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for Sliders Sunday & 100x walks #86

 

Another one taken in York a couple of weeks ago, this time at the end of a foraging walk for brunch which was eaten in Rowntree Park on what turned out to be a ridiculously mild day. Oh, how the weather has changed since then! HSS!

I don't know if it came across but this young girl was helping parents collect used cans and bottles to make a little money to survive in New York...

No matter where I am walking, I am always looking in the windows of nearby houses to see if I can spot a cat. It makes me so happy.

 

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Happy Fence Friday

The annual vivarium that is setup at New York’s American Museum of Natural History as the Butterfly Conservatory is a wonderful 80 degree temporary home to almost 500 living butterflies and moths that just closed up at the end of May. Butterfly diversity is decreasing more and more all over the world. In fact I remember growing up not too far from where I live now in northern New Jersey and the many butterflies I would see in our back yard and the park up the street where my parents still reside. The one striking difference is the lack and in some cases total lack of butterflies and moths in many places in New Jersey and New York. They play such a vital role in the life cycle of plants so one can only wonder what effects their decreasing numbers is having on vegetation as insects like butterflies and bees continue to dwindle in number. So this wonderful Conservatory that the American Museum of Natural History sets up annually brings attention to the plight of these wonderfully diverse arthropods and allows one to literally enter into their world. I stayed within the vivarium over an hour, patiently waiting for these gifted insects would come to an area where I could photograph them. Definitely worth seeing if visiting the museum when the conservatory is up.

Taken with Olympus E-5 using a ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 handheld RAW file processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

www.amnh.org/calendar/the-butterfly-conservatory

 

'Shambles' is the name of a street in the old part of York. It's a relatively short street but the charm of it is that most of the buildings have been there for a long, long time, some of them actually overhanging the street. And make no mistake, some of these buildings are proper old, some dating back as far as 1350 (yes, I did say 1350!). It's gone a bit Harry Potter in recent years with all kinds of shops selling things like broomsticks and magic charms. A hit with the tourists you might say. And yes, that's true. But you can't deny that when the tourists clear out it does have a wonderful look to it and well worth a photo or two.

 

If you want to know the history of this street, and I assure you it is quite interesting, then have a look at the Wikipedia page which can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles

  

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

North York Moors National Park, England.

 

www.steveniceton.co.uk

 

Canon EOS R5

Sigma 24-35mm f/2 DG HSM Art

Exposure: 1/250 s at f/2.8, ISO: 800

With the Driver seemingly receiving relief here at York, Class 45 No.45051 is working a Plymouth to Newcastle service. August 1984.

 

Scanned from a print.

Dean's Park, City Of York, N. Yorkshire UK..

The Old Palace in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England, is also known as the Minster Library and is in Dean's Park. It houses York Minster’s library and archives as well as the Collections Department and conservation studio.

Notable items held in the collection include cathedral records dating to back to 1150 (Wiki)

Unfortunately, York Cathedral was closed, so I only could admire it's outer beauty...:-(

1N36 London Kings Cross - York

 

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM

El One World Trade Center se acabó de construir en el año 2014 para sustituir al que sucumbió en el atentado del 11S.

 

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM

Exposure: 1/320 s at f/2.2, ISO: 800

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8e11199/

 

© Jack Allison, photographer

© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022

 

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