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DennisN · Aug 6, 2023

An old horse carriage:

Weathered wooden horse-drawn carriage with rusted iron fittings and two large spoked wheels, parked on dirt beside a white corrugated wall with hanging flower baskets.

nsaspook · Aug 6, 2023

Random road trip photos from Portland OR to Colorado Springs CO.

Silver steel arch bridge spanning a deep canyon with dark layered basalt cliffs, a winding river below, and gray-green sagebrush in the foreground.

Lobby interior seen through large windows: two black leather armchairs flank a dark side table with red flowers and greenery, and outside a bronze horse sculpture stands on a pink-tinted plaza beside a parking lot with cars and light poles.

Wide panoramic photo of a semi-arid plain with dry golden grass and scattered shrubs, a gravel road and fence line in the foreground, flat-topped buttes on the horizon under a blue sky with cumulus clouds.

View from a roadside guardrail over rolling green-brown hills, a small town in the valley, and a conical peak under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Brick corner building with ornate cornice and arched windows, a round sign reading The Black Tie Casino, and a red fire hydrant on the sidewalk, with hills and power poles behind.

Dark grey storm clouds with rounded pouch-like bulges hanging from the underside of a broad cloud layer, above trees and a blue sky strip at the bottom edge.

Point Conception · Aug 10, 2023

Girlfriend Neng, 39. Father Chinese, mother Thai.

A woman with reddish-orange hair in a ponytail, wearing a black face mask, a striped sleeveless top and striped wide-leg trousers, stands with one foot raised on a weathered stone bollard by the sea, holding a smartphone and a stylus-like object. Boats and a hazy coastline are behind her.

BillTre · Aug 12, 2023

DennisN · Aug 14, 2023

Some random shots taken yesterday...

Here's a very good juggler I met in the park. Here he juggles with five balls (four are in the air in the photo).
He was going to livestream from the park and I asked him if I could take some photos, and he said yes.

A man in a green t-shirt and grey shorts juggling on a sunny grass lawn in front of dark trees, with three balls visible in the air above him.

Wall art (1) (this is my personal favorite in the city) :

Large mural on the side of a brick building showing a woman with long hair holding a red octopus tentacle, set against a dusk-colored sky, with parked cars in front.

Wall art (2):

Large multicoloured mural covering a tall building gable, with swirling pink, teal, yellow and maroon abstract shapes, parked cars and graffiti below.

A lush place in the park:

A shaded woodland path lined with dark rocks and tall green grass, with dappled sunlight on the muddy ground and dense trees behind.

jack action · Aug 14, 2023

DennisN said:

Some random shots taken yesterday...

Here's a very good juggler I met in the park. Here he juggles with five balls (four are in the air in the photo).
He was going to livestream from the park and I asked him if I could take some photos, and he said yes.

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Wall art (1) (this is my personal favorite in the city) :

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Wall art (2):

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A lush place in the park:

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It's the first time I see graffiti on wall art as in your 2nd picture. I always thought putting wall art "repelled" the graffiti artists as in your first picture. Are these in the same sector and is one as old as the other? If so, why put graffiti on one and not the other?

DennisN · Aug 14, 2023

jack action said:

Are these in the same sector and is one as old as the other?

Yes, they are right next to each other. How old they each are, I don't know.

jack action said:

If so, why put graffiti on one and not the other?

I don't know

. Maybe it's a place where graffiti is allowed? I know of at least one such place in the city.

jack action · Aug 14, 2023

DennisN said:

I don't know . Maybe it's a place where graffiti is allowed? I know of at least one such place in the city.

I'm really talking about the graffiti at the bottom, behind the cars, in the second picture. They really don't look to be part of the wall art and were just added on later by ~~hooligans~~ other people.

DennisN · Aug 14, 2023

jack action said:

I'm really talking about the graffiti at the bottom, behind the cars, in the second picture. They really don't look to be part of the wall art and were just added on later by ~~hooligans~~ other people.

Ok, I understand now. I agree, I don't think they're part of the original art and probably added later by other "freelancers"

.

Andy Resnick · Aug 15, 2023

Back from holiday at the beach- a few images worth sharing:

Tall golden-tan grass heads blowing diagonally in the wind in the foreground, with dark blue ocean waves breaking behind them.

Choppy blue-green ocean waves breaking near a sandy beach, with a swimmer in the surf and a blue beach canopy with dune grass in the foreground.

Long-exposure star trails photograph with curved white and yellow arcs sweeping across a dark sky, converging toward a horizon with a faint orange glow of lightning near the bottom edge.

This one is star trails (15mm lens) looking south- the stuff at bottom is lightning, and the horizontal streak at very bottom is a Coast Guard dredging vessel. This was the most cloud-free night I have ever experienced there, great visibility! The bright star entering at lower left is Fomalhaut.

We also saw a Starlink deployment- the whole image (processed to bring out the satellites)- the main body of satellites is the horizontal streak, and in the zoomed image you can see the satellites that are deploying as streaks above the main line:

Star trail photo of a night sky over a dark horizon with grass in the foreground, with short bright streaks from rotating stars and one long horizontal satellite streak crossing the right side.

Long-exposure star trail photo of a night sky, with many short white streaks of stars and satellites running diagonally, and a bright bluish horizontal streak near the bottom edge.

DennisN · Aug 17, 2023

A set of colorful flowers in August...

Hover fly on yellow Pot Marigold:

Yellow marigold flower with layered petals on a green stem against a dark green background, with a hoverfly perched on the upper left petals.

