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When I came to visit Saltley Depot on Christmas Day 1973 I had the free run of the depot , I never saw a soul in the place { they must have been there some where ? ] Here is a collection of Class 25's standing in the sunlight at the front of the depot. 5279 [ 25129] 5187 [25037] 5237 [25085] a good visit just the thing to stop having a boring afternoon at home watching television, and waiting to eat more Turkey this time cold for Christmas tea. KC. 25/12/1973.
Kevin Connolly - All rights reserved so please do no use this image without my explicit permission
The footpath leading north from Potters Bar station gave some super views of the action on the East Coast Main Line. The Great Northern Electric suburban service had been operational for some 18 months when I took this view of a pair of Class 313 EMUs in their original condition. The type accumulated over 40 years of service in the Welwyn and Hertford North lines, only lately going for scrap.
May 1978
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
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Go in drains. Bunker drain in Warrington discharging a load. 10 minutes from no flow to torrential.
Read the blog entry for this photo
When you know….
From where the prose are coming from,
You may slightly feel the core of the mood
A little more so with some tender thoughts,
You can see the face without its present due
Feeling the sense coming up to its cause.
Sand Grain
After my pictures of the sunset, it's daybreak I delight to photograph when there are no clouds to hide the sun.
Looks like I'll be staying home for the next four weeks (and then some?), so when I'm not busy with house and yard projects I will be spending much of my time in the backyard trying to get better at shots like this one.
Yes, when will I be wearing my good old Ray Ban sunglasses! Too much rain and the lack of sunshine doesn't help but isn't warmer weather just around the corner .... not yet!!
7 Days of Shooting Week #29 Pairs Shoot Anything Saturday ....
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The Long-eared Owl is nocturnal and roosts in trees during the daytime, which is exactly where this one was when I first saw it. Though these owls are secretive, this one was so easy to find because of the huge crowd of photographers that, unfortunately, was already there.
"The Long-eared Owl has erect blackish ear-tufts, which are positioned in the centre of the head. The ear-tufts are used to make the owl appear larger to other owls while perched. The female is larger in size and darker in colouration than the male." From Wikipedia.
I am going to add, for the last time, the following, that I have posted for the last two or three days.
"I think the very first Long-eared Owl that I ever saw was seen on 13 October 2006. SInce then, I have been very fortunate to have seen several other individuals (see my Album) - including the day before yesterday. These owls are very secretive and many birders go years between sightings. It is so important not to give the location of this species. Be careful that there is nothing in your photos that gives away the location.
Various people had been posting photos of a Long-eared Owl recently, but I had no idea where they were seeing it. Someone had posted a photo and labelled it "Calgary" (totally untrue!), so I had thought it must have been seen in one of our local city parks. Two days ago, I decided to go for a short drive and get a bit of sunshine and fresh air. Our deep freeze has lasted for more than four weeks, and I have been home for most of that time. It was a milder day, so I decided to make the most of it, especially with more snow forecast for today.
Imagine my surprise when a stranger told me just where it was, and my absolute horror when I came upon a huge crowd of photographers with their lenses raised! So how did they all know about this owl?? Apparently, Facebook has such a bad reputation for people trolling everyone's photostream there, finding out locations for all sorts of things (old barns included!). Then, of course, some people phone others, to ask or to tell. Others follow ebird religiously, dashing out to see every more 'special' bird that is reported and location given. I don't post many photos on Facebook and I certainly don't post the same photo to three groups. It gets so very boring to see the same photos everywhere. These people flood their own Facebook pages and the groups! The only reason I can see is to get as many Likes as possible. Anyway, most people were down in the ditch at the fenceline, so no doubt they were able to get stunning close shots, especially those with enormous lenses. My photos were taken from the road, which was twice as far away, with a point-and-shoot. I'm not out to try and get better photos than anyone else : ) As always, there is so much competition among photographers. I was also not out there all day, like various people always are, and often day after day after day.
So, after saying those things, perhaps you can imagine how extremely upset (devastated, actually) I am to have been told (when I arrived at the owl) by a couple of friends (both of whom are superb photographers) that my photograph had been taken, along with two other people in it, standing at the edge of a road earlier in February. These friends thought it was hilarious and I sure was teased a lot. As they said, my "goody two-shoes" image was gone. They both know I have very high ethics, including when it comes to photography. This photo was posted on Facebook on a provincial birding page, pointing out how dangerous it is for people to stand by the road. This thread turned into a string of comments about people harassing the owls, etc., etc., etc. Actually, the other two people in the photo are both seen taking photos (when I was told they already had taken thousands). There's me, camera not raised, looking disgusted that an owl had been flushed so that they could take flight images. The reason I was out of my vehicle was that these two people were out of theirs and racing down the road at top speed to get yet more shots. When I was sitting in my car, these photographers blocked my view of the owl, so out I got and caught up with them. To prove that I was not planning on getting out of my car this trip, I was wearing just my thin summer jacket (over fleece) in a windchill in the minus 20C's.
