I finally got it…. after looking it up, and staring at it 73 or maybe 62 times.
This is San Boldo Pass, in Italy, considered an engineering marvel.
I thought there were several tunnels to choose from, to drive (or herd sheep) through to the other side.
But the nearest sheep are looping back… and I’m tired… so I wondered why they’d go back again.
Then AHA!!
So in case anybody else is sleepy, too…. or just doesn’t get it…. It’s one long switchback….. slowly climbing the pass by looping back and forth on what must be the tightest hairpin curves I’ve ever seen.
You have go through every tunnel to follow the road to the top, to the right in this photo, or the bottom, towards the left.
Yes, I know…. I might be the only one who needed to be told this. Sigh….
I think the sections of road going through the tunnels are straight.
You come out into the open air and loop right back through the next tunnel, like the sheep are doing at the bottom of this photo, with each.tunnel lying a little farther up (or down, if you’re going that way) the mountainside.
O. Louis Guglielmi, “Sisters of Charity,” 1937. Oil and tempera on Masonite, 30 x 24 in.
The only real description I found, from a post on Tumblr:
“O. Louis Guglielmi, b. 1906bGuglielmi was a 20th-century painter who focused on creating social commentary through his psychologically charged images depicting city life. This painting, Sisters of Charity (1937), is a humorous look at everyday city life, showing women going about their daily business of sweeping the stoops, out shopping, and walking about. Guglielmi contrasts the habits of the nuns departing the meat market with the more fashionable woman in the foreground. “
One of the things I think the artist had fun contrasting is the heavy layers of the nun’s habits vs. the clinging, almost see-through, red skirt on the “fashionable” woman.
Or, if you’re in a Wildcat, you get your wingman to weave in and get him off your tail (the Thatch Weave named for Wildcat Ace Jimmy Thatch).
The Wildcat was slower than the Zero. If you’re flying a Buffalo, just bail out now.
Some of the hair looks wrong to me, and the edges look too sharp on John’s suit. As it’s an actual photograph and not AI (In that sense), then it looks like it’s been over processed in Photoshop.
I think it’s real. Black and White film was very precise in the pictures it could take because the film responded to light at the molecular level and the lower ISO number meant a more detailed photo even if the light sensitivity was lower (because of the increased ability to capture detail). Therefore lines of shadow and backlight could show up as distinct black and white lines instead of indistinct gray in digital photos today. Although the newer photosensors are getting very minute in their ability to recognize detail.
I agree… I was also thinking it might have been taken at fairly close range with a large format camera, in those days when rock stars weren’t terrified of photographers.
We’re so used to telephoto pics with the already lower resolution of digital.
The sensors are getting better, but have a long way to go to beat a huge negative.
I found it, just like this, on several sites, and also a shot of them all from a different angle.
February 15, 1968…. John Lennon with his 1st wife, Cynthia, and George Harrison, with his 1st wife, Patti (Boyd), who eventually left him for Eric Clapton…. and her sister, Jenny Boyd, the subject of Donovan’s “Jennifer Juniper”, and soon to marry Mick Fleetwood.
A cozy little group, weren’t they, all the rock royalty of the time?
Taken just before their journey from London Airport to Delhi, India, to visit the Maharishi, and study Transcendental Meditation.
My regular computer is back in the shop trying agin to change the solid-state hard drive. I still had my old computer, so today I set it up. It’s Windows 10, so I’m careful about where I go.
Windows 10 will be fine for another few months. The main problem will be the lack of security updates that would normally be scheduled from around December.
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He looks cuddly…
I’ll let YOU shake its paw.
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this is a photo
Wow…. I didn’t realize!
I thought it was a painting of trees in distress.
Now I’ll have to search it.
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Why I was late to my Doctor’s appointment last week.
Where’s a sheeperone when you need one?
(I know; I know – there are several).
I finally got it…. after looking it up, and staring at it 73 or maybe 62 times.
This is San Boldo Pass, in Italy, considered an engineering marvel.
I thought there were several tunnels to choose from, to drive (or herd sheep) through to the other side.
But the nearest sheep are looping back… and I’m tired… so I wondered why they’d go back again.
Then AHA!!
So in case anybody else is sleepy, too…. or just doesn’t get it…. It’s one long switchback….. slowly climbing the pass by looping back and forth on what must be the tightest hairpin curves I’ve ever seen.
You have go through every tunnel to follow the road to the top, to the right in this photo, or the bottom, towards the left.
Yes, I know…. I might be the only one who needed to be told this. Sigh….
There are tighter hairpin curves in Upper Franconia.
Some on the way to friends of ours.
Tricky driving there…
Hairpin turns in a dark tunnel? Scary!
I think the sections of road going through the tunnels are straight.
You come out into the open air and loop right back through the next tunnel, like the sheep are doing at the bottom of this photo, with each.tunnel lying a little farther up (or down, if you’re going that way) the mountainside.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to install an elevator?
The sheep said “no flocking way I’m getting in that thing. Wooly.”
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😉 😮 🤨
Coming out morose and empty-handed? Help them out a bit if you can.
