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Henry Moore sculpture in bronze (1966-1969) or the two large forms? (To be fair only one of the people could be considered a large form!)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Harley and Kyle at the "Rally for Gay Games XI." National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, DC.
On the left there is the poster of Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927-2013), Polish Christian-Democratic politician, one of the Solidarity movement leaders and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946. The poster is the part of the installation to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of communism in Poland.
On rigth there is the Bertel Thorvaldsen's equestrian statue (built in 1829) of Prince Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813). A great Polish leader, general, minister of war and army chief, acting Prime Minister of Poland and a Marshal of the French Empire. He was an inspiration for Polish freedom fighters throughout a number of armed conflicts, but especially during the November Uprising of 1830, since many of its leaders had served under Poniatowski's command during the Napoleonic Wars.
The illuminated building in the background is the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.
A Milky Way panorama horizon to horizon, including Andromeda in the lower left and the summer triangle centered. I could make some adjustments and small improvements but at this point I am too overjoyed with what I have.
Sony a7, Bower 35mm
Another shot from the orchard. Had to merge two exposures to get this - either the apples got too hot or the background too dark. I hope it works.
Also playing around with a logo/watermark...
Ooops I uploaded the wrong shot before I left for work this morning-this doesn't look like a swallow!
I wasn't really planning on posting this I only took this shot because I've never seen a lily in these shades before
oh well maybe you've never seen it either!
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In the night between 9 and 10 July 1943, the Allies landed in Sicily, an event that marked a decisive chapter for the fate of the Second World War: the operation was intended to open a front in continental Europe, invade and defeat Italy, was called in code "Operation Husky". The Anglo-American army, with its ships and landing craft (totally 2800 units), with its 150 thousand men, with its 600 tanks, with its 1,000 cannons, appeared in front of the Sicilian coasts during the night: it consisted of two units, the US 7th Army commanded by General Patton, and the British 8th Army commanded by General Montgomery. The British sector landed on the eastern coast, between Noto, Pachino, Portopalo, while the American sector landed between Licata and Scoglitti, a coastal belt comprising the Gulf of Gela.
This premise to describe the places of my photographs, made between Gela and Licata, partly on those same beaches that saw the formidable landing of men and vehicles during the Second World War (not without bloodshed), often thinking of how places so beautiful they were the scene of tragic events about 77 years ago. A little regret of mine I was not being able to photograph a large American landing craft underwater, sunk about 500 meters from the coast, no more than 6-7 meters deep: it is about 20 years that I "go to find it" with free diving, and every time I see it I always feel a great emotion (sooner or later I will have to decide to get with me an underwater camera). I revisited (every time it is always a great emotion) the bunkers and casemates present on the whole stretch (and beyond) Licata-Gela, in some of them I entered inside, while in others the presence of earth made exploration impossible internal. In the town of Licata I always feel strong emotions going around, especially in the oldest part of the country in its historical center: I saw the Black Christ, pierced in the past by arrows from the Saracens (one arrow is present just above the left eye, the original arrow was removed by the Maltese colonists and replaced with a silver arrow). My next photos, divided into groups, will have as their theme the town of Licata, and its beaches.
Most of the photos are confused-blurry-blurred-imprecise-indecisive ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encompasses with a single word this photographic genre is "blur", these photos were made in the shooting phase, deliberately lengthening the exposure, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production phase.
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Nella notte tra il 9 e il 10 luglio 1943, avvenne lo sbarco degli Alleati in Sicilia, evento che segnò un capitolo determinante per le sorti della Seconda guerra mondiale: l’operazione aveva lo scopo di aprire un fronte nell’Europa continentale, invadere e sconfiggere l’Italia, venne chiamata in codice “Operazione Husky”. L'armata anglo-americana, con le sue navi e mezzi da sbarco (in toto 2800 unità), con i suoi 150 mila uomini, con i suoi 600 carri armati, con i suoi 1.000 cannoni, si presentò davanti alle coste siciliane durante la notte: essa era composta da due unità, la 7a Armata statunitense comandata dal generale Patton, e l’8° Armata britannica comandata dal generale Montgomery. Il settore britannico sbarcò sulla fascia costiera più ad oriente, tra Noto, Pachino, Portopalo, mentre il settore statunitense sbarcò tra Licata e Scoglitti, fascia costiera comprendente il golfo di Gela.
