Picture Pot-Pourri

 

                     

        

 

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During my travels round the world (74 countries) I usually had a camera with me.

One of my (few) regrets is that I hardly ever used it.

I have come to realise that I was more interested in the gadgetry rather than photography per se.

Some of my photographs "went missing" during divorce proceedings, many more were amongst items stolen during a house move.

 

 

Charlie, an orphaned coyote.   One of a series of enchanting photographs which may be seen in this blog.

This one is posted here with the kind permission of Shreve, who owns the copyright. 

 

She also has another blog in which she shares with her readers some of her thoughts

and experiences during a trip on a Vespa from San Francicso to New York.  It's here.

As her Nevada coyboy said "If it weren't impolite, I'd say that takes baaalllls." 

It certainly serves as another confirmation to me that women are more stoical than men.

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Norman Riddell

I am privileged to have known him.

Read about him here.

 

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Fox Bay in the Falklands, 1960s

 

 

 

 

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FIGAS (Falkland Islands Government Air Service) Beavers.   60s

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Yours truly.   Early June 2003

 

 

Anglo-American beach club, Mogadishu, 1979

It was frequented much more by Italians than Americans, although they (the Italians) had their own cultural centre.  The welcome they received at the club wasn't reciprocated at their centre. 

The dinghy in the foregraound was owned by the Volvo Penta company.  It was brought into Somalia as a temporary duty free import by members of the Volvo Penta team who were resident in Mogadishu for ..... can't remember, must have been a couple of years or so.  At the end of their contract, the Volvo Penta people offered to leave the dinghy as a gift to the Somalian governmentt, and received the response   "Thank you.  You will have to pay the import duty."  I believe they took it with them. 

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Some of the girls who sold fabric and clothes along the beach.

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Mogadishu

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Mogadishu

I can't believe that I never enquired about its purpose.

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Baskets on sale near the beach club.

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Mogadishu

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Mogadishu

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June 2009

 

 

 

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Too many people jabbering - can't get a word in.

 

 

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Uri Geller   4th May, 2006   Camberley.   What an awful photograph of me.

 

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Grand Canyon, January 2008

 

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Grand Canyon, January 2008

 

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1989 or 1990 New Year in Santiago

 

1989 or 1990 New Year in Santiago

 

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Ruperra Castle.   Read about it here.

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North Yemen, 80s

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Niagara, Canada, April 2003

 

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Me with no clothes on (really).  CT April-May 2004

 

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Competitive trial of equipment between manufacturers.  Ecuador 1981.

We weren't allowed to drill holes in the vehicles' roofs.  So, to provide a decent ground plane for the v.h.f. antenna, I fabricated one and mounted it to the sides of the vehicle assigned to us (Racal).  You can see two vertical supports at the side of the ground plane's frame.

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The original of this picture used to hang on the wall of the men's lavatory in "El Pub", Quito, Ecuador.

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Some of my students. Quito, March 1983.

 

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h.f. mobile at the Charles Darwin research station, Galapagos Islands, in the 80s

 

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With the Ecuadorean special forces.

 

 

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Otavalo, Ecuador, 1983

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Otavalo market.

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Otavalo market

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Otavalo market

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Otavalo market

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Otavalo market

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Otavalo

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I own neither the foot nor the dog.

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Ecuador, April 1986.

 

 

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North Yemen, June, 1981. 

There were some spectacular and beautiful views on the journey from Sanaa to the coast.

 

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A colleague sending Morse with his foot. Falklands 1960s.

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Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana

See the mast on the roof?

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On the wide part of the Pegasus roof.  Tony Wright, a colleague, on the left, Gerry de Freitas, our agent, and his assistant on the right.

We were installing a temporary v.h.f. repeater station to demonstrate to their Defence Force.

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The two v.h.f. transceivers and their control box

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This is the lower part of the mast seen in the first photograph, on the narrow part of the roof.