Sorry to rant, but it just upsets me so much that this photo was taken and posted on Facebook. Have barely slept the last two nights! The very last thing I would ever want is to be connected with bad ethics!! Of course, I must be such a bad person to actually stand by the road - ha, you should see all the dozens of people who do exactly the same (without being photgraphed)!
That day, I took maybe 30 photos of the Long-eared Owl, and maybe a couple of dozen of a Short-eared Owl, almost every single one of the latter needing to be deleted, because they were all totally blurry, thanks to taking the photos from inside my car. You can be sure that most of the others went home with yet another memory card containing thousands of photos.
Sorry for the rant, but I am hoping that now I won't be stressing out over it quite as much, every second of the day! Ain't life fun? To the man who took my photo (as far as I know, I have never met him), how about taking a few photos of the crowds of people, especially those who were as close as they could get to the LEO. Or those who stress out the owls day after day after day, often from morning till evening! You might just get lots of likes and comments on photos of those repeat "offenders". How about giving it a try?
PS: I rarely allow people (i.e. friends) to photograph me. Not sure what right this man thinks he has, to take my photo and especially to then post it on a very popular Facebook group page. I would like it removed from Facebook, or at the very least, to have myself totally blurred out of the image. When this sort of thing happens, it can totally destroy a person's joy of photography!
Actually, on a more serious note, something that I'm sure most people don't think of. You really need to be careful about taking a photo of someone and then posting it (without signing a consent form). For various security reasons, doing this could actually put someone in danger. For example, a woman (or vice versa) might not want their photo being advertised in this way, not wanting an abusive spouse/partner to know where they go sometimes or what they do. Just something to keep in mind."
*I wrote a lot: but the first comment below has more photos from the shoot if you want to skip my gushing.*
This might just be the perfect couple: Mike and Netty.
Mike and I met 18 years ago, we have now been in each other's lives longer than not. His mom worked with my dad and we were introduced at a company picnic right before 7th grade started. Mike was a *dork* with glasses, braces, a bowl hair cut...I wasn't too cute, either. But I was cool. The first day of 7th grade when he stumbled into me I told him, "Get out of my way, nerd!" By the end of 7th grade we were excellent friends. By high school, we were practically inseparable. I spent more of my high school life in Mike's basement than anywhere else, his mom would make home made pizza for all of us, I grew so close to Mike's family that I called his parents Mumsy and Daddy, and they called me Babs; Mike was an only child and they loved our group of girl-friends and having us over. Mike and I even briefly dated during the period we refer to as "the ugly pupa stage" when neither of us were particularly attractive. We didn't click quite well enough to pull off the long term high school relationship, but we never strayed far from each other's company. We even agreed that if by our mid 20s nothing serious was going on for either of us that we would throw in the towel and marry each other, at least we'd always have fun. We even agreed to get a dog and name it "Rod" so that we could giggle every time one of us yelled, "Come, Rod!" We were dorks, did I mention that?
Luckily for Mike, the amazing Annette came into his life. While in college he was working at a grocery store and helped out a high school senior with something. Wound up dating her. Netty was the best friend. Mike took the girl to prom, Mike's best friend Steve took Netty. Mike and Girl A did not work out, but Netty...there was something about Netty.
One night they were watching a movie at his place and she said, "I wish it was me who had gone to the grocery store that night," and Mike looked at her and knew right then she was it for him and declared, "And I see no reason why I don't love you." They kissed...and are literally living happily ever after.
They own a house, just bought it last summer, in Troy, NH. They have good jobs. They have a gross old lovable cat named Keith. And on a vacation to Puerto Rico in February, Mike realized he couldn't stand not being married to her and proposed. They were married last weekend at their home in NH, with close family and friends. They walked down the aisle together to the song Rumble by Link Wray. Netty danced to The Humpty Dance at the reception.
And then they flew into Seattle, rented a car, and started their honeymoon: a drive down the left coast, from Seattle to San Francisco. Of course, they stopped in Portland to see me.
We fit more into 36 hours than should have been humanly possible: we ate at Henry's and had Young's Double Chocolate Stout on tap, bbq beef sliders, fresh hot bbq potato chips, beer and cheese soup. We did a brief driving tour of the Portland skyline from 405. We had breakfast at Pine State, then ventured into the Gorge for what I dubbed "The Gorge Light" tour. A stop at the Vista House, then to Latourelle (the first big waterfall they'd ever seen), a stop at Shepperd's Dell to pick wild blackberries, Multnomah, and then I hiked them up to Ponytail so they could go behind a waterfall. Netty promptly threw off her shirt and scrambled down to the pool to feel the spray and falls. Every turn their mouths hung slack, Mike kept looking up at waterfalls and stepping backwards he was so blown away. They noticed how green our woods are, and were stunned we were only 30 miles outside of Portland. They also enjoyed the lack of mosquitoes and ticks.
I dragged the reluctant duo back into the city, where we picked up a "youCANhascheeseburger" sandwich at the Brunchbox at 5th and Stark: an amazing cheeseburger between 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, for $5. We ate in Pioneer Courthouse Square and people watched. We took Mike to Apple Music, where he was enthralled by the collection (including a classic Gretsch that he has in his own collection), and he nerded out for almost 2 hours in the place. I remember when Mike started to play guitar! We ate maple bacon bars and tang doughnuts at Voodoo, and then saw the one-armed guitarist.
