Pete S
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Header photo - passenger ferry 'Orcadia', Orkney North Isles, my photo 1990.
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Architecture
1 day ago
St. Paulus Church in Neuss, Germany, designed by Fritz Schaller in collaboration with structural engineer Stefan Polónyi, explores the potential of folded concrete as both structure and form.
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London - a scene at King's Cross station. My photo Feb 1980.
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Present & Correct
20 days ago
One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland
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The Kimono Gallery
18 days ago
A photographer’s portrait in a mirror, a hundred years ago, Japan, ca. 1920. Text and image via Old Japanese Photos on Facebook. The composition is a "photograph within a photograph," captured via a vertical mirror.
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2️⃣0k 😊 Paris FB
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📸 Édouard Boubat. Réunion des chats 1948. Paris Cats
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CheminsdeFerTC
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tractant un convoi marchandises, un salut bienveillant pendant que la machine poursuit sa progression. Pas de lieu ni de date. 📷non identifié, source :
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kottke.org
7 days ago
“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green…” It’s time for some color theory…
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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green
https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam
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Part of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. My photo June 1990.
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Pete Glastonbury
26 days ago
Long exposue of the star Sirius showing it's flashing colours.
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My photo 16 Oct 1977. Class 40, either 40081 or 40083 in the picture, they were double-headed on the RPPR 'Deltic to Devon' trip, replacing the Deltic which was not available.
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Laurent Peraldi
9 days ago
Pause-clope Yoichi R. Okamoto, 1954
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Pete Glastonbury
16 days ago
Neolithic Bus Stop, Dartmoor.
#StandingStoneSunday
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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️⚧️🔀
11 days ago
When you learn the first modified is actually the least modified
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This Is My Glasgow
20 days ago
Due to the fire on Union Street, the old carriage entrance has been opened up to provide an alternative way into Central Station in Glasgow. This gives a chance to see some of the massive girders which support the station's main concourse. Cont./
#glasgow
#architecture
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Wendy O'Rourke
11 days ago
The Gueron House, East Hampton, NY In 1971, architect Henri Gueron built himself this three-bedroom house (including equipment, insulated and finished interiors, as well as site work) for $15,000. Source: Affordable Houses Designed by Architects by Jeremy Robinson (1979)
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Coen Krom
11 days ago
Schweizerische Centralbahn No. 4 ‘Olten’ at the Basel engine shed, ca. 1900. Photograph: Georg Wilhelm Hecklau (probably)
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CheminsdeFerTC
11 days ago
Magnifiques =>
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en 1926 qui semblent dire à O.J. Morris tenant à les garder au centre de son cadrage : "Oh, nous on fait ça tous les jours vous savez, alors !" Source : Archives Stephenson par
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Birmingham New Street station. My photo March 1976.
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Birsay, Orkney - cliffs at Marwick Head from The Point near the Brough of Birsay. My photo April 2026.
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2️⃣0k 😊 Paris FB
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Poisson d'avril! 1er avril 1950. Paris
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Weasel, still in that bunker
17 days ago
And now I'm thinking about how, so much personal life is "immortalized" on websites that, even if they're still accessible to this day, can never be found again, because nobody knows the magic incantation that can summon it from the sea of irrelevant search results.
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Weasel, still in that bunker
17 days ago
There was only one photo album in a forgotten cupboard, and OP described the overwhelming feeling of going through photos of people they'd never know, of whom nobody remained that could identify them and explain their significance; and that their job was, effectively, erasing these people.
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Battersea power station. My photo December 1989.
17 days ago
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal
19 days ago
Andreï Tarkovski
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Sun and Moon, my photos 1992.
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Des
21 days ago
Morning all. 24th March 1958: Romance in the Cowcadden area of Glasgow. Photograph Keystone/Getty Images.
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Peter S
21 days ago
Good morning from
#NorthShields
#StormHour
#PhotoHour
#EastCoastKin
#UrbanGaze
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EHERG / Red
28 days ago
Forgot to post my 2-megapixel Monday photos here yesterday, so we'll call it 2-megapixel Tuesday. All images shot with my 2-megapixel Kodak EasyShare camera in
#Detroit
. No edits, no cropping—just 1632 by 1232 pixel images from a camera that came out in 2003.
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Claire Ingelow
25 days ago
(2015)
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King's Cross station, London. My photo Feb. 1980.
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Sardonicus
28 days ago
Ralph Steiner. New York 1920s
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Navy Lookout
29 days ago
Latest analysis article: If called upon, what assets could the Royal Navy send to the Gulf?
www.navylookout.com/if-called-up...
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Sardonicus
about 1 month ago
Goodnight.
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King's Cross station, London. My photo Oct 1978.
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Paris - Musée d'Orsay. Caillebotte's 'Les Raboteurs de Parquet' (The floor scrapers). My photo 2018. More detail in ALT
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Duille
about 1 month ago
Staircase of The Bauhaus Dessau. Walter Gropius. 1926. Photo: Cristina Ardelean.
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Dunringle
about 1 month ago
Hoodie Crow
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Coton crossing signal box, near Tamworth. My photos 1976.
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
The Tibblestone, an ancient pitted stone on a crossroads near Tewkesbury on a garage forecourt. Lost and found buried by a gardener in 1948. One of Gloucestershire’s very few standing stones.
#StandingStoneSunday
#UrbanPrehistory
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Coen Krom
about 1 month ago
A NS series 3900 locomotive on an engineering train between Dieren and Brummen during the construction of the catenary portals, February 14, 1952. Health and safety procedures were strictly adhered to… I guess… Photograph: W.P.F.M van Schaik (NS)
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish"
about 1 month ago
John Garfield by John Swope, New York City, 1940.
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Past Glasgow
about 1 month ago
The Forth Bridge opened on this day 136 years ago. An engineering marvel in the east, but did you know that Glasgow had its very own Forth Bridge? Ours was a just a wee bit smaller...
#glasgow
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Exeter St. David's station. 50050. My photo Feb 1977.
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Sardonicus
about 1 month ago
Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first female photojournalist.
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CheminsdeFerTC
about 2 months ago
En 01-70, le spectaculaire départ d'une =>
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(74) qui achemine son convoi d'Evian à Annemasse. Auteur non identifié, source :
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Trident The Bear 🐻
about 2 months ago
This was the only photograph I took of the the the Camp Hill Flyover in Bordesley, Birmingham. It was a temporary traffic solution, becoming a temporary structure that lasted well over 20 years
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@dlp.
about 2 months ago
Cairo, Egypt, by Raymond Depardon, 1995.
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Paris, Gare de L'Est, or Paris-Est. My photo Apr 2018.
about 2 months ago
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Sardonicus
about 2 months ago
"At the Time of the Louisville Flood". Margaret Bourke-White, 1937
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Bart⚓️
about 2 months ago
1/x Every pilot who handles ships in confined waters will know the effects of pressure areas around the vessel and will be aware of the dangers, but also the benefits of them. And sometimes we play a game called the "Texas Chicken" or the "Texas 3-step". A 🧵
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