This image reminds me of the song 'You're crashing but you're no wave'. Shame they broke up really.

I went for a last walk/lunch with my mum before I head back to Cardiff and exam hell tomorrow. It was raining (as per) and a little cold but a lot of fun. I miss the country already.

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This senior portrait was taken during the record-breaking Summer heatwave in Texas at the old abandoned airport field.

This is a compilation of 2 photos I have taken. The veteran was saluting during the National Anthem at a Memorial Day ceremony at Stubbs Park in Centerville about 4 years ago. Still gets me choked up. The flag photo was taken at Veteran's Park in Vero Beach, FL. :)

Happy Memorial Day to one and all!!!

This single frame from my CCD camera was an unexpected bonus while I was adjusting my telescope in the early evening of 10th October. By sheer chance I saw the aircraft approaching the image out of the corner of my eye and just had time to capture this solitary CCD frame in H Alpha.

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Equipment used:

Atik 460EX mono CCD, H Alpha filter, 0.75 reducer, 130mm triplet APO refractor, EQ8 mount.

This was taken at the northeast corner of Broadway and 93rd Street on the Upper West Side.

If I had to guess, I would say that the three women in purple were nurses, or health-care workers, in some nearby hospital or medical office (though I don't recall seeing one in this neighborhood). And the photo was taken just before 1 PM, which means they were probably on their way to lunch somewhere.

But what struck me as interesting -- and characteristic of New York City -- as I watched the three women waiting for the traffic light to change, and then walking across Broadway in my direction, is that nobody said anything to them, or even glanced at their uniforms. Their uniforms could have been fluorescent green, or dayglo orange, and it would generated the same amount of attention … i.e., none at all.

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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.

That's all there is to it …

Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.

Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.

As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"

A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."

As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"

So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".

Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"

Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.

Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link

URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan

If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com

Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...

This is a Kodacolor Print . . . Week of May 28, 1955

This is one of my best friends. We always go to thrift stores together, and over time he has acquired many outfits. Everything he is wearing here (including his brown leather shoes which are out of frame), were bought at a thrift store. Just going to show that: a) we are cheap! b) you can find anything at a thrift store.

This photo was captured during a foot patrol from 4-27 OP up to Highway 68. This view is exactly towards east. In the middle of the photo one can see Hasbaya (3,8 km away), and behind slightly to the right is Ain Qenya and Chouaia 6,5 km away) and in the background Mount Hermon (2814 m above sea level).

This tree looked like the yarn Kelly bought called "spicy papaya"

This bus was new to Lothian Buses as 415 in 2014.

Seen here on The Wisp

Greendykes Road was closed, so access to Niddrie via Greendykes was not possible. All sevices from ERI to Fort Kinnadr were diverted via Greendykes terminus and The Wisp

This time you can see his tongue!

This imageis a composite of two HDR images combined using Kolor Autopano Giga. Shot with my Sigma DP3 just after sun-down.

this was the Cortina Owners Club annual meeting at Hagley Hall around 88/90

this one goes 4 my buddy Zahid, i took this unfortunately woman who fall asleep on the bus but she dont know how to sleep and close her mouth at the same time

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This CSX train glides over the city of Covington Ky and soon the Ohio River only to end up in Cincinnati.

This photo was taken on July 9, 2010 using a panasonic dmc-gf1 using a canon fd 50mm f3.5 macro lens via an adapter. Macro is something I do when I feel uninspired. It really gets me through photographic slumps. The gf1 has really impressed me with its picture quality. It is nowhere near my nikon d700 but for a take everywhere camera it is awesome. This shot was taken in insadong and is a little bit of a good luck charm for me. The chinese characters mean success and that is what I am hoping for to get into a masters program.

This vessel was built in 1929 as "Cara" ordered by Glen & Co of Glasgow (Admiral Shipping Co Ltd) from the Burntisland Shipbuilding Co.

Monument Rocks near Oakley, KS. SUBLIME

This male has not yet fully developed it's tail feathers, but still looked quite stunning in the early morning sunshine.

This Boeing 747-436 took its first flight on October 9, 1990 and was delivered to BA on October 25, 1990...(c/n 24057/ 817)

scan of a slide in my collection and not my own shot...

This side door to my dollhouse never had a step (for decades). I never really thought it needed one, but it is an awfully large step up for those tiny doll legs.

I used layers of balsa and bass wood to make a set of stairs for the door of the dollhouse addition. This will be a side door of the house.

I did not have just the right thickness so I planed the surfaces with sand paper to take them down to the right height. This is just scrap wood I had in my stash.

Used tacky glue to connect them. Wrapped them in tape and let them dry overnight. I wiped off the excess glue before it dried.

Sanded, then primed and sanded, again.

Teenage dollhouse addition remodel project

Simplicity dollhouse by Real Good Toys

1:12 colonial style house

This is a pic of my mum & dad, newly married (about 1953). It's known in the family as their 'Gone with the Wind' photo! They look like a pair of early pioneers setting out to forge a way out west & build their own farmstead!!