Questa premessa per descrivere i luoghi delle mie fotografie, realizzate tra Gela e Licata, in parte su quelle stesse spiagge che hanno visto il formidabile sbarco di uomini e mezzi durante la seconda guerra mondiale (non senza spargimento di sangue), ripensando spesso a come luoghi così belli siano stati scenario di eventi tragici circa 77 anni addietro. Un mio piccolo rammarico è stato il non poter fotografare sott’acqua un grosso mezzo navale da sbarco americano, affondato a circa 500 metri dalla costa, a non più di 6-7 metri di profondità: sono circa 20 anni che “lo vado ritrovare” con immersioni in apnea, ed ogni volta che lo vedo provo sempre una grande emozione (dovrò decidermi prima o poi a procurarmi una macchina fotografica subacquea). Ho rivisitato (ogni volta è sempre una grande emozione) i bunker e le casamatte presenti su tutto il tratto (ed oltre) Licata-Gela, in alcuni di essi sono entrato dentro, mentre in altri la presenza di terra ha reso impossibile l’esplorazione interna. Nel paese di Licata provo sempre forti emozioni andando a zonzo, soprattutto nella parte più antica del paese nel suo centro storico: ho rivisto il Cristo Nero, trafitto anticamente dalle frecce dai saraceni (una freccia è presente poco sopra l’occhio sinistro, la freccia originale fu tolta dai coloni Maltesi e sostituita con una freccia d’argento). Le mie prossime foto, divise in gruppi, avranno come tema il paese di Licata, e le sue spiagge.
La maggior parte delle foto sono confuse-mosse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste foto sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto allungando volutamente i tempi di esposizione, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
This is the Humber Bridge, the fifth largest single span suspension bridge in the world according to Wikipaedia. The Humber has a reputation for going along like a mad man, it is a fast and turbulent, all the things that make it the sort of bridge that people jump off. On this day, it was still: the tide was turning and the wind was still and the river was like a sheet of glass. At this point the river is about two miles wide.
Two of UPs classy SD40N rebuilds bring the Y-SPMP Transfer over the Robert St lift bridge and towards East Mpls.
Minutes after this was taken, the second unit had issues. The transfer had to run over to the Belt Yard and get a third SD40N so they could make the grade and trip to East Mpls.
Santa Speedo Run 2009, Boston, MA, December 12th, 2009.
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Photoshoot of sisters modeling bikinis and swimsuits.
Cowgirl models with cowboy hats, revolvers, and cowboy boots.
Two Japanese schoolgirls on their bikes.
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I was in Orkney yesterday, and caught up with Richard Yemm, Inventor of the Pelamis wave power convertor, at Lyness Harbour. Here are two of his machines.
There has been a happy event in my wasp family. When I visited them on the week-end two had hatched and a day later one more had arrived. This wasp has overwintered carrying male sperm ready to fertilise her eggs to produce daughters who have now joined her to help on the work of the nest. Males will be produced from the unfertilised eggs. Prey is caughts and macerated and then fed mouth to mouth to the larvae.
Keith Haring
1986
Polyurethane paint on Aluminum
On the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
An old Chinese woman and her granddaughter sitting in the Beijing Subway.
Originally, this was meant to be a whole series but due to my limited time in China, I didn't manage to shoot it. I hope I can finish it next time I go there.
This is where I live! We are living in the little 'hovel' on the LHS of the picture whilst we renovate the main old house . The little 'house' we live in at present is a strange two-roomed structure built under the tin-roofed hangar/barn. We reckon that it was built sometime in the 30s-40s and 'modernised' with an add-on shower-room inside toilet in the 60s-70s. The old house was abandoned when this little house was built, we reckon cause the old couple who lived here could no longer live in the old house that has no running water or kitchen or bathroom etc. It really is very original French peasant house of the region and practically unspoilt with later "improvements". I can't wait to move in. We plan to do very little to it that would change it. We need to build a spiral stair-case (in oak) to gain access to the upstairs to create two rooms. We will be incorporating some little add-on buildings that were used for animal housing to the LHS of the house as you look at it here to provide a bathroom/wet room and separate toilet and also a back door leading onto a south-facing terrace. You can just make out at the extreme left of theold housea little door in a lean-to building that houses the recently completed composting toilet. This humble little room houses an exhibition of some of my photos!!!!The building on the RHS of the old house is the old bread-oven -the 10 cats are fed in here ( the old stair-gate is to prevent the dogs and the hens stealing their food!) unfortunately, the huge wood-fired oven no longer functions as when the building was re-roofed some years ago the chimney was knocked down. We plan to make this building into a dairy and food preparation room which will house the freezers also. We grow all our own food here that has to be washed, chopped up and prepared for freezing, bottling etc and I also make cheese from our goat's milk. At present I do all this in the little 'hovel'!!
We welcome volunteers from all over the world, mainly through WWOOF and HelpX throughout the year to assist in this venture, so we have to grow and process enough food to feed ourselves and these voluntary workers also! We have two hectares of woodland that provides all our firewood and some construction material, fenceposts etc. This is the work we are doing at present - when the snow clears!!
Two experiments in one!
Testing Skinsuit and MobileHR for exercise monitoring.
To eksperimenter i et! Test af Skinsuit og MobileHR til bevægelsesovervågning.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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