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Visions of Napa
6 hours ago

Black capped flycatcher in the over-manicured gardens of Foster City, California.

#Birds #urban #birding #BirdWatching #SFBayArea #California

On the lower branch of a tree sits a small, black and white bird. The bird is almost all black with a white belly. He’s got a short beak. In the background is a condominium building.
Visions of Napa
7 hours ago

#SilentSunday

A silhouette of a heron on the edge of the artificial lagoon land of Foster City, California. I’m not sure if this is a Night Heron or a Little Green Heron.

#Birds #birding #Urban #BirdWatching #SFBayArea #California

Silhouette of a small hunched bird with a medium beak, sitting on the cement edge of a man made “lagoon.” Across the lagoon, suburban houses are reflected in the water. Next to the cement edge of the lagoon is a strip of rocks, and no  plants. Next to this strip of rocks is a strip of sidewalk, and then a strip of well manicured lawn.
RBRATSPIES
1 day ago

On this rainy dreary day, want to cuddle up with a good book? How about with a podcast about a good book? I had fun talking with
#AuthorsAlcove about Major Deegan's less-than-spectacular military career, Kosciuszko's anti-slavery advocacy, Pulaski's gender identity and so much more! #history #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity #historian #historylover #infrastructure #urban #histodon @histodons https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VID2DfvJtcFR6ClgZ72mC?si=rpUfCS-MROOAlXZr2UpWQQ

amir2000.nl
1 day ago

The breakwater #lighthouse in #Jaffa is a cool spot to visit if you're ever in #Israel It has a lot of history and charm
#night #city #urban #nightphotography #longexposure #photo #fotograaf #photography #canon #eos5dmark4 #telaviv #colors📷

WillHelm
1 day ago

Zum #StraßenSamstag auch mal Bilder aus dem Ort der #Montageaussichten

Die drei älteren weiblich gelesenen Personen sind wohl jeden Tag zusammen unterwegs, zumindestens sind sie mir schon mehrfach entgegen gekommen.
Solche Freundschaften hoffe ich auch später zu haben :D

Die "Kids" haben gesehen, dass ich die drei Fotografiert haben und wollten dann unbedingt auch abgelichtet werden :)

#NikonD610 #NoFilter
#BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #StreetPhotography #Urban

drei ältere, weiblich gelesene personen laufen durch eine spanische stadt über den gehweg. sie sind von hinten fotografiert.
die linke person mit rollator, die mittlere mit gehstock und die linke person trägt handtasche und hat eine hand in die seite/rücken gestützt.
im hintergrunf sitzen jugendliche auf einem treppenabsatz
einer der jugendlichen in shirt und kurzer hose post vor der kamera, indem er einen fuß auf seinem fussball abstellt und die hände hinterm rücken verschränkt
ein jugendlicher grinst in die kamera und hält den daum hoch, im hintergrund sieht man unscharf die drei älteren weiblich gelesenen personen
Peter Nimmo
1 day ago

This is interesting- councillor claiming that a #bus gate in #Edinburgh "is not working" because it's led to £100,000 of fines in its first two months. Be interesting to see whether there is, in fact, something wrong with the scheme, or if #drivers are just getting it wrong. Anyone here in the #Costorphine area want to comment?/...
#transport #urban #cars
https://news.stv.tv/east-central/corstorphine-bus-gate-cashes-in-100000-worth-of-fines-in-first-two-months

SallyABL
2 days ago

This perhaps looks like a painting or something but it's a straight up photo, without filters or tweaks. Nil. Nada. Just what I saw. Amazing colours.

#Sunset #Sydney #Urban #CityScape #OutAndAbout #PhotoOfTheDay #Glow

Photo of street scene with signs and a tree on the right. Deep orange, red and purple sunset in the distance.
amir2000.nl
2 days ago

One of the most beautiful views in Israel is Tel Aviv at #night from Jaffa #city #architecture #urban #nightphotography #longexposure #photo #fotograaf #photography #canon #eos5dmark4 #telaviv #Israel #colors😎2/2

amir2000.nl
2 days ago

One of the most beautiful views in Israel is Tel Aviv at #night from Jaffa #city #architecture #urban #nightphotography #longexposure #photo #fotograaf #photography #canon #eos5dmark4 #telaviv #Israel #colors😎1/2

SallyABL
3 days ago
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Dr. John Barentine FRAS
3 days ago

"The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some #birds, a new study indicates."

