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Point Conception · Feb 22, 2022

Harbor Lights

Person in a red zip-up jacket with white stripes sitting on a balcony at dusk, looking out over a waterfront with town lights and buildings below.

Point Conception · Feb 25, 2022

February was high tourist season in Thailand. 2019 there were 40 000 000 foreign visitors, at least 20% of GDP and if all the non receipt transactions were included... 2021 about 400 000 foreigners visited. And with very complicated entry requirements because of the virus those lost tourists may be replacing the Thai holiday with a Vietnam holiday.

Wide sandy beach on a hazy day with calm blue sea to the left, a few people scattered on the sand, and a tall high-rise hotel with white buildings along the coastline behind.

Point Conception · Feb 26, 2022

The first fresh tuna in two weeks

Fish stall in a market: a woman in a red Chelsea jacket looks at fish on crushed ice, while a vendor in a red apron and face mask works at a cutting board behind the counter.

epenguin · Feb 27, 2022

jack action said:

Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality photos in full color. This self-portrait is over 110 years old!

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Beautiful! The method is now able to give us in this century remarkably faithful and realistic colour prints with information that is in the photos!

I thought with a moving subject (the stream) superimposition of three images should be fuzzy, but at least the form of the water surface is I guess fairly invariant. And when you enlarge it the white parts do seem a bit fuzzier than the rocks. Is this three time/colour what you are seeing especially in the photo of the floodgate at Chernigov?

Although scenery not unlike like that could at a pinch be from several countries I found the overall scene said to me "Russia"! The human (bourgeois) figure recalling the country from its, in some ways, best and most hopeful period.

The present is a time I dare mention and recall how we others are always pleased to recognise anything good that comes out of there. Though there again coming out from there is what this pioneer had himself to do that we after a century were able to inherit this legacy.

Point Conception · Mar 7, 2022

The queen of drama on LINE

Screenshot of a LINE chat: a sent photo of a teal-walled balcony with a potted plant, a wine bottle and a glass bottle on a table, and a wire mesh railing; replies read 'You drink with who' and 'No that is photo 6 months a... am waiting for you girl'.

Point Conception · Mar 7, 2022

The dynamic duo on Tic Tok

Screenshot of a short-video app showing two young women with long dark hair, seen from behind, wearing knitted crop tops with straps and jeans, one with a tattooed shoulder; app overlay icons on the right.

Point Conception · Mar 25, 2022

Wet market stall at night with blue crates of seafood on the floor, metal prep tables, a weighing scale and a lit corridor of vendors behind.

Point Conception · Mar 25, 2022

Woman in a white tank top and ripped jeans leaning on a blue balcony railing at dusk, looking out over city lights, with a patterned fabric hanging to the left.

Isopod · Mar 28, 2022

A skyscraper sculpture that I made recently, this was it in an exhibition. I made the sculpture using a lot of mirrored aluminium (which I salvaged and put through a lot of processing) and steel.

Tall rectangular sculpture of mirrored aluminium pieces and steel framing, standing on a wooden floor inside a dilapidated room with peeling plaster walls and a bay window.

Dark photo of a tall sculpture made of many vertical strips of crumpled, reflective metal panels in a grid, catching bright highlights against a black background.

gmax137 · Apr 5, 2022

Street signs

View through a car windshield at an intersection with a green street sign reading "Ioh Dr" on a traffic signal pole, a white van ahead, and a low tan building beyond.

Hamiltonian · Apr 6, 2022

Traffic light showing a red light above a yellow light, with green arrows pointing straight ahead and to the right, mounted on a yellow pole in front of trees and a multi-storey building.

her signals

Point Conception · Apr 6, 2022

Midtown NYC

Red-bordered street sign reading RED ZONE, NO PARKING, NO STANDING, NO STOPPING, NO KIDDING!, with pedestrians and buildings behind it on a city sidewalk.

Isopod · Apr 7, 2022

White t-shirt printed with a UK-style parking sign: blue P symbol, black car silhouette, and text reading Parking Mon-Fri, Saturday (except Sunday), No return within 1 hour, 2 hour max (bank holiday), Not valid Fri-Mon (Excludes Weekdays), 1 hour only.

Parking in the UK be like

gmax137 · Apr 7, 2022

Photo of two stacked street signs outside a shop: a yellow sign reading "SEE SIGN BELOW" above a white sign reading "DO NOT BLOCK DRIVEWAY", with shrubs and a storefront behind them.

Font size choice?

Point Conception · Apr 8, 2022

Street sign post on a city street with stacked signs: a red and white RED ZONE sign reading TOW & FINE $185 MINIMUM, a yellow sign reading CLEAR FIRE LANE FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, and a sign reading NO PARKING NOT 5 MINUTES NOT 30 SECONDS NOT AT ALL!, with tall office buildings behind.

