The first photograph that includes people, taken in France in 1838. Because exposures in early photographs were so long, people were rarely motionless long enough to register on the negative. In this daguerreotype however, the shoe-shine boy and his customer (lower left) were sufficiently still to appear in the resulting photo. Source: aiioiiiyo.com.Source: betterisbest.tumblr.com.French model and actor Brigit Bardot photographed in 1951, aged about 16. Source: aiiaiiiyo.com.Masks will always be handy. Source: nudeboatbateaunu2.tumblr.com.Source: curveyandblueeyes.tumblr.com.“American beauty”, CGI by Henrick Kimerling from Slovakia. Source: dovga.com>photos>american beauty.Source: mardenostuff.tumblr.com.Source: kiltypleasure.tumblr.com.Source: frenchmoanerthings.tumblr.comAlicia Witt, American actor, singer/songwriter and classically trained pianist. Source: michaelsplayground.tumblr.com.Salmon fishing in Ketchikan, Alaska. Source: mexicangentleman.tumblr.comKylie Minogue. Our Kylie is an Australian actor, singer and songwriter and the highest selling female artist of all time in Australia, having sold over 70 million records. Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.com.Source: mardenostuff.tumblr.com.In 1908, onlookers picnic near the wreck of the 275 foot, four-masted barque, Falls of Halladale, on the rocks off Peterborough, in Victoria, Australia. Due to a navigation error, the ship hit the rocks in a dense fog. However, the Captain and 29 crew all escaped safely to shore. Today, the wreck is a dive site only 30 meters offshore in 3-15 metres of water. Source: State Library of Victoria. Photo by Australian photographer Allan C Green (1878-1954).Source: kiltypleasure.tumblr.com.The Giant of the Alps. Baptiste Hugo was born in the village of Vinadio in the Italian Alps in 1876. In adulthood, he stood 7 foot 7 inches tall (2.3 metres) and he weighed 201 kilograms (443 pounds). Sadly, Baptiste died of diphtheria a few weeks before his 40th birthday, in 1916. Source: amazing-everything.fandom.com.
Source: photografya.tumblr.com.The beautiful Italian model and actor, Monica Bellucci, in Rome in 1991, at the age of 27. Source: vanityfair.fr.Monica Bellucci photographed by Sebastian Fame for Vogue Italia in November 2020. Source: solitaryfossil.tumblr.com.Ellie photographed by Matt Duke. Source: thenaughtymatriarch.tumblr.com.Just relaxing. Source: bittersweet-sin.tumblr.com.Source: unabashedlygrandwinner via carrie63.tumblr.com.In 1934, Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for LIFE Magazine, takes photographs from the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Source: theatlantic.com.Source: babesbaconandbooze.tumblr.com.Source: kiltypleasures.tumblr.comSwimmers at Bondi Beach in 1939, photographed by the legendary Australian photographer Max Dupain (1911-1992). Source: pinterest.comSource: tumblr.com.Skinnydipping at Lake Pedder, Tasmania. In 1972, the Sepentine and Huon rivers were damed by the State’s Hydro Electric Commission with the result that the original Lake Pedder was submerged. The lake now has a surface area of 242 square kilometres, making it the second-largest lake in Tasmania (after Lake Gordon). Source: naturalswimmingspirit.tumblr.com.Source: curveynblueeyes.tumblr.comWooden boat Eva built in 1905, moored in the harbour at Antibes. Source: aboatwithahole.tumblr.com.The Sydney Opera House at dawn. Source: journeyofthefree.tumblr.com.Dana in the kitchen. Source: fr.xhamster.com>apron-angels.Source: balmoralist.tumblr.com.Hungarian dancer Elizaveta “Lila” Nikolska dancing at the Parthenon in 1929. Photographed by Elli Seraidari (Nelly’s). Source: imagekind.com.A couple modelling swimwear on a “sea bathing machine” in about 1900.The boxes were popular in the 1800’s in Britain, the United States, France and Germany, particularly with women, who were able to change clothes and swim from the bathing box protected from the prying eyes of the public on the beach. Source: 2000-lightyearsfromhome.tumblr.com.Sled dogs look on as Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, is trapped and crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in Antartica in 1911. Shackelton pulled off a miraculous rescue of his entire crew.