"'We don't know if these adaptations could have good or bad consequences for the birds down the road, considering that urban environments aren't going away anytime soon.'"

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-urban-pollution-linked-smaller-eyes.html

#Animals #LightPollution #Adaptation #Cities #Urban #ALAN

AnemoneNemorosa
3 days ago

Enjoying street life, or happily doing nothing in sunny and colourful Colmar while summer lingers on. Colmar, Alsace, 2023.

#photography #city #streetphotography #urban #alsace #colmar

Stalls of fruits and vegetables on market day in a paved street.
Woman and a man walking with a dog along a canal on a paved street, surrounded by colourful houses and flowers.
Woman riding a bike with a big basket in front, on a paved street, surrounded by coloured houses and baskets of flowers.
CLondoner92
4 days ago

#European Mobility Week raising awareness on sustainable #urban #mobility - National Transport Authority #Ireland

Promoting behavioural change in favour of active mobility, public #transport, and other clean, intelligent transport solutions
https://www.nationaltransport.ie/news/european-mobility-week-raising-awareness-on-sustainable-urban-mobility/
#EU #Europe #urbanism

Texas Observer Lives!
4 days ago

Our magazine's cover story: Gunfire jolted Zoey Sanchez awake one February night, as a party at a nearby 'short-term rental' turned violent. When she emerged from her home, she got a worse shock—a bullet hole in the window of her daughter's playroom.

Correspondent Eva Ruth Moravec on the big money, and big trouble these platforms bring to neighborhoods in #Texas, and nationwide: https://www.texasobserver.org/short-term-rentals-airbnb-vrbo-neighborhoods/

#news #politics #AirBNB #community #neighborhoods #urban #cities #TXlege #USpol #tourism

brad m
4 days ago

“there’s a hero waiting in the wings: the e-#cargobike. Not only can these bad boys deliver packages in #urban environments just as quickly (and sometimes faster) than #delivery vans, they take up far less space and are much less likely to cause #pedestrian deaths”
Fun fact #UPS started as a #bicycle #delivery company

#Ebikes are cleaner and safer. So why aren’t we using them? https://www.vox.com/videos/2023/9/20/23882159/e-bikes-emissions-cargo-vans-delivery-climate #lastmile #lowemissionzones #safestreets

Alan Crawford
5 days ago

An image for today. Very rare sight on the #GoldCoast #M1 #photography #Urban

A shot taken looking south on the Gold Coast, South East Queensland's M1. Rare image showing no cars heading south.
Jon Sullivan
5 days ago

I saw this fantastic pairing last week on my bike ride home. One of these utes is a practical vehicle for hauling around supplies in a city. The other I struggle to say any polite things about.

They were both parked outside the Emperor's New Clothes cafe, which seemed appropriate.

https://flic.kr/p/2p47rG8

#transport #urban #ute #truck #DoubleCabUte

A photo of a small, practical, green-coloured ute, parked next to a massive grey double-cab Ford ute (or truck as Americans would call it). Both vehicles have about the same about of storage area on their flat backs. They're both parked outside the Emperor's New Clothes cafe in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.

Full res photo is on Flickr at https://flic.kr/p/2p47rG8 CC-BY-NC Jon Sullivan
Jon Sullivan
5 days ago

Do people of Ōtautahi-Christchurch and the surrounding farmland just not like big trees?

Here's all the trees that were felled in one week along two of my bike routes to work.

Every farm that has been converted to housing in the past two decades has started with all its trees being felled.

Hardly any trees in the city landscape are as old as the city (170 years).

Are we going to cut down the recently planted native trees when they also get big?