Point Conception · Apr 8, 2022

Black sedan with wire-spoke wheels parked on a crosswalk behind blue police barrier tape reading POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS, with uniformed officers and men in suits on a city street.

NYPD

DennisN · Apr 10, 2022

Springtime is here.

Daffodils:

Two yellow daffodils with drooping, double-layered trumpets and curled brown-tipped buds, backlit by bright sunlight against a blurred background.

Grape Hyacinths:

Clusters of small blue grape hyacinth flowers on tall green stems among long green leaves, with blurred brick buildings in the background.

Crown Imperial:

Point Conception · Apr 10, 2022

Central Park

Dense bed of red tulips with a few white ones in the foreground, with a park path, lampposts, trees and a bronze statue on the left in the background.

Point Conception · Apr 10, 2022

Crowded grassy park lawn in summer with many people sitting, lying on blankets and walking; trees and a city skyline with tall buildings in the hazy background.

DennisN · Apr 12, 2022

I wish you all a Happy Easter, with some more flower power (photos taken yesterday):

A blue lily:

Close-up of a blue flower with six narrow, pointed petals and a yellow stamen cluster at the centre, on a thin dark stem against a blurred green and blue background.

Blue grape hyacinths by a lamp post:

Clusters of blue grape hyacinth flowers on tall green stems among grass blades, with a dark green cylindrical object at right and a blurred background.

An apennine anemone:

Close-up of a violet-blue anemone flower with many overlapping petals and a central cluster of yellow stamens around a green centre, against a dark background.

A blue lily with a bug (not a feature

):

Close-up of a blue flower with six pointed petals and yellow stamens, with a small dark insect near the centre, against green leaves and a dark blurred background.

And last, a daffodil:

Close-up of a yellow daffodil in bloom with a blue sky and blurred brown background, its trumpet-shaped centre yellow with a frilled edge.

(I hope I got the flower names correct. I'm terrible at plant names

, so I used Google Picture Search and Wikipedia to identify the flower types, except the daffodil, which I knew.)

(All photos taken with a Sony A6000 camera and a Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 lens)

Point Conception · Apr 13, 2022

A smoggy sunrise

Hazy orange sun low over a roofline with a chain-link fence, seen between two silhouetted bead-chain pull cords in the foreground.

gmax137 · Apr 13, 2022

One more street sign

Green street sign reading "Disc Dr" hanging over an intersection, with red traffic signals and a white SUV waiting at the crossing.

Oldman too · Apr 13, 2022

Route 66, Albuquerque, N.M.

Black and white photo of a low single-storey motor court with a sign reading Auto Court, cars parked outside, along a flat roadside with bare trees and a utility pole.

Point Conception · Apr 13, 2022

Catherine st. Downtown. Note the WTC towers. I used to work at WTC 6 while a customs inspector at New York seaport.

Street scene of a busy city sidewalk with a woman in a dark dress walking past a red car, a fire hydrant, and a blue storefront sign reading in Chinese; twin towers rise in the background.

Point Conception · Apr 13, 2022

Oldman too said:

Route 66, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Oldman too · Apr 13, 2022

Always reminds me of The grapes of wrath or some pixar animation about cars... The shot I posted was my grandfathers business prior to moving north but that was before my time.

DennisN · Apr 14, 2022

morrobay said:

Catherine st. Downtown. Note the WTC towers. I used to work at WTC 6 while a customs inspector at New York seaport.

That's in Chinatown, I assume? I visited New York just two years before 9/11, and I stood at the base of one of the WTC towers and looked up along the wall. They were incredibly tall.

Point Conception · Apr 14, 2022

DennisN said:

That's in Chinatown, I assume? I visited New York just two years before 9/11, and I stood at the base of one of the WTC towers and looked up along the wall. They were incredibly tall.

Yes ,the East Broadway Chinatown district as opposed to the main Canal st + side streets ( Mott st, Mulberry st.) Chinatown district.

Street map of lower Manhattan's Chinatown area showing Canal Street, Worth Street, Bowery, East Broadway and Madison Street with subway and bus route markers.

Point Conception · Apr 14, 2022

Overview from subway map

Section of a New York City subway map showing lines around Lower Manhattan, including Canal Street, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, Fulton Street and Wall Street, with colour-coded routes and station labels.

Point Conception · Apr 14, 2022

Just by the fact of being in New York City you are traveling: Can be in Chinatown and walk over one block and in little Italy (shown) then across a few more and in an Eastern European district. Also Washington Square summer in the city. Customs House and Red Hook , Brooklyn. (Container searches)

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