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This small garden next to an old hotel and restaurant still has one peach tree and a long grapevine that climbs the tree. In our extreme drought, the peaches that are dropping are more edible for wildlife than people. There are few grapes.
This was my biggest photographic project ever and it involved me spending five days in Belfast during what I believed would be the week that the UK. including Northern Ireland, left the European Union but while I was there it became clear that the 29th. of March would not be the day of exit and that April 12 might be the date if things did not go well for the British PM on Friday.
I have visited Belfast at least once per year since 2006 and every it rained constantly. This year I visited in March rather than May, June or July and the weather was wonderful. However, what made the biggest difference to me was the new Glider public transport system.
Glider is a bus rapid transit system in Belfast designed to improve the efficiency of mass transit in the city by connecting East and West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter via the city centre. The service is operated by Translink.
There are two routes, G1 and G2. The busways total 15.2 miles (24.5 km) in length and consist of both dedicated bus lanes and mixed traffic lanes. Constructed at a cost of approximately £100m some of which was provided by the EU. It operates a fleet of 18m-long Van Hool ExquiCity articulated buses. The first services of the day commence at 5:21am, and the final services depart at 11:06pm. Services operate on a 7-9 minute interval, reducing to 4-6 minutes at peak times.
The vehicles are Van Hool ExquiCity 18 articulated buses of a light tram design with three doors and approximately 18 metres in length. The interior is a mixture of seating and standing, free WI-FI, real-time visual and audible information and CCTV to ensure safety. The diesel hybrid electrical engines emit a low level of pollution and noise complying with environmental concerns. In October, 2017, the specific vehicle, called the Glider, was unveiled at the Busworld Europe exhibition in Belgium.
This week’s Throwback Thursday photos are from November 29, 1981 – a 2nd alarm at 1852 Washington Avenue in the Bronx (FD Box BX 22-3107).
This photo features cousins Paul Raatz and Herb Dietsche with a buck that Herb shot here in Wisconsin in the late 1930's.
This highly decorated Gospel Book was made in Armenia in the early seventeenth century. An extensive colophon reveals that it was commissioned by a woman named Napat' as a memorial for herself and her family, and the book was consequently given by her to the Church of Saint Sargis in Amida. The artist, Hovannes, and the scribe, Melk'on, are known collaborators on a number of of other manuscripts, and this book is an excellent example of their skill. Richly painted Evangelist portraits and intricate canon tables are complimented by simpler marginal illuminations that often connects to the Gospel passages they adorn. Related manuscripts by this artist and scribe team include Erevan, Matenadaran, no. 1245, and London, British Museum, Add. Ms. 27, 301.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
This is a (slightly rough) photo of a "mermaid" on display in the Booth Museum, Brighton. This place is *mad*! The head is a monkey skull, with fish teeth, and was toured around the country in the 19th century...
This was right off the front entry way of the Black Bear Inn in Bolton Valley, VT. Please scroll down for two more images, each about a minute or two after this....
This vehicle was on SouthEastern Trains Rail Replacement Service to and from Sheerness, and this was the best I could do of this vehicle as I did not see it again after this.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw Very Recently!!
This was taken near the northeast corner of 8th Avenue and 24th Street
The picture speaks for itself ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jan 22, 2014.
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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 ...
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This ole house once knew his children
This ole house once knew his wife
This ole house was home and comfort
As they fought the storms of life
This old house once rang with laughter
This old house heard many shouts
Now he trembles in the darkness
When the lightnin' walks about
CHORUS:
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the windowpane
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
He's a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
This ole house is a-gettin' shaky
This ole house is a-gettin' old
This ole house lets in the rain
This ole house lets in the cold
On his knees I'm gettin' chilly
But he feel no fear nor pain
'Cause he see an angel peekin'
Through a broken windowpane
CHORUS
This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings its arms
This ole house is gettin' feeble
This old house is needin' paint
Just like him it's tuckered out
But he's a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
CHORUS
This ole house dog lies a-sleepin'
He don't know I'm gonna leave
Else he'd wake up by the fireplace
And he'd sit there and howl and grieve
But my huntin' days are over
Ain't gonna hunt the coon no more
Gabriel done brought in my chariot
When the wind blew down the door
CHORUS
Gilgandra. Population 600.
