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Detail of "Decor, Trader’s room" by Rinus Van de Velde, Exhibition "The Armchair Voyager", Museum Voorlinden
Continuing the shiny floor series, here is a shot of Nick Whale about to get on track at Silverstone in his Amspeed prepared 1990 BMW M3, sporting the same Auto Trader livery that it had during the 1991 BTCC season.
The BMW M3 was one of the most successful touring cars of the period, winning both the European Touring Car Championship and German Touring Car Championship twice, and having international success as well by winning the first World Touring Car Championship in 1987. In 1988, the BMW M3 took a 1-2 finish at the 24 hours of Nurburgring with drivers Pirro, Ravaglia and Giroix in car 1, and Heger, Grohs and Manthey in car 2.
In 1990, the M3's engine capacity was raised to 2.5ltrs in line with that years rules, and output increased to 340bhp.
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Fish fresh from Brixham.
Although Wellington in Somerset is not a coastal town, both north and south coasts are not much more than a hours drive (depending on the tourist traffic).
Handy for "The Pub".
Aerial framing of textile traders on rowing boats displaying their traditional goods. Shot from Esna
Fort Langley’s original Paddle wheeler plied the Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. It carried everyone from pioneers, fur traders, gold rush miners, and family passengers from the communities along the Fraser River, these working boats were vital connections between B.C. communities and peoples along the Fraser River. Today the beautiful MV Native continues to travel those same waters today carrying tourists and anyone wanting a view of the Fraser River from a very historic perspective. This photo was shot on a beautiful vintage Leica iii dating back to the 1940’s with Ilford HP5 film.
Celebrating my first post-Covid opportunity for travel photography – a very interesting and enjoyable trip to Uzbekistan in May 2023. The Uzbeks were one of the friendliest peoples I have ever encountered. This was the only example of anger that I witnessed – a market trader who was in a furious argument with a fellow trader concerning which of them should remove goods in front of their stalls to allow a vehicle’s entry.
This woman is on her way to a Floating Market to sell assorted hardware from her boat.
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A view of Okanagan Lake near Trader's Cove.
You can see a wisp of forest fire smoke just off the water to the right. A day later this area was closed to prepare for potential forest fire evacuation.
Selling lots of their lovely homemade goods from their narrowboats, nice to see it thriving, who needs internet shopping.
"the trader has come to town, the trader has come to town!! get snacks, sacks, brooms, and boom booms"
Peul (Fulani, Fulbe, Fula) herdsmen with traditional wide-brimmed fibre-and-leather conical hats meet at the weekly market in front of Djenné's Great Mosque. A colourful multiethnic gathering of herders and traders converges at the mosque from the surrounding regions and fertile flood plains of the Niger River inland delta in central Mali. Digital film scan, Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, shot directly under the noonday sun, circa 1976.
The Great Mosque of Djenné towers over the market in a seemingly apocalyptic backdrop on this day. The mosque is considered the world’s largest adobe building and one of the greatest achievements of Sudano-Sahelian architecture, unique to the semi-arid Sahel zone that stretches across northern Africa just south of an encroaching Sahara.
These Peul herdsmen are likely from the class of “free nobles” (mostly nomadic herders, religious and political leaders, some tradesmen and sedentary cultivators) at the top of a highly stratified caste-based Peul society.
Ethnographers distinguish this class from lower-tiered occupational groups or “castes” (griot story tellers and song-praisers, artisans, blacksmiths, potters, woodworkers, dress makers) and descendants of slaves (labourers, brick makers, house builders).
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Postrscript - The enchanting Arabian Nights imagery emanating out of this ancient marketplace at the time if this photo shoot (1976) is reminiscent of a seemingly bygone Sahelian era devoid of smartphones, credit cards and packaged safari tours.
Nowadays, nascent tourism is on hold and easy access to markets, pastures and farmlands is hampered as ethnic strife and inter-communal violence continue to erupt under a fragile or failed Malian state with a troubled history of military coups.
The current military junta relies on mercenaries from the private Russian-backed Wagner Group for its security needs, coinciding with the recent French withdrawal of troops from the region. By providing protection to the Malian military regime, the Moscow-centered paramilitary group has increased its power and access to Mali's scarce natural resources.
In 2018, Human Rights Watch reported that the Mopti region of central Mali has become an epicentre of inter-rethnic conflict, fuelled by a steady escalation of violence by armed Islamist groups largely allied with Al Qaeda’s advance from the north since 2015.
Recruitment to the militant Islamist movement from Peul pastoral herding communities has inflamed tensions within sedentary agrarian communities (Bambara, Dogon, Tellem, Bozo and others) who rely on access to agricultural lands for their livelihood.
Predominantly Muslim but opposing ethnic self-defence militias on both sides have been formed for the protection of their own respective communities. This has contributed to a continuous cycle of violent attacks and reprisals touching villages and hamlets, pastures and farmlands, and some marketplaces.
While communal tensions are profoundly connected to a larger ethnopolitical conflict unfolding in northern Mali, chronic insecurities around the ancient town of Djenné and in the broader central regions of Mali are exacerbated by longstanding indigenous concerns over a struggle for scarce natural resources - agricultural land for settled farmers versus water and grazing land for semi-nomadic Peul herdsmen.
Efforts at mediation in the area around Djenné and the grand mosque include a Humanitarian Agreement specifically among Bambara and Bozo farmers, Dogan "hunters" protecting farmers' interests and Peul herders, all committed to guaranteeing the freedom of movement of people, goods and livestock in the "Circle of Djenné" situated in the Mopti region of central Mali.
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This is part of the older part of Stevenage. There are a number of independent traders and lovely to visit.
Another of the Dino Traders, this one uses the Pyroraptor from LEGO set #76951, "Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport"
I was originally going to use both dinos in that set to pull a cart (the previous pic) but the Pyroraptor is significantly bigger than the Dilophosaurus.
Not exactly T-Rex size, and certainly not Kale Scale size, but bigger.
First roll of film through a 70's Vivitar 35EE I found in the flat a few years ago. The film was pretty old too.
NKP 901 takes the LM&M Rare Milage excursion back towards Lebanon past a colorful scene at Traders World.
"A wandering trader makes halt next to the shrine of a local deity to offer up their goods to a small trading outpost teeming with busy merchants and exhausted spaceship pilots."
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Ever since I first got the old Star Wars Kaadu mold a few months back, I‘ve been meaning to create something like this.
The aesthetic of this post is very much inspired by legendary French artist Jean Giraud "Mœbius". I‘ll be posting some more pictures of the trader tomorrow.
- August 2022
AMT Trader, carrying a hull section of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, passes beneath the Forth Bridge en-route from BAE Systems, Govan to Babcock, Rosyth.