Cosmos bipinnatus:

Close-up of a pink and white cosmos flower with a yellow centre, against a blurred green and orange background.

Red Coneflower:

Close-up of a purple coneflower with drooping pink-purple petals around a spiky orange-red central cone, against a blurred green background.

Red Rudbeckia:

Close-up of a dark red daisy-like flower with pointed, reflexed petals around a dark brown central disc, with an unopened bud at left against green leaves.

Sunflowers:

Yellow Dahlia:

(All shot with Sony A6000 + Sony 55-210mm + Neewer polarizing filter and identified with Google Pictures.
The Sony 55-210mm would normally not be my lens of choice for pictures like these, but it was the only lens I had at the moment

.)

jtbell · Aug 17, 2023

What are you pointing at me for?

Grassy roadside lot with a cracked concrete slab base, a yellow diamond arrow sign with a black arrow and a small 55 plate, trees behind, and a road in the foreground.

Actually, the arrow points towards the Spartanburg [SC] Downtown Airport (SPA), about 10 miles away. This was the site of a beacon on the Transcontinental Airway System, built in the 1920s to guide airmail pilots. The square in the middle of the arrow was the base of a tower with a revolving light at the top. See the linked Wikipedia article for a sketch of a typical beacon. This beacon, about halfway between Greenville and Spartanburg SC, was on Contract Air Mail route #19, Atlanta — New York.

In general, the arrows point towards the next beacon.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Hebden Bridge today (not far from Leeds) so weather permitting I'll try and get some nice pictures.
Great pubs, walks, country.
Central library before I leave, probably my favourite place to relax in Manchester.
If time I will get images here too. The inside used to be like a typical 19th century library, silent, dim light, wooden tables, green leather seats and antique table lamps.
Now its all about the bloody kids .....but I made my peace with it, at least I get to go on the piano at Christmas and Impress the hell out of the little blighters.

jack action · Aug 19, 2023

pinball1970 said:

Now its all about the bloody kids

Yeah, funny how we try to create a "kid's world" instead of just going through our day - just doing what needs to be done - and letting the kids learn what adults do by watching them.

And then, suddenly, adults need to play video games, laser tag, or ride skateboards ... just like they were taught when they were kids.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Victoria station

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Upright piano with a yellow banner reading 'mif piano hall' and 'as part of Manchester Jazz Festival 19-28 May 2023', with a wooden bench, under departure boards at a station.

Victoria station piano. There is a piano at Piccadilly station and Huddersfield too. Some elsewhere i bet.
A young girl played Bohemian Rhapsody on this piano before I took this photo as far as the guitar solo, then got stuck.
I told her she played well.
She turned round and smiled and had a tube from her nose to a pack and looked very pale. Damn it.
I just been looking at the bomb memorial so that kicked me in the guts a little bit.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Memorial display in a station concourse behind black barrier posts, with framed photos, teddy bears, flowers, and boards reading MCR 22/05/17 and a number 22.

M.E.N arena memorial

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Last one for Victoria

Large decorated fibreglass bee sculpture with green, purple and white painted body and flower motifs, standing on a black plinth in a station concourse.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Hebden Bridge.

Stone mill building with a tall chimney, its walls covered in red-leaved ivy, with a corner arched entrance labelled "NOVATION" and pedestrians on the pavement outside.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Narrowboats moored along a canal lined with trees and a hedge, with a towpath on the right and a stone wall on the left.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Stone building with a large arched carriage entrance and a black sign reading "THE WORKSHOP" on the street, beside a curving road with yellow edge lines.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Hanging basket of red, orange, purple and blue flowers with trailing green foliage on a stone building beside a street with a white car and yellow road markings.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Industry of Hebdon Bridge was trousers, finished in the 1960s but was rescued as a town by rich hippies. Very beautiful vibe, difficult to feel anything else with these surroundings.

Lots of places like this in the UK, very English, quirky, serene, picturesque, idealistic....I'm gushing a little but no apologies.
Wordsworth gushed too. Good enough for Bill good enough for me.

pinball1970 · Aug 19, 2023

Stone pub building with blue-framed windows, hanging flower baskets and signs reading White Lion, Free Parking, Dog Friendly and Beer Garden, with a man standing by the doorway.

The black on the sandstone is from pollution from the industrial age. Some buildings, owners have kept parts, a reminder.

DennisN · Aug 19, 2023

A big old clock:
(I have shot this clock before, and I hope I haven't posted it before

.)

Large round gold-cased street clock mounted on a wrought-iron bracket against a building, with Roman numerals and a dark ornate hour hand over a cream dial.

jtbell · Aug 20, 2023

pinball1970 said:

Victoria station

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I thought, "gee, that doesn't look like what I saw 45 years ago." Then I remembered you're in Manchester, not London.

nsaspook · Aug 20, 2023

No AC in the server room.

Screenshot of a server temperature information web page showing a 3D thermal map labelled Front of server and a table of sensors with locations, readings in Fahrenheit, status and thresholds.

DennisN · Aug 20, 2023

nsaspook said:

No AC in the server room.

So the servers are running on DC supplies?

nsaspook · Aug 20, 2023

DennisN said:

So the servers are running on DC supplies?

Internally, yes.

Arjan82 · Aug 21, 2023

nsaspook said:

No AC in the server room.
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Euhm, so your server room is outside?

Or is it just sitting idle all day

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