O. Louis Guglielmi, “Sisters of Charity,” 1937. Oil and tempera on Masonite, 30 x 24 in.
The only real description I found, from a post on Tumblr:
“O. Louis Guglielmi, b. 1906bGuglielmi was a 20th-century painter who focused on creating social commentary through his psychologically charged images depicting city life. This painting, Sisters of Charity (1937), is a humorous look at everyday city life, showing women going about their daily business of sweeping the stoops, out shopping, and walking about. Guglielmi contrasts the habits of the nuns departing the meat market with the more fashionable woman in the foreground. “
One of the things I think the artist had fun contrasting is the heavy layers of the nun’s habits vs. the clinging, almost see-through, red skirt on the “fashionable” woman.
Susan, I saw what you asked yesterday and put up an answer.
Thanks… I saw and answered it.
I always check back, and often reply, over the last two or three, days.
X marks the spot!?
Wrong post?
I think it’s a large cross, hanging crookedly from her belt.
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Awww! Isn’t he/she/they cute!
It almost has a bunny-shaped face.
She named him Cuddles! He’s a therapy snail for dry hands.
They eat the plaster from houses.
Great, it gets plastered and then slimes all over.
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SCORE!
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You did not dogfight a zero. You put the power on, climbed away, and came back around.
Or, if you’re in a Wildcat, you get your wingman to weave in and get him off your tail (the Thatch Weave named for Wildcat Ace Jimmy Thatch).
The Wildcat was slower than the Zero. If you’re flying a Buffalo, just bail out now.
when the Hellcat came along it changed everything
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I thought it was called a “see-ment pond”.
I was wondering if anyone would point that out
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OMG! I thought they looked familiar…
Either some poor cleaning up of an old photograph using Photoshop, or it’s AI generated.
I’m not sure why you think that…. something I didn’t notice?
I don’t think it could be AI… too many old postings.
Some of the hair looks wrong to me, and the edges look too sharp on John’s suit. As it’s an actual photograph and not AI (In that sense), then it looks like it’s been over processed in Photoshop.
I see what you mean, the light jacket has a thin black outline and the dark jackets have thin white outlines.
I think it’s real. Black and White film was very precise in the pictures it could take because the film responded to light at the molecular level and the lower ISO number meant a more detailed photo even if the light sensitivity was lower (because of the increased ability to capture detail). Therefore lines of shadow and backlight could show up as distinct black and white lines instead of indistinct gray in digital photos today. Although the newer photosensors are getting very minute in their ability to recognize detail.
I agree… I was also thinking it might have been taken at fairly close range with a large format camera, in those days when rock stars weren’t terrified of photographers.
We’re so used to telephoto pics with the already lower resolution of digital.
The sensors are getting better, but have a long way to go to beat a huge negative.
I found it, just like this, on several sites, and also a shot of them all from a different angle.
February 15, 1968…. John Lennon with his 1st wife, Cynthia, and George Harrison, with his 1st wife, Patti (Boyd), who eventually left him for Eric Clapton…. and her sister, Jenny Boyd, the subject of Donovan’s “Jennifer Juniper”, and soon to marry Mick Fleetwood.
A cozy little group, weren’t they, all the rock royalty of the time?
Taken just before their journey from London Airport to Delhi, India, to visit the Maharishi, and study Transcendental Meditation.
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First pants. Then shoes…
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I know the movie, him, and her.
One of my favorite all time movies.
Got the movie and her right.
I had no idea, until I read you’re response. I don’t know exactly why that would trigger my memory but now I know the movie too. It was great!
Little help here?
Jonathon Winters and Ethan Merman in ‘Mad Mad Mad World’
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Got!
She’s purty easy to spot .. shy girl.
Did it.
Found it and I hope
She(?) is turned around, facing away, cos otherwise when she closes her eyes her nose disappears too.
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Robert Redford age 89
Any day is too soon.
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You’ll take it, and by God, you’ll swallow it! Kids can be such picky eaters!!!
Regurgitated with love.
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I just found out that in Europe golden eagles have been seen knocking goats off of cliffs.
That rock seems to have a goat problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_louse
That’s hilarious!
OK, now try herding these guys through those tunnels above.
I think it said that these were twenty’s flapper fashions.
Bad hairdressers have been trying to make women look funny for years and years.
Not real haircuts… a satire of them.
Remember most women didn’t cut their hair until the 20s, a few right after WWI, but some more conservative types (socially, not politically) never.
Many people still found the idea of women in short hair laughable or even sinful. This drawing is meant to make them look bad
good thing. that blimp one really took the air out of me
My regular computer is back in the shop trying agin to change the solid-state hard drive. I still had my old computer, so today I set it up. It’s Windows 10, so I’m careful about where I go.
Try Ubuntu.
Or mint.
Windows 10 will be fine for another few months. The main problem will be the lack of security updates that would normally be scheduled from around December.
Who’s on First – ‘Pearls Before Swine’ Version.
I love it.
Come on, Claude.
You wouldn’t want her to wrinkle her bowtie.
Only four more days until the first day of fall and this soup recipe from today’s London “Daily Mail” will warm you up on a brisk fall day.