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“They tried to stop her, but they failed miserably. They overlooked her, tried to discourage her, and sabotage her, but she persevered through it all with her head held high. They talked behind her back and plotted against her, but they didn’t realize that they were messing with an unstoppable, resilient Black Queen. She’s ambitious, intelligent, self-confident, and bold. She’s a Phenomenal Black Queen that didn’t have to compromise her integrity to get ahead. She’s genuinely happy, successful, and free to be herself. She can, she does, she wins!”
― Stephanie Lahart
Even when i lose, i win.
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A rare Saturday working of 6S45 presented a rare winter opportunity to see this working in daylight hours, and fortunately this coincided with an agreeably sunny day. A little after 9am 66744 is seen approaching Winning Signal box only a mile or so into it's journey.
The substantial puddle is an indication of the quantity of rain that has fallen over the past few weeks.
19th December 2020.
On 3/20/1974, the operator at North Judson has given this Erie Lackawanna eastbound the light, while the railroad that issues him a paycheck holds back on the approach.
Photo by John Eagan
One of the strangest and most memorable things I've lived through is being in Paris when France won the World Cup. The streets were absolutely transformed and I have many photos of people rejoicing (some that I have posted previously).
But, I also tend to be drawn to that opposite feeling and the bipolar sense that happens in reality. Because, it's such a strong current of collective consciousness when that many people are rooting for something that you actually forget it's about sports at all and it feels more about the collective spirit of France or even of humanity.
I could tell that this girl wanted to be a part of that with the way she had decorated her face and with the French flag she was holding but I think she didn't quite know how and that's an interesting thing to capture...maybe even more intriguing for me than all the wild dancing and singing. We are all young and awkward once and some of us know very intrinsically (even when we're older) precisely how this girl felt.
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Shuttleworth Collection’s de Havilland DH.88 Comet at Race Day 2023.
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to Australia. Wikipedia
Engine type: de Havilland Gipsy Six
Top speed: 382 km/h
Range: 4,710 km
Length: 8.8 m
Cruise speed: 354 km/h
an Oxeye daisy fights its way through the reddened iron ore water at an old iron ore mine. She's winning!
Easter weekend gets off to a good start, with fine weather forecast all weekend and even a little mainline steam for breakfast.
60009 Union of South Africa leans into the curves north of Morpeth station with the 1Z10 York to Edinburgh. "Edinburgh Flyer" on the 20th April 2019.
On 17 August 1988, 37320 passes Winning Junction on the Lynemouth - North Blyth alumina empties. Taken by invitation from the signalbox.
Visiting MET1 heads for Bitton in the setting sun with the last service of the day. Avon Valley Railway, 25/10/2015
The photo was entered into YTL's 2015 Photo competition and was narrowed down to the finalist stage where it was awarded a Merit Prize at YTL's Leadership Conference in Kuala Lumpur in December 2015
Arranged for the Macro Monday theme "Four" this might be a winning hand ... or not.
Thanks for viewing ... and for your Faves that inspire us. HMM!
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”
- Larry Bird
I was told it is like winning a lottery to see colorful sky in this area. Not sure if it is true or not. I guess I got lucky :)
The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border. Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France.
The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The Wendel 1 pit was closed in 1989, Wendel 2 in 1992 and Wendel 3 in 2001. The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit. These pits are in France but surrounded on three sides by the national border with Germany. Several pits were dug between 1862 and 1889: Wendel 1, Wendel 2, Vuillemin 1 and Vuillemin 2. Emile Vuillemin was the consulting engineer for Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot's company- Compagnie Anonyme des Mines de Stiring. The coal produced was primarily used to fire the Wendel steelworks. The company became - Les Petits-fils de François de Wendel et Cie in 1889.
After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years. In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine. The Wendel 3 pit was dug in 1952, and in 1958 was equipped with the new wash house 3. The Wendel 1 and 2 pits were modernised and equipped with new headframes. After 1960, the coal recession hit: the company modernised wash house 1-2 in 1962 by creating a new module on top of the former wash house, adapted to the existing equipment. Operations and investment continued up until 1986 when central activities ceased. Some infrastructure continued to be used up until 1989 serving other pits in the Wendel franchise.
The museum is presented in several section. The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions. There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004. There is an AM 100 heading machine, G210 electro-hydraulic loader, Electra 2000 shearer and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc.
Although I could see him hiding behind the clump of Marram grass, the Snow Buntings couldn't.
Fortunately for the SBs the male Kestrel didn't manage to grab one - bit unfortunate for my chances of an award winning photo though - but I don't mind :-).
Niamh Delaney wins the Gate competition at the Fingal Harriers Hunter Trials in Michnanstown, Co Meath. This is a series of ten images layered and masked in photoshop
Bathers photographed for a personal project in studying the baths in Budapest, Hungary. 7 April 2022.