Hotel conference-room holiday tree at dawn, Center City, Grand Rapids, Michigan. December 2025
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🌐42°57'59.2668" N 85°40'12.2124" W
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◉ HD PENTAX-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW
📷 Ricoh Pentax K-3 Mark III
🎞️ISO 800
⏱️1/13 sec f/4.5 (𝑓=50 mm)
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#christmas #tree #modern #building #busstop, #church #cityscape #crosswalk #signal #dusk #hotel #hydrant #newtopographics #night #parking #garage #pentax_dfa5014 #pentaxk3mkiii #sidewalk #sign #street #streetlight #trafficlight #urban #nowherediary #subjectivelyobjective #thisisnthappiness #banalmag
23 December 2025
Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC
#iphoneography #iphonephotography #uppereastside #manhattan #nyc #nycphotography #newyorkcity #newyorkcityphotography #trafficlight #cloudy #gloomy
#driving #collision #rearend #trafficLight #transmission
This afternoon I was rearended by an inexperienced driver in a hurry; we both survived uninjured, albeit shaken. I saw a few lessons; I welcome additional observations.
The light turned yellow as my Savana approached a major intersection. I stopped and put it in Park. Boomp! I was pushed into the intersection; boomp! pushed further. I was in Park! How come I was rolling? Fortunately, my brakes stopped me. I went back to the Corolla that had hit me. I asked, “Did your brakes go?” She apologized profusely, and said she’d assumed I would roll through the yellow.
I was flabbergasted that my van kept rolling into the intersection. I don’t know whether that’s the nature of automatic transmissions’ Park setting, that once the vehicle is nudged, being in Park doesn’t make it stop—likely--or rather that her car was still pushing my van right in the intersection.
At first I was disturbed that she hit me Boomp; Boomp; then I realized that maybe she rammed me once, and then the air bag affected her control.
I still don’t have her name and insurance info, but when the police report eventually is posted, it should be there, so I can pass it on to my agent.
I applaud her for owning up to the police. I am grateful that her air bag protected her. I’m grateful that I wasn’t driving my wife’s little hybrid. And I learned that yes, a sedan can not only bang up a ¾ ton van but shove it a few car lengths.
Phòng CSGT Công an TP Hà Nội lý giải: nhiều cột đèn giao thông tắt đèn đếm giây do lỗi kỹ thuật/nâng cấp đồng bộ hệ thống; cơ quan chức năng đang khắc phục, người dân chú ý quan sát và chấp hành tín hiệu để bảo đảm an toàn. #GiaoThong #HaNoi #CSGT #DenGiaoThong #ATGT #TrafficLight
CSGT Hà Nội cho biết đèn đếm ngược tại một số nút giao thông đã ngừng hoạt động nhiều ngày do sự cố kỹ thuật, khiến người dân bất ngờ. Các trụ đèn tín hiệu vẫn hoạt động bình thường, chỉ mất đèn đếm giây. #CSGT #Hanoi #TrafficLight #Countdown #Vietnam #tínhiệugiaothông #đèndếmgiây #giao thông
Bei dieser roten #Ampel musste ich einfach anhalten, um Fotos von ihrem #Schattenspiel zu machen.
Das dritte Bild ist in etwa die Position beim dran vorbeifahren gewesen, bei der ich entschieden habe, dass ich davon ein Foto will. Aufgenommen in #Grimmelshofen.
#Rot #Fussgängerampel #Nachtfotografie #Photography #Red #TrafficLight
Stop and Look Up
If you look up, you might see something towering overhead. Gleaming glass towers stretching up until they seem to pierce the clouds themselves.
Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO100Shutter speed1/5000s#cityPerspective #commercialBuildings #dramaticAngle #financialDistrict #glassArchitecture #highRiseBuildings #London #LondonSkyline #LondonSkyscrapers #LookUp #lowAngle #modernArchitecture #Photo #Photography #steelAndGlass #StreetPhotography #trafficLight #UnitedKingdom #urbanLandscape #urbanPhotography