We left the equipment installed when we returned to the U.K. so that the Defence Force could continue to use it.  Some months later Racal received a message from the Hotel's manager asking us when we were going to remove it.  He didn't seem to realise that he had been paying for the electrical power for the equipment. 

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Edinburgh Castle,  December 2004

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North Yemen, 1981.

A bit to the right of this photo is a v.h.f. repeater station

and the remains of a chopper which made it in but didn't make it out.

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The Shell tanker "Zenatia" I was Chief R.O. on her.

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A refelection in Quito

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A street vendor in Quito

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Guapulo, Quito

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Guapulo

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Bahari Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 80s.

I was lucky enough to have had to go there a few times.

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Groupings found in a public library. (I work in electronics.)

 

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The following four pictures are of Lincoln Cathedral

 

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October, 2004 - 2004?

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Niagara Falls 2003

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We look like an advert for condoms.

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No site would be complete without a thumbnail.

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Yugoslavia 1980's

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Kenya,  1980's

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North Yemen,  1980's

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Quito, washing the car mats.

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Washing the drive, May 2008

 

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I replaced the other one with this.

 

 

 

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Are they pissed?

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Iran.  Early 70s

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Bahrain, 80s

No!  My hair hasn't got a hole in it.

 

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When his original owner moved to a place which didn't allow him to keep a pet he asked me if I would like to inherit him, knowing that we already had a bond. 

He hadn't been given a name.

He was just "Puss".  I briefly considered naming him after his owner.

I abandoned that idea when I realised that "Ali" could be transmuted to "Alley Cat".

 

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He's just inspected one of the kitchen drawers.

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I made him a platform and walkway up to it in a corner of the garden. 

He either sits on it as if on sentry duty, admiring the view (or the cat next door), or takes a nap.

 

 

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It's a genuine catwalk.  Quite different from the stage on which one sees half-starved girls swanning around with practised insouciance.

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North Yemen, June, 1981

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March 2004

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Going into Petra, Jordan. 80s

You can read about it in a tourist guide.

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February, 2002 - 2004?

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North Yemen, June, 1961

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I made this key.  The base is 1 inch by 1 and a half.  I keyed B.A.S's transmitters, ZHF88, with it once.

It's a rebuild.  I had the original in a trouser pocket when my motorcycle came from under me on Stanley's east jetty.

The fall bent ... or did it break? ... the horizontal shaft ( can't remember).  So I built this one - just the same in appearance.

 

I have recently (August 2011) made a replacement. 

Instead of a spring I have used two opposing magnets.

 

 

 

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Ñanda Mañachi

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Walden Pond, Thoreau's temporary home.

 

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North Yemen, June, 1981

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Kenya, 80s

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I came across this photograph on the internet and "borrowed" it.   If the copyright holder asks me to remove it I shall do so.

How sad.  I served as 2nd R.O. on her, in 1958

Unusually, this ship had two radio rooms.  The main one was on the main deck level, as were the R.Os' and Chief Steward's cabins.  However, the emergency radio installation was on an upper deck, in a little room off the officers lounge.  The reason being that the main installation was too near the water line and didn't satisfy some regulation or other.  Curiously, I thought, the Chief R.O's lifeboat station was the main radio room, mine was the emergency radio room.

 

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Another view of "Athenic"

I came across this photograph on the internet and "borrowed" it.   If the copyright holder asks me to remove it I shall do so.

 

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My first set of epaulettes as R.O.   The only surviving bits of my M.N uniform.

 

 

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One of the small blocks of flats (apartments) where I used to live. 2003

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M.V. Sungate. I was R.O. on her for a 13 month trip. This is a postcard of her in the Eisenhower Lock.

 

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The radio room on M.V. Sungate

 

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2003

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They used to say the camera never lies.

I did this in a few minutes.  Think what an expert could achieve.

 

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The second photograph of the front of our house, in each of the following pairs, was taken in June 2007 when many places were flooded. 

 

 

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Winter 2008/2009

 

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