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Working BC – Before Chainsaws
To most people, the past is glowingly referred to as the good old days. This pie-in-the-sky idyll never existed apart from people’s imaginations. The overwhelming majority of people a century ago – 92%+ in the case of Britain – what work entailed was back-breaking manual work whether in foundries or as reflected here in a logging operation.
Hard grinding physical labour was the lot of these workers. What was more iniquitous was the pittance that they were paid for these long hours of toil.
Main picture: Lumberjacks besides their handiwork. The height of the man is indicative of the diameter of the tree
The chain saw is merely a metaphor for machinery
Oddities of Nature
Evolution has the ability to mould creatures into an infinite array of shapes and configurations. What makes many of these animals unique is not so much because they are different – they undoubtedly are – but due to the fact that many of them combine features of disparate geneses and species.
The incomparable David Attenborough has introduced me to a few especially the star-nosed mole which has feelers protruding from where its nose should be positioned and the disgusting naked mole rat which even at birth has the body of a wrinkled superannuated rat on its death bed.
Main picture: The star-nosed mole which only its mother could love
More Stunning Photographs of Nature
Mother Nature puts on an elegant display again. From calm and tranquility to formidable waterfalls, these photographs have them all.
Main picture: Peace and transquility personified
More rare photographs of Famous People
More rare photographs of Famous People. These reveal some of today’s icons in previously unseen photographs.
Main picture: The Beatles and Ali – 1964
Rare photographs of Famous People
Famous icons as you have never seen them before, often before they became well-known. Often they provide an insight into the era or the persons involved.
Main picture: Bill Gates’ mug shot for driving without a license 1977
The Sublime Transition from Summer to Autumn
Autumn is the time when summer packs away its spritely greenery and instead dresses up in its autumn colours before it finally adopts its drab winter’s hues. During the transition, the fashion stakes predominate with the reddish tones and tints with not even a tincture of green protruding.
The vibrancy of summer evanesces into a more sedate insouciant mellow undertone with indolent trysts amongst cavorting leaves slothfully cartwheeling across the ground.
Such are the emotions that autumn evokes in me.
Main picture: KILCHURN CASTLE, SCOTLAND IN AUTUMN
Why you should never travel with paint in the car
A funny thing happened on the way back from Builders Warehouse. At least all the bystanders had a great laugh but for the victims of the paint attack, it must not so pleasant. Never ever put a 25L container of paint instead in the car. Here is the reason why.
Stunning photographs that Inspire
Stunning photographs from around the world. Pictures of sailfish attacking a shoal of sardines to the pinnacle of Sgurr Dearg on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, this gallery has them all. The picture of a Hindu festival was mainly included because I am enraptured by the stunning sublime colours produced by the commingled light and smoke.
Main picture: Light and smoke commingle to cast a misty glow over devotees during Rakher Upobash, a Hindu fasting festival, in Bangladesh
Colourised Photographs bringing History to Life
For me colour photographs provide a fascinating perspective and radically different angle on historical events. They evoke the age when they were taken with a forcefulness of a 1000 words. Notwithstanding the fact that the photographs have been colourised, they nevertheless still radiate their patina of age as if they had been weathered by the elements themselves.
View this array of photos and let me know whether you concur
Main picture: Madison Square Park New York City around 1900