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As described by "The Best of Oahu":
Sandy Beach Park is notoriously known for two things…powerful shore breaks and the fine beach sand that gets into everything! Sandy Beach is a beautiful isolated stretch of sand that lays just beyond the popular Halona Blowhole. This Oahu beach has a magnificent scene that you arrive upon after driving along the lava rock cliffside of Koko Head Crater.
It is also happens to be my wife's favorite...since they share the same name...Sandy!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
J'imagine que les berges de l'Orb, tout comme celles du fleuve Hérault sont particulièrement fréquentées.
En automne, c'est nettement plus calme, pour autant, les berges ne sont pas complètement désertées. Je me serais même bien offert un petit plongeon dans les eaux vives, claires et nettement plus profondes qu'en plein été.
Warnings without words at Sugarloaf Point lighthouse - I love the artistry of this wordless warning about a hazard underfoot.
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Stop sign that has been riddled with a shotgun outside of Havre, Montana.
There aren't too many road signs here in Montana that don't have bullet holes in them. At first I didn't understand why. But then I realized it was for the same reasons I have so many photographs of utility poles. On the stark eastern Montana landscape often there is little else.
I captured this image south and east of Havre early in the morning as the sun was just rising above the horizon. I've been waiting to find a good sign with bullet holes to photograph with the sun coming through. The utilty poles in the background were a nice addition.
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Sorry for the swearing but man... I just howled when I saw this sign. I used a friend's zoom to take this as I was afraid of the reprocussions!...
Mystery Tour Friday b 650
Ham hocks, red beans, cornbread, bacon on the side
Ham hocks, red beans, cornbread, bacon on the side...
A rather fine poster, issued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in association with the Ministry of Transport, in 1965 to coincide with the introduction of the UK's new road traffic signs that year. Such posters were widely distributed to organisations and institutions such as schools and indeed this is where this copy was rescued from by D Rose who has kindly scanned this and consented to let me post this.
The new system of signage, much more based in pictograms and a new typeface, came from the deliberations of the Worboys Committee that had sat at the behest of the Ministry of Transport to consider the country's road signs. The basic designs had been in place for over 30 years but new road conditions and growing traffic saw the need to update the system, such as for the new and growing motorway network. In fact the motorways had seen a new signage system a few years earlier developed by graphic designers Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir, and these signs were based on a continuation of their work. Aspects such as simplicity and legibility were seen as primary attributes of the new system.
So began a programme of sweeping away the old designs and replacing them, gradually, with new. The old designs are now often fondly recalled and indeed a small number of "pre-Worboys" signs still survive on the road network (few and far between) and in some counties old style heritage fingerposts for local directions have not only survived but been replicated on a small scale. The system seen here has worked well, overall, but there are calls for a systematic overhaul as, with any system, gradual change to allow for new requirments has led to some complexities and divergence from some of the principles set out in this new design.
The Dixie Highway was planned out in December 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South, from Chicago to Miami.
By the mid-1920s, the project was largely completed with a network of roads interconnected across 10 states with more than 5,000 miles of paved, bricked road. But, by 1927, Dixie Highway became part of the US Route System, and was therefore, mostly abandoned. But, a portion of it still remains in remote Florida, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2005.
“It’s one of the oldest roads in America,” according to the historian.
Upon on my arrival, I started from south toward north, before I entered, there is a warning: “Travel at your own risk.” And another prohibiting the removal of the bricks in the road. Doing so, it says, warrants prosecution “to the fullest extent of the law.”
The historic stretch of Old Dixie Highway is 10 miles long, and would recommend to drive slowly as there are some thick soft-sand on the road that could cause slide off from the road if driving too fast.
Interesting fact: The brick was manufactured by the Graves Shale Brick Company in Birmingham, Alabama, belonging to a slave-owning man who fought for the Confederacy. It took 237,600 such bricks to build just 1 mile of road, 9 feet wide. Others are with the words "SOUTHERN CLAY MFG CO” for the Southern Clay Manufacturing Company in Tennessee.
A man walks in front of one of the hot ponds of the Oniyama Jigoku (The monster mountain hell), one of the locations that can be visited on the Jigoku-meguri (hell tour), a small excursion that takes visitors around Beppu’s eight natural hot springs that have spewing hot clay mud and steam or gushing high temperature water for more than 1000 years, keeping people away and inspiring the name jigoku (hell).
It looks like this traffic sign in Chesapeake, Ohio, was re-used from a previous assignment. I believe under the orange it says "McDonald's NEXT LEFT". Close inspection shows where the holes are for the mounting bolts in its previous use
Near the fairy steps, the warning relates to the Fairy Steps which are a flight of naturally occurring limestone stairs squeezed between two sheer rock faces nearby they are named as such because legend has it that should you climb or descend the steps without touching the sides of the narrow gully the fairies will grant you a wish.
These steps have been an attraction to the area for over two hundred years, back in the late Victorian times coach loads of tourists would arrive in the hope of having their wishes granted by the fairies. Now it's an attraction for holiday lets.
Warning: Climb at Your Own Risk
There's been a lot of risk associated with the year 2020. Recently I found myself all alone far from everyone and everything. As I read the warning sign, climbing seemed like a minimal risk compared with all we've been through this year. And then I was high in the sky. I could feel the tower swaying in the wind. Slowly, back and forth. I could hear the creaking as the rivets rubbed against the cold, hard steel. But I couldn't hear any bad news, nasty name calling, accusations, or allegations. All the conspiracies were nowhere to be found. No virus was trying to chase me down. I was all alone yet I was overwhelmed with the realization I'm never alone. Climb at your own risk. You may just discover there is a road that leads to a far better place.
Clark State Forest
Henryville Fire Tower
2020
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2020.08.26 - Hum..whaaaa..? At first I thought this was a joke as I was cycling through Parc Maisonneuve but it turns out in July there were sheep brought to the park for people to hang out with ..and I guess this is where they crossed the bike path. The path by the way is paved, this trail is just a self made walking path next to it... it kind of took me for a loop though LOL.
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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan's song was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard about this dead whale in Njarðvík a couple of days ago.
I can only hope that this is a coincidence, but this is the 3rd dead whale I've found this year. When you think about it whales are no more immortal beings than any other on this planet.
This is a northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).
I shot this image yesterday. It's an HDR of 3 handheld exposure. I aligned the shots before importing into Photomatix which I used for HDR creation and tone mapping. Most of the work in Photoshop revolved around adjusting the perspective and composition, as I couldn't position myself close enough to the subject to get the desired composition. On top of that I did tonal adjustments to get the muted tones effect, dodge and burn, noise reduction to the sky and sharpening to the foreground.
Catching a lift through The City. Getting used to life in the other seat. The glimmers and flashes when you're catching a lift in the front. I very rarely do these days, but figured I need to get used to the other seat and how different speed feels when you're not actually in the driving seat - with someone else in control of a train. After nearly 5 years of driving trains underground, I finally got a job as an instructor. Not quite sure how I feel about it yet.
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