Sunday Triptychs

Hillcrest Village Sunday

 

This Sunday we tried another storical bar in the center Lazy Sunday  day 223 - triptych on a sunday morning

 

Sunday

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Photos from Peter Grevstad, Beelama, *esra*, There’s A Kite!, and Mark Feenstra.

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Not Farewell…

Hitchhiking Is An Alternative Mode of Transportation  Zanzibar or Bust Bench Monday

arrivederci / waving goodbye

Leaving on a jet plane leaving on a jet plane Goodbye (365/56)

bags are packed

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The road to...  Leaving Portland

Toward Los Angeles, California (LOC)

…but fare forward, voyagers
-T.S. Eliot

Photos from Brooke Pennington, Long Jacket, sometimes suzie, giorgioGH, jerry τĵίρυτπα, mela.de.gypsie I.smell.petrichor, Jordan K Fuller, matt.hintsa, JoLoLog, bignastyweather, and The Library of Congress

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Pacdog is Awesome

 
Jakerome tweeted about this amazing video collaboration he and many other Flickr friends created for Pacdog.

It blew us away, and we just had to share it with all of you. Enjoy!

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Live Album

Sky Arts Dark Side Of The Moon Tribute 3

Air War

Oh! Darling  Absolution  Physical Graffiti

positively freewheelin.

I love Bowie  i saw the light

Marina City (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

In July, we featured album covers enthusiastically made by our LEGO Album Covers group. Today, we’d like to bring that concept to three-dimensional reality. See if you could mix and match the following options below with their appropriate photo. Those who get 100 percent will receive an insurmountable amount of respect and the title of “awesomely and ridiculously cool” for the rest of their lives. The stakes are high!

-Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
-Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
-The Beatles: Abbey Road
-James Blake: James Blake
-Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
-Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
-Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
-David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
-Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
-Muse: Absolution

Be sure to check out more album cover replicas at our Classic Album Cover Recreations group!

Photos from cake.group, Alex Roux, javi_indy, lee.stephens, simonGman, Gene Eaton, S. Espigares, indybug, Jake Antoun, and John Pee.

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

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Somnambulism

Napping in Nature 70/365

Day 98/365 ~ You Mustn't Be Afraid to Dream a Little Bigger, Darling  You are asleep.

Virgin Snow

dream  sleep.

208/365

Fanciful

“For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own.”

-Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Photos from Terra Kate, shes_jack, Amanda Mabel, *Seth, boopsie.daisy, b.jacqueline, SuperPipo2010, and amy geliebter

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Look to the Stars—The Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Jupiter, with Ganymede & Io - September 2010.

MangaiaOePan

Vela Supernova Remnant

The stunning photographs of space phenomena are the winning pictures of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (UK)‘s Astronomy Photographer of the Year project.

They are showcased together with hundreds of other astronomy photos – including pictures of planets, moons, galaxies, supernovae, and a multitude of other amazing celestial bodies – in the free exhibition of the finalists!

Photos from viewsofthesolarsystem, ttezel, and marcolorenzi70 from the Astrophoto Group pool.

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A stroll on La Rambla

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La postal de las Ramblas

Las Ramblas

Vanilla Bikes

La Rambla, Barcelona

La Rambla, 83

With many narrow alleys, colorful markets, tasty flavors of fresh fruits and seafood, charming people, nifty street vendors, Barcelona is a fascinating city providing endless opportunity for fantastic photos. Above is a selection of photos taken on and in the area of La Rambla, the biggest promenade in the center of the city.

You can find more fascinating photos in a tag search for La Rambla, or visit Barcelona on the world map to take a virtual stroll through the capital of Catalonia.

Photos from Irene Ruscalleda, ancutza*, absent minded | itsaso |, light thru my lens, hypnoscope, and thatianamurillo.

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9/11 Now and then

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9/11 Lightbeams

WTC-1  World Trade Centre, Sept 10, 2001  WTC: Majesty 2_wtc

New York City, Hurricane Irene 2011

One World Trade Center

This will be Freedom Tower

It’s been 10 years today since the tragic events of 9/11. While the Pentagon has been and the World Trade Center is being rebuilt, we remember those who lost their lives and want to honor the heros of September 11, 2001.

Photos from Tim Sklyarov, scx77, khaosproductions, flash-a-holic, mosndup, mudpig, messyrican, and noamgalai.

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9/11 Looking into the Past

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Looking Into the Past: Girl Turns Away from Watching the World Trade Center Burn, Brooklyn Promenade, September 11, 2001

Looking Into the Past: Crowd Watching the World Trade Center Burn from the Brooklyn Promenade, September 11, 2001

Looking Into the Past: World Trade Center Collapse, September 11, 2001

Looking Into the Past: Pentagon, September 11, 2001

Looking Into the Past: Pentagon From a Distance, September 11, 2001

In the description of each photo Jason includes a link to the original image from 2001. To create the New York City photos, he worked with member Michael Foran who let Jason use his photos from Sept 11, 2001 for this look into the past. Below are Michael’s original photos.

WTC 25

WTC 24

WTC 56

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Velkommen Riksarkivet to The Commons

"Parti ved Eiteraaens Opkomst. Mo. Dunderlandsdalen, Helgeland"   "Parti fra Svartisdalen, Mo, Helgeland"

Bryggen i Bergen

Dieter Neuendorfs sølvsvev under Spesielt hopprenn, liten bakke i Midtstubakken, VM på ski i Oslo 1966  Vigelandsparken

Kiosken på St. Hanshaugen          "Raya"         Moter, sommeren 1953

Rengjerde i Jørenskaret

We warmly welcome the National Archives of Norway to the Flickr Commons. Their photo collections cover a big time span from 1860 up until today showing images from private and public archives.

The archives include many unique photos showing many aspects of Norwegian history, including royalty and celebrities, photos of beautiful Norwegian nature and scenery, documentation of industry, historical events like World War II or the Nordic World Ski Championships of 1966, and Norwegian development during the last century.

We invite you to take a look around, and share your tags and comments with the Riksarkivet.

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