"Uptown Down"
4,381 seats with perfume piped through the floor, the Uptown opened 1925 where 12,000 people stood in line. Now tarps sag on the roofline & a lone passerby is visible where a parade once passed.
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A vertical panoramic image of the Uptown Theatre facade on a gray, rain-soaked day in Chicago. The ornate terra cotta exterior — cream-colored, densely carved with medallions, pilasters, rope moldings, and layered relief detail — rises above a bold red marquee reading "UPTOWN" in large white letters trimmed with bulb lighting. Above the marquee, a grand arched window flanked by decorative columns anchors the upper facade, its dark glass long unlit. The roofline is wrapped in sagging white construction tarps — the most visible sign of four decades of closure and a restoration still in progress. Graffiti tags mark the base in red. Two SUVs sit curbside, their scale almost absurd against what looms behind them. The wet street mirrors a flat gray sky. Imagine walking into a lobby nine stories tall, 4,381 strangers settling around you, an orchestra tuning up, perfume rising from the floor. That world closed in 1981 — a burst pipe, a landlord who cut the heat, and that was it. The tarps and the red marquee burning in the rain are somehow both an ending and a promissory note.
"Uptown Down"
4,381 seats with perfume piped through the floor, the Uptown opened 1925 where 12,000 people stood in line. Now tarps sag on the roofline and a lone passerby is visible where a parade once passed.
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Horses for #WeekHforHs of #TheAlphabetChallenge.
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Game Night
LEFT RIGHT CENTER
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One of the many structures in the ROCKEFELLER CENTER complex in NYC is Radio City Music Hall. When Rockefeller’s plan to build an opera house fizzled, he searched for a new partner and found one in Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and the project was soon joined by theater developer Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel, who envisioned an unparalleled theater experience. The venue opened in December 1932 as the largest indoor theater in the world, a title it maintained into the early 21st century. A noted example of Art Deco and Modernist design, the theater itself is a work of art. The hall has hosted pop concerts, film debuts, televised game shows, and assorted television and award events, and it is home to the famous Rockettes dance company. The marquee is the length of a New York City block, as is the width of the massive stage inside. The four-tiered amphitheater holds 6,000 people, every seat offers a good view, and the curved arches and glitzy interior give the space a majestic feel. Over the years, more than 300 million people have attended shows in the hall, and more than 700 films have premiered there.
Radio City Music Hall
New York, New York
February 2026
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL is located in (John D. ) Rockefeller Center and Named after RCA Radio Corp. More info in ALT TEXT
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Coney Island
Brooklyn, NewYork
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Oregon Inlet
Nags Head, North Carolina
Summer 2021
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The River (“La Rivière”)
by Aristide Maillol
Museum of Modern Art
New York City
Summer 2025
NYS Pavilion Observation Tower
Queens, New York
Built for the 1964 Worlds Fair
Abandoned in 1970s
restoration began 2019
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Antique Flea Market
Spring Show
Brimfield Massachusetts
May 2025
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McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park Scottsdale, Az
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Large dark grey with white heron with red eye is hunting among seaweed covered rocks along the shore.
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)💚
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The outline of the Rhum Cuillin across a short distance of sea. A sandy beach and machair in the foreground
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Rum from Eigg 2018. The last holiday before my lungs kicked off, when I was running the most I ever had. This was taken on my long run, on a gloriously sunny morning, not long before I got lost amongst a field of cattle.
A bench and behind it a sign saying “Barra airport, please keep off the beach when the wind sock is flying”. The beach beyond is currently under water
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Barra airport. The only airport in the world (apparently) where scheduled flights land on the beach
Sunrise seen in a car side mirror with blurred leafy green trees on the side of the road. Driving home from the airport after a redeye.
Are show tunes allowed on this roadtrip? 🌅🧡🚘
"Don't you wanna get away
From the same old part you gotta play
'Cause I got what you need so come with me and take the ride
It'll take you to the other side."
-The Greatest Showman
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Chocolate cake surrounded with chocolate finger biscuits,with smarties and rolos on top and falling down the side, and chocolate bars sticking out the top at the back
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Chocolate bar cake
Deer rubbing antlers on small Rowan tree which is next to a fence. Grass. Other side of fence has bush and football goal
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Deer in the garden, to go with the hare.
Highland cows on a track. The nearest, a black one, has its head turned to look at the camera.
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“I think you’ll find this is our road”
Scarecrow in a 90s Brownie hoodie , jeans and pink water shoes, tied with a harness to go climbing (the flagpole). You can see 4 girls gathered round but just feet - no faces
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#YforYellow out of sync because I’ve just posted my first z, but then I came across this scarecrow photo
Bunting made out of yellow cath kitspn print PJs and yellow fabric, hanging in front of kitchen units
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Yellow print PJs become yellow bunting
Birdsfoot trefoil flowers in among hat their leaves
Yellow daisy like flowers next to bluebells
My lap sitting in the car with the steering wheel and my dress visible. A bright yellow lanyard with black Palliative Consultant written on it, pinned to my name badge. You can see my NHS Scotland rainbow pledge badge
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My work lanyard
A detail of a female’s feet in yellow shoes and her orange-red jersey dress. Montréal street photograph.
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A close up of orange-yellow thin stalked flowers bowing under the weight of their lush and full petals.