The photograph was taken by Australian photographer Frank Hurley who went on to document the Australian campaign in Europe during World War 1. Source: coolantarctica.comSource: menunderthesun.tumblr.com.Two brave ladies model beautiful tattoos applied after the effects of breast reconstruction. Source: facebook.com >boobtattoos >photos.Another beach beauty. Source: soldohawai.tumblr.com.300 years before Jesus, the Greek philosophers were grappling with the question of why there is evil and suffering in the world. Why would a loving and all-powerful God allow evil and agony to continue?
Read Bart.D.Ehrman (James A.Grey Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina) on suffering and a loving God. Source: erhmanblog.org/the-kind-of-suffering-that-is-a-problem.Source: recklesslyinfatuated.tumblr.com.
Publicity shot featuring dancer Anne Lee Patterson of the Ziegfeld Follies, on Broadway in 1923. Photographer unknown. Source: etsy.com>listing>ziegfeld-follies-anne-lee-patterson.1962 Jaguar C-type. Source: vintageclassiccars.tumblr.comSome keels are stronger than you might think! Source: aboatwithahole.tumblr.com.Boat harbour at Cannes, France. Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.com.Delight and horror on a Vespa. Source: d-r-a-g-o-n-x.tumblr.com.Scarlet (Ingrid) Johansson. Source: d-r-a-g-o-n-x.tumblr.com.Source: balmoralist.tumblr.com.Source: elegantdarkwolf-feral.tumblr.com.Source: nudistbeachgirls.tumblr.com.Source: freuehaufsteher69.trumblr.com.Quiet reflection. Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.com.In 1986, Fosters Lager sponsored David Kirke to cross the English Channel in a kangaroo-shaped balloon, suspended beneath a large bunch of helium-filled balloons. The flight passed without incident but Kirke was prosecuted for flying without a pilot’s licence. Source: Dangerous Sports Club/wikipediat.org.Painting by Australian artist, etcher, sculptor and cartoonist Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Source: pinterest.com>semperlibri>norman-lindsay.A clip from a 3-minute silent movie, Sirens of the Sea, made in the USA in 1928. Available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=ploCk10YR=-w. Source: letterboxd.comSource: littlemissredridingcrop1.tumblr.comSource: carrie63.tumblr.com.Boris Karloff (1887-1969) born William Henry Pratt in Dulwich, England and famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror movies. Source: homocarvopics.tumblr.com.Hurrica V, a classic gentleman’s ketch built in 1924, which featured in the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Great Gatsby. Source: ybw.com.The first car personally owned by HRH Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh; a 1936 model Standard Nine, purchased in 1940. As Prince Phillip of Greece, he was stationed at Sri Lanka with the Royal Navy. The vehicle is held in the Galle Face Hotel Museum in Colombo. Source: anyskin.tumblr.com.Source: henriquejorgentleman.tumblr.comBathing in a Japanese onsen. Source: blukcattalking.tumblr.com.
