In the UK, social protests have taken many forms, including street art. In the past 20+years, a daring political artist has emerged on the streets of Britain. What began with graffiti, moved to stencils and installations, and over the years has culminated into creative urban exhibitions. Most of his work criticizes capitalism, war, and politics. He signs his work Banksy, but his real identity remains a mystery.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM),is a British national museum. It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
No fair outing is complete until one has attended a night shoot.
The lights, the rides, the people, all take another presence unmatched to day time photography (at least in my opinion).
Therefore, no matter how many times I attend the fair during the day, there is at least one evening visit included.
The State Fair 2024 was no exception.
Every year, in August, the State Fair opens up for approximately 10 days. And every year, it seems, I end up going to the fair at least once during those ten days.
In the past, I'd go because of the kids. But now a days, the purpose is to photograph.
Unfortunately, every year, I also seem to take the same type of photographs because after all nothing really changes at the State Fair, from year to year.
Except, this year there was something new.
A wedding photographer, I AM NOT!
Nor do I have the desire to be one.
But when on the hottest day of the year one stumbles upon not one but two separate wedding parties, having their photos taken by professionals, one takes the opportunity to click a few shots.
First wedding party was a huge one. There were a total of 26 Zoomers (13 bridesmaids and 13 groomsmen) in the party. The bride and most of the bridesmaids had a hard time keeping cool.
The second wedding party was much smaller and seemed to be made up of a mixture of baby boomers and generation X.
A perfect opportunity to take some candid photographs without the hassle of being a wedding photographer.
The National Bikers Roundup is the largest camping motorcycle rally in the United States and is organized by a group of African American motorcycle clubs. Its location changes every year but every decade it returns to its founding city of Kansas City, Missouri. More than 1,000 motorcycle clubs attend the event and black women make up close to half of participants.
First organized in 1977 by Dallas Thibodeaux and Rozell Nunn, Jnr attracting 49 riders, it has since grown to a five-day event, with up to 30,000 participants, who enjoy camping, exhibition, parades, stunt shows, entertainment and a host of other motorcycle-related experiences including drag racing and a "biggest gut contest".
The Scott County Courthouse is a government building in Winchester, the county seat of Scott County, Illinois, United States. Completed in 1885, it is the third courthouse in the county's history.
Scott County's first settlers arrived in 1820, one year after the Indians ceded the region to Americans. A pair of local shopkeepers decided to start a town on Sandy Creek in 1830, and one of them chose to name it for his hometown, Winchester, Kentucky.
Winchester became the county seat, as local residents offered to donate land and money for a courthouse and jail.
The new county's officials operated out of temporary facilities for just two years before the first courthouse was completed. This square two-story brick building served for forty-four years before the construction of the current courthouse.
County officials chose the St. Louis firm of James Stewart to design their new courthouse in 1885.When the building was completed, Scott County had spent approximately $35,500. The finished building is a two-story brick structure that rests on a stone foundation.
Rather than conforming to a single architectural style, the courthouse combines elements of different styles to an exceptional degree; in 1977, an Illinois Department of Conservation historic preservation report remarked that the courthouse "is so uniquely eclectic as to defy categorization.
Square sections with a single rounded-arch window on each story are placed on the building's corners, while the remaining portions of the sides feature several similar windows spaced closely together. A stone stringcourse visually separates the stories. Above the entrance rises a three-story tower topped with an exceptional onion dome. In 1917, the county converted the tower into a clock tower.
In 1979, much of Winchester was designated a historic district, the Winchester Historic District, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The courthouse is the largest building within the district's boundaries, and also one of the most critical of the district's contributing properties.
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The history of Decks drugstore began on March 7, 1884, when it was purchased by Lewis C. Deck and B.F. Clark. A few years later Lewis Deck became the sole proprietor. At this time the store sold drugs, groceries, and hardware. The store was dubbed the “white drugstore” as it was the only building front on Girard Square that was painted white. The second floor was used as a doctor’s office by Dr. George Hill and later by Dr. John Sharp.
Morgan County built their first county courthouse, a frame building, in 1825. Prior to this, court proceedings were held at various log cabins outside of Jacksonville- in fact Jacksonville had not yet been founded.
In 1828, the county built its second couthouse, constructed out of brick, on the Jacksonville square. It was the first of its kind and was completed in 1830. Abraham Lincoln argued the case of Selby vs Dunlap at the second county courthouse in 1854. By 1868 the second couthouse was torn down and the town square was left open.
G.B. Randall, a Chicago architect, designed the current couthouse in 1867 and the building was completed in 1869.
The design is considered unusual among county courthouses, as counties generally preferred more traditional designs. Randall's design features an arched loggia surrounding the building's southern entrance, asymmetrical towers at the southern corners with mansard roofs and bracketed cornices, arched dormers within the towers' mansards, and an assortment of round-head and bulls-eye windows.
One of the towers houses a 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) bell, which was intended to be part of a clock that was never installed.
The Chicago Union Station is one of the largest and busiest train stations in the country. On a daily basis approximately, 120,000 travelers and visitors pass through the doors of this ten city block station.
The present station opened in 1925, replacing an earlier union station on this site built in 1881. One of the attractions of this huge station besides the Amtrak train lines and the Metra commuter lines movements at the station, is the Great Hall with its 219-foot-long barrel-vaulted skylight that soars 115 feet above the ground. Many a photographs and movies have been created within this beautiful hall.
While I have been one of the "few" who has spent time taking pictures of this elaborate hall in the past, on this particular day I decided to just hang around and take photos of the activities and people who traversed the Great Hall.
What follows are photos taken with my Z7 and the 24-120 mm lens.
So much fun watching this couple.....
dance away.........
Baby is enjoying the moves as well......
(Fun day.... Sun day 😉)
Winter Garden a city in western Orange County, Florida, is located 14 miles west of Downtown Orlando. It is part of the Orlando metropolitan area but it looks nothing like Orlando.
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