This region of NSW along the Castlereagh River was part of the lands of Wiradjuri people whose words for long waterhole were used by a pastoralists after 1836 to name their run. The first run was taken up in December 1836. Another important run in the district was Berida run which was taken up in the 1840s and named Berida in 1862 by Edward Flood the illegitimate son of an Irish convict born in NSW in 1805. Flood made his fortune as a Sydney builder in the 1840s and then turned to pastoralism. His Berida run occupied 160,000 acres but by 1871 he held 31 runs in NSW and he was partner in 18 runs in QLD. The station office of his run in now in the Gilgandra Rural Museum as is part of the Bullagreen shearers’’ quarters. This was remote country and a town did not emerged until 1866. In that year the Bushman’s Arms Hotel opened and the following year the first Post Office opened but no town actually existed. It was 1884 when the Courthouse was built and the first bridge across the Castlereagh River was erected. (The current Courthouse in wooden Arts and Crafts style at 10 Myrtle Street was erected more recently in 1915.) The first government school opened in 1884 and a protestant Union Church was built in 1897 – now replaced by the Masonic Temple. Gilgandra was only officially proclaimed a town in 1888 with the railway from Dubbo reaching here just a decade later in 1899 and it was extended to Coonamble in 1902. At that time the old railway station was built. Then the town began to grow. A flour mill was erected in 1909 and wood cutting for railway sleepers became important local industry. The flour mill closed in 1974 and was destroyed by fire in 1997. Apart from stores and rural industries churches s were very important in the early years. In 1903 the Anglican monks from the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd moved to Gilgandra. They ran 44 Anglican services at schools and centres in the region as well as their Anglican school in their residence. Brother John Feetham who joined them in 1907 paid for several churches in WA and founded many schools during his term as Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 until his death in 1947. In 1972 he was sanctified as the first Australian Anglican saint. The first Anglican Church opened in 1903 but it was not well built or big enough. After World War One the Anglicans of Gilgandra were awarded a prize for the best war service record and help given outside of England but within the British Empire. In 1915 250 men volunteered out of a total population of 2,500 for the armed forces. £1,200 was given by the church in Bournemouth to Gilgandra. This was put towards the erection of a new architect designed Anglican Church. It opened in 1922 at a total cost of £4,200. There is a collection of windmills in Rotary Park near the Castlereagh River. They were used for stock and human water supplies from the early years.
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I stand before you with heart in hand
To make this offering, it's all I have
It's what I put into all that I do
I know it's not much, to most of you
You see passion comes from deep within
I can't explain, there's no in between
110% with everything...
Well, it's been some time since I got creative. This has been a very active summer for me. This is a little something I've had in the back of my mind for a while now, along with several other concepts scribbled in a small black notebook. And like many of my works, it morphed over the months. This is the result. Don't worry, I didn't forget how to work my camera or lights... The poem is pretty straight forward. I can't do anything half-assed. All or nothing. So, this is why I haven't been as active with photos this summer. Other things have had my attention...
strobist: 1 AB1600 gridded
This is an owl pascola mask from the Guarijio community of San Bernardo, Alamos, Sonora Mexico. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares. Coyoacan, Mexico City
This is one end of Bugis Street in Singapore in 1966. Most of Bugis street was behind me when I took this photograph.
A street market by day, in the evening it became one long open air bar and restaurant. This must have been taken around 6pm before darkness fell, and long before the street theatre, colourful characters and drinkers thronged the street.
This was all demolished in 1985 as Singapore became a modern city, but such was the outcry, they were forced to build a new Bugis street, although by all accounts a sanitized shopping version. In Singapore now it would not be possible to have a street as politically incorrect or lively as the original Bugis Street.
"Is this love that Im feeling,
Is this the love, that Ive been searching for"
(Please no awards or group invitation with awards)
This is the colorful art installation that I saw in Metroplis at Metrotown.
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF35mm F2
Provia Film Simulation
This is a little help to those who like to know about the first steps of quilling.It's better to know about these basic shapes so that we can create a perfect and beautiful quilling design acording to our choices.Using your quilling tool you can roll a paper strip tightly.Then remove the rolled paper strip from the tool and allow it to uncoil.Place a little glue end of the paper strip and fit it's end to the coil.For getting quilling shapes as mentioned above,pinch the glued coils in to the each pattern using your index fingers and thumbs of both hands.Hope this is helpful!Happy quilling!
This pre-teen had a 'stage presence' beyond her years as she sang for charity at the Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
©2012 Patrick J Bayens
This is video shot on my A7Rm4 instead of a time lapse. The slider movement was 45 seconds, but I had a few seconds of stationary video before and after the movement. I sped up the timing 2X in processing.
… this caravan has been dumped at the roadside here for a good few months now. Can’t believe nobody wants it !!
This group of photos is from a set made by Marco, a dear friend, with whom I’ve spent a very nice afternoon and evening. Thank you very much.
This picture was taken during our walk around the town of La Coruna, a coastal town in northern Spain.
This exercise provides training across the spectrum of OCS readiness from requirements and development of warfighter staff integration and synchronization through contract execution supporting the joint force commander. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm/Released)
This is probably the best home screen I've ever had on my phone. Plus, I just realized that if I don't specify a time frame for any particular appointment, it defaults to "all day". Hijinx ensue!
This scary road runs around the Crater @ Crater Lake National Park... The Sunset over the lake was pretty lame, but the road was fantastic....
This photogenic species occurs on the Pacific slope of southwestern Mexico, as well as along the Yucatan Peninsula. It ranges south in Central America to Costa Rica.
... or at least one aspect. I need to get some shots of oil and gas infrastructure and cowboys to round out this theme.
This is a scan from an old Ilford XP1 negative which I have played around with in PS, using the posterisation filters.
The original shot is of lead singer, Robert Smith, from The Cure. The shot was taken at a music venue called Bombay Rock on the Gold Coast of Queensland, during their 1986 tour of Australia. I have had for years, a large B&W version of this hanging on my wall.
© Andrew Fuller. This photo remains the property of Andrew Fuller, and as such, may not be used, or reproduced, in whole or in part, without my express permission.
This is my Collection of Corgi Police vehicles which i have bulit up over about 3-4months or so.. I am looking to start collecting different 1:43 scale models so if anyone can help me in this and advise me please let me know, thanks :)..
This lovely Fiat 500 can be seen in the same location on google street view, link below
www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.865594,2.283326,3a,75y,180h,90t...
This is the pic as shot. The next one is corrected with DXO viewpoint for both distorton (not really visible in this pic) and 'volume deformation'