Old Flickr Photos

"Yeah, I asked her out, and she kicked me right in the thorax." :-) :-) :-)

A conspiracy between the Cooties, the Freemasons, the aliens, and Dr. Evil??? :-)

Just because. :-)

Cooties go psychedelic!!! :-)

Another hippy cootie! :-)

Whoa!! :-)

Okay, you saw the cooties, and now...a marble. Is there any point to this photo? Not really.

Here's a Central New York snowstorm going full blast, although it can actually get much heavier than this.

That isn't fog, that's blowing snow during a storm.

The Hotel Utica is one of the best-known buildings in Utica, once being the most popular hotel with visiting celebrities. It's since done its time as a lower-end hotel and as public housing, but now it's a hotel again. The skyscraper on the rear left is the State Office Building, the tallest building in town.

This is the official, as opposed to the unofficial, water of the Boilermaker 15K road race. Right....

Nuselsky Most, easily the highest bridge in Prague, crosses a valley through Nusle from I.P. Pavlova, and the neighborhood south of I.P. Pavlova known as Zvonarka (where I once lived), to Vysehrad. It has two levels, the upper level being open to the sky for street traffic, connecting Legerova and Sokolska (the streets merge at the bridge) on the I.P. Pavlova/Zvonarka side to 5. Kvetna on the Vysehrad side. The lower level, visible here as a box running down the centerline of the bridge, carries DPP metro trains from I.P. Pavlova to Vysehrad. Nuselsky Most is the oldest bridge on the metro, being part of the original Kacerov-Florenc metro opened in 1974 (Or 1971, according to some of my sources. Who's right? Does anybody know?).

Mestan is a 19th Century brand of Czech beer that is now the cheapest brand name beer you can buy in Prague, with a half liter bottle sometimes going for less than 4Kc, which comes out to less than 20 cents. This is the original Mestan Pivovar, or brewery, if I'm not mistaken, opened in 1898. Nowadays, though, Mestan is brewed at the equally historic Staropramen Pivovar in Smichov, and this old brewery has become an office complex on the upper levels, with an Arnold supermarket in the basement.

This is another, brighter shot of the old Mestan Pivovar.

Here you can still see the original lettering on the pivovar, which I think was probably kept for historic purposes.

This is one of two photos that I took of Pankrac, in uncertain lighting conditions, so I ended up bracketing even with the Lomo. This one I shot at f11 and 1/250, I think, which made it too dark technically, but better in some ways than the f11 1/125 bracket, which was the other one.

This was my "proper" shot of Pankrac, with appropriate exposure.

This was a strictly experimental shot that I took in Sidliste Haje, like so many of my experimental shots there. I had to bracket this to get it right, and I think I ended up settling on f16 and 1/125, although I could be misremembering. I don't keep a notebook for the Lomo.