This little guy will be free whenever you purchase from Goodnight, Moon!

Montgomery wards court post-asbestos removal. November 2005.

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This was a surprise...taken just north of Heavener.

"Lonely This Christmas" was a popular single by the English glam rock band Mud, that topped the UK singles chart in 1974 and reached Christmas number one.

The song

Written and produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, "Lonely This Christmas" was Mud's second number one single in the UK, spending four weeks at the top in December 1974 and January 1975. It was the third number one single that year for the ChinniChap writing and production team, and was performed in the style of Elvis Presley's slower songs from his later career. Due to this, the song is often erroneously attributed to Presley.

This weekend is the Snow Goose Festival here in Chico, California. I ventured out across the back country roads yesterday checking the bird activity, and although I did come across Snow Geese, perhaps the most impressive sight was this group of thousands of ducks, primarily Pintails. This image well represents the part that Northern California Agriculture plays in the winter migration. The rice field checks are flooded after harvest and become an instrumental part in the resting refuge for the waterfowl in between flights.

This lone pump was found in the parking lot of a strip club in Miami Florida. It must have fallen from one of the dancers bags as she left the club.

This image illustrates the Bristol VRL concept to its best advantage. Placing the engine longitudinally on the offside beyond the rear axle not only simplified the driveline but also enabled a rear entrance or exit to be fitted. One downside was that a long rear-overhang was required, which wouldn't have been acceptable on shorter chassis. I suspect that there may also have been some weight distribution issues. This is a 36 foot VRL-LL (vertical rear longitudinal-engine, long low chassis), a type that was offered but not actually built. Some very similar 36-foot dual-door (front and rear) buses were built for the South African municipality of Johannesburg on the marginal higher VRL-LH chassis. The bodies for these were built locally by Bus Bodies (SA) to a very neat design with equal-length side windows. My version uses standard ECW windows bays with an awkward half bay at the rear, as fitted to various bodies built by that concern. Interestingly ECW had produced drawings for a 36-foot body to a similar layout on what was then called the Bristol N-Type chassis, but using equal-width window bays. The unusual low-mounted route number was characteristic of most South African municipal fleets (01-May-10)..

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This again at f11 - but with much better light! Certainly more than sharp enough. I suspect that the chair is deserted - there is really nothing to look at across the street, except a school - and you would probably be hauled off if you stared at the kids!

I took this video on December 10,2016. I saw the Baldy take off from a lower branch and land in the upper tree carrying something. It appears to be a former jackrabbit. This was of course taken 4 days before my new 4K video capable camera arrived. This is also the first video that I have taken with the Olympus EM-10.

This the single part of collage.Nothing special except love at first sight on that plate :)

This image has been digitised from Queensland State Archives, Series ID S2149: Railway Glass Plate Negatives - Queensland Rail Heritage Collection. It is one of the images depicting the many stations, bridges and tracks that people and goods travelled from, on and through all over the Queensland Rail network.

This Wood Stork was probing for dinner in the pond at the Thompson Sports Complex Park, in Gulfport, FL. The Wood Stork is the only real stork we have in the United States.

Wood Storks stand between 40-44" tall. Their heads are bare. They fly with their necks extended. Wood Storks can be found on or near the coast, cypress swamps and mangroves. They nest in colonies. Wood Storks are resident in Florida and Georgia and rarely along the coast from S Carolina to Texas.

This car was originally a solid blue colour and had become rather tatty, possibly even accident-damaged. Luckily it fell into the right hands and its new owner did an excellent job of restoring it. The West London guys do love their Violets...

CARS July 2006, Santa Pod.

This is the official picture for the next Super Sentai series, Sentai Ryusoulger

This very beautiful phalaenopsis is marked with dark magenta spots over the entire flower. The plant is a clone from Taiwan that I recently received from Orchid Center in Waianae. The plant is grown in New Zealand Sphagnum Moss in a 5-inch plastic pot. There are seven flowers on the cascading inflorescence. The flowers have a natural spread of 3-1/2 inches. This is a first bloom for this plant.

This 1961 Corvette was one of several classic cars on display along Main Street for the Franklin on the Fourth celebration.

This Imaculate Twin Steer Tilt Tray Kenworth has it all Shining going through Tooradin in 2012

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This artwork is featured in the exhibition Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2016 at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. This exhibition runs from Sunday, June 26, 2016 to Sunday, September 11, 2016. www.statemuseumpa.org

Descent Into Darkness: The Boys of the Mines won The State Museum of Pennsylvania Purchase Award

This little country church is located just outside of Linville Falls, NC

Jerry's Law: Include something in the foreground to add depth and interest to your landscape. Keep it in sharp focus or it will distract from the scene.

This weeks theme for Macro Mondays is "Negative Space" A saw tooth can't exist without the negative space between them. HMM