The fabulous Gillian Anderson (b. 1968), at the time of her role as Dana Scully from the X-Files (seasons in 1993-2002 and 2016). Source: d-r-a-g-o-n -xThe thermal waters at Baden-Baden in Germany. Photograph by Otto Stupakoff in 1967. Source: artsandculture.google.com>entity>baden-baden.Boats anchored at Primosten, Croatia. Source: aboatwithahole.tumblr.com1938 Alfa Romeo 8C Le Mans. A racing car powered by an all-alloy, duel-supercharged straight-8 of 2900cc’s capacity, capable of a top speed of 240 km/h (149 mph). Source: mardenostuff.tumblr.comA couple at Piccadilly in London in 1953. Photograph by Bert Hardy ((1913-1995), a prolific English documentary and press photographer from London. Source: artsy.net>artist>bert-hardy.Source: thisoldstompingground.tumblr.comCaesar Marcus Aurelius Augustus (c.e. 121-180) was Roman emperor for 19 years (c.e. 161-180) and a Stoic philosopher. He was the author of Mediations; a guide to Stoic ideas about leadership, life and here, about the question of how to choose between the competing gods (if any). Source: cavemanfeet.tumblr.comMembers of the Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society meet in a New York park. Source: topless232.rssing.comMexican actor, dancer and singer Rossy Mendoza and her young friend. Photograph titled “Breakfast” by Pedro Meyer, 1975. Source: noirblue.tumblr.com – discontinued.Source: bearanddragonfly.tumblr.com.Source: fruehaufsteher69.tumblr.comMeditation. Source: tumblrgallery.xyz.American model, dancer and singer, Bonnie Logan, a star of the 1950’s and 60’s. Source: pinterest.com/bonnielogan1934/Elspeth Beard was the first English woman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle; a second-hand BMW R60. The trip of about 48,000 miles took 3 years. Elspeth worked as an architect in Sydney for 8 months in the mid-1980’s and she had her first major accident in Queensland which hospitalised her for 2 weeks. In 2017, Elspeth published the story of her achievement titled “Lone Rider; The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World”. Source: goodread.comFolegandros Island in Greece. Source: riccardo-posts.tumblr.com.Ferrari have announced the release of a one-off V12 Ferrari Omologata for a “discerning European client”, based on the 812 Superfast. Source: autoblog.com.British Airways flying boat “Berwick” at Port Washington Marine Terminal, La Guardia in August 1945. Source: mea gloria fides.tumblr.comSource: aboatwithahole.tumblr.comEnglish model Josie Lane (b. 2001). Source: kiltypleasure.tumblr.comSource: sex.com>search>gifs
Source: thatkiwibloke.tumblr.com – discontinued.Source: dontcaredontgiveafuck.tumblr.comFishing boats at Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. Source: thepreppyfox.tumblr.comVintage Velocette motorcycle. Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.comBugatti straight-8, racer. Thought to be a Bugatti 35B, made and raced very successfully from 1926-1931. 2262 cc, 24 valves delivering a maximum speed of 209 km/h (130 mph). Source: frenchmoanerthings.tumblr.com.1943 Odalisque by H P Horst, New York. Source: theoddsideofme.tumblr.com.1956. The legendary American model and actor Betty Page. Source: littleredriding1.tumblr.com.Source: noirbleu.tumblr.com – discontinued.Figure class. Photo by Bill Owens 1971, American photographer (b.1938).Fishing boats at rest in Bodrum, Turkey. Photo by Kani Polat. Source: photo.net.Sailing in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Gunnar Freyr.The crush of love. Source: fotogrimsi.tumblr.comSource: twitter@maskulin stars.The newspaper advertisement placed by Ernest Shackleton seeking crew to accompany him on his epic journey to the South Pole in 1914-1917. His ship was crushed in ice in the Weddell Sea but with remarkable skill and perseverance, Shackleton managed to return all 27 sailors and scientists in his crew safely home. Source: pinterest.com>pinCooling off. Source: smoothfig.tumblr.com1920’s style. Source: littleredridingcrop1.tumblr.comShowgirl Rosemary Williams photographed in New York by a young Stanley Kubrick when he worked as a photographer for LOOK Magazine in 1949. Source: pinterest.com>pinSource: mordagsinkedskin.tumblr.comSelf portrait by Australian painter and sculptor Robert Hannaford (b. 1944). Hannaford has been a finalist in the annual Archibald Portrait Prize in Australia 23 times and won the “Peoples choice” prize three times. Source: pinterest.comSource: maturelesbian.tumblr.comSource: thisisnthappiness.tumblr.comSource: thisisnthappiness.tumblr.com
