Source: apanelofanalysts.tumblr.comCLS4 is moored at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney, one of 2 unpowered lightships in Australia named “Carpentaria” that were in service from 1917 to 1985. Both were built at the Cockatoo Island dockyard and both spent a considerable portion of their service in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Sister ship CSL2 is displayed at the Queensland Maritime Museum near the Brisbane River. Source: Image by Vyacheslav Frolov via lighthouse-in-a-storm.tumblr.com.The back of the boat. Source: Image by Steve Deer via lighthouse-in-a-storm.tumblr.com.Source: sabinerondissime.tumblr.com.Yacht Galatea in 1886. Galatea was a gaff cutter of 31.22 m (102.4 feet) built in 1885 for Lt. William Henn RN of the Royal Northern Yacht Club in Scotland. She was of all-metal construction on a steel frame. She campaigned in the September 1886 America’s Cup in New York against defender Mayflower but Galatea lost both challenge races. She was scrapped in January 1912. Source: yachtmasters.tumblr.com.Growing old together. Source: tumblrgallery.xyz>galleryAmerican model Hunter McGrady (b. 1993, California) photographed in November 2016 for Treats Magazine. Source: xhamster2.com>hunter-mcgrady-8741770.If you’ve got it, flaunt it! Source: xhamster.com.1930’s beauty. Source: vintageclassicporn.com.Purported to be an image of Marilyn Monroe and her third husband Arthur Miller. It is by Jeffery Yarber, an American photographer who specialised in creating sexy images of celebrities. But this photograph is NOT of either Marilyn or Arthur, although it is often accepted as genuine. Source: chopped-peace-collection.tumblr.com.Cartoon by Michael Leunig (b.1945). Leunig is a long-time Australian poet, artist and cultural commentator and, until recently, regular cartoonist for The Age newspaper. Source: leunig.com.au>works>cartoons.American actor and director Joaquin Phoenix (b.1974) photographed in 1996 in Croatia by German-Australian photographer, Helmut Newton (1920-2004). Source: stringofpearls.tumblr.com.Singer/songwriter Amy Whitehouse was born in London in 1983. Amy was influenced by soul music, rhythm and blues, reggae and particularly jazz, and her 2006 album Back to Black was very successful. Tragically Amy died in 2011 at age 27 of accidental alcoholic poisoning. Source: tumblr.com>tagged>idk.Source: kiltypleasure.tumblr.com.Woody Harrelson in a 2009 interview for Playboy. Source: yes-slipperytoad.tumblr.com.
16 year-old Jessica Watson returns to Sydney Harbour on 15 May 2010 after 210 days alone at sea. She was the youngest sailor to sail solo and non-stop around the world. Watson wrote a book about her adventure titled “True Spirit”, published by Hachette Australia in July 2010. Source: abc.net.au.Sleeping sperm whales. This image “Synchronised Sleepers” was a finalist in the 2017 Big Picture Competition. Whales sleep by switching off only half of their brains which scientists think allows them to stay aware of predators and other dangers and to stay in touch with their pods, including their calves. Source: bigpicturecompetition.org.In 1955, Japanese tattoo artist Tokumitsu Uchida works with an electric tattoo needle machine that he made himself. Source: theoddsideofme.tumblr.com.The perilous life of a telephone engineer in London in 1920. Source: reddit.com/HistoryPorn.Source: ladyanto68.tumblr.com.Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci photographed by German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton in 1993. Source: oldschoolpic.tumblr.com.Somewhere on a beach in Greece. Image reblogged from guzzigazz.tumblir.com.Source: reddit.com/NudeBeach.The classic sailing yacht Hygie, a 24 metre (79 foot) ketch built in 1930 in Le Marchand shipyard. Hygie currently does charters in the Mediterranean, including France, Spain and Italy, and accommodates 8 passengers and 3 crew. Source: sails.org/classic-yacht-hygie-charter.html.Source: Image reblogged from murdocsurfs.tumblr.com.Source: forums.sailinganarchy.com.The workboat Ulva is loaded with a Landrover to be used by survey staff from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) on the Isle of Coll, in Scotland. Photo Credit: RCAHMS via bbc.com.The Japanese ShinMaywa US-2, a short takeoff and landing amphibious aircraft, takes to the air. First introduced in 2007, the aircraft is used in air-sea rescue, surveillance, and another version, for aerial fire-fighting. The ShinMaywa US-2 is powered by 4 Rolls Royce AE 2100J turboprop engines producing 4,592 horsepower each. Source and Photo Credit: en.wikipedia.org. Cafe de Flore, in Paris, in 1949. This cafe is one of the oldest and most iconic cafes in Paris celebrated for its famous clientele of writers, philosophers and celebrities. It is at 172 boulevard Saint-Germain. Photograph by Robert Doisneau (1912-1994).Meanwhile in Queensland, Australia .. a new school for children is opened in Stanthorpe, Queensland in 1872 – built as a large slab hut in the first year of European settlement. Photograph by William Boag via the State Library of Queensland.
In 1956, members of the Cavedon family push their car through the mud on Tobacco Road near Ovens Valley, Victoria. Tobacco Road has become a major highway; part of the Great Alpine Road. The photograph was taken by the iconic Australian bush photographer Jeff Carter (1928-2010). Source: artgallery.nsw.gov.au.A proud participant in the Fremont Solstice Cyclists Parade in Seattle, Washington in June 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.Source: figuresfordrawing.tumblr.com.Two playmates, Hollywood, 1986. Photograph by German-Australian Helmut Newton (1920-2004) a “prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black and white photographs were the mainstay of Vogue and other publications” (Wikipedia).Aly Raisman, captain of the gold medal-winning U.S. woman’s gymnastics team at the 2012 London Olympics. This photo was by Mark Seliger for the 2015 Body Edition of ESPN Magazine. Source: thesportster.com.Keep living retirement to the full. Source: Tumblr.com.Barque Europa, built in Germany in 1911 was fully restored as a tall ship training vessel in 1994 and is now registered in The Netherlands. In March she found herself stuck in Argentina due to the COVID-19 shutdown. The Captain and crew decided to sail the ship non-stop back to her home in The Netherlands. Here she is at the start of the journey, sailing through Drake’s Passage. On 17 June 2020, Europa arrived back in Scheveningen after more than 80 days at sea. Photo by Jordi Plana Morales for Newsweek.com.French figurative sculptor, Christopher Charbonnet, works on one of his recent pieces. Source: Reblogged from cavemanfeet.tumblr.com.Marblehead Lighthouse (Ohio) at night. Built in 1822, it is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes. Source: marbleheadlighthouseohio.org. Source: Tumblr.com.Grace Jones as Zula in Conan the Destroyer, 1984. Source: pinterest.com.Dancing at Chez Max, Joinville-le-Pont in 1947. Photo by French photographer Willy Ronis (1910-2009). His best known works show life in post-war Paris and Provence.Paard van Marken Lighthouse in Marken, North Holland, under dark skies. The lighthouse was built in 1839 and is 15.5 metres high. Photo is by Daniel Lybaert, 2013.
