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What a difference a decade made
The night life days of glory are long gone. I randomly walked up this street in postcard. Most places are abandoned degraded.

 

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Chinese new year decorations

 

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The two I have with small flashlights installed

 

[Ibix]

I heard a thump the other day which sounded like somebody banging on a window, but only one thump. After a bit of investigation I found this on our downstairs toilet window:

If the toilet door is open then there's a line of sight from parts of our back garden through the toilet window to the window in the front door. Both windows are frosted glass, but you can see light. My guess is something spooked a pigeon (probably one of the many foxes around here) and it tried to get out of Dodge through our house, not realising that there was something in the way. There was no dead bird or piles of feathers, only a grease print on the window, so I guess it survived the attempt.

I need to clean the window now...

 

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something spooked a pigeon

We get waxwings (and sometimes robins or juncos) swarming the chokecherry and crabapple trees and then flying around drunkenly, supposedly because the fruit is fermented. Also a kestral, a Cooper's hawk and another hawk chasing small birds. I have hawk stickers, but Audubon says they are ineffective (they suggest many stickers at intervals of a few cm). The birds see a reflection of the sky. Is your window frosted on the inside or outside?

 

[Ibix]

Is your window frosted on the inside or outside?

Inside.

We've lived here twelve years and this is the only time I've seen this, so I don't think we're a terrible danger to birds. But your comment about reflecting the sky is interesting - a neighbour recently cut down a tree, which might have opened up new angles for sky reflection. I'll have a look round at the weekend.

 

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Welcome to the Continent, summer 1978...

 

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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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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!

I take nearly all my astrophotos that way. (Well, I don't use film anymore -- the monochrome camera plus filters is what I mean.) Even today, that method still has several advantages.

 

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Omicron party at Naklua-seafood market

 

[DennisN]

Amazon recently delivered these two nice coffee cups to me:

Apollo 11 - 50 years anniversary:

NASA:

I like the black one the most. I think it looks very good (not just on photo).

 

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A gorgeous cat!

 

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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

 

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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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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.

 

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Street signs

 

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her signals

 

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Midtown NYC

 

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Parking in the UK be like

 

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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)