At anchor at dusk. Source: un-uomo-del-mare.tumblr.comA nude holiday camp in the 1960’s. Source: thatkiwibloke.tumblr.com.Pink Floyd lives on. Source: deepbreathoflife.tumblr.comMembers of the Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society meeting for book club in a park in New York. Being topless outdoors is legal for woman in New York, as it is for men. Source: topless232.rssing.com.Source: kiltypleasures.tumblr.comJapan’s annual Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is celebrated in Tokyo on the first Sunday in April each year. The Shinto festival is held at Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki and celebrates sex, fertility and the creation of life. Here, adherents carry the giant pink “Elizabeth Mikoshi” through the streets. Source: theculturetrip.com.1910. Model a l’estudi del pintor (model in the painter’s studio), by Spanish painter and photographer Baldomer Gili Roig (1873-1926). Source: frenchmoanerthings.tumblr.com Source: kiltypleasures.tumblr.comWhat’s good for the girls, is good for the boys too. Source: lostmyclothes.tumblr.comSource: un-uomo-del-mare.tumblr.comSource: allthingsnautical.tumblr.comSource: natural-ladies.tumblr.comThese boots were made by artisan shoemaker Maniatis Bottier who had a shop in Paris near the Pigale red-light district in the early 1900’s. They are thought to be inspired by designs from the fetish community in the area where he worked. The boots were displayed in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. Source: metmuseum.orgSailing with style. Source: betterisbest.tumblr.com
Power and grace. Source: inspifrog.tumblr.comCape Naturaliste lighthouse in Western Australia on the cape named by French explorer and cartographer Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803) after the flagship of his small two-ship expedition fleet. Baudin visited and mapped this area of the coast of “New Holland” in May 1801 at the direction of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The 19 metre sandstone light tower sits atop a 100 metre cliff. The lighthouse was completed in 1903, and first lit in April 1904, using whale oil initially and then vaporised kerosene. It was connected to mains electricity in 1978. At night the light flashes a white light twice every 10 seconds.Source: guitars-beers-and-sad-songsElton Musk’s cherry red Tesla roadster that served as the dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight launched in February 2018 and still on an ongoing voyage through our universe. “Starman”, a full-scale human mannequin in a SpaceX spacesuit is in the driving seat. In October 2020, the roadster made a close approach to Mars and it will complete its second trip around the sun in February 2021.
You can track the progress of Starman and the roadster on whereisroadster.com. Image credit: murdosurfs.tumblr.comSource: guzzigazz.tumblr.comSource: girlsgoingcommando.tumblr.comThe Blastolene B-702 is an exceptional handmade custom roadster crafted by the Blastolene Brothers in the USA. With a 6 metre long aluminium body it is powered by a massive V12 GMC engine of about 7 litre capacity. The vehicle sold for $US 555,000 in 2015. Source: steampunktendencies.tumblr.comAltair under way. Photographer unknown. Source: tumblr.com.Photographer and model unknown. Probably 1950’s. Source: 4Crot.comSource: redridingcrop1.tumblr.com1946. Nu devant le chimenee (Nude in front of the fireplace) by French photographer Willy Ronis (1910-2009). Ronis specialised in photographing ordinary people in post war Paris and Provence. Source: artnet.com/artists/willy-ronisThe beautiful and talented singer, songwriter and actor Deborah Harry photographed in the late 1960’s. Debbie became the iconic leader for the punk-pop rock band Blondie. Source: tomorrowstarted.comFour-cylinder Indian motorcycle from 1940. Made by Indian Motorcycles between 1928 and 1942; 1275 cc’s producing about 40 hp. Source: michaelsmotorcycles.comNight view of Naoussa village, Paros Island, Greece. Source: parosrealty.com.