But the highlight of the day was Patrick and I taking them back to the hotel where they threw on what they'd worn on their wedding day, and we took them to the Rose Garden and Pittock Mansion for their official wedding portraits. Over two hours later, we were all pooped, but happy, and concluded the whirlwind visit with a lovely meal at Bridgeport. As an aside, Patrick was also fascinated when comparing all our tattoos, they were all done by the same artist. Seeing three people and countless pieces all in one place by the same hand was pretty interesting to all of us, actually. Dorks always, I suppose.
I was heartbroken to say goodbye to them, I had cried when I found out I couldn't go to NH to actually be at the wedding, but this was such a lovely concession. Next summer they are returning to Oregon for a full week, we might camp at Crater Lake for a couple of nights, they will stay with us in our place with our crazy Pugs, we'll have more amazing food and beer, and I'm going to take them back into the Gorge for more amazing sights. I am already counting the days till we see them again.
Mike and Netty are that couple that you just want to hate...they're just that perfect together. If they don't spend the rest of their lives together...well let's just say I can't see anything else happening. This is it for them, one of the few couples I've shot who I just think have that *something* you need to work. After 18 years of knowing Mike, I cannot see him with anyone other than Netty, and that's saying something. They can't see it any other way, either.
When it doesn't pour rain outside we manage to go for soggy walks...I think she was ready to go in way before I took this..her hungry goil! lol!
my friend T and I were road-tripping along in the approved road-tripping way (much driving, much much music, and much much much laughter) when we heard of this beach that had to be hiked to. There was no car access. Mhm, instant intrigue. So we bought a wilderness tenting pass, rented a bear canister to store our food in, and headed to Shi Shi Beach with our tent and firewood and supplies. It sounds easy. It wasn’t. We decided that the people who made the beach inaccessible by car should rot in a chocolate-less world for all eternity. (I know, intense. We get like that when we're exhausted.)
So I took photos of the sunset while T ate the hotdog we'd cooked over our mini fire, and I convinced her to come and stand by the ocean for the photo. She did. But she brought her hotdog with her, and ate it with her back to the camera. Shocking behind-the-scenes revelations
When I reminded him we had met at his flat in New York in 1992, he immediately responded "And I lent you 100 dollars which you never returned!" :-) At 85 still as witty as ever. #chobimela #Pathshala #Drik #Photography
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I turn when
you are so close?
We try not to crash but
we still collide
Tears
I've cried,, I'll survive
I'm alive !!
I'm stripped, I'm bare
I'm left here with nothing
I hold the wheel
And know where I'm going
Your face, I see, in
every reflection
No time, no space
I've lost all direction
And there's no turning
back this time
Gotta stay alive
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when selecting a guitar, it is important to take care in choosing the tonewoods. make sure the guitar will blend well with your personality. will the guitar resonate with the acoustics of the room where you are playing?
When I grow up I wanna be famous, I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have boobies
When I grow up,be on TV, people know me, be on magazines
When I grow up, freshly cleaned, number one chick, wanna step out on the seen
Spent some time filling in gaps, greebling and polishing the bottom half. I'm actually quite happy with the way the tank sections and landing knuckles(?) came out.
(Also slightly dreading what it will take to bring the complex front section up to this level of polish...)
عندما تتشكل الغيوم , لوحة الهية ... سبحان الله
من سواحل منطقة السالمية - موسم السرايات -
Seascape from Al Salimeya coasts , in Thu 6-4-2006.
Kuwait
...do they imagine they will hatch from the egg of design?
Seen on Earth Day, owned by a gung-ho couple who love the real storage space when the rear seats fold down.
Love the EV fans.
I have been experimenting with self portraits
This is a double exposure shot using a print screen
An abstract playing with the idea that when one
person or situation leaves us feeling bruised we
need to remind ourselves of all the people that love us
...apologies to Nacho Libre.
OK, so when a dog goes into heat, it can be messy, as one might imagine. And it turns out several manufacturers make so-called dog diapers a.,k.a. bitches britches in an attempt to solve the problem. However, our experience has been that dog diapers are ill-fitting, uncomfortable and humiliatingly unfashionable.
A far better solution? 2T to 3T todler boy's underpants. You put them on your dog "backwards," thus the opening accommodates the tail.
Swank!
Raphael "Raffi" Mikelstein as Christopher Robin from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
Costume is designed by moi.
Props by moi
Behind the scene photography by Jillian Direktor (Seen in her album)
Raffi looks extremely younger than his actual age in the photograph, (and if you know him, he already looks younger than his age). That's just my opinion.
The line "When you never forget." is inspired by the conversation between Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear.
"Promise you'll never forget me."
"Oh I won't Christopher Robin. I promise."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir4Zm5KVe7Q&feature=related
I included all of the classic characters:
Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Gopher (who's not in the book, so in the movie he repeatedly says "I'm not in the book!")