#trees #urban #rural #nz #deforestation

A photo montage of the trees that were felled in one week between my home in Ōtautahi-Christchurch and Lincoln town, along two of my bike commute routes (~50 km total). Over the 20 years I've been biking these routes, there's been a gradual removal of large trees.

Anti-vandal paint.

Doesn't do what it says on the tin.

#Queensferry #graffiti #urban

Graffiti on wall with anti vandal paint.
George Steffanos
6 days ago

The throbbing excitement that is Waterbury, Connecticut around midnight on a Monday. South Main Street and Mill Street. July 31, 2023, 11:31 PM.

#photography #landscapephotography #city #urban #Connecticut #summer #July #streetlights #night #nighttime #summertime

It is nighttime in the city. The street lights and a few lights inside building are on. We are standing in the driveway of a school, which is to our left. Straight ahead across a street is a church, partially hidden by a large foreground tree and the glare of a nearby street light. A street runs along the right side of the pic. One car is waiting at a red light. The stores along the street are all closed for the night. A bright full moon is towards the top left of our pic, beside the top of a flagpole flying a U.S. flag.
Raymond Larabie
1 week ago

Grape vines veil a doorway; plants and curios jostle in sun's embrace 🍇. この家の入口は葡萄の木に覆われ、鉢植えや小物が日差しを求めて競っている🌿. #streetphotography #streetphotographyjapan #griiix #ricoh_gr #aichi #nagoya #japan #doorway #grapevines #sunlit #curios #shroud #nature #urban #cluttered #greenery

The front doorway of this home is shrouded in grape vines. Potted plants and random junk compete for sunlight.
ErosBlog Bacchus
1 week ago

Then, the dawn of hope: remembering that I have a good #urban friend who has promised in the past to do my shady data-hoarder downloads on his heart-of-the-civis unlimited fast fiber. Then, pricing cheap-to-mail flash USB drives and discovering that while I wasn't watching, they've gotten down into "coffee and a muffin" price territory for the size I need.

Raymond Larabie
1 week ago

Near my home, medicines bask, shaded from Nagoya's fervent sun 🌞. 家の近くの薬局で、名古屋の熱い日差しを避けて、薬がアーケード下に積まれてる🌡. #streetphotography #streetphotographyjapan #griiix #ricoh_gr #aichi #nagoya #japan #urban #shelter #storefront #pharmacy

This is a drug store near my home where they stack some of the products outside of the shop under the awning. This was taken on a very hot day in Nagoya.
Yayoi75
1 week ago
This is a black and white photograph of concrete bollards curving around the pavement. There is also a car parked on the road and a mural on the wall of a building in the background of the image. The photograph was taken in the Stella area of Napoli, Italy and close to the San Gaudioso catacombs.

Urban islands of heat:

On #ClimateChange and the #UrbanHeatIsland effect in developing countries blindly following the American style of "development", personal stories from people trying to cope with these both climate and architecturally magnified heatwaves.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1775206

#ClimateCrisis #Pakistan #India #Bangladesh #GlobalSouth #GlobalWarming #Heatwave #HeatIsland #SouthAsia #Lahore #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #Urban #LUMS #ClimateDiary

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
2 weeks ago

A court ruling would force Barcelona city council to dismantle one of their last #superblocks alleging that a Modification of the Masterplan should have been required "given that the function of the street is changed", which seems to be to "give access to its buildings and connect with the basic traffic routes".

Without being a jurist, I consider this sentence to be problematic for several reasons.

#urban #mobility #activetravel

https://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/jueza-tumb-mayor-peatonalizacion-colau-barcelona-obras-terminadas_1_10495620.html

Stuart Herbert
3 weeks ago

The #IronBridge museums and Iron Bridge Gorge area are a great place to explore with a camera.

The official advice is to drive between the different sites, because they're quite spread out.

If you follow that advice, you'll miss out on so many other wonderful shots that capture the character of the area.

#Fujifilm #XH2 #urban #telford #england #uk #photography

This is a photo of a rusted old fuel pump, sat in someone's front garden.

