Old Flickr Photos

We were told that photography isn't allowed in the bookstore in the old wool exchange...unless you're there to take pictures of the ceiling, which is also the roof. :-)

The Midland Hotel gets its name from the Midland Railway, as it was a railway hotel.

I was walking up a hill with my friends, and I saw this photo opportunity, and took it. I really liked how the setting sun was illuminating the city skyline, such as it is.

No, I'm not a student at Bradford, and never have been, but I do have friends there. I took this shot more or less randomly, and amazingly it came out nicely, even though I was using my built-in flash at close range. Okay, so Old Speckled Hen is a recent development, not an old authentic English ale at all, but it is a NEW authentic English ale!! :-) It's also very good.

"Guy Fawkes was a very naughty man!!" :-) This pub is allegedly where he planned his naughty actions, but I haven't been able to verify whether this is true, or just a local legend.

York Minster is the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, although so much of it is under scaffolding so much of the time it's often hard to get a good photo of it. This shot is an exception, since it doesn't show the whole Minster. Come to think of it, taking a photo of the whole Minster is quite a challenge if you don't have a helicopter, due to its massive size and the close proximity of other buildings. York Minster was built during the years 1220-1472, but there are believed to have been churches on the site since 627.

Whether Ken Livingstone (mayor of London, not York, I'm not that stupid) thinks, cathedrals normally have pigeons flying around them. :-) This gave me the opportunity to get this shot.

The captain of the plane told us to look out the window because Cape Cod was off to our left, and luckily I had a window seat.

We were flying over Boston at FL350, actually, so that illustrates the distance that you can see from that altitude, as if you looked straight you could see Cape Cod, and if you looked down, as here, you could see Boston!!

A few minutes later I was able to zoom in and get a better angle on Cape Cod.

As we continued down the coast of the U.S. towards New York, the lighting and the clouds, I thought, provided ideal opportunities for photography, even if my window was icing up a bit.

This was better than Picture 1, I thought, since I zoomed and angled it better.

This was an edit of Picture 2, obviously. I'm hoping that this improved it somewhat, but I posted both just to see what all of you thought.

I have surprisingly few photos of New York City and its surroundings considering how often I fly through there. I also grew up regularly travelling through New York City, although I've never lived there.

" cootie - n. N. Amer. informal a body louse -origin First World War: perh. from Malay kutu, denoting a parasitic biting insect." -Oxford Concise English Dictionary, ed. Judy Pearsall, (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999)

The cooties are coming!! :-) No, actually, I just posed them. :-) :-) :-)

"* Cootie is also the name of a table game, the object of which is to be the first player to complete a comic model of an insect from the supplied plastic parts, as determined by the roll of a die. The patent is held by Milton Bradley. The bug was animated in The Outer Limits episode The Zanti Misfits (episode)." -Wikipedia

"Hey!! Did I tell you about the kid who shared hats??!!" :-)