of Q.S.T.S. ''Lusitania''
Place: The United Kingdom
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 24 x 30 cm.
File: ag1982_0183_101_sm_opt.jpg
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While not as glamourous as the first-class staterooms which few of us would want to shell out the cash for, this does look cozy and comfortable. Keep in mind that individual restrooms and baths were unheard of in even the most luxurious liners (which White Star Liners were) of the era; indeed, such are a very recent invention when it comes to oceanfaring journeys!
“I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light," John Coltrane
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What he lacks in size Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia brings in determination. He has just homered to left and is rounding third base. He is going past Minnesota third baseman Miguel Sano who is nearly twice his size.
"The third eye (also known as the inner eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept referring in part to the ajna (brow) chakra in certain spiritual traditions. It is also spoken of as the gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness. In New Age spirituality, the third eye may alternately symbolize a state of enlightenment or the evocation of mental images having deeply personal spiritual or psychological significance. The third eye is often associated with visions, clairvoyance (which includes the ability to observe chakras and auras), precognition, and out-of-body experiences. (Wikipedia)"
"The Third Space" is a multifunctional installation and open air venue of the playhouse in Düsseldorf. The parts of a scrapped Transall airplane disfigure the just finished new or renovated architecture of the square between the Schauspielhaus and the Koe Bogen 2 mall.
The building was commissioned by the city of Düsseldorf and erected between 1965 and 1969 by the Düsseldorf architect Bernhard Pfau. The sculptural large-scale form stands in exciting contrast to the neighboring "Dreischeibenhaus" and is therefore characterized by a special urban development quality. The building, which can be classified as organic architecture within post-war modernism, houses two auditoriums of a high acoustic and technical standard, the "Großes Haus" and the "Kleines Haus". The "Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf" is the only state theater in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Source: wikipedia.de