Happy 2021. Source: fruehaufsteher69.tumblr.comWhat will 2021 bring? Source: cavemanfeet.tumblr comSource: ntpft1904.tumblr.comClaudya Desout avec des Gants, Paris, October 1987. Photograph by Bettina Rheims from Paris (born 1952), known for her erotic depictions of woman. Source: deepbreathoflife.tumblr.comSource: still-goodlooking.tumblr.comFitness model and bodybuilder Kiki Vhyce from Melbourne, Australia (b. 1992). Source: saradas.orgSource: running-bare-everywhere.tumblr.comChilling at the beach. Source: tumbex.com>timoty1The spectacular Monica Bellucci. Source: deepbreathoflife.tumblr.comSource: frenchmoanerthings.tumblr.comSource: thatkiwibloke.tumblr.comSource: naturalswimmingspirit.tumblr.com1927 Norton motorcycle, 18/21 model. A single cylinder engine of 490 cc, over-head valves and capable of a top speed of 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour). Source: guzzigazz.tumblr.comSource: mcgruffthehorndog.tumblr.comSource: whitehartland.tumblr.comMarilyn Monroe photographed by Ant Beauchamp in 1950.Model Mette Munko from Copenhagen modelling for “The Triangles”, 2013. Photograph by Photo Jovan, Norway. Source: 500px.com/studiophotojovan.comSource: skinnydippingnude.tumblr.comSource: elegant darkwolf-feral.tumblr.comSource: uniquemalebw.tumblr.com
Source: rotor25.tumblr.comSource: guzzigazz.tumblr.comSource: loveageorge.tumblr.comSource: this-old-stomping-ground.tumblr.comSource: d-r-a-g-o-n-x.tumblr.comSource: saltyandhungry.tumblr.comModel and actor Monica Bellucci channeling Frida Kahlo for Harper’s Bazaar in July 2013. Dolce & Gabbana Photography. Source: pinterest.com.auThe Chinese Government (the CCP) recently imposed tariffs of over 200 per cent on Australian wines imported into China. They are very upset with us. We Aussies owe it to ourselves to try to drink the wine that we would normally have sent to their market. Source: recklesslyinfatuated.tumblr.comDespite occasional small outbreaks, Australia and New Zealand have kept the lid on deaths from COVID-19; a total of 908 and 25 respectively (as at Christmas 2020). We’re all off to the beach to enjoy our summer. Source: tumblrgallery.xyz > gallerySource: photografikcoupe.tumblr.comSource: tumbex.com > postsSource: fleur-ange.tumblr.comSource: vonholedigger.tumblr.com
French figurative sculptor, Christophe Charbonnel, working on a sculpture of the head of Poseiden. Source: facebook.com1958 Porsche 356A convertible. Source: solitaryfossil.tumblr.com.Brough Superior V-twin, made in Nottingham, England, between 1919 and 1940. They were known as the “Rolls-Royce of motorcycles” in their time. Reblogged from mardenostuff.tumblr.com.Source: betterisbest.tumblr.com.Source: tumblex.com>femfeedtvSource: danewsea.tumblr.comSource: kiltypleasure.tumblr.com.Never completely grow up! Source: photografickcoupe.tumblr.comSource: some-nude-fun.tumblr.comSource: norwegiannatureandnudes.tumblr.com.Source: mea-gloria-fides.tumblr.comSource: naturalswimmingspirit.tumblr.comThe ladies are out for a spin on the water. 1950’s? Source: forums.sailinganarchy.comAmerican actor, film producer and pin-up model Eve Meyer (1928-1977). She was Playboy Magazine’s Playmate of the Month in June 1959. Source: vintagenudescolor.tumblr.comEigeroy lighthouse on the small island of Midbrodoya in Norway. Built of cast iron in 1854 it stands 32.9 metres tall. At night, it flashes three white lights every 30 seconds. Photo by Richard Larssen. Source: flickr.comA painting by Australian artist and naturalist William Cooper (1934-2015) of the now extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), a carnivorous marsupial once native to Tasmania, Australia. Also known as the Tasmanian tiger, his painting depicts the animals in a heath forest near Cradle Mountain. The Thylacine was declared extinct in 1936. Source: williamtcooper.com.au
