More messing with HDR

Here are a couple more HDR images. The first one is an apartment building on Aytoun Street in Manchester and the second is the view from the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago, looking West.

For kids of the 50s

When...........................

You couldn't put your Famous Five book down.
Hornby Trains, Potato Men, Muffin the Mule.
Making a den, going tracking.
The park had real rides that you might fall off & they were fun.
Leap frog, Simon Says.

Torchy the Battery Boy was on TV. Swearing wasn’t.
TV came in black and white with one channel until ITV was launched.
With ITV came the first TV adverts and how excited we were to watch them!
The first episode of Coronation Street, Compact, Emergency Ward 10!

Elvis was the King, Bill Haley was rocking around the clock, Bing Crosby found True Love & Perry Como was just going to Catch A Falling Star.

Steam trains.
Cobbled streets, The White Man, grandma donkey-stoning the steps.
Co-op divi, milk delivered to your doorstep in glass bottles, the Rag & Bone man.

Dandelion & Burdock, Cream Soda, Sarsparilla.
Money back when you returned the glass bottles to the shop.

Rows of desks in school, pump bags, muffs, gaberdines, gymslips & satchels.
Woollen balaclavas. Socks that only stayed if you turned the tops over wide elastic bands.
The cane, the strap, the pump.
Nitty Nora.
Passing & failing, winning & losing. Times tables.
Squeaky blackboards, standing in the corner with your face to the wall.

Whit walks, Maypoles, liquorice water.

Jack Frost on the inside of the windows, seeing your breath in the bedroom, being tucked in with your hot water bottle.

Dad banking up the fire or taking out the ashes. Cleaning the brasses with Duraglit.


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A story from the quirky state of California

A story from the quirky state of California..............

A couple who tried to save water and money by 

removing their lawn are being taken to court by

 the city of Orange. Quan and Angelina Ha, 

who now have a scheduled court date, decided to

replace the grass on their front lawn with 

wood chips in 2008. The Ha’
said they'd just had a 

baby and began to think about her future 

and the effect of what is

happening to their environment.

Thus they made a decision to replace
their water thirsty grass with the

far more environmentally 

friendly chippings. At a time when

  Southern California cities fine

people for overwatering 

their thirsty lawns, the Ha’s said they've 

saved hundreds of thousands

of gallons of water and 

drastically lowered their water bill.

But the city cited them for violating a law 

that requires ‘live landscaping’

to cover 40 percent 

of the yard. The couple planted drought-tolerant 

plants last year but the

city said it wasn't enough.

The city said it wants them to come up with a 

compliance plan.

Ah yes, this is the land of the free!

Last HDR

Just finished my last HDR image of my first foray into the technique. It's the statue of Constantine the Great outside York Minster.