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Harbor Lights

 

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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.

 

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The first fresh tuna in two weeks

 

[epenguin]

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.

 

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The queen of drama on LINE

 

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The dynamic duo on Tic Tok

 

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[Isopod]

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.

 

[gmax137]

Street signs

 

[Hamiltonian]

her signals

 

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Midtown NYC

 

[Isopod]

Parking in the UK be like

 

[gmax137]

Font size choice?

 

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NYPD

 

[DennisN]

Springtime is here.

Daffodils:

Grape Hyacinths:

Crown Imperial:

 

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Central Park

 

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[DennisN]

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

A blue lily:

Blue grape hyacinths by a lamp post:

An apennine anemone:

A blue lily with a bug (not a feature ):

And last, a daffodil:

(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)

 

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A smoggy sunrise

 

[gmax137]

One more street sign

 

[Oldman too]

Route 66, Albuquerque, N.M.

 

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

 

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Route 66, Albuquerque, N.M.
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[Oldman too]

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]

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.

 

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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.

 

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Overview from subway map

 

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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)