The sign beside the fuel pump says 'Blackbird Cottage'.
James Fine Art
4 weeks ago

Urban heights - Watercolour

Urban heights is a watercolour painting of men at work repairing the facade of a building, suspended from ropes, in Bela Vista, Sao Paulo.

#urbanheights #menatwork #urban #facade #city #BuyIntoArt #saopaulo #MastoArt #MastoDaoine #FediGiftShop

https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/urban-heights-james-mccormack.html

Urban heights is a watercolour painting of men at work repairing the facade of a building, suspended from ropes, in Bela Vista, Sao Paulo.
S.Tyler
4 weeks ago

Street photography is not just about taking snapshots of random people/objects that are around you on the street. Sometimes you just need to ask someone who’s interesting if they’re okay with me taking their picture. This tired, long suffering NY Knicks fan obliged me while wandering around Times Square area in NYC.
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Portrait #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephoto #city #tuesday #urban

Black and white portrait of a man on the street in Times Square, New York.

There is a certain hint of something in the #CapeTown air today 😁

#photography #urban #ocean #sun #sky #spring #beach #SouthAfrica

Wide view of a city beach covered in yellow wildflowers, with a sandy path leading the eye to some distant apartment blocks and a hint of ocean at the foot of Lion’s Head in the distance. Seen under a pristine blue sky on a perfect, sunny spring day.
Wide deep blue ocean with white waves breaking out onto a rocky urban shore. A row of apartment blocks sit alongside a slither of white sandy beach in the distance. A pristine blue sky completes the serene, sunny, late afternoon seen.
View over some chunky rocks and deep blue ocean in the late afternoon on a sunny day, with some apartment blocks on the left and a distant mountain stretching into the ocean under a pristine blue sky in the distance.
Urban scene of succulent ground cover with bright pink and yellow flowers, with Lions Head piercing a pristine blue sky in the distance.
Ash Qin 📷
1 month ago

Ever feel like you're being watched?

#Photography #StillLife #Urban #City #RepublicOfIreland #Camera #CCTV

A metal square pole suspends three warn CCTV cameras, looking to be monitoring everything.
Ian Jago
1 month ago

Something a little different me; bolder colours, very loose.

Interested in what you think of it.

#Watercolour #Watercolor #Aquarelle #Urban #Painting #Art

A Spanish town in bold colours. A couple of important buildings beyond a square that appears to have a market and a hint of many people.
Ash Qin 📷
1 month ago

The sun was pretty bright that day, I think it made this come out really well. I don't get to play with exposures like this as much as I'd like.

#Photography #Street #People #Urban #City #NorthernIreland #LoveBelfast #BlackAndWhite

You are bombarded by negative space only to realize this is a black and white image, heavily focusing on white, shapes form and reveal a alley with a footpath. A gentleman walks down the footpath touching his mouth as if he has a cigarette as a car pulls forward on the alley road, the driver staring at the viewer in confusion.
Ian Jago
1 month ago

Biddlestone village, 1/4 sheet Saunders Waterford rough.

Pleased with much of it but drawing went wrong somewhere, the nearest two cars look too low.

Comments welcome!

#Watercolour #Watercolor #Aquarelle #Urban #Landscape #Painting

Soft watercolour of a traditional English village with houses on the left hand side cars in the street and a woman walks towards the viewer. There is a wall on the right and trees and shrubs behind the wall and visible over the houses.
Christoph Becker
1 month ago

How does income relate to access to green spaces in #Toronto? How many people share each tree in Rosedale vs Jamestown?
Earlier this summer we released https://toronto.curbcut.ca/,
a platform for exploring #urban #sustainability and #justice across spatial and temporal scales. Curbcut integrates a wide range of data sources to help researchers, #policymakers, communities, and individuals explore Qs like the above. Try it out!
#TOpoli #urbanplanning #urbanism #JustSustainability

Ash Qin 📷
1 month ago

It was another foggy wet night!

#Photography #StillLife #Urban #City #NorthernIreland

Containers under warm light are immediately visible in the foreground with blue light night in the distance, illuminated spotlights